Alessandro Tripepi is a post-doc research fellow. Since 2021 he has been a member of the ERC research project Tacitroots (The Accademia del Cimento in Florence: Tracing the roots of the European scientific enterprise). His research interests in material and visual history include the study of the Jesuit mission in Japan, the identity-building practices of the Company of Jesus between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the analysis of cultural circulation and consumption among European intellectuals in the seventeenth century. His publications include: Lo specchio di sé. Identità culturali e conquista spirituale nel viaggio italiano di quattro principi giapponesi alla fine del XVI secolo, Pearson, Milano, 2022; Diplomazia gesuitica, potere politico ed evangelizzazione in Giappone durante il periodo Sengoku (1569-98), in “Riforma e Movimenti Religiosi” 13 (2023), pp. 67-98; International Perspectives on the Florentine Edition of Apollonius’ Conics. The Case of Michelangelo Ricci (1661), in “Nuncius” 38, 3 (2023), pp. 690-710.
