Germano Maifreda is Professor of Economic History in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan, and Associated Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Mediterranean Europe History (ISEM). He is the principal investigator of the PRIN 2022 project Spatializing Jews and the Economy. Towards A Digital and Dynamic Atlas: People, Business, Artifacts in Global Italy (14th – 20th centuries) (CUP master G53D2300019 0006). His main research interests focus on the history of economic, political, and cultural relations between social minorities and majorities in the early modern and modern ages. His recent books include: Immagini contese. Storia politica delle figure dal Rinascimento alla cancel culture (Feltrinelli, 2023); The Trial of Giordano Bruno (Routledge, 2022); The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era (Routledge, 2017); From Oikonomia to Political Economy: Constructing Economic Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution (Ashgate, 2012). Among recent and ongoing projects, he is currently editing, with Susanna Barsella and William Caferro, the book Cultures of Exchange: Mercantile Mentalities between Italy and the World (XII-XVI c.) for University of Toronto Press. His biography of cardinal Giovanni Morone, written with Massimo Firpo and published in Italy in 2019 by Einaudi, is currently under translation for Brill’s Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 series. He is the author of middle and high school history textbooks published by Feltrinelli Scuola.
His publications include The Trial of Giordano Bruno (Routledge, 2022); The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era (Routledge, 2017); From Oikonomia to Political Economy: Constructing Economic Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution (Ashgate, 2012). In the field of visual history, Immagini contese. Storia politica delle figure dal Rinascimento alla cancel culture (Feltrinelli, 2023).