Silvia Mantini is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of L’Aquila. She has studied and carried out research in Florence, Pisa, Milan, L’Aquila. She has been research fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and at the Instituto Universitario de Historia Simancas (IUHS, Valladolid). She has written numerous books and articles on the relationship between institutions and society in the modern age, imperial and noble courts, Inquisitions, Florence and the Medicis, Margaret of Austria and L’Aquila under Spanish rule. She is in the board of directors of various Historical Associations. She coordinates a research of Public History with the project INCIPIC of the University of L’Aquila. 

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DISEGNARECON. Vol. 15, No. 28.