ENRICO FRANCIA is Associate Professor of Conternporary History at the University of Padua. He has worked extensively on the political and cultural history of 19th century Italy, and on this topic recently published Oggetti risorgimentali. Una storia materiale della politica nel prima Ottocento (Carocci, 2021). CARLOTTA SORBA is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Padua and founder of the Centro interuniversitario di storia culturale (CSC).
She has recently published (with Federico Mazzini) La svolta culturale. Come è cambiata la pratica stariografica (Laterza, 2021) and Politics and Sentiments in Risorgimento Italy : Melodrama and the Nation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021 ; It. ed. Laterza, 2015).