Catia Brilli

I am Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Insubria and affiliated researcher at the Italian-German Historical Institute (FBK). My research focuses on the connections between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, on the history of the Atlantic revolutions, and on the economic role of Italian noble elites. I have carried out research at various Italian and foreign universities (Ohio State University, EEHA-CSIC, University of Milan, Bocconi University), and have been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute and the London School of Economics. I am the author of Genoese Trade and Migration in the Spanish Atlantic (1700–1830) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Alle origini del caudillismo. Il caso messicano (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2022). I have also co-edited, with Manuel Herrero, Italian Merchants in the Early-Modern Spanish Monarchy (London: Routledge, 2017).