Research interests
History of international political and legal thought, reception of modern natural law classics, intellectual history of the Enlightenment, legal and philosophical education in early modern universities, history of publishing and libraries, constitutionalism and republicanism (Europe; seventeenth and eighteenth centuries).

Projects
Forms of reception of natural law of nations by the European ruling classes during the late 17th and early 18th centuries: the European controversy over the succession of Tuscany. Political use of natural law of nations against imperial expansion at the beginning of the eighteenth century.  

Selected bibliography concerning Natural law

• Books

(with Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera), The Unseen History of International Law: A Census Bibliography of Hugo Grotius’ De iure belli ac pacis (1625–1650 editions) (London: Oxford University Press, 2025). 

• Articles 

Review of Ugo Grozio, Il diritto di guerra e di pace, ed. by Carlo Galli and Antonio Del Vecchio (Naples: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Press, 2023), Grotiana 45 (2025), p. 327-332.

‘Natural Law at the University of Pisa. From the ius civile teachings to the establishment of the first chair of ius publicum in 1726’, in Natural Law and the Law of Nations in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Italy, ed. by Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina and Gabriella Silvestrini (Leiden: Brill, 2023), p. 17-49.

(with Matthew Cleary, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Mark Somos), ‘Grotian Moments and Appeals to Authority in Law and History’, in Grotiana 44 (2023), p. 65-93.

‘Giusnaturalismo e cultura giuspolitica nella Toscana del primo Settecento. Il Discorso sopra la successione della Toscana di Niccolò Antinori (1711)’, in Archivio Storico Italiano 173 (2015), p. 31-64.

‘Stare pactis and neutrality. Grotius and Pufendorf in the political thought of the early eighteenth-century Grand Duchy of Tuscany’, in War, Trade, and Neutrality. Europe and the Mediterranean in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ed. by Antonella Alimento (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2011), p. 188-202.