Flavia Bruni

Biography

After her graduation in the History of the Age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation, She joined the research project RICI on the survey of the Roman Congregation of the Index of the books owned by Italian religious houses at the end of the sixteenth century. After a monograph on book censorship in the Republic of Lucca at the end of the sixteenth century, she was now working on her second monograph, to be published by Brill in 2017, which will suggest a new approach to the history of Catholic censorship.

Research Interest

Religious history of Counter-Reformation Italy, and, as a source and companion to that, early printed books and manuscripts, libraries and censorship in the Early Modern Age