He is full professor of Economic history at the State University of Milan and former Davis Fellow at Princeton University, Senior visiting fellow at the University of Exeter, Professeur invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and Farfel Fellow at the Huntington Library Los Angeles.
His research interests include:

• early modern commerce and finance, with a special focus on risk-management contracts,
• late medieval and early modern economic thought and
• culture, food and retail history.

His latest book is “Risky Markets: Marine Insurance in Renaissance Florence”, Brill.
He is currently P.I. of “Under Uncertainty. Coping with Risks in the Mediterranean Maritime Business (Italy, 16th-19th centuries)” and Research partner of “Winds, Waves and Storms: historical data and modern quantitative approaches to uncover the long-term strategies to prevent and mitigate climate risks in the European seas (15th-19th centuries)” both funded by the Italian Ministry of University.