Gaia BRUNO

Position
Researcher
E-mail
gaia.bruno@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Storia moderna [HIST-02/A]
Website
www.unive.it/people/gaia.bruno (personal record)
Office
Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Where: Malcanton Marcorà

Gaia Bruno is researcher in Early Modern History (RtdA) at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari in the project ERC-2018-Advanced Grants, Water-Cultures - The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900 (PI prof. David Gentilcore). She has been post-doc. at the University of Naples “Federico II”, where she obtained her Ph.D. in History of European Society (2016). She is especially interested in the history of material culture, urban history and the history water. She is the author of the monograph Le ricchezze degli avi. Cultura materiale della società napoletana nel Settecento (Napoli, FedOA press, 2022). Among others, she published in first rank peer-reviewed journals on the topics of her interest (Cultura materiale aristocratica nel Settecento napoletano: l’esempio dei Carafa di Ielsi, ‹‹Studi Storici››, 2014, 4; Vivere a Napoli nel XVIII secolo: il Tribunale della Fortificazione, Acqua e Mattonata, ‹‹Società e Storia››, 2018, 4) and on the history of earthquakes (Fronteggiare l’emergenza: le istituzioni del Regno di Napoli di fronte agli eventi sismici del XVII secolo, ‹‹Mediterranea››, 51, 2021).