Mario Infelise

Mario Infelise is Full Professor of Cultural History and History of the Book at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, a position he has held since 1993, after serving as Full Professor at Università degli Studi di Milano (1991–1992). He is also an elected member of the Academy of Europe (History & Archaeology section, admitted 2013).

Education and Academic Visits:

• Visiting appointments include Directeur d’étude invité at the École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (2003), visiting professor at the Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago (2007), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2011).

Research Interests:
His scholarship centres on the cultural and material history of the book in early modern Europe, the mechanisms of censorship, libertine culture in seventeenth-century Italy, and the formation of trans-European news networks. These interests converge in studies of how manuscript and print cultures shaped public opinion, state control, and commercial exchange between 1500 and 1800.

Publication Profile:
Across monographs, edited collections, and articles, Infelise has traced the evolution of Venetian publishing, the logistics of prohibited books, and the emergence of periodical information. His recent work (2007–2013) increasingly examines the intersection of politics, crime reporting, and transalpine communication, illustrating how Venice functioned as a node in wider European information circuits.

Grants & Collaborative Projects:
He has served as Research Director for major census and repertory projects on seventeenth-century Venetian editions and nineteenth-century Italian publishers, indicating sustained access to national and international funding streams.

Laboratory & Research Groups:
While no dedicated laboratory is mentioned, his leadership of large editorial teams for the Le edizioni veneziane del Seicento. Censimento and Editori italiani dell’Ottocento. Repertorio implies coordination of specialized research clusters within Italian book history.