Giovanni Ceccarelli

Professor

Giovanni Ceccarelli is full professor of Economic history at the University of Milan and former Davis Fellow at Princeton University and Senior visiting fellow at the University of Exeter. His research interests include early modern commerce and finance, with a focus on risk-management contracts, late medieval and early modern economic thought and culture, food and retail history, and Digital Humanities. Regarding the latter he is Foreign research partner of the DH project “Risky business: pricing, governance, and integration in European insurance markets, c. 1400-c. 1870” funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. His latest book is “Risky Markets: Marine Insurance in Renaissance Florence”, Brill 2021 and is currently P.I. of “Under Uncertainty. Coping with Risks in the Mediterranean Maritime Business (Italy, 16th-19th centuries)” research funded with a 250,000 euro grant by the Italian Ministry of University.