Umberto Grassi

Umberto Grassi is an independent scholar. He specializes in early modern history and has published on the history of sexuality, religious radical dissent, cultural history, and the history of emotions. He has held research positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the University of Sydney as a research fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Verona and the University of...See more

Umberto Grassi is an independent scholar. He specializes in early modern history and has published on the history of sexuality, religious radical dissent, cultural history, and the history of emotions. He has held research positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the University of Sydney as a research fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Verona and the University of Maryland. His previous publications include Bathhouses and Riverbanks: Sodomy in a Renaissance Republic (2021). See less