Bio
Andrea Papi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. He previously held a research fellowship at the University of Milan within the PRIN project "Redde rationem": Order, Calculation and Reason in the Urban Societies of Late Medieval Italy. He completed a joint PhD in Historical Studies at the University of Milan and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. He obtained his MA and BA from the Universities of Bologna and Urbino.
Research
His research interests focus on the history of the late middle ages and the early modern period. In particular, his work explores the history of mathematical culture combining social, economic, and scientific perspectives. He has extensive experience in archival and bibliographical research carried out in major libraries and archives. He is currently involved in the FIS project Working Knowledge: The Emergence of Practitioners in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1300-1800 (PI: Dr. Raffaele Danna).
Publications
Francescani e matematica. Il caso di Mariotto Guiducci, frate minore e maestro d'abaco (1427-post 1496), Reti Medievali Rivista, 25/1 (2024), pp. 163-190; Note su un libro d'abaco faentino e il suo compilatore, Bullettino dell'Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo, 126 (2024), pp. 403-442; «Ancora si loda molto l’aresmetrica, cioè l’abacho in detta età perché fa l’animo atto et pronto a esaminare le cose sottili». Matematica e dintorni nel Quattrocento fiorentino, in Lo sguardo del lupo. Arte, matematica e filosofia nell’umanesimo del Quadrivio, ed by A. Angelini, Bologna, Pendragon, 2024, pp. 73-103; Prima di Scipione Dal Ferro. L’insegnamento dell’abaco nella Bologna del Tre-Quattrocento: un sondaggio preliminare, in Rese di conti. Diritto, assistenza, economia nel tardo Medioevo, ed. by A. Bassani, M. Gazzini, A. Olivieri [forthcoming].