Raffaele is a PhD candidate in History at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He is working on a PhD project in politicoeconomic history of the Italian Renaissance. He graduated in Philosophy at the Collegio Superiore of the University of Bologna with an interdisciplinary thesis in economic history and history of mathematics in the early modern period. He has published some contributions on different academic journals. He collaborates with Pandora, Journal of Theory and Politics. Together with politics, he has a passion for writing, cycling and mountaineering.