Lodovica Braida is Full Professor of History of the Book at the University of Milan. Her work is devoted to the history of written culture in early modern Europe, history of publishing, reading practices, censorship and prohibited books in early modern Italy. On these topics she has published numerous articles and books. Among them: Il commercio delle idee. Editoria e circolazione del libro nella Torino dell Settecento (Florence, 1995), Stampa e cultura in Europa tra XV e XVI secolo (Rome-Bari, 2000), Libri di lettere. Le raccolte epistolari del Cinquecento tra inquietudini religiose e ‘buon volgare’ (Rome-Bari, 2009), and most recently L’autore assente. L’anonimato nell’editoria italiana del Settecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019; Lire en Europe. Textes, Formes, Lectures (XVIIIe-XXIe), ed. by Lodovica Braida and Brigitte Ouvry-Vial, Rennes, PUR, 2020; Carlo Goldoni and the Construction of Authorship on the Printed Page, in «Quaerendo», 50, 2020, pp. 1-25.
In 2012 she received the “Antonio Feltrinelli Prize” given by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for her work in the history of the book.
She is the President of APICE (“Archivi della parola, dell’immagine per la comunicazione editoriale”), a Centre of the University of Milan that collects, preserves, and enhances the archives of contemporary Italian publishers and authors.
- Correo electrónico
- lodovica.braida@unimi.it