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Valentina Sapienza Editor

Anna Bellavitis is professor of Early Modern History and Director of the History Research Group (GRHIS UR 3831) at Rouen University, France. She published extensively on gender and family history, on labour and urban history and directed numerous international research projects in collaboration with European Universities and institutions. Her recent publications include: Women’s work and rights in Early Modern urban Europe, London, Palgrave Macmillan 2018; What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present, Oxford, New York, Berghahn Books, 2018, edited with Raffaella Sarti, and Manuela Martini.

Valentina Sapienza obtained her PhD at the Ca’ Foscari University Venice and at University François Rabelais in Tours in 2011. She was Lecturer at the university of Lille (2012-2018) and since 2018 she has been Associate Professor of Early Modern Art History at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. She has founded (2019) and directs the Centro Studi RiVe (Centre for advanced studies on Renaissance Venice figurative culture: https://www.unive.it/pag/41456). With Anna Bellavitis and Frédéric Kaplan, she was the PI of the international research project GAWS. Garzoni: Apprenticeship, Work and Society in Early Modern Venice, 16th-18th centuries.