Beyond the Public Sphere.

Massimo Rospocher graduated from the University of Trent and completed his PhD in History at the European University Institute (Florence). He was adjunct professor of Historical Methodology at the University of Trent. He is a permanent researcher at the Italian and German Historical Institute (Trent) and is also currently research fellow at the University of Leeds. He has held fellowships from a number of institutions including the British Academy, Birkbeck College (London), CRRS (Toronto), McGill University (Montreal), and the University of Melbourne. His essays and articles have been published in English, German, Italian, and Spanish. His area of research is the political and cultural history of early modern Europe, focusing particularly on the ways in which cultural exchange and political communication occurred in urban public spaces through the interaction of orality and print.