Laurea (BA and MA combined), University of Venice, Italy
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Born in Venice, Italy, Andrea Vianello received his education at the universities of Venice and Pavia. His research interests cover the history of poverty and welfare, fashion and consumption, and the history of labor, while his teaching interests include Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as early modern and modern history. Outside of work, he enjoys motorcycling, world travel, and Italian culture and history.
Publications
The Confraternite dei Poveri. Confraternal Home Relief and Institutionalization of the Poor in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Venice, in Christopher F. Black and Pamela Gravestok (eds.), Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006.
Ladies or Courtesans? Reading the Venetian Chopine and Renaissance Women, in G. Riello and P. McNeil (eds.),Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, Oxford, England: Berg Publishers, 2006.
Chopines>, in Descant, 129 (Summer 2005): 67-69.
Storia sociale della calzatura in Italia ( A Social History of Footwear ) in Storia d'Italia, Annali: Storia della moda (Annals of the History of Italy: The History of Fashion), Turin: Einaudi, 2003.
Economia, carità e assistenza. Le fraterne dei poveri a Venezia tra XVI e XVIII secolo (Economy, Charity and Assistance: The Confraternities for the Poor in Venice between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries) in L'uso del denaro nei luoghi pii (secc. XVI-XVIII): Atti del convegno (The Use of Money in "Luoghi Pii" [XVI-XVIII Centuries] : Conference Papers), Bologna : Il Mulino, 2001, pp. 231-272.
I «Fiscali delle miserie». Le origini delle Fraterne dei Poveri e l'assistenza a domicilio a Venezia tra Cinque e Settecento (The Accountants of Misery: The Origins of Confraternities for the Poor and Home Relief in Venice between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries), in Per Marino Berengo. , ed. by Livio Antonielli, Carlo Capra, Mario Infelise, Milano: Franco Angeli, 2000, pp. 277-298.
Casa e bottega. I lavoratori 'poveri' e le loro famiglie attraverso gli archivi delle fraterne parrocchiali nella Venezia del Settecento" (House and Shop: Poor Workers and Their Families in Eighteenth-Century Venice through the Archives of Parish Confraternities) in Corporazioni e sviluppo economico nell'Italia di antico regime (secoli XVI-XIX) (Guilds and Economic Development in Ancien Regime Italy, Sixteenth-Nineteenth centuries), ed. by Alberto Guenzi, Milan: Franco Angeli, 1999, pp. 755-88.
La lavorazione delle pelli nei territori veneto-lombardi della Repubblica di Venezia. Premesse seicentesche e sviluppi settecenteschi (Leather Manufacturing in Lombardy and the Veneto under the Republic of Venice) in La conceria in Italia dal Medioevo a oggi (Tannery in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Present Day), ed. by Livio Antonielli, Milan: "La Conceria," 1994, , pp. 127-69.
Review: Memoria e impresa: I segreti dei maestri della concia (Memory and Management: The Secrets of the Tannery Masters) in Sole 24 ore (15 January 1995).
Monograph: L'Arte dei Calegheri e Zavateri di Venezia tra XVII e XVIII secolo (The Guild of Shoemakers and Cobblers in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Venice). Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, 1993.