Umberto Grassi is an independent scholar. From 2018 to 2021 Grassi was the recipient of a Marie Curie Global Fellowship at the PoliTeSse Research Centre (University of Verona, Host Institution) and at the History Dpt. of the University of Maryland (Partner Institution) with the project SPACES (Sex, disPlacements and cross Cultural EnconterS, project n. 795514). Grassi is a former postdoctoral associate researcher at the Sydney node of the ARC Center of Excellence for the History of Emotions (University of Sydney). His research interests include the social and cultural history of homoeroticism in Renaissance Italy, the cross-cultural interactions between Muslims and Christians, and the relationship between religious radical dissent and sexual transgressions in the early modern Mediterranean world. Among his publications, Riverbanks and Bathhouses: Sodomy in a Renaissance City (Toronto, 2021), Sodoma. Persecuzioni, affetti, pratiche sociali (V-XVIII sec.) (Rome, 2019), and LʼOffitio sopra l’Onestà. Il controllo della sodomia nella Lucca del Cinquecento (Milan, 2014). As an editor, he recently published Cursed Blessings: Sex and Religious Radical Dissent in Early Modern Europe (New York, 2024).

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