What is Massimo Firpo?
'''Massimo Firpo''' ([[Turin]], [[1946]]) is an Italian [[historian]]. ==Academic career== Firpo teaches [[early modern history]] at the [[University of Turin]] and at the [[Scuola Normale Superiore]] of Pisa. He is a member of the [[Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei]]. He studied at the [[University of Turin]] (where he was a pupil of [[Franco Venturi]], and where he obtained his ''laurea'' in 1969 with a thesis about ''Pietro Bizzarri esule Italiano del Cinquecento'', published in 1971). Subsequently he has been [[Accademia dei Lincei]] fellow at the [[Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa]]. He has taught early modern history at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the [[University of Cagliari]]. Ha has been fellow or visiting professor at the Newberry Library, Chicago, at the [[Cornell University]], Ithaca and at the [[University of Oxford]] (where in 2006 he was ''Isaiah Berlin'' visiting professor).<ref>For all these informations see [http://195.75.145.68/whoiswho/ricerca.php?ocode=WBWWWXYSWW notice on Who's Who Sutter's International Red Series] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185956/http://195.75.145.68/whoiswho/ricerca.php?ocode=WBWWWXYSWW |date=2016-03-03 }} ; and also [http://www.sns.it/didattica/lettere/menunews/personale/docenti/firpo/ Massimo Firpo's webpage on the site of the Scuola Normale Superiore] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323015220/http://www.sns.it/didattica/lettere/menunews/personale/docenti/firpo/ |date=2015-03-23 }}</ref> ==Research activity== He started his researches studying the [[Heresy|heretical]] movements of the 16th century and focusing on the Italian heretical diaspora in Eastern Europe, radical movements such as [[Antitrinitarianism]] and [[Socinian|Socinianism]] and the relations between this cultural tradition, the [[deism]] and the origins of [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] thought.<ref>See especially his books ''Antitrinitari nell'Europa orientale del ‘500. Nuovi testi di Szymon Budny, Niccolò Paruta e Iacopo Paleologo'', La Nu