Biography

Achille Marotta is a historian of the early modern Mediterranean and is currently writing a book about slavery and citizenship in the Republic of Genoa. His work focuses especially on connections between Italy and the Ottoman Maghrib during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, touching on the social history of kinship, local belonging, social obligation, and more recently on the circulation of art. From October, he will be the Sir John Elliot Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College, at the University of Oxford.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Completed

• From slaves to citizens in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• MAROTTA, Achille (2024), The Muslim friend : cross-confessional male intimacy in eighteenth-century Italy, Article