Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Padua and founder of the Centro interuniversitario di storia culturale (CSC). She is a cultural historian of nineteenth-century Europe with special research interests in the relationship between cultural production (music, theatre, proto-mass culture), society and politics. On the theatrical and musical sphere are the volumes Teatri. L’Italia del melodramma nell’età del Risorgimento (Il Mulino, 2001), and Il melodramma della nazione. Politica e sentimenti nell’Italia del Risorgimento (Laterza, 2015; Engl. trans. Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), awarded with Sissco prize 2016. She recently published, with Federico Mazzini, La svolta culturale. Come è cambiata la pratica storiografica (Laterza, 2021), and she edited with Enrico Francia the book Political Objects in the Age of Revolutions. Material culture, National Identities, Political Practices (Viella, 2021). Her current research focuses on love and politics in the relationship between Adelaide Ristori and Giuliano Capranica.