Vincenzo Lavenia is associate professor in Early Modern History at the Department of History, Cultures and Civilizations of the University of Bologna, Italy. He was Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (2001) and enseignant chercheur invité at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. His research interests include History of the Roman Church and Papal Inquisition, War and Religious Legitimacy of Violence, Early Modern Casuistry.
Among his publications: L'infamia e il perdono. Tributi, pene e confessione nella teologia morale della prima età moderna (Bologna, 2004); (dir., with A. Prosperi and J. Tedeschi), Dizionario storico dell'Inquisizione, 4 vols. (Pisa, 2010); (ed.), Storia del cristianesimo, vol. 3, L'età moderna (Rome, 2015); (ed.), 'Missiones castrenses': Jesuits and Soldiers between Pastoral Care and Violence, «Journal of Jesuit Studies», 4, 2017 (special issue);Turkophilia and Religion: Machiavelli, Giovio, and the Sixteenth-Century Debate about War, in Machiavelli, Islam and the East: Reorienting the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, eds. L. Biasiori & G. Marcocci (Basingstoke, 2018; (ed., with C. Zwierlein), Fruits of Migration: Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620 (Leiden-Boston, 2018); Dio in uniforme. Cappellani, catechesi cattolica e soldati in età moderna (Bologna, 2018).