Short CV
Andrea Azzarelli (Tradate, 1990) is a post-doctoral Talent@Unipd Stars researcher the University of Padua and a member of the editorial board of the journal «Società e Storia».
His first monograph is titled: Polizia, crimine e ordine pubblico in epoca liberale. Il modello nazionale e il caso della Sicilia di fine Ottocento (1861-1914) (Rubbettino, 2025). Published in the series of the inter-university research center CEPOC, the volume reconstructs the institutional framework, practices, and consolidation of the police forces in post-unification Italy, with a specific focus on the policies aimed at controlling criminal phenomena and political opposition.
Currently, he is the principal investigator of the research project «A global market of violence: Firearms surveillance in European ports from 1890 until 1939 (England, France, Italy)». This project delves into the historical shift in gun inflows control policies across three European nations—France, England, and Italy—between 1890 and 1939, unraveling its impact on State power, violence and European police forces.
Prior to his current position, Andrea was a post-doctoral fellow at the Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation of the Université Grenoble-Alpes (December 2023 to January 2025), where he was also assistant professor, at the Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento italiano in Rome (December 2022 to November 2023), at the University of Padua in the ERC project «PREWArAs – The Dark Side of the Belle Epoque» (September 2020 to March 2022), and a visiting researcher at the Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle (Sorbonne Université, 2021). Additionally, he held positions at the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria (post-doc fellow, 2020), at the Fondation Maison de Science de l’Homme (Atlas post-doc, 2019) and at the University of Milan where he was assistant professor (2018-2020) and where he obtained his PhD in 2019. In 2017, during his doctoral course, he conducted a 3-month research stay at Université Rennes 2.
Andrea’s research interests focus on the history of State institutions, police and territorial control, gun-control, crime, and private armed associations between the mid-19th century and the Second World War.
Personal page: https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
Email: azzarelliandreauni@gmail.com
Main Publications
Books
Articles
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“‘Defendons notre liberté par la force’: Yellow syndicalism and strikebreaking associationism inFrance prior to 1918 (1899- 1918)”, French Historical Studies (accepted, final version; forthcoming 2025).
- Quando nasce lo Stato : profili di polizia nella repressione del brigantaggio (1860-1866), in “Rassegna Storica del Risorgimento”, 111, 1, 2024, pp. 32-53;
- Vincenzo Paoletti, Giuseppe Locatelli e Luca D’Avanzo. Delegati di polizia contro i briganti, in C. Pinto (a cura di), Soldati e briganti. Biografie, pratiche, immaginari tra Sette e Ottocento, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2024, pp. 391-406.
- Funzionari di pubblica sicurezza nel Grande Brigantaggio (1862-1866), in A. Capone (a cura di), La prima guerra italiana. Forze e pratiche di sicurezza contro il brigantaggio nel Mezzogiorno, Roma, Viella, 2023, pp. 215-234.
- Policing the Sicilian Mafia: Repression and Control of the Mafia Phenomenon in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy, in “European History Quarterly”, 1, 53, 2023, pp. 45-66.
- Per una storia della polizia in età giolittiana. Gli ispettori generali di pubblica sicurezza (1901-1922), in “Le Carte e La Storia”, 1, 2020, pp. 109-125.
- Per una storia delle polizie in epoca contemporanea. Alcune riflessioni a partire da due recenti volumi, in “Società e Storia”, 173, 2021, pp. 546-555.
- “Un type de police européenne particulier: la présence sur le territoire de la Pubblica Sicurezza italienne et le cas de la Sicile (1862-1914)”, Crime, History & Societies, 1 (2019), pp. 65-90.
- “Cesare Ballanti. Una carriera di polizia tra la Sicilia degli anni Settanta dell’Ottocento e la Napoli del processo Cuocolo (1846-1910)”, Mediterranea. Ricerche Storiche, 2 (2018), pp. 315-344. [Full-text]
- “Soldati e ordine pubblico. Il caso dello sciopero degli operai meccanici del 1891 a Milano”, Società e Storia, 3 (2016), pp. 417-444.