Andrea Pezzini

• History of Christianity in the Modern Era (focus on nineteenth century)
• History of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy
• Material Culture Studies
• Modernism in the Catholic Church
• History of Historiography

Current research project: SNF project “Contested Bodies. The Religious Lives of Corpses (2021-2025)

Articles in conference publications

• A “Biography” of a Corpse. The Ultramontane Church and the Promotion of Exceptional Dead Bodies, in Georgiana Huian, Milan Kostrešević and Martin Bürgin (eds.), 'Konflikt und Kontinuität: Religiöse Biografien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Angela Berlis', Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2025, pp. 391-402.
•  “His face exuded an air of paradise”. Ignazio da Santhià (1686–1770) and the Role of Dead Bodies in the Development of Models of Saints, in Michela Catto and Eleonora Rai (eds.), 'From Europe to Overseas. Saints, Martyrs, Heroes, Models and Soft Power in an Early Modern Global perspective', Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2025, pp. 257-268.
• Strategies for promoting ‘exceptional dead bodies’: two cases across the 18th- and 19th-centuries Italy, in Tine van Osselaer, Kristof Smeyers and Leonardo Rossi (eds.), 'Gazing at death and the dead. Material culture, visual strategies and devotional practices of the afterlife in Modern Europe', 2025 [forthcoming]
• L'esposizione di corpi incorrotti nel cattolicesimo ottocentesco tra legittimazione politica e pietà popolare. Il caso della Morta di Agrano, in Michela Catto, Silvia Cavicchioli and Pierluigi Giovannucci (eds.), 'Martirio religioso e martirio politico. Strategie, pratiche e rappresentazioni tra età moderna e ncontemporanea', Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria, pp. 73-86

Articles

• Fermenti modernistici all’alba del XX secolo. Il caso Taramasso, in “Bollettino della Società Storica Pinerolese”, s. IV, a. XXXVI (2019), 83-94.
• La diocesi di Pinerolo all’alba del XX secolo, in “Bollettino della Società Storica Pinerolese”, s. IV, a. XXXIV (2017), 61-72.

Papers presentations

• The Cult of the Dead Bodies as a Source for the Study of Popular Piety in the Contemporary Age (18th-19th Century): Forms, Practices, Devotions, International Workshop “Memories and Heritage. Elaborations of the Past, Uses and Erasures: interdisciplinary perspectives” (Bologna, 16-17 April 2025).
• Contesting Dead Bodies Property. A Case Study in Northern Italy from the late 18th to 20th centuries, International Workshop “Claiming Bodies. The Quest for Human Remains in Europe (c. 1750s-2000s)” (Bern, 5-7 June 2024).
• The Displaying of Dead Bodies in Italian Catholicism (c. 1750-1950). Between Political Legitimacy and Popular Piety, International Conference “Strategies, Practices, Representations of Religious and Political Martyrdom Between the Early Modern and Contemporary Ages” (Torino, 23-34 November 2023).
• Dead Bodies between popular piety and promotion strategies in 18th- and 19th- centuries Italy, International Conference “From Europe to Overseas. Saints, Martyrs, Heroes and Soft Power in a Global Perspective (1500s-1900s)” (Torino, 20-22 June 2023).
• Il culto di S. Ignazio da Santhià (1686-1779). Oggetti di devozione come cultura materiale, International Conference “De Habitudine Ordinis ad Artem. Arti, religione e cultura nell’Ordine cappuccino tra XVI e XVIII secolo” (Teramo, 12-14 April 2023).
• La devozione al cadavere tra pietà popolare e uso politico. Due casi di studio nell’Italia preunitaria, VI edition of the conference “Cantieri dell’agiografia, AISSCA” (Rome, 25-27 January 2023).
• Strategies for promoting exceptional 'dead bodies': two case studies across the 18th and 19th centuries Italy, “Gazing at Death and the dead” (Antwerp, 5-6 maggio 2022).
• La diocesi di Pinerolo all’alba del XX secolo, “(Storici e storie di Pinerolo. Un bilancio storiografico per una nuova storia del Pinerolese” (Pinerolo, 15 December 2018).
• Le traversie di un prete modernista: la vicenda di Giacomo Taramasso, Pinerolo incontra l’arte e la musica, (Pinerolo, 26 October 2016).