Alessandro Lo Bartolo is a third-year doctoral student in History (early modern) at the University of Pisa under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Addobbati. His doctoral dissertation examines the administration of the Florentine subject territory during the rule of Alessandro (ca. 1530-1537), first Medici duke of the Florentine Republic, in order to shed light on this crucial moment from the perspective of the Territorial State’s consolidation. Lo Bartolo received his Master’s degree in History (Early modern) at the University of Pisa in 2015, and the qualification of Expert in Historical communication (Master Universitario di II livello) at the University of Roma Tre in 2017. In the past years he has been working on Alessandro’s and Cosimo I’s entourage. He is also interested in late-Medieval and Early modern institutional history, and in Tuscan local history. During his fellowship at the Medici Archive Project he aims to study the building of an efficient internal postal network in the early Medicean principato (ca. 1530-1555).
