Wanxin Du is a current PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick (supervisors Dr Jonathan Davies and Dr Luca Molà). He obtained his MA in World History from Fudan University in 2022 and his BA in World History from Tianjin Normal University in 2019. Wanxin is working on his PhD project on violent crimes and criminal justice in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. A comparison between the stato vecchio of Florence and the stato nuovo di Siena will be his focus. His work at MAP explores judicial and administrative archives and letter collections stored in the State Archives in Florence and Siena, especially the letter records of the Mediceo del Principato.
