Niccolò Caramel

Niccolò Caramel is currently pursuing his PhD in Historical Studies (University of Padua, University Ca’ Foscari Venice, University of Verona) with a research project concerning the commercial relationship between the street vendors of books and engravings from the Tesino Valley (Italian Alps), several printers of Augsburg and the Venetian Republic during the 18th century – thesis title: The Tesini, street vendors of prints: commercial relationships and local repercussions from the Trentino notarial documentations (1685-1797). He studied at the University of Verona and at the University of Trento where he obtained his BA degree in Philosophy (2011/2012), MA in Philosophical Sciences (2014/2015), with a thesis entitled: Science, Philosophy, Society. the Reflection on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Earthquakes in Southern Italy and MA in Historical Sciences (2015/2016), with a thesis named: «Estraordinarie impressioni di foco comparse nell’aria», Igneous phenomena in Venetian meteorology of the Eighteenth century, under the supervision of the Professor Luca Ciancio. The preferred field of inquiry is the history of European pedlars during the XVIII century and the history of Italian naturalism, always within the Age of Enlightenment, with particular attention to the themes of natural catastrophes and their perception among the contemporary communities.

The most relevant published articles are: Davide Poggi, Niccolò Caramel, Se non esistesse un luogo dove stare al sicuro? Terremoto e sublime: dagli scritti pre-critici alla Kritik der Urteilskraft, “Estudos Kantianos”, Marilia, v. 4, n. 1, Jan./Jun., 2016, pp. 145-176; Niccolò Caramel, Rapporti commerciali, organizzazione dei viaggi, ripercussioni locali: nuove prospettive sull'ambulantato tesino (1685-1797),  “Studi Trentini. Storia", a. 98, n. 1, 2019, pp. 155-184.