Paola Molino teaches early modern history at the University of Padua. Her research concentrates on the history of knowledge in early modern Central Europe, with a focus on libraries. A second line of interest is the history of pre-modern information, along with that of early modern empires. She is also fascinated by synchronic bibliographies in the pre-modern world. Paola is the author of L’Impero di carta. Storia di una biblioteca e di un bibliotecario.Vienna 1575–1608 (2017) and ‘Connected news: Geschriebene Zeitungen and Italian Avvisi in the Fugger collection (1568–1604)’, Media History (2016).