BRILLI CATIA

B.A. from the University of Florence and a PhD from the University of Pisa. She had fellowships from the Italian Institute for Historical Studies “Benedetto Croce” of Naples, the Marie Curie EST programme, and the Einaudi Foundation of Turin. She was visiting fellow at the European University Institute (2009), faculty fellow at the Center for Historical Research of the Ohio State University (2009-2010), research fellow at the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, CSIC (2010-2013), teaching fellow at Bocconi University (2015-2022), research fellow at the University of Milan (2017-2019), and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics (2017) the University of Wien (2018), the University Pablo de Olavide of Seville (2024), the University of Valladolid (2025), the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2025), and the Johannes Kepler University of Linz (2026).

Their research interests include the study of commercial, financial, and migratory flows between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic world in the early modern period., the contribution of the Milanese nobility to the Italian economy, and the entanglements that shaped the Atlantic revolutions.

At present she is an affiliated fellow of the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento (Bruno Kessler Foundation), as a member of the research group funded by the FIS project 00003030, "BlackItaly. The Italian Peninsula and Atlantic Slavery: A Forgotten History."

From 2022 to 2025 she has been part of the project HISFIMED. La Monarquía Hispánica, la circulación de los metales preciosos y la globalización financiera en el Mediterráneo (1568-1798) - PID2021-124500NA-I00. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023), Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She also participates in the FWF Project “Connectors between a Polycentric Empire and Global Markets, 1713-1815” Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, and the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) project “Migration, Adaptation, Innovation, 1500-1800” Northumbria University, Newcastle.

She is member of the following research networks: Red Columnaria. La comunidad de historiadores de las monarquías ibéricas (nodo atlántico); Atlantic Italies: Economic Entanglements between Africa, the Americas, and the Mediterranean (15th-18th Centuries); GLOBHIS – Network for Global History/Centro Interuniversitario di Studi di Storia Globale; and Historia del poder en la España Moderna, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.

She is an expert evaluator of different international research centers and institutions.

Selected publications:

Books

-Brilli, Catia, Genoese Trade and Migration in the Spanish Atlantic (c. 1700-1830), New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016

-Brilli, Catia, Herrero Sánchez, Manuel (eds.), Italian merchants in the early-modern Spanish monarchy, London, Routledge, 2017.

-Brilli, Catia, Alle origini del caudillismo. Il caso messicano, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2022.

Articles

- Brilli, Catia, “Los Genoveses en el comercio americano de esclavos (segunda mitad del siglo XVIII),” Rivista Storica Italiana, fasc. 1 (2015), pp. 159-182.

-Brilli, Catia, “Una nación en camino. La migración genovesa y la afiliación consular en las costas atlánticas (1770-1865)”, Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, Dossier: “Stratégies et procédures d’identification des étrangers (mondes hispaniques-Méditerranée, XVIIe-XIXe siècles)”, eds. A. Bartolomei et S. Lloret, 51-1 (2021): 95-116

-Brilli, Catia, Conca, Silvia, “A Rentier Class? The Milanese Nobility and the Economy in Post-Unification Italy”, European Revue of History / Revue Européenne d’Histoire, (2021), pp. 28-1: 1-27

-Conca, Silvia A., Brilli, Catia, “Agriculture and Nobility in Lombardy. Land, Management and Innovation (1815-1861)”, Business History, vol. 64, Issue 2 (2022), pp. 255-279.

-Brilli, Catia, “Transnacionalidad y comercio euroatlántico en la red de la familia Durazzo (siglos XVII-XVIII)”, Tiempos Modernos, Numero monografico: “Élites euroatlantiche: reti, interessi, funzioni, strategie”, coord. G. Cirillo, C. Cremonini, M. A. Noto, vol. 44 (junio 2022), pp. 367-379.

-Brilli, Catia, with Arnaud Bartolomei and Klemens Kaps, "Foreign businessmen and the financing of trade to the Indias (second half of the 18th century)", Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de América Latina (JbLA) 62, 2025, pp. 34-63.