The Musician and the Senator: The Microhistory of a Friendship

This book was conceived as a laboratory on microhistory, an attempt to illustrate its main processes and advantages.

Vincenzo Barra, PhD in Italy and Spain, external cooperator in the research group Histagra (Agrarian History and Rural World Policy) and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, is Researcher in Modern History at the University of Salerno. He studied the history of local elites in southern Italy in the late modern era. His research has also focused on the comparative history of the political clientelism during the Bourbon Restoration in Spain and the Kingdom of Italy in the liberal age. His line of research includes the study of how everyday life was ’archived’ and represented in ego-documents, focusing on personal letters with a microhistorical approach.