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Gianni Romeo, born in Procida in 1949, was a professor of Modern History at the Federico II University of Naples, where he obtained a degree in Classics in 1971. His main lines of research concerned the social and religious history of modern age, delving into issues related to inquisitors, exorcists and witches, the history of religious and sexual mentalities and behaviors and their control and repression by ecclesiastical structures in Italy during the Counter-Reformation. Read the full biography

Gianni Romeo, born in Procida in 1949, was a professor of Modern History at the Federico II University of Naples, where he obtained a degree in Classics in 1971. His main lines of research concerned the social and religious history of modern age, delving into issues related to inquisitors, exorcists and witches, the history of religious and sexual mentalities and behaviors and their control and repression by ecclesiastical structures in Italy during the Counter-Reformation. His best-known work, considered a classic of inquisitorial and witchcraft studies, is "Inquisitors, exorcists and witches in Counter-Reformation Italy", published in Florence in 1990. He developed his studies on the themes of the history of the Inquisition and confession of sins, through two interpretative syntheses, "Research on the confession of sins and the Inquisition in sixteenth-century Italy" in 1997 and "The Inquisition in modern Italy" in 2002. Furthermore, a critical review of the first volume was published in 1999 in the magazine "Quaderni Storico", n.35, examining some aspects of his research in a critical way.