Gio Maria Tessarolo

I grew up in a small town in Veneto, in the north-east of Italy. I then studied Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa). While attending it, I also received BA and MA degrees from the University of Pisa and spent one year as an Affiliate Student at UCL (London). I am now a PhD student in Political Theory at UC Berkeley, where my studies are funded by the Berkeley Fellowship.

I am interested in the history of early modern and modern political thought and their relationship with contemporary political philosophy (especially republicanism and liberalism). I am currently working on a dissertation on the politics of vice, tracing its history from Machiavelli to the mid-eighteenth-century and developing its implications for contemporary political theory and political science. My research has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including History of Political Thought, The Historical Journal, Rivista di storia della filosofia, Studi storici, and Rinascimento, as well as in a number of edited volumes. I am also fascinated by methodological issues in the history of political thought and by interdisciplinary approaches to its study.