Tommaso Munari

Università di Torino (Italy)

The last dragomans: teaching Oriental languages in late nineteenth-century Venice

2024–2025: Spring

A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turin, Tommaso Munari earned a Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute in Florence. His research interests encompass the history of publishing, universities, and scholarship in modern Europe, with a special focus on the exile of Jewish scholars from fascist Italy. He is a regular contributor to the Sunday literary supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore. His latest book, L’Italia dei libri (Einaudi, 2024) explores the role of publishers in Italian history from the Risorgimento to the Republic. At the Italian Academy, he will work on a project concerning the teaching of Oriental languages in late nineteenth-century Venice, tentatively titled The Last Dragomans.