Alessia Lirosi is Associate Professor of Modern History at the Niccolò Cusano University of Rome. Among her publications: I monasteri femminili a Roma tra XVI e XVII secolo (Rome, 2012); Libere di sapere. Women’s right to education from the sixteenth century to the contemporary world (Rome, 2015); Una confraternita femminile a Roma. The Company of St. Anne in the Church of S. Pantaleo between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Rome 2019).