Tommaso Somigli Russotto obtained his PhD in Early Modern History from the University of Turin in 2023 with a dissertation on the political role of Roman nobility in the Italian Wars (1492-1559). From 2023 to 2024, he held an annual research fellowship at the Istituto Storico per l'Età Moderna e Contemporanea for the project "The 'Salt War': Baronial Anarchy and Papal Taxation." Since 2024, he has been a postdoctoral research fellow in Economic History at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he works on the project "Political Representation and Economic Inequality in Early Modern Italian Mountain Areas (1500-1800)." After focusing on Tuscan areas within the PRIN 2022 PNRR project "Political Inclusion and Inequality in Preindustrial Italian Alps (1500-1800)," he is currently conducting research on the municipalities of Chiari and Tremosine for the CARIPLO project "Inequalities Research: Taxation, Public Expenditure, and Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Venetian Lombardy (1400-1800)."