Barbara Ann Naddeo

Barbara Ann Naddeo is Associate Professor of History at The City College of New York. She specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe, especially Italy. In particular, she is interested in the advent of the metropolis and its significance for the social sciences in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As her case study, Naddeo has taken the capital city of Naples, which was the single largest metropolitan community in Europe around 1600 and a laboratory of the human sciences throughout the early modern period.