Pietro Brunelli, born in Padua, has nurtured interests in historical-arts and musical fields, and he graduated with a degree in contemporary history from the University of Florence with a research thesis on the post-World War II period on the eastern Italian border, with particular attention to the cultural problem of ideologies and political parties. He obtained a master’s degree in historical sciences in History of the Risorgimento and is now a doctoral student of Modern and contemporary history at the University of Pavia. He published Amministrative 1949: per una prospettiva sociale della questione di Trieste, published in the magazine «Foedus» (n. 28, 2010/2011), Dal Chianti alla nazione. Patrioti, comunità e “paesaggio” nel Risorgimento italiano (Firenze 2011) and , with Francesco Fusi, Patria, libertà e progresso. Storia e simboli di Mutuo Soccorso dall’archivio della Fratellanza Artigiana di Greve in Chianti (1882-1956) (Polistampa, Firenze 2012).