Alessandro Tripepi earned his PhD in History, Culture, and Theories of Society and Institutions from the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan in 2020. Since 2021, he has worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in the same department as part of the ERC Tacitroots project, dedicated to the study of the Accademia del Cimento in Florence.
In 2022, he published his first monograph based on his doctoral thesis: Lo specchio di sé. Identità culturali e conquista spirituale nel viaggio italiano di quattro principi giapponesi alla fine del XVI secolo (Pearson, Milan, 2022). . He has also written various articles for Italian and international journals, including:
* Diplomazia gesuitica, potere politico ed evangelizzazione in Giappone durante il periodo Sengoku (1569-1598), «Riforma e Movimenti Religiosi», 2023;
* International perspectives on the Florentine edition of Apollonius’ Conics. The case of Michelangelo Ricci (1661), «Nuncius», 2023.
From 2020/21 to 2024/25, he was a contract professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan for the workshop: Towards the Final Thesis: Conducting and Writing Historical Research (Early Modern Period). He also collaborated on the creation of three history teaching manuals published by Pearson between 2022 and 2025.
Since 2025, he has taught at Istituto Secoli as the instructor for the Final Thesis Preparation Workshop.
«Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantium humeris insidentes.» These words, attributed by John of Salisbury to Bernard of Chartres, perfectly express the meaning of teaching: everything we know, we owe to those who passed it on to us. Teaching is therefore the best way to allow an intuition or an idea to both manifest and endure: it means transmitting knowledge capable of growing and layering generation after generation.