My research focuses on the development of natural and medical sciences in Europe during the early modern period. My curriculum combines scientific (MA in Natural Sciences), humanistic, and historical studies (Ph.D in History of Science; High School Diploma in Classical Studies). As a consequence of this hybrid background, in my research and teaching activity I pay great attention both to the practical side of the history of science and to the history of theories and intellectual networks, as to their scientific, social, philosophical, and religious implications. I am currently working towards a critical edition in Edition Open Sources (www.edition-open-sources.org/) of Antonio Vallisneri’s 'Primi itineris per montes Specimen physico-medicum' (‘Physical-medical example of a first journey through the mountains’): an unpublished manuscript containing a wide array of geological, biological, technical, and anthropological data. Vallisneri (1661-1730), the dominant figure in Italy during the first half of the eighteenth century in the field of medical and natural sciences, wrote this document in 1705, after a naturalistic journey he made in the Northern Apennines.