He teaches Financial Systems History at Milan University, Political Sciences Faculty, where he also coordinates the Course in International Economy and Finance. His research focuses mainly on the relationship between real economy and finance in modern and contemporary age. He is the secretary of the Interfaculty Research Center for Italian Financial History (www.cirsfi.it), and he is the scientific responsible for Milan area of Red Columnaria and of the Famiglia Legler Foundation.  He is part of the scientific committee of the journal «Studi storici Luigi Simeoni» and of the managing committee of the Center for Switzerland History "Bruno Caizzi". Among his last publications are: Il mercato del credito in età moderna. Reti e operatori finanziari nello spazio europeo, edited by G. De Luca and E.M. García Guerra, Milan, 2010; Government Debt and Financial Markets: Exploring Pro-cycle Effects in Northern Italy during the Sixteenth and the Seventeenth Centuries, in Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe, edited by F. Piola Caselli, London, 2008.