Gerassimos D. Pagratis (Corfu, 1970) is Professor of Modern History at the Department of Italian Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he teaches courses in the History of the Italian States (early modern and modern history) and the History of the Venetian Rule in the Eastern Mediterranean. He also teaches Social and Economic History at the Hellenic Open University. His main research interests lie in the early modern history of Venice, the maritime enterprises of Venice’s Greek subjects, catholic monastic orders in the Venetian territories in the Levant, as well as the social and economic history of the Septinsular Republic (1800-1807).

Ηe studied Classical Philology at the University of Lecce (Italy) and Medieval & Modern Greek Philology at the Department of Philology (Faculty of Philosophy) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2001 he received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of History of the Ionian University (Corfu) with a thesis entitled “Maritime Trade in Venetian-ruled Corfu (1496-1538)”. During the period 2003-2004 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the project “Trade and Shipping in the Ionian Islands during the Napoleonic Wars” of the same department. He was Adjunct Lecturer of Maritime History in the Department of Shipping, Trade & Transport, University of Aegean (2001-2004). In 2008 he was a visiting research scholar at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) (funded by the Fulbright Foundation), working on the topic “The special development of American merchant shipping in the most important ports of the Ottoman Empire during the Napoleonic Wars and particularly before and after the American Navy’s clash with the Barbary corsairs”. In September 2024 he was a Princeton University Library (Special Collections) Research Fellow.

He has been Head of the Department of Italian Language and Literature (2020-2025) and Director of the Master of Arts Program in “Greek-Roman, Greek-Italian Studies: History, Culture and Literature” (2016-2025). Since 2021, he has been the Director of the Laboratory of Italian History and Historiography at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS:

Books

• Diaspora neo-greca nell'Italia centro-meridionale della prima età moderna (sec. XV-XVIII), ed., Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Post-Bizantini & Laboratorio di Storia e Storiografia Italiana (Università Nazionale e Capodistriaca di Atene), Atene 2025, 330 pp. 
• Social Protest, Insurrection and Revolution in Early Modern Italian States (13th-18th cent.), Laboratory of Italian History and Historiography, NKUA, Athens 2024, 700 pages.
• Population movements to the Ionian Islands from the 13th century to the annexation to the Reign of Greece, Conference Proceedings, edited by N. Moschonas - G. Pagratis, NKUA - KMI, Athens, 2022 (in Greek).  
• Le fonti della storia dell’Italia preunitaria: casi di studio per la loro analisi e “valorizzazione”, ed. Papazissi Publishers, Athens 2019. 
• War, State and Society in the Ionian Sea: late 14th – early 19th centuries, ed., Ionian Society of Historical Studies & Herodotos Publishing House: Athens, 2018, 578 pages.
• History of Italy: from the treaty of Lodi to the Unification (1454-1870) (in Greek) in https://repository.kallipos.gr/handle/11419/3959?locale=en
• Society and Economy in the Venetian "Stato da Mar": The shipping enterprises of Corfu (1496-1538), Pedio, Athens 2013 (in Greek).
• Church and State in the Venetian Islands of the Ionian Sea. Documents regarding the activity of Italian Franciscans Missionaries from the Archive of the Sacra Congregazione di Propaganda Fide (17th century), Papazisis Publishers, Athens 2009, 311 pages.
• The Reports of the Venetian Baili and Provveditori of Corfu (16th century), Athens, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute for Byzantine Research, 2008.

• in collaboration with Renard Gluzman and Aristea Gratsea, Geospatial analysis of maritime traffic in Venetian Corfu, Crete, and Cyprus: insularity and connectivity», Mediterranean Historical Review, vol. 40/1 (2025), pp. 45-64, DOI:10.1080/09518967.2025.2475725
• «The Jews of Corfu in the Early Modern Period: Social Status, Privileges and Historiography», Review of Mediterranean Historical Studies, vol. I (2024), pp. 121-138.
• «Il contributo ellenico alla nascita del filellenismo europeo: le Isole Ionie all’inizio dell’800», in Andrea Scardicchio (a cura di), Il filellenismo nella cultura italiana dell’800, Peter Lang: Lausanne-Berlin-Bruxelles-Chennai-New York-Oxford, 2023, pp. 35-50.
• «Ioannis Capodistrias e gli esordi settinsulari della sua carriera politica», in Claudia Pingaro & Lorenzo Benedetti (eds.), Storie della modernità. Spazi mediterranei e prospettive globali. Studi in onore di Mirella Vera Mafrici, Edizioni La Villa, 2022, pp. 585-602.
• «From Venetian to Ionian Protectionism: Research in the Early Modern Maritime History of the Greeks subjects of Venice», in C. Galani & A. Papadopoulou (eds.), Greek Maritime History: From the Periphery to the Center, Brill: Leiden, 2022, pp. 52-75.
• «Typology of the War at Sea in the Ionian Sea (late fifteenth – early nineteenth century», Nuova Antologia Militare, vol. 3 (2022), pp. 41-70.
• «Il trasporto del sale e del grano a Venezia nella metà del ‘500 e la marina mercantile dei Greci», atti del convegno: Venezia e il Suo Stato da Mar, Atti del 7o Convegno Internazionale, Venezia (14-16 Febbraio 2019), a cura di Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi, Roma, Società Dalmata di Storia Patria, 2022, pp. 225-235.
• «Greeks subjects of Venice in Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Business: some sixteenth century case studies», Revues d’ Études Sud-Εst Européennes, vol. LIX (2021), 207-215.
• «Politiche veneziane e società locali nel Regno di Morea», in G. Ortalli, G. Gullino, E. Ivetich (eds.), L’inestinguibile sogno di dominio: Francesco Morosini, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia, 2021, pp. 113-128.
• «Le Isole Ionie negli anni di Ugo Foscolo: società e cultura in transizione», in Ugo Foscolo tra Italia e Grecia: Esperienza e Fortuna di un Intellettuale Europeo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Mimesis: Milano-Udine, 2020, pp. 309-324.
• "Tracking Venice’s Maritime Traffic in the First Age of Globalization: A Geospatial Analysis", with Renard Gluzman, Reti marittime come fattori dell’integrazione europea, Istituto di Storia Economica “Francesco Datini”, Prato, Atti delle “Settimane di Studio” e altri Convegni, Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2019, pp. 135-153.
• Le funzioni mercantili dei consoli della Repubblica Settinsulare, 1800-1807, in Arnaud Bartolomei, Guillaume Calafat, Mathieu Grenet & Jörg Ulbert (επιμ.), De l’utilité commerciale des consuls. L’institution consulaire et les marchands dans le monde méditerranéen (XVII^e–XX^e siècle), École Française de Rome – Casa de Velázquez, Roma–Madrid 2018, http://books.openedition.org/efr/3313 
• «War at sea and trade routes in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic period through the reports of Septinsular Republic’s diplomatic representatives», Mediterranean Chronicle, 8 (2018), pp. 67-81.
  
• «The Ottoman Empire and Ionian maritime enterprises in the late 18th and early 19th centuries», στο Edhem Eldem and Sophia Laiou (eds.), Istanbul and the Black Sea Coast: Trade and Shipping (1770-1820), Istanbul: Isis, 2018, pp. 27-33.
• «The Byzantine and Greek maritime marines (maritime enterprises) in the medieval Mediterranean», in Michel Balard (ed.), Histoire Maritime. Le Moyen-Age, Oceanides, Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk 2017, pp. 424-435.
• «Commercio marittimo e metodi di documentazione nelle isole veneziane del Mare Ionio (XV-XVI sec.)», Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia 2017, pp. 253-265. 
• «Emigrazione italiana, condizioni socio-economiche e politica statale nelle Isole Ionie nell’età del Risorgimento: nuovi interrogativi su una vecchia questione», Mediterranean Chronicle, vol. 4 (2014), pp. 153-164.
• «Organization and Management of the Shipping Enterprise in Venetian-held Corfu in the first half of the 16th century», Studi Veneziani, vol. LXV (2012), pp. 625-652.
• «Lo status giuridico degli ex sudditi Veneti nell’Impero Ottomano tra la fine del Settecento e il primo decennio successivο al crollo della Serenissima», in C. Luca - G. Masi (eds.), La storia di un ri-conoscimento , Braila-Udine 2012, pp. 411-429.
• «Greeks and Italians in the Italian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Period, from the standpoint of the Septinsular Republic», The Annals of the Lower Danube University Galati, History, vol. 10 (2012), pp. 43-53.
• «Shipping and Trade in the Ionian Islands: The Merchant Fleet of the Septinsular Republic (1800-1807)», Journal of the Oxford University Historical Society, vol. 8 (Hilary 2012), www.ouhs.org.
• "Ships and shipbuilding in Corfu in the first half of the sixteenth century", Storia Mediterranea, vol. 22 (agosto 2011), pp. 237-246.
• L' emporio di Corfu nel 16o secolo, Mediterranean Chronicle, vol. I (2011), pp. 239-250
• “Merchants and Shipowners in Venetian Corfu in the first half of the Sixteenth Century”, in Maria Christina Chatziioannou-Gelina Harlaftis (eds.), Following the Nereids. Sea routes and maritime business, 16th-20th centuries, Kerkyra Publications, Athens 2006, pp. 31-43. 
• “Incidenti della navigazione mercantile nei mari Ionio e Adriatico (1611-1795)”, in Simonetta Cavaciocchi (a cura di), Ricchezza del mare. Ricchezza dal mare, secc. XIII-XVIII, Le Monnier, serie II, Firenze 2006, pp. 841-861.

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