Gerassimos D. Pagratis (Corfu, 1970) is Professor of Italian History and Civilization and Head of the Department of Italian Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He received his Ph.D. degree in 2001 on the dissertation "Maritime Trade in Venetian-Ruled Corfu: 1496-1538". During the period 2003-2004 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the same Department working on the research project “Trade and Shipping in the Ionian Islands during the Napoleonic Wars" with a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation.

His researches on the post-medieval and early modern history of Italy, the sources and historiography of early modern Italy, the maritime economic history of early modern Mediterranean, the Latin monastic orders in the Venetian maritime state, as well as the economic, social, and political history of the Septinsular Republic have been published in Greek and international scientific journals, conference proceedings and collective volumes.

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Books

• 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.

• «Greeks subjects of Venice in Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Business: some sixteenth century case studies», Revues d’ Études Sud-Εst Européennes, 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.«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, 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, τ. 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 (επιμ.), 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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