Laura Di Fiore researches the practices of identification and supervision of migratory movements in southern Italy prior to Unification as part of her doctoral thesis on the Modern and Contemporary History of Europe, at the Department of Social Science in the University of Naples L’Orientale. She is the author of various articles which have appeared in the reviews Contemporanea and Le Carte e la Storia.

Marco Meriggi teaches History of Political Institutions at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy in the University of Naples Federico II. His most recent publications include: Europe from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Rome 2006) and The Italian States Before Unification (Bologna 2011²). For Laterza, amongst other works, he edited The Cultural Atlas of the Risorgimento (with A. M. Banti, A. Chiavistelli and L. Mannori, 2011).