Alonge, Guillaume

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Guillaume Alonge is currently a researcher in Modern History at the University of Turin. He has taught at several European universities, including the Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Aix-Marseille Université (France), Paris VII Diderot (France); he has been awarded fellowships at qualified research institutions such as the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, the Luigi Einaudi Foundation in Turin, the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, and the Swiss National Research Fund. In 2020 he was awarded the Feltrinelli youth prize for History and Geography. Since May 2023, he has been a Promoting Member of the Centro Interdisciplinare Linceo Giovani. A specialist in the religious and diplomatic history of the Sixteenth-Seventeenth century, he has worked on evangelism between France and Italy, on the figure of the ambassador in the Renaissance, and on the circulation of heretical ideas, people and books in Sixteenth-century Europe. More recently, he has studied the Jesuit presence in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Japan and the construction of Catholic missionary holiness globally. He has also devoted himself to the study of a debate spanning three centuries of modern history on the food diet of Adam and Eve.