Gio Maria is interested in the history of early modern and modern political thought and their relationship with contemporary political philosophy (especially republicanism and liberalism).
He is currently working on a dissertation on the politics of vice, tracing its history from Machiavelli to the mid-eighteenth-century and developing its implications for contemporary political theory and political science.
His research has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including History of Political Thought, The Historical Journal, Rivista di storia della filosofia, Studi storici, and Rinascimento, as well as in a number of edited volumes. Before coming to Berkeley, he studied philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), received BA and MA degrees from the University of Pisa, and spent one year as an affiliate student at UCL.
Recent publications:
- "'Full of contradiction, or confusion, or both': rethinking the political thought of Robert Filmer," History of Political Thought 45 (2024), pp. 257-281
- "Between tradition and myth. Limits and prospects of the republican paradigm," Studi Storici (2023), pp. 781-812