Antonino De Francesco teaches Modern History at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy in the University of Milan. He has published various essays on the politics of France and Italy between 1789 and 1848, with special emphasis on the genesis and evolution of the democratic movement. He edited the edition of Cuoco’s Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution (Lacaita, Manduria-Rome 1998) and together with Annalisa Andreoni, Plato in Italy (Laterza, Rome-Bari 2006).