Enrico Ermanno Sorrentino (Venice, 1975) studied architecture and modern history in Venice. He is interested in social history and Venetian culture between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, with particular regard to the phenomena of libertinism, popular unbelief and witchcraft. He published the study on the inquisition Giuseppe Pelizzari e quel sicuro mezzo dell’olio santo. Un processo inquisitorio veneziano del 1682-83