Salvatore VALENTI
- Position
- Adjunct Professor
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salvatore.valenti@unive.it
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/salvatore.valenti (personal record)
- Office
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Department of Humanities (DSU)
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Office hours
Office Hours
During the period of the course (January-March), the teacher will be availeble for online office hours on Wednesday from 9.30 am to 10.30 am.
Students are invited to send an email to salvatore.valenti@unive.it to schedule an appointement.
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Publication highlights
Salvatore Valenti From plague to cholera: public health and the urban poor in nineteenth-century Italy in SOCIAL HISTORY, vol. 50, pp. 35-62 (ISSN 0307-1022)
DOI - URL correlato 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5090630
Valenti, Salvatore Knowledge erosion: Floods and the regularisation of the river Tiber, 1870–1937 in JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, vol. 90, pp. 156-165 (ISSN 0305-7488)
DOI 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5106035
Valenti S. THE CONCERNS OF A YOUNG SCIENCE. EXPERIMENTAL HYGIENE AND WATER MANAGEMENT BETWEEN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY|Le ansie di una giovane scienza. L’igiene sperimentale e il governo delle acque tra Otto e Novecento in ANNALI DI STORIA DELLE UNIVERSITÀ ITALIANE, vol. 29, pp. 81-98 (ISSN 1127-8250)
DOI 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5099608
Valenti, Salvatore 'Who can tell me what potable water means?' The assessment of water quality in debates over hydraulic infrastructure in nineteenth-century Italy in THE BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, vol. first view (online) (ISSN 1474-001X)
DOI - URL correlato 2024,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5059061
Valenti, Salvatore Flood and Drought: The Challenges of Seasonality in the Operation of Rome’s Sewers, 1870-1900 in JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY, vol. first view (online) (ISSN 0096-1442)
DOI 2024,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5067841
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
I am an urban and social historian (University of Leicester, School of History, Politics, International Relations, PhD). My main research interest is in the field of urban and environmental history, with a specific focus on water infrastructures. My first book, Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape, Rome and its Surroundings, 1870-1922 (Routledge, 2022) explores the various elements involved in this social struggle for water access, use and distribution and its practical effects on the making of the Roman space. It analyses, within the Roman context, the projects of Italian modernity that involved water, how water was conceptualised and perceived by various members of the Italian elites, the evolution of the Italian water legislation, the impact of cholera and the medicalisation of water, the private pursuits for profits by means of water and local patterns of use.
Currently, I am a member of the ERC Advanced Grant group “The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900”. As part of my research I am examining the evolution of the medical concept of water, the impact of Asiatic Cholera, and the renewal of water infrastructure in Italian cities during the nineteenth century.
Full CV: https://unive.academia.edu/SalvatoreVALENTI/CurriculumVitae
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