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Riccardo Mandelli studied musicology at the University of Milan (B.A. 2018; M.A. 2021). In his Master's thesis,  he explored Milanese cultural life after the Italian unification with a case study on Amilcare Ponchielli's opera "I promessi sposi". His research interests include the social history of Italian opera, music journalism and vocal performance practice. He has presented his work at the annual conference of the "Saggiatore musicale" (Ravenna) and the "Società italiana di Musicologia" (Rome), among others.  In 2021/22 he contributed to the project "Mapping Musical Life: Urban Culture and the Local Press in Post-Unification Italy" at the University of Milan. In October 2022, Riccardo Mandelli joined the ERC Project “Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe, 1815-1914” at Leipzig University as a research fellow, working on his doctoral thesis on the role of opera in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (1815-1866).