Davide Ferri is a PhD candidate in the Department of Early Modern Art History at the University of Bern (Prof. Dr. Urte Krass), member in the doctoral programme in «Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies» at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg, and since 2019 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence – Max-Planck-Institute in the Department led by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf. His dissertation project “The Queen of Genoa and Baroque Territorial Aesthetics” investigates the political, devotional, and ecological agency of territorial images in the Republic of Genoa (Liguria, Corsica, North-Tunesia) in the 17th and 18th centuries.