Carmelina (Elina) Gugliuzzo was born in Florence and is currently a Firb researcher at the University of Palermo – Italy. With our own publishing house she published the book Municipal Fervours. Feasts in Messina and Malta in the Modern Age (Armando Siciliano, Messina 2007).

On the cover:
The Building of a Frigate. Album of the Marqués de la Victoria. Madrid, Museo Naval.