Imma Petito (1993) is a PhD student working on the relations between the kingdom of England and Italy in the later Middle Ages at the University of Salerno (UNISA) and the SHOC research group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is working under the supervision of prof. dr. Bart Lambert (history - VUB), prof. dr. Francesco Senatore (history - UNINA) and prof. dr. Silvia Siniscalchi (geography - UNISA).

She is an Honorary research fellow ("Cultore della materia") in Medieval History and Medieval Institutions at the University of Naples "Federico II" (UNINA) and at the UNISA. She is a member of the scientific committee of Serie I, Dispacci Sforzeschi da Napoli – Fonti per la storia aragonese di Napoli.

She obtained a master's degree in Historical Sciences cum laude at UNINA (2017) and graduated from the Schools of the State Archives of Naples and the Vatican Secret Archives (2019). She was a fellow of the Alberto Varvaro Advanced Training School in History and Philology of the Manuscript and Ancient Book, in collaboration with Ministero dei Beni Culturali and the UNINA (2019-2021).

Her research interests are mainly focused on the areas of institutional, cultural and diplomatic history - in particular with reference to Italy, Europe, and the Mediterranean between the Later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period - and documentary production relating to the 13th-16th centuries.

Her research project involves the study of English relations with Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples and Rome, under the regency of Edward IV of York followed - after the brief parentheses of the reigns of Edward V and Richard III - by Henry VII Tudor. It proposes to reconstruct the most significant moments and aspects of the relationships between these powers and will develop a comparative perspective focused on cultural history, languages, communication, perception of spaces, characters and, therefore, on the discursive and cultural dimension of these connections. At VUB, Imma focuses above all on the archival evidence from the Low Countries, that were transitional zones between England and Italy.