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Stefano Marsella Engineer
Ministero dell’Interno – Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco, Rome, Italy
Stefano Marsella has been working since 1988 in the Italian National Fire Corps
and has served in the provincial fire services of Florence, Venice, Arezzo, Perugia.
At the moment, he is the regional director of fire and rescue services in Abruzzo. He
has been working also in the standardization of fire prevention and has directed the
information technology area of the CNVVF and the National Fire Academy (Istituto
Superiore Antincendi). He has published articles and books on fire prevention, fire
safety engineering, fire prevention, and the application of ICT to the rescue services.
He is coordinating since 2009 the participation of CNVVF’s teams to research projects cofinanced by the European Commission in the fields of innovation technologies applied to rescue services.
Richard McKim Teacher, Independent Scholar
He was trained as a chemist and had a long career in teaching. He has coordinated
the work of the Mars Section of the British Astronomical Association for four
decades, wrote the first monograph about Martian dust storms, and has published
hundreds of articles and papers about the red planet and on historical and biographical topics. He is an active observer, using a 41 cm Dall- Kirkham Cassegrain telescope in his observatory in Northamptonshire, England. A past President of the
BAA, he currently serves as its archivist and as a trustee. He enjoys sketching and
travel, and plays clarinet and oboe in a local orchestra.
Martín Maria Morales Professor of Early Modern History and Historiography of
Missions, Director of the Historical Archives
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (Vatican City)
Born in Buenos Aires in 1953, he lives in Rome since 1983. He is the editor of the
correspondence between the Generals of the Society of Jesus and the old Province
of Paraguay, the first volume being published under the title: A mis manos han llegado: cartas de los PP. Generales a la Antigua Provincia del Paraguay (1608–1639)
(Madrid-Rome, 2005). The second, and last volume – Entremos en el mar abierto –
is in preparation. His interests are focused on the writing process of the history of
the Society of Jesus and has published several essays on Jesuit historiography. With
the creation, in Buenos Aires, of a laboratory for the restoration of old books and
documents, he was able to retrieve the “Fondo antiguo de libros y documentos de
los Jesuitas en Argentina,” that is the old collection of books and documents pertaining to Jesuits in Argentina.
About the Contributors
Stefano Marsella Engineer
Ministero dell’Interno – Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco, Rome, Italy
Stefano Marsella has been working since 1988 in the Italian National Fire Corps
and has served in the provincial fire services of Florence, Venice, Arezzo, Perugia.
At the moment, he is the regional director of fire and rescue services in Abruzzo. He
has been working also in the standardization of fire prevention and has directed the
information technology area of the CNVVF and the National Fire Academy (Istituto
Superiore Antincendi). He has published articles and books on fire prevention, fire
safety engineering, fire prevention, and the application of ICT to the rescue services.
He is coordinating since 2009 the participation of CNVVF’s teams to research projects cofinanced by the European Commission in the fields of innovation technologies applied to rescue services.
Richard McKim Teacher, Independent Scholar
He was trained as a chemist and had a long career in teaching. He has coordinated
the work of the Mars Section of the British Astronomical Association for four
decades, wrote the first monograph about Martian dust storms, and has published
hundreds of articles and papers about the red planet and on historical and biographical topics. He is an active observer, using a 41 cm Dall- Kirkham Cassegrain telescope in his observatory in Northamptonshire, England. A past President of the
BAA, he currently serves as its archivist and as a trustee. He enjoys sketching and
travel, and plays clarinet and oboe in a local orchestra.
Martín Maria Morales Professor of Early Modern History and Historiography of
Missions, Director of the Historical Archives
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (Vatican City)
Born in Buenos Aires in 1953, he lives in Rome since 1983. He is the editor of the
correspondence between the Generals of the Society of Jesus and the old Province
of Paraguay, the first volume being published under the title: A mis manos han llegado: cartas de los PP. Generales a la Antigua Provincia del Paraguay (1608–1639)
(Madrid-Rome, 2005). The second, and last volume – Entremos en el mar abierto –
is in preparation. His interests are focused on the writing process of the history of
the Society of Jesus and has published several essays on Jesuit historiography. With
the creation, in Buenos Aires, of a laboratory for the restoration of old books and
documents, he was able to retrieve the “Fondo antiguo de libros y documentos de
los Jesuitas en Argentina,” that is the old collection of books and documents pertaining to Jesuits in Argentina.
About the Contributors