Paola Nardone is Full Professor of Economic History at the Department of Socio-Economic, Management, and Statistical Studies of University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, deputy director of the Ud’A-TEMA Research Center – University G. D’Annunzio for Land and Sea, and vice president of the Pescarabruzzo Foundation. She teaches History of Finance and Business History. Her research activity is focused mainly on social and economic development dynamic in Italy in the modern and contemporary age. On top she is also actives in investigations related to history of business and tourism. In these contexts she wrote several papers and monographs.