Alessandro Fontana 1939 -2013 Alessandro Fontana was Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the author of numerous essays which were partially collected in Il vizio occulto (1989) and La polizia dell’anima (1990). He collaborated with François Furet (Livre et société au XVIIIe siècle, 1970) and Michel Foucault (I, Pierre …