Radu Dipratu is a historian with the Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. He completed his Ph.D. in 2017 at the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, with a dissertation on the religious articles of Ottoman capitulations in the 17th century. His recent book, Regulating Non-Muslim Communities in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire: Catholics and Capitulations (Routledge, 2021), derives from this dissertation. Radu’s main areas of academic research are Ottoman diplomacy and the Catholic communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern era, to which he has dedicated several articles, including: “Visiting the Noble Jerusalem: Catholic Pilgrims in the Ottoman Capitulations of the Seventeenth Century” (2018), “The ‘Imperial Signs’ (nişan-ı hümayun): Framing Muslim-Christian Diplomacy in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean” (2020), “The Valona Affair (1638), Its Ensuing Anti-Piracy Nişan and the Development of Ottoman-Venetian Peace Agreements” (2020), “A Forgotten Capitulation (‘ahdname): The Commercial Privileges Granted by Sultan Ahmed I to Emperor Matthias in 1617” (2020, co-author).