Massimo Livi Bacci is Professor Emeritus of Demography at the University of Florence and a member of the “Accademia dei Lincei. Among his books, translated into various languages, are “A Concise History of World Population ‘(7th ed. 2024); “Geodemography’ (2024); “By Land and by Sea ‘(2023)”; “The Traumas of’ Europe” (2020); “On the Move: A Short History of Migration “(2018, 3rd ed.); “Amazonia: The Empire of” Water