My name is Marco Pierini. I was born in 1954 in a little town in Tuscany (Italy) where I still live. In a previous life I got a degree in Philosophy in Florence and I studied Political Science in Madrid. Life brought me to work in tourism, event organization and vocational training . But my real passion has always been History and through History I have always tried to understand the men.
Then I discovered rum and I decided to return back to my initial passion History, studying the History of Rum. Because Rum is not only a great distillate, it’s a world. Produced in scores of countries, by thousands of companies, with an extraordinary variety of aromas and flavors; it has a terrible and fascinating history, made of slaves and pirates, imperial fleets and revolutions. And using rum as point of view you can understand a lot about our world.
I run a column – The Rum Historian – in the Got Rum? magazine –
To contact me please send email to: info@therumhistorian.com
I have published 2 books with Amazon:
“AMERICAN RUM A Short History of Rum in Early America” 2017
“FRENCH RUM A History 1639-1902” 2020
