Category Archives: Italian History

Kress Fellowships at the Medici Archive Project

Posted on May 10, 2021 by briansandberg

The Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy, is offering two Samuel H. Kress Fellowships for graduate students interested in pursuing archival research at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze and other Florentine archives. These fellowships offer American graduate students a … Continue reading →

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Rescuing Sacred Music of the Renaissance

Posted on April 14, 2021 by briansandberg

Renaissance music is being studied in new ways at the Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy. A news magazine piece on “Rescuing Sacred Music of the Renaissance” from CBS Sunday Morning features Music and the Medici, a research program of … Continue reading →

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Doctoral Fellowships in European History

Posted on October 28, 2020 by briansandberg

The European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy, is offering fully funded doctoral fellowships for students wishing to pursue Ph.D. studies in European history. The European University Institute (EUI) is located on a majestic hill overlooking Firenze (Florence), Italy, an inspiring … Continue reading →

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Art of Renaissance Warfare

Posted on August 28, 2020 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library (Chicago) will host a virtual conversation with Jonathan Tavares (The Art Institute of Chicago) and Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Newberry Library) on The Art of Renaissance Warfare, to be held on Zoom. … Continue reading →

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Newberry Library Graduate Student Conference

Posted on January 11, 2020 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library is hosting its annual Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on 23-25 January 2020. Here is the announcement from the Center for Renaissance Studies: CRS announces the schedule for the 2020 Multidisciplinary Graduate … Continue reading →

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New Italian Paleography Website

Posted on July 29, 2019 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library has created a new Italian paleography website and digital resource. This resource will be incredibly useful resource for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers in Renaissance studies. Here is the … Continue reading →

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Titian Portrait on View

Posted on February 18, 2019 by briansandberg

A Renaissance masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady in White, is currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.  The portrait by Tiziano Vecelli (known as Titian) is on loan from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden and … Continue reading →

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The Weight of Antiquity

Posted on February 16, 2019 by briansandberg

The Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago is hosing a graduate student conference on The Weight of Antiquity: Early Modern Classicisms at the Regenstein Library on 23 February 2019. The conference participants will present new research … Continue reading →

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Renaissance History and Franco-Italian Quarrels

Posted on February 8, 2019 by briansandberg

French President Emmanuel Macron has recalled the French Ambassador to Italy, in response to the Italian government’s support of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protest movement in France. Italian Deputy Prime Ministers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio have both … Continue reading →

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Historical Memory of the Spanish Civil War

Posted on January 26, 2019 by briansandberg

The historical memory of the Spanish Civil War is being contested regularly in modern Spanish society and in the European Union. Historians such as Jay Winter and Pierre Nora have been studying the construction of historical memory through memorial, commemorations, … Continue reading →

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