Music and Poetry 

Funded within the project "ERC AG LAUDARE ZIMEI"  

The object of this doctoral fellowship, open to graduates in philological-literary disciplines with proven musical skills and graduates in musicological disciplines with proven literary skills, is the investigation of the original functional nexus between music and poetry in the light of the lauda tradition, i.e. the most suitable of those recorded in written form to reflect the conditions of use, modes of transmission and social impact of sung verse in Italy between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The research project, based on an interdisciplinary approach, should have as its object a study to be carried out in the field of lauda production such as the identification of new sources, the relationship between text and music, the repertoire analysis, the interference between orality and writing, the compositional and/or performative aspects of a given repertoire, and other afferent themes. 

Mobility and borders, connectivity and negotiations in Italian and European history from antiquity to the modern age

Funded by MUR “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza”, Department of Humanities

The subject of the research project will focus on the historical evolution of the forms, models and practices of interaction, negotiation and interconnection that occurred (in antiquity, during the Middle Ages, or in modern times) between territories/areas/communities in the Italian or European space; the main themes of investigation (relating to ancient, medieval or modern ages) will be: negotiation between elites and federative forms; inter-ethnic relations and social networks; management and control of border territorial spaces; cross-border mobility and migratory phenomena.

The spread of the Renaissance in northern Italy: Success, Resistance, Contamination

Funded by MUR “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza”, Department of Humanities

The research project will focus on the artistic relations between Tuscany and the regions of northern Italy during the Renaissance (with particular reference to the Republics of Venice and Genoa, the Duchies of Milan and Ferrara, the Marquisate of Mantua, the Episcopal Principality of Trent). The research will focus on the ways and means by which the new figurative ideas maturing in Florence during the first decades of the fifteenth century arrived north of the Apennines, assessing the frequency of journeys made by painters, sculptors, goldsmiths or architects, the migration of works, the circulation of techniques and iconographies, the study of the importance of the various patronage contexts, and, in short, the assessment of the times and forms of affirmation (but possibly also of contestation) of Renaissance models, with particular attention to cases of hybridisation or adaptation to the local context.