NEH Research Fellows at the Medici Project

FAIN: RA-50024-05

Medici Archive Project Inc. (New York, NY 10018-0983)
Edward Leroy Goldberg (Project Director: September 2004 to October 2006)
Ippolita Morgese (Project Director: October 2006 to March 2009)
Alessio Giovanni Maria Assonitis (Project Director: March 2009 to June 2011)

Funding details:
Original grant (2005) $240,000.00
Supplement (2008) $15,000.00

One three-year humanities fellowship.

The Medici Archive Project is an American Research Institution that carries out scholarly activities in the National Archive in Florence, Italy (Archivio di Stato di Firenze). These activities include the creation of the first computerized access to the Archive of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1537-1743). Part of MAP's mission is to train emerging scholars in the values and methods of archival research in the context of an ongoing Fellowship Program, giving them the opportunity to make such research an integral part of their scholarly careers. Funding is thus sought for two NEH Research Fellows who will come to MAP for three years each (from September 2006 through August 2009 and September 2007 through August 2010). In the course of their three years with MAP, Fellows spend 20 months collaborating with MAP's research team onsite in the Florentine National Archive and the remaining time (16 months) carrying out independent research on a proposed topic of their choice. After the conclusion of their fellowships, Project Alumnae pursue scholarly careers, bringing their enhanced knowledge and expertise to universities, museums and research institutions around the world.

Associated Products

A Short History of Renaissance Italy (Book)
Title: A Short History of Renaissance Italy
Author: Lisa Kaborycha
Abstract: The book follows an interdisciplinary approach and covers the origins of the Italian Renaissance through the Baroque period. Table of Contents: Out of the ashes : the rise of the communes and Florence in the age of Dante The crises of the fourteenth century : climatic, epidemic, demographic disasters Back to the future : Italian humanists recover the classical past Caput mundi again? Rome from Cola de Rienzo to Pius II Hearth and home : lay piety, women, and the family Lords of the Renaissance : the Medici, Visconti, and Sforza dynasties through 1466 The Mezzogiorno : the "other renaissance" in Naples and Sicily La Serenissima : when Venice rules the seas Magnificent Florence : life under Lorenzo De' Medici, 1469-1492 1494 : the beginning of the calamities of Italy Paradoxes of the High Renaissance : art in a time of turmoil The 1527 Sack of Rome and its aftermath : courtiers and courteseans in High Renaissance literature Reformations : political, religious, and artistic upheaval, 1530-1563 The "Imperial Renaissance" : Italy during the Spanish peace, 1559-1598 Celestial revolutions : heaven and Earth collide at the turn of the seventeenth century.
Year: 2010
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/short-history-of-renaissance-italy/oclc/664115085&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780136054849
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Expressing a Habsburg Sensibility in the Medici Court: The Grand Duchess Giovanna d'Austria’s Patronage and Public Image in Florence (Book Section)
Title: Expressing a Habsburg Sensibility in the Medici Court: The Grand Duchess Giovanna d'Austria’s Patronage and Public Image in Florence
Author: Lisa Kaborycha
Editor: Christina Strunck
Abstract: abstract not available
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/medici-women-as-cultural-mediators-1533-1743-le-donne-di-casa-medici-e-il-loro-ruolo-di-mediatrici-culturali-fra-le-corti-deuropa/oclc/777410664&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Book Title: Medici Women as Cultural Mediators 1533-1743
ISBN: 9788836622382

A New Chronology of the Construction and Restoration of the Medici Guardaroba in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (Article)
Title: A New Chronology of the Construction and Restoration of the Medici Guardaroba in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Author: Mark Rosen
Abstract: abstract not available
Year: 2009
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 53

Charismatic cosmography in late cinquecento Florence (Article)
Title: Charismatic cosmography in late cinquecento Florence
Author: Mark Rosen
Abstract: abstract not available
Year: 2009
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences 59

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