Professor Luca Molà
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ProfessorEmail: L.Mola@warwick.ac.uk |
Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2024- Professor of History, University of Warwick, Department of History
1999-2010 Associate Professor of History, University of Warwick, Department of History
2010-2018 Professor of Early Modern History of Europe, European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization
2018- Associate Professor of History, University of Warwick, Department of History
2023- Director of Warwick Venice Centre
EDUCATION
1989 – University degree (Laurea) in History, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Venice
1992 – Master of Arts in History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
1997 – Ph.D. in History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2023 (October) – Tutte le perle del mondo. Storie di viaggi, scambi e magnifici ornamenti, co-authored with Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli and Giorgio Riello, Bologna, Il Mulino Editore
2000 – The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice, Baltimore-London, Johns Hopkins University Press
1994 – La comunità dei lucchesi a Venezia: immigrazione e industria della seta nel tardo Medioevo, Venezia, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Edited Books
In preparation: Trading at the Edge of Empires: Francesco Carletti’s World, ca. 1600, co-edited with Brian Brege, Paula Findlen and Giorgio Riello, I Tatti Research Series, Harvard University Press, Boston (MA)
In preparation: Gli statuti dell’Arte dei vetrai di Murano [The Statutes of the Glassmakers’ Guild of Murano], Fonti per la Storia di Venezia, Roma, Viella Editore
2023 – La Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi. La comunità veneziana dei Servi di Maria (secoli XIV-XVIII), co-edited with Eveline Baseggio and Tiziana Franco, series Chiese di Venezia. Nuove prospettive di ricerca, 8, Roma, Viella Editore
2021 – Rocco Benedetti, Venezia 1576, la peste [Venice 1576, the Plague], co-edited with Donatella Calabi et al., Verona, Cierre Edizioni
2021 – Reinhold C. Mueller, Venezia nel tardo Medioevo. Economia e società / Late Medieval Venice. Economy and Society, co-edited with Michael Knapton and Luciano Pezzolo, Roma, Viella Editore
2020 - Seri-Technics: Historical Silk Technologies, co-edited with Dagmar Schaefer and Giorgio Riello, Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge, Edition Open Access and Print on Demand
2019 – Rialto. Centro di una “economia mondo” [Rialto. The Centre of a World-Economy], co-edited with Donatella Calabi and Paolo Morachiello, exhibition catalogue, Venezia, Supernova
2018 – Threads of Global Desire: Silk in the Pre-Modern World, co-edited with Dagmar Schaefer and Giorgio Riello, London, Boydell and Brewer
2014 – Italian Technology from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Anna Guagnini, monographic issue of History of Technology, 32 (2014), London, Bloomsbury
2012 – Sulla Via della Seta. Antichi sentieri tra Oriente e Occidente, co-edited with Mark Norrell, Ludovica Rosati and Alexandra Wetzel, Torino, Codice Edizioni, exhibition catalogue
2007 – Il Rinascimento Italiano e l’Europa. Volume Terzo. Produzione e tecniche, co-edited with Philippe Braunstein, Treviso-Vicenza, Fondazione Cassamarca
2000 – La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento. Dal baco al drappo, co-edited with Reinhold C. Mueller and Claudio Zanier, Venezia, Marsilio Editore
Essays in Books and Articles
in preparation: ‘Italian Merchants’ Travel Narratives in the Sixteenth Century’, in Trading at the Edge of Empires: Francesco Carletti’s World, ca. 1600, co-edited with Brian Brege, Paula Findlen and Giorgio Riello, I Tatti Research Series, Harvard University Press, Boston (MA)
forthcoming 2023 – ‘The Arrival of the Crimson Dyeing Technique in Late Fourteenth-Century Italy’, in A Revolution in Colour: Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400-1800, eds. Maria Hayward, Giorgio Riello and Ulinka Rublack, Bloomsbury 2023
2023 – ‘Una nota sui Memoriali bolognesi come fonte per la storia della moda nella prima metà del Trecento’, Reti Medievali, 24 (1)
2023 – ‘Aspetti della politica economica veneziana nel primo ventennio del Cinquecento’, in Come la marea. Successi e sconfitte durante il dogado di Leonardo Loredan (1501-1521), eds. Donatella Calabi, Giuseppe Gullino and Gherardo Ortalli, Venezia, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, December 2022, pp. 25-42
2023 – ‘I lucchesi di Venezia e le tecniche dell’Oriente nel Trecento’, in La Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi. La comunità veneziana dei Servi di Maria (secoli XIV-XVIII), ed. by Eveline Baseggio, Tiziana Franco and Luca Molà, series Chiese di Venezia. Nuove prospettive di ricerca, 8, Roma, Viella Editore, pp. 289-308
2022 – ‘Renaissance Venice: A City of Innovation’, in Market Spaces, Production Sites, and Sound Landscape of European Cities: From History to Regeneration, ed. Elena Svalduz, Padua, Padova University Press, pp. 45-55
2021 – ‘Sulle tracce dell’Asia’, in Marco the Stranger. The Silk Road Past and Present between Italy and China, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2021, pp. 40-63 [in Chinese]
2020 – ‘Le delazioni nel mondo dell’industria veneziana tra XIV e XVI secolo’, in Riferire all’autorità. Denuncia e delazione tra Medioevo ed Eta Moderna, ed. Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Rome, Viella Editore, pp. 141-156
2019 – ‘Against The Sumptuary Regime: Sumptuary Prosecutions in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Padua’, co-authored with Giorgio Riello, in The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c. 1200-1800, eds. Giorgio Riello and Ulinka Rublak, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 210-241
2018 – (意）卢卡·莫拉，“13-14世纪丝绸之路上的意大利商人”，译者刘爽、石榴，载于《无问西东：从丝绸之路到文艺复兴》，北京时代华文书局，365-380页 [‘Italian Merchants on the Silk Road between the XIIIth and XIVth Centuries’, translated by Liu Shuang and Shi Liu, in Embracing the Orient and the Occident: When the Silk Road Meets the Renaissance, Beijing, Beijing Times Chinese Press, pp. 365-380], published also in 译者刘爽、石榴，载于《在最遥远的地方寻找故乡：13-16世纪中国与意大利的跨文化交流》，商务印书馆，295-303页 [Finding A Homeland At The End Of The World: The Trans-Cultural Exchanges and Interactions Between China and Italy From the 13th to the 16th Century, The Commercial Press, 2018, pp. 295-303]
2018 – ‘Discriminazione, sopraffazione, violenza nel mondo del lavoro’, co-authored with Franco Franceschi, in Violenza alle donne. Una prospettiva medievale, eds. Anna Esposito, Franco Franceschi and Gabriella Piccinni, Bologna, Il Mulino Editore, pp. 57-84
2018 - ‘A Material Diplomacy: Venetian Luxury Gifts for the Ottoman Empire in the Late Renaissance’, in Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia, eds. Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsens and Giorgio Riello, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 56-87
2017 - ‘Marco Polo e le merci dell’Oriente: l’inventario di un viaggiatore / Marco Polo and Trade with the Orient: A Traveler’s Inventory’, in Ego Marcus Paulo volo et ordino. I segreti del testamento di Marco Polo, ed. Tiziana Plebani, Venice, Scrinium, pp. 191-207; reprinted in Venice, Marsilio Editore, 2019
2017 – ‘1474: Tutelare l’ingegno’, in Storia mondiale dell’Italia, ed. Andrea Giardina, Rome-Bari, Laterza Editore
2016 - ‘A Luxury Industry: The Production of Italian Silks 1400-1600’, in Luxury Textiles in Italy and the Low Countries (Fourteenth to Sixteenth centuries), eds. Bart Lambert and Katherine Anne Wilson, London, Ashgate, pp. 205-234
2016 – ‘La via italiana all’innovazione nel Rinascimento: i privilegi per la fondazione di nuove arti e i brevetti per invenzione’, in Fatto in Italia. Dal Medioevo al Made in Italy, ed. Alessandra Guerrini, Milano, Silvana Editoriale
2014 - ‘Inventors, Patents and the Market for Innovations in Renaissance Italy’, in Italian Technology from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century, eds. Luca Molà and Anna Guagnini, monographic issue of History of Technology, 32 (2014), pp. 7-34
2014 - ‘I tessuti dimenticati: consumo e produzione dei veli a Venezia nel Rinascimento’, in Il velo in area mediterranea fra storia e simbolo. Tardo Medioevo – prima età moderna, eds. Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Maria Grazia Nico Ottaviani and Gabriella Zarri, Rome-Bari, Laterza Editore, pp. 155-172
2013 - ‘Le arti nei palazzi, 1450-1470’, in La primavera del Rinascimento. La scultura e le arti a Firenze 1400-1460, eds. Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Marc Bormand, catalogue of the exhibition (Palazzo Strozzi – Louvre), Florence, Mandragora [published also in French and English editions], pp. 223-227
2012 - ‘Venezia, Genova e l’Oriente: i mercanti italiani sulle Vie della Seta tra XIII e XIV secolo’, in Sulla Via della Seta. Antichi sentieri tra Oriente e Occidente, Turin, Codice Edizioni, pp. 124-166
2012 - ‘Regional States and Economic Development’, co-authored with Franco Franceschi, in The Renaissance State Revised. Italy in the 14th-early 16th Centuries, eds. Andrea Gamberini and Isabella Lazzarini, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 444-466 [reprinted in Italian translation in 2014 – ‘Stati regionali e sviluppo economico’, in Lo Stato del Rinascimento in Italia, 1350-1520, eds. Andrea Gamberini and Isabella Lazzarini, Rome, Viella Editore, pp. 401-420]
2011 - ‘The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Objects in the Early Modern Period’, co-author Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, in Global Design History, eds. Glenn Adamson, Giorgio Riello and Sarah Teasley, London, Routledge, pp. 11-20
2010 - ‘La Repubblica di Venezia tra acque dolci e acque salse: investimenti tecnologici a Lizzafusina nel Rinascimento’, in La civiltà delle acque tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, eds. Arturo Calzona and Daniela Lamberini, Florence, Olschki Editore, pp. 447-472
2009 - ‘L’industria della seta in Italia nel Rinascimento’, Introduction to Le mariegole delle arti dei tessitori di seta. I veluderi (1347-1474) e i samitari (1370-1475), ed. S. Rauch, Comitato per la Pubblicazione delle Fonti per la Storia di Venezia, Venice, Fonti per la Storia di Venezia, pp. LI-LXXXVI
2009 - ‘Traffici, mercanti, viaggiatori sullo scorcio del Medioevo’, in Italiani e stranieri nella tradizione letteraria. Atti del Convegno di Montepulciano, 8-10 ottobre 2007, Rome, Salerno Editrice/Editore Antenore, pp. 35-52
2009 - ‘Arts and Society’, in The European World 1500-1800. An Introduction to Early Modern History, ed. Beat Kumin, London-New York, Routledge [and successive editions]
2008 – ‘Rinascimento’, in Le parole che noi usiamo. Categorie storiografiche e interpretative dell’Europa moderna, eds. Marcello Fantoni and Amedeo Quondam, Rome, Bulzoni Editore, pp. 11-31
2007 - ‘Il mercante innovatore’, in Il Rinascimento Italiano e l’Europa. Volume Quarto. Commercio e cultura mercantile, eds. Franco Franceschi, Richard A. Goldthwaite, Reinhold C. Mueller, Treviso-Vicenza, Fondazione Cassamarca, pp. 623-654
2007 - ‘States and Crafts: Relocating Technical Skills in Renaissance Italy’, in The Material Renaissance, eds. Evelyn Welch and Michelle O’Malley, Manchester, Manchester University Press, pp. 133-153
2007 - ‘Stato e impresa: privilegi per l´introduzione di nuove arti e brevetti’, in Il Rinascimento Italiano e l’Europa. Volume Terzo. Produzione e tecniche, eds. Philippe Braunstein and Luca Molà, Treviso-Vicenza, Fondazione Cassamarca, pp. 533-572
2006 - ‘L’economia del Rinascimento: dalle teorie della crisi alla ‘preistoria’ del consumismo’, co-authored with Franco Franceschi, in Il Rinascimento Italiano e l’Europa. Volume Primo. Storia e storiografia, ed. Marcello Fantoni, Treviso-Vicenza, Fondazione Cassamarca, pp. 185-200
2004 - ‘Le società per lo sfruttamento di invenzioni nell’Italia del Cinquecento’, in Cinquecento moderno, eds. Marco Bianchini and Marco Cattini, speical issue of “Cheiron”, 42 (2004), pp. 149-168
2004 - Il mercato delle innovazioni nell'Italia del Rinascimento’, in Le technicien dans la cité en Europe Occidentale (1250-1650), eds. Mathieux Arnoux and Pierre Monnet, Rome, Ecole Française de Rome, pp. 215-250
2003 - ‘Leggi suntuarie in Veneto’, in Disciplinare il lusso: la legislazione suntuaria in Italia e in Europa tra Medioevo ed età moderna, eds. Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli and Antonella Campanini, Rome, Carocci Editore, pp. 47-57
2003 - ‘Energia e brevetti per invenzioni nell’Italia del Rinascimento’, in Energia ed economia. Secc. XIII-XVIII, ed. Simonetta Cavaciocchi, Atti della XXIV Settimana di Studi dell’Istituto F. Datini di Prato (Prato, 15-19 aprile 2002), Florence, pp. 981-991
2000 - ‘Artigiani e brevetti nella Firenze del Cinquecento’, in Arti fiorentine. La grande storia dell'artigianato. Vol. III: il Cinquecento, eds. Franco Franceschi and Gloria Fossi, Florence, Giunti Editore, pp. 57-79
2000 - ‘Le donne nell'industria serica veneziana del Rinascimento’, in La seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento. Dal baco al drappo, eds. Luca Molà, Reinhold C. Mueller and Claudio Zanier, Venice, Marsilio Editore, 423-459
1999 - ‘Oltre i confini della città: gli artigiani e gli imprenditori della seta fiorentini all'estero’, in Arti fiorentine. La grande storia dell'artigianato. Vol. II: il Quattrocento, eds. Franco Franceschi and Gloria Fossi, Florence, Giunti Editore, pp. 85-107
1998, ‘Fondaci, mercanti, artigiani: le comunità dei Tedeschi e dei Turchi a Venezia’, in Le Venezie e l'Europa, ed. Gino Barbieri, Padua, Biblos, pp. 163-171
1997 - ‘La via delle spezie e delle sete: il commercio di esportazione dalle Venezie tra XIV e XVI secolo’, in L'Europa e le Venezie. Viaggi nel giardino del mondo, ed. Gino Barbieri, Padua, Biblos, pp. 107-115
1994 - ‘Essere straniero a Venezia nel tardo Medioevo: accoglienza e rifiuto nei privilegi di cittadinanza e nelle sentenze criminali’, co-author Reinhold C. Mueller, in Le migrazioni in Europa (secc. XIII-XVIII), ed. Simonetta Cavaciocchi, Atti delle Settimane di Studi dell'Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini di Prato, 25, Florence, 839-851
1993 - ‘L'industria della seta a Lucca nel tardo Medioevo: emigrazione della manodopera e creazione di una rete produttiva a Bologna e Venezia’, in La seta in Europa, secc. XIII-XX, ed. S. Cavaciocchi, Atti delle Settimane di Studi dell'Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini di Prato, 24, Florence, 435-444
1990 - ‘L'attività artigianale e mercantile dei lucchesi a Venezia nel tardo Medioevo’, in Lucca e l'Europa degli affari. Secoli XV-XVII, eds. Tommaso Fanfani and Rita Mazzei, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi Editore, pp. 45-64
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION OF MULTI-VOLUME SERIES
2004-2010 – Creator and Scientific Co-Ordinator, together with Giovanni Luigi Fontana (University of Padua), of the six-volume project Il Rinascimento italiano e l’Europa, promoted by the Fondazione Cassamarca of Treviso, with a grant of 1 million euro
- Storia e storiografia, ed. Marcello Fantoni, 2005
- Umanesimo ed educazione, eds. Gino Belloni and Riccardo Drusi, 2007
- Produzione e tecniche, eds. Philippe Braunstein and Luca Molà, 2007
- Commercio e cultura mercantile, eds. Franco Franceschi, Richard A. Goldthwaite and Reinhold C. Mueller, 2007
- Le scienze, eds. Antonio Clericuzio and Germana Ernst, 2008
- Spazi, luoghi, architetture, eds. Donatella Calabi and Elena Svalduz, 2010
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS AND NETWORKS
2022-present – Co-Organizer of the digitalization project DIVET (Digital Documents of Venetian Trade), with Luciano Pezzolo (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice), funded by the Italian Government
2020-present – Member of the Management Committee of People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923), Cost – European Cooperation in Science and Technology
2014-2016 – Organization of the research project European Court and State Manufactures in a Global Perspective, 1400-1800, with Philippe Minard (Paris VIII and EHESS) and Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick), funded by the EUI Research Council
2016-xx – Member of the Scientific Committee for the project Enjuex économiques de la première modernité: entreprises, espaces, marchés
2014-2015 - Member of the Steering Committee of the Pilot Project for the creation of the Victoria & Albert Museum Research Institute (VARI), funded by the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation
2013-2015 - Member of the Steering Committee of the Leverhulme International Network Luxury and the Manipulation of Desire, organized by the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, University of Bologna, Victoria & Albert Museum, University of Stockholm, University of Melbourne
2012-present – Member of the Scientific Committee of the Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini”, Prato
2011-2014 - Member of the Research Project El Papel de las Repúblicas Europeas en la Conformación del Estado Moderno. ¿Alternativa Modernizadora o Motor del Sistema? (Siglos XVI-XVIII), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, organized by Manuel Herrero Sánchez, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla
2010-2103 - Member of the External Advisory Committee for the Research Project Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe 1500-1800, funded by HERA (Humanities in the Research Area), Queen Mary, University of London
2007-2009 - Member of the Research Network Global Arts: East Meets West. Creativity and Cultural Interchange in the Early Modern World, University of Warwick, Victoria & Albert Museum and Ashmolean Museum
2006-present - Member of Europa delle Corti. Centro di Studi sulle Società di Antico Regime
2006-present - Member of the Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick
2002-2008 - Member of the British Academy Network Patents in History
2002-2005 - Member of the University of Warwick-CNAM Research Interchange Cultures of Commerce and Invention, 1550-1850, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust
2001-2004 - Member of the Research Project The Material Renaissance. Costs and Consumption in Italy, 1400-1650, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board and the Getty Foundation
2000-2004 - Member of the Steering Committee of the Elite Project in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick
ORGANIZATION OF EXHIBITIONS
2019 – Curator of the Exhibition Rialto. Centro di una ‘economia mondo’, with Donatella Calabi, Archivio di Stato di Venezia
2017-2018 – Collaboration for the Exhibition Finding A Homeland at the End of the World: Art in China and Italy in the Late Middle Ages, Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha, China, January-April 2018
2011-2013 – Curator of the Exhibition Sulla Via della Seta. Antichi sentieri tra Oriente e Occidente, with Mark Norrell, Ludovica Rosati and Alexandra Wetzel, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, October 2012 – March 2013
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND PUBLIC LECTURES
2023, May – University of Warwick, Venetian Seminar (online) / paper: Trading with the Indies in Renaissance Venice: Antonio Priuli il Procurator
2023, May – University of Basel, Renaissance Colloquium / paper: Patented Inventions of the Italian Renaissance: A New Market for Innovations
2023, February – Cambridge University, Early Modern Seminar / paper: States and Technology in Renaissance Italy
2022, October – University of Udine, workshop on Fonti per la storia dell’economia e degli spazi commerciali / paper: Gli archivi notarili: una fonte per la storia del commercio e dell’industria nel Medioevo
2022, April – Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, organization of the conference Carletti’s World: An Early Modern Global Voyage, with Giorgio Riello (EUI), Paula Findlen (Stanford University) and Brian Brege (Syracuse University) / paper: Italian Merchants’ Travel Narratives in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
2022, February – Ravenna, University of Bologna and Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, conference on Quantum Valet? Valore e valori della moda al tempo di Dante / paper: Il costo di abiti e tessuti a Bologna tra fine Duecento e metà Trecento
2021, November – Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, conference on Leonardo Loredan. In occasione del cinquecentenario della morte del Doge / paper: L’economia veneziana nell’età di Leonardo Loredan
2021, June – Musée du Louvre and Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Summer School, Venice / Le arti del lusso a Venezia
2021, May – Cambridge University (online), conference on The Colour of Clothes in the Early Modern World / paper: The Arrival of the Crimson Dyeing Technique in Italy in the Late Fourteenth Century
2021, April – University of Bologna, Institute of Advanced Studies, workshop on Fake in Fashion or Fashion in Fake? / paper: Competition and Innovation: The Imitation and Counterfeiting of Clothing Items in Renaissance Italy
2020, September – Gubbio, VI° Festival del Medioevo, Mediterraneo. Il mare della storia / paper: Tutti i colori della seta
2020, September – University of Padua, International Summer School on Market Spaces, Production Sites and Sound Landscapes of European Cities: From History to Regeneration / paper: The Art of Luxury in Venice. Production, Imitation, Innovation
2020, June – Glass Week, Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice / paper: Venetian Glass for the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth Century
2019, December – University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, conference on New Paradigms of History of Knowledge / paper: The Rhetoric and Practice of Patenting inn Renaissance Italy
2019, November – University of Padua, conference on Perizie Repubblicane. Pratiche di scrittura, idiomi politici, usi della memoria nella Repubblica di Venezia (secc. XV-XVIII) – paper: La costruzione dei brevetti. Istituzioni, diritti, società nella Venezia della prima età moderna
2019, June – University of Girona, Department of History / paper: Seta e filatoi a Bologna nel Trecento
2019, May – The Newberry Library, Chicago, conference on Nova Reperta: Invention and Globalization in the Renaissance / session Transformation of Substances
2019, March – University of Warwick in Venice, conference on Textiles and Materiality: Mixing Fibres between East and West, 16th-20th Centuries / paper: Textiles with Mixed Fabrics in Renaissance Venice
2018, September – European University Institute, Florence, AHRC Global Microhistory Network, conference Global Empires, Global Courts? Explorations in Politics and Religion / paper: The Land of New Luxuries: Ottoman Desires and Venetian Gifts in the 16th Century
2018, July – British Museum, London, workshop on Silk and Mulberries / paper: Silk in Italy and its Global Context
2018, June – Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena), I Convegno della medievistica italiana / paper: La diffusione dei segreti tecnici nell'Italia del Trecento: filatoi da seta e tinture tra Lucca, Bologna e Venezia
2018, June – San Gimignano, IIe Atelier Internationaux de Formation Doctorale organized by the Universities of Florence, Siena, Sorbonne and Ecole Française de Rome on L’economia delle città del Mediterraneo / paper: Le città del Mediterraneo e l’apertura dei traffici globali alla fine del Medioevo
2018, May – Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, discussant at the meeting of the network Translating Worlds: Towards a Global History of Italian Culture, on L’Italia tra dimensione locale e globale: storia e storiografia
2018, May – University of Warwick, AHRC Global Microhistory Network, conference A Different Point of View: Scales, Spaces and Contexts in Histories of the Local and the Global / chair and discussant
2018, April - Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, organization of the conference The Adriatic Area Facing Global Historical Challenges, with Irena Radic Rossi (University of Zagreb) and Mauro Bondioli (Ars Nautica, Institute for Maritime Heritage, University of Zagreb) / paper: The Exchange of Luxury Goods Between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in the 16th Century
2018, April – Yale University, conference on New Approaches to Preindustial Technology: Bodies, Minds, and Machines / paper: Reinventing Renaissance Modernity: The Development of Intellectual Property Rights in Italy and Europe, 15th-17th Centuries
2018, March – University of Bologna, conference on Denuncia/Delazione: forme di collaborazione tra cittadini e autorità civili ed ecclesiastiche / paper: Denuncie e delazioni nel mondo dell’industria e del commercio in Italia tra tardo Medioevo e prima età moderna
2018, Marzo – Museo dell’Accademia, Florence, conference on Tessuto e ricchezza a Firenze nel Trecento / paper: Lucca e l’industria della seta in Italia nel Trecento
2018, January – Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, discussant at the workshop Storia economica veneziana: ricerche in corso
2017, November – University La Sapienza, Rome, conference in honour of Renata Ago on European Baroque in a Global Perspective / paper: Venezia e l’Impero Ottomano nel ‘500: scambi di beni e tecnologie
2017, November – University of Rouen, Department of History / lecture: Technical Innovation in Renaissance Europe
2017, July – Fraternita dei Laici, Arezzo, summer school on Fonti per la storia economica europea (secolo XIII-XVIII). Apprendistato e trasmissione dei saperi / lecture: Istituzioni pubbliche e trasmissione delle tecniche nell’Italia del Rinascimento
2017, July – Ecole du Louvre and Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Advanced Studies Seminar, Venice / lecture: Nel nome del Volto Santo e del guadagno: la Scuola e la comunità dei mercanti e artigiani lucchesi a Venezia nel tardo Medioevo
2017, May – European University Institute, Florence, organization of the workshop Circulation of People, Objects and Knowledge across South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean (16t-19th Centuries), with Giulia Calvi (EUI) / paper: Asia in Venice: Goods, Objects and People from the East in the 16th Century
2017, April - Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago - panel on The Economy of a Renaissance City: Venice, Fifteenth–Seventeenth Centuries / paper: The Trade Between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth Century: A Reappraisal
2017, April – 7.° Ciclo de Conferencias Relaçoes Luso-Italianas, Lisbon / lecture: Venezia e il suo porto nel Cinquecento: una città globale?
2017, April – Uppsala University, workshop on Production Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe / paper: Italian Sources for the History of Women’s Work
2017, February – Archivio di Stato di Venezia and Touring Club Italiano, Venice / lecture: Brevetti e innovazione a Venezia
2017, February – European University Institute, Florence, organization of the workshop Ottoman History in a Global Context, 1400-1800, with Giancarlo Casale (University of Minnesota) / paper: The Trade of Silks between Italy and Asia: A Long-Term Intercontinental Exchange
2017, February – University of Warwick, workshop on Innovation in the Pre-Modern World: Knowledge, Design and Products / paper: Innovation, Imitation and Competition: Renaissance Italy and the European Context
2016, December - Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies, conference on The Mongols and the Writing of Global History / paper: ‘Pax Mongolica’ and the Take Off of the Italian Economy: Eurasian Trade and Industrial Development in the Late Middle Ages
2016, November – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, conference on Ownership of Knowledge: Appropriation in Art and Technology / paper: The Use and Abuse of Trademarks for Early Modern Italian Luxury Goods in International Markets
2016, November – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 4th Eurasia Trajeco Conference on Empires, Cosmopolitan Cities and Merchants in Eurasia, 10th-20th Century / paper: A Cosmopolitan City and its Merchants: Early Modern Venice as a Node of Eurasian Exchange
2016, November - European University Institute, Florence, organization of the conference Enjeux économiques de la première modernité: entreprises, espaces, marchés, with Mathieu Arnoux (Université Paris-Diderot/EHESS) and Jacques Bottin (CNRS-IMHC)
2016, September – University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia, Culture e Civiltà, Dressing the Early Modern Network conference on The Economy of Dress and Textiles: Avenues of Trade, Production and Consumption in the Early Modern Period / chair and discussant
2016, May – XII International History Festival, Gorizia, panel Mercati nascosti nell’Italia del Rinascimento / lecture: Il lavoro degli schiavi a Venezia nel Medioevo
2016, April – Fondazione Bergamo, Palazzo del Podestà, Bergamo / lecture: L’innovazione nell’Italia del Rinascimento: inventori, brevetti e politiche economiche
2016, March – German Centre for Venetian Studies, Venice, conference on Typical Venice? Venetian Commodities, 13th-16th Centuries / keynote speech: The City of Innovation: Renaissance Venice and the Creation of New Objects for a Global Market
2016, February – University of Warwick in Venice, workshop The Space Between: Connecting Microhistory and Global History / paper: Trade
2016, February – Institute of Historical Research, University of London, seminar series Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy / paper: European Court and State Manufactures in the Early Modern Period: The Italian Model
2016, January – University of Padua, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell’Antichità / lecture: L’arte contro la guerra. Doni e diplomazia tra Repubblica di Venezia e Corte Ottomana nella prima età moderna
2016, January – Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Florence / lecture: I brevetti per invenzione a Firenze nel Rinascimento
2015-2016 – Lecture Series Lezioni di Storia, organized by Editori Laterza, on Islam e Occidente / lecture: L’arte contro la guerra. Doni e diplomazia tra Venezia e la Corte Ottomana
- November 2015 – Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan (attendance: 500 people)
- April 2016 – Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli, Rome (attendance: 1200 people)
- December 2016 – Bellini Theatre, Naples (attendance: 500 people)
2015, November – University L. Bocconi, Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico / paper: The Political Economy of Early Modern Italian States and the Rise of Intellectual Property Rights for New Technology
2015, November – Centro di Studi per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno/Scuola Nazionale dell’Amministrazione, Florence, workshop on Pubblico e privato nella regolazione ecomomica: vicende storiche e prospettive attuali / paper: La regolazione nell’età moderna
2015, November – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Barcelona / lecture: Politiche economiche, sviluppo industriale e innovazione negli stati italiani del Quattrocento
2015, November – Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, organization of the workshop Venice in Progress: un incontro tra storici con e per Reinhold C. Mueller, with Luciano Pezzolo (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
2015, October – European University Institute, Florence, 3rd Eurasia Trajeco Conference on Empires, Trade and Migrations across the Eurasian Continent, 10th-20th Century / paper: Economic Relations between Venice and Asia in the Late Renaissance (1500-1620)
2015, September –Dutch University Institute for Art History, Florence, Dressing the Early Modern Network conference on Exploring Early Modern Dress: The Merits and Challenges of Diverse Sources / chair and discussant
2015, September – Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, Bern, conference on Velvets of the Fifteenth Century / paper: Velvets in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Production, Innovation and Competition
2015, August - Kyoto International Conference Center, XVIIth World Economic History Congress
- organization of the session on Global Court and State Manufactures, c. 1400-1800, with Masayuki Tanimoto (Tokyo University) and Philippe Minard (Paris VIII and EHESS) / paper: Court and State Manufactures in Renaissance Italy: Practice and Theory
- section on The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Regulations in a Global Perspective, 1200-1800 / paper: Sumptuary Prosecutions in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Padua, with Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)
2015, July – Centre for Overseas History (CHAM) International Conference, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, panel on Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges / paper: A Silken Diplomacy: Venetian Luxury Gifts for the Ottoman Empire in the Renaissance
2015, March - Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Humboldt University, Berlin
- panel on Citizens of Venice in History and Art I: Upward Mobility / paper: The Economic Role of New Citizens in the Golden Age of Venice, 1350-1600
- respondent for the panel Italian Academies 1400-1700: Proto-Academies, Small Academies, Geographical Margins and Peripheries
2015, March – University of Basel, lecture series on Sites of Mediation. European Entangled History 1350-1650 / keynote lecture: Sixteenth-Century Venice and the Global Circulation of Goods and Know-How: The Creation of a Cosmopolitan City and Its Myth
2015, February - European University Institute, Florence, organization of the conference Public History and the Media, together with Serge Noiret (EUI) and Lucy Riall (EUI)
2014, December – Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, Rome, conference Storia d’Italia e storia globale / paper: L’Italia e la prima globalizzazione economica: adattamenti e risposte
2014, November – University of Warwick, Global History and Culture Centre, conference The Global Trade of Textiles and Clothing in the Early Modern Period: Exchange, Meaning and Materialities / chair and discussant
2014, September - European University Institute and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies, organization of the Third EUI/VIT Study Day on Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Early Modern Europe, with Catherine Kovesi (University of Melbourne) and Jonathan Nelson (Villa I Tatti)
2014, September – European University Institute, Florence, organization of the workshop European Court and State Manufactures in a Global Perspective, 1400-1800, together with Philippe Minard (Paris VIII and EHESS) and Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick) / paper: Italian Court and State Manufactures from the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century
2014, September – European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), Fourth European Congress on World and Global History, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, panel on States and Manufactures in a Global and Comparative Perspective, 1400-1800 / paper: Innovation and State-Sponsored Manufactures in Renaissance Italy
2014, July - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, workshop on Itineraries of Materials, Recipes, Techniques and Knowledge in the Early Modern World, organized by Pamela Smith (Columbia University) / discussant and concluding comments
2014, June – European University Institute, conference on Foreigners in the Deep Heart of Medieval and Early Modern Societies (Europe, the Mediterranean and the Muslim World) / chair and discussant
2014, May – Institute of Historical Research, London, Early Modern Material Culture Seminars organized by the V&A/Royal College of Art MA in History of Design / paper: Innovation and the State in Renaissance Italy
2014, May – University of Warwick, conference on The Geographies of Luxury: East, West and Global Directions / paper: Sumptuary Prosecutions in Sixteenth-Century Padua, with Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)
2014, April – Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, La storia in piazza, organized by Donald Sassoon (Queen Mary, University of London) and Fondazione Palazzo Ducale / paper: Aromi d’Oriente. La via delle spezie
2014, March – European University Institute, Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Creativity, Innovation and IPR in Textile and Clothing Industry in the Euro-Mediterranean Area / keynote speech: Textiles, Trade, Patents in the Mediterranean in the Renaissance
2014, March - Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Warwick, panel on The State and the Shaping of Good Taste / paper: Textile Manufactures and State Policies in Renaissance Italy
2014, February – The British School of Rome / lecture: Italy and Renaissance Globalization: The Circulation of Goods, Skills and Technology
2013, December – Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, conference on Republicas y republicanismo en la Edad Moderna (siglos XVI-XVIII) / paper: The Circulation of Technical Knowledge and the Political Economy of Italian Republics in the Renaissance
2013, December – University of Bologna, conference on The Regulation of Luxury. Morality, the State and the Law / paper: Luxury and Regulation: The Renaissance and Early Modern Period
2013, December – European University Institute, conference on Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms: Europe and South Asia / paper: Cosmopolitan Cities and Economic Change: The Case of Early Modern Venice
2013, December – University of Florence, conference on Leonardo da Vinci. Arte della pace, arte della guerra / paper: Macchine industriali e brevetti nell’età del Rinascimento
2013, November – University of Genoa, conference on Incontri di civiltà nel Mediterraneo. L’Impero Ottomano e l’Italia del Rinascimento. Storia, arte, architettura / paper: Lo scambio dei prodotti di lusso tra l’Italia e l’Impero Ottomano nel Rinascimento, 1453-1600
2013, November – Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, lecture series Leggere il Milione di Marco Polo / lecture: Marco Polo e la via della seta: città, mercati, commerci e meraviglie
2013, October – University of Basel, workshop on Objects on the Move / paper: Venice and the Circulation of Luxury Objects in the Renaissance
2013, September – Italian Cultural Institute in London and Victoria & Albert Museum, workshop on Early Modern Projectors and Technologists, AHRC Care for the Future Project / paper: Innovation, Inventions and the Craze for Patenting in Early Modern Italy: A Renaissance Technological Path to Modernity
2013, September – University of Bologna, conference on Frammenti di identità europea: il velo tra storia e simbolo nell’area mediterranea (medioevo e prima età moderna) / paper: Il velo a Venezia nel Rinascimento
2013, July – Victoria & Albert Museum, London, conference on The Production of Luxury: Skills, Materials, and Networks / paper: Luxury Goods and Innovation in Renaissance Italy: A Proposal for Future Research
2013, June - European University Institute, Florence, organization of the workshop Thinking History at Large: The Circulation of Science and Material Culture in the Early Modern World
2013, June – European University Institute, Florence, organization of the workshop Mechanisms for the Circulation of Technology in Pre-Industrial Europe, together with Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (EUI) and Emese Bálint (EUI) / paper: Diplomats and the Circulation of Technology in Renaissance Italy
2013, June – Archivio di Stato di Firenze and The Medici Archive Project, Florence, conference I Medici e il Levante. Culture e dialoghi tra Firenze e il Mediterraneo Orientale (1532-1743) / chair and discussant
2013, May – European University Institute, conference on Ideas of the Renaissance, organized by the Academy for Advanced Study in the Renaissance / paper: Innovation, Progress and the Italian Renaissance
2013, April – Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego (CA), panel on Art, Architecture and Technology: Knowledge / paper: Luxury Objects and Technical Innovation in Renaissance Italy
2013, March – Venice International University, seminar on Venice and the Mediterranean in the Age of
the Serenissima: Local and Global Histories, Economies, Networks / lectures: Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Patents in Renaissance Venice and The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Objects in the Early Modern Period
2013, January – Ateneo Veneto, Venice, lecture series Storia Veneziana / lecture: I mercanti veneziani, il rischio e l’innovazione
2012, December – European University Institute, Florence, organization of the conference The Birth of Global Cities, together with Jorge Flores (EUI) and the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick / paper: Venice and the World in the Renaissance
2012, December – University of Warwick, Global History and Culture Centre, conference on Global Commodities
: The Material Culture of Early Modern Connections, 1400-1800 / paper: Global Material Culture and Seats of Power
2012, December – Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, lecture series Leggere i Diari di Marin Sanudo, leggere la cronaca della città (1496-1533) / lecture: La città delle arti e degli scambi nel racconto dei Diari
2012, November – Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, lecture series Incontri sulla Via della Seta / lecture: I mercanti italiani e i tesori dell’Oriente: un primo esempio di globalizzazione economica
2012, November - European University Institute, Florence, organization of the conference The Italian Technology in a European and Global Context, 15th-20th Centuries, together with Anna Guagnini (University of Bologna)
2012, November – Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, conference on Vespucci, Firenze e le Americhe / paper: Gli effetti delle scoperte sull’economia italiana
2012, October – European University Institute, Florence, organization of the conference on L’artista di corte nell’Italia del Seicento, together with Elena Fumagalli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) and Raffaella Morselli (University of Teramo) and in collaboration with Kent State University
2012, October – Victoria & Albert Museum, London, AHRC International Network Global Commodities. The Material Culture of Early Modern Connections, conference Producing Material Culture for Global Markets / paper: Venetian Objects and the Global Market in the Renaissance
2012, September – Victoria & Albert Museum, conference on Fashioning the Early Modern: Innovation and Creativity in Europe, 1500-1800, in collaboration with Queen Mary, University of London, and funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) / final comments and round table
2012, September – Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, Pasold Research Fund Conference on Innovation Before the Modern. Cloth and Clothing in the Early Modern World / chair and discussant
2012, June – European University Institute and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies, organization of the Second EUI/VIT Study Day on The Use of Sources for Historical Research: Themes, Problems, and Case Studies, 1300-1800, with Filippo De Vivo (Birkbeck College, London) and Jonathan Nelson (Villa I Tatti) / paper: Silk and Women in Sixteenth Century Venice: The Use of Shop Inventories
2012, January – University of Florence, Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato, seminar Global History e World History viste dall’Italia: storiografie, confini, scambi / discussant
2012, January – Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM), Florence, lecture series on Europe and the Invention of Modernity. Ancients and Moderns, organized by Jacques Revel (EHESS) / lecture: The Word, The Idea, The Program
2011, December – University of Warwick in Venice, conference A Tale of Two Cities: Venice and Florence in the Renaissance / paper: Venice and the Challenge of Global Trade in the Sixteenth Century: A Reassessment
2011, December – European University Institute, workshop on Economic History and History / paper: Early Modern Economic History: The Institutional and Global Approach
2011, September – Bilgi University, Istanbul, AHRC International Network Global Commodities. The Material Culture of Early Modern Connections, conference The Material Culture of Everyday Living: Ottoman Consumption in a Comparative Perpspective / paper: New Luxury Goods in Sixteenth-Century Venice
2011, September - European University Institute, Florence, organization of the workshop The Role of European Republics in the Early Modern World: Modernising Alternative or Driving Force of the System?, with Manuel Herrero Sanchez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla)
2011, July - Capital Normal University, Bejing, Global History Center, 20th Annual World History Association Conference, World History from the Center and the Periphery, roundtable on Silver, Silk and Things: Connecting Commodities beyond Centers and Peripheries
2011, June - European University Institute, Florence, organization of the conference Cloths, Credit, Cities and Court: Luxury Textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period, together with Bart Lambert (Ghent University) and Katherine Wilson (University of St. Andrews)
2011, June - European University Institute, Florence, organization of the conference Courts and Luxury in the Early Modern World, in collaboration with the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, Monash University, Europe of the Courts
2011, June - European University Institute, Florence, organization of the 2nd Ottoman History Workshop
2011, May - European University Institute and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, organization of the First EUI/VIT Study Day on Circulation in Early Modern Europe: Ideas, Objects, and People, with Giulia Calvi (EUI) and Allen Grieco (Villa I Tatti)
2011, May - Centro Italiano di Studi di Storia e d’Arte, Pistoia, conference on Circolazione di uomini e scambi culturali tra città (secoli XII-XIV) / paper: La mobilità degli artigiani specializzati nel tardo Medioevo
2011, April - Binghamton University (NY), Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, conference on Trans-Regional Trade and Sartorial Culture: Cartographies of Clothing in the Medieval and Early Modern World / paper: The Thread of Global Desire: Silk Across Continents in the Early Modern Age
2011, March - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Institut Nationale d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris / paper: Innovation and Invention in Renaissance Italy: An Open Research
2010, December - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, organization of the conference Historical Systems of Innovation: The Appropriation of Silk Production in the Early Modern World (14th-18th Century). A Cross-Cultural Approach, together with Dagmar Schäfer (MPIWG)
2010, December - European University Institute, Florence, organization of the workshop The Future of Cultural History, with Giulia Calvi (EUI) and Martin Van Gelderen (EUI)
2010, November - Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Department of East Asian Studies, International Symposium Historiography on Japan and East Asia. State, Trends and Perspectives / discussant
2010, September – Ghent, 10th International Conference on Urban History, City and Society in European History, Session S28 / paper: From Lucca to Venice: Italian Silk Production at the End of the Middle Ages
2010, July – Arezzo, IIIa Scuola di Studi Dottorali organized by Ecole Française de Rome, Institut Universitaire de France, Université Paris 7 “Denis Diderot”, CNRS-Ecole Normale Superieure and University of Siena, Fonti per la storia dell’economia europea (secoli XIV-XVII) / lecture: Potere e impresa: la creazione di una manifattura ducale della lana nella Ferrara del Cinquecento
2010, June - Villa Emo, Fanzolo, conference on Nobili imprenditori – Attività e imprese dell’aristocrazia e della nobiltà veneta in età moderna / paper: Patriziato e impresa a Venezia nel Rinascimento
2010, May – Georgetown University, Florence, conference on The Culture of Violence in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy / paper: La violenza nei rapporti di lavoro: il caso di Firenze e Venezia nel Rinascimento (together with Franco Franceschi, University of Siena)
2010, March - Centro Italo-Tedesco Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio (Lake Como), organization of the conference Europas Aufstieg als Problem: Eine globalgeschichtliche Verortung des europäischen Mittelalters. Zweiter Teil: Politik, Militär, Gewalt, together with Thomas Ertl (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
2010, January - Stanford University (CA), Department of History, workshop on Early Modern Objects / paper: The Invention and Marketing of New Objects in Renaissance Italy
2009, December - University of Warwick in Venice, conference in memory of Michael Mallett / paper: Venice in the First Age of Globalization: A New Perspective
2009, November - Centro Studi Leon Battista Alberti & Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut & Villa i Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Mantua and Florence, conference on Cosimo Bartoli / paper: Diplomazia e innovazione: Cosimo Bartoli e l’ambiente tecnico veneziano
2009, September - Bilgi University, Istanbul, conference on Consumption and Material Culture in the Ottoman Empire / paper: Technology and Innovation between Venice and the Ottoman Court
2009, September - Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, conference on Génova y la Monarquia Hispánica (1528-1713) / paper: Venezia, Genova e lo spazio economico della monarchia spagnola nel Cinquecento
2009, August - 15th Economic History Congress, Utrecht, Session Q-5 on Global Commodities: The Material Culture of Early Modern Connections / paper: From the Silk Road to Global Silk
2009, May - Centro Italiano di Studi di Storia e d’Arte, Pistoia, conference La ricerca del benessere individuale e sociale: ingredienti materiali e immateriali (città italiane, XII-XV secolo) / paper: Sentirsi ricchi, sentirsi poveri: percezione dello status e realtà
2009, May - The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, round table on Circulation, with Paula Findlen (Stanford University) and David Gentilcore (University of Leicester)
2009, March - Centro Italo-Tedesco Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio (Lake Como), conference on Europas Aufstieg als Problem: Eine globalgeschichtliche Verortung des europäischen Mittelalters. Erster Teil: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft / paper: Innovazione tecnica tra Oriente e Occidente
2009, February - University of Geneva, Deparment of Economic History / paper: Patents in Renassaince Italy and Europe
2009, February - Victoria and Albert Museum, London, conference on Global History of Design / paper: The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Material Culture and the Creation of an Ecumenical Community of Taste, with Marta Ajmar
2008, December - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin / paper: The Patent System in Renaissance Italy, XVth and XVIth Centuries
2008, December - Europa delle Corti, Centro di Studi sulle società di Antico Regime, Annual Meeting, Kent State University, Florence / paper: Gli spazi della produzione nelle corti del Rinascimento
2008, October - Centro Studi Leon Battista Alberti, Mantua, conference on La civiltà delle acque tra Medioevo e Rinascimento / paper: La Repubblica di Venezia tra acque dolci e acque salse: investimenti in tecnologia idraulica a Lizzafusina nel Rinascimento
2008, October - Society for the History of Technology, Annual Meeting, Lisbon / paper: Women and Silk Technology in Renassaince Venice
2008, May – University of Oxford, Faculty of History, Venetian Seminar / paper: ‘Il Rinascimento Italiano e l’Europa’: A Collaborative Project
2008, January – Institute of Historical Research, London, Fifth Annual Workshop of the British Academy Network Patents in History / paper: Italian Patents
2007, December - University of Warwick in Venice, 39th Annual Symposium on Themes in Renaissance History and History of Art, Venice / paper: Creative Dynasties of the Italian Renaissance: A Collective Biography?
2007, November - Victoria and Albert Museum, London, workshop on Court and State Manufactures: Trasmission and Transformation, Production and Consumption / paper: Italian Courts’ Luxury Manufactures, XVth-XVIIth Centuries, with Guido Guerzoni (Bocconi University, Milan)
2007, October - Centro di Studi per la ricerca letteraria, linguistica e filologica Pio Rajna and Università degli Studi di Siena, Montepulciano, conference on Italiani e stranieri nella tradizione letteraria / paper: Traffici, mercanti, viaggiatori sullo scorcio del Medioevo
2007, September - École Française de Rome and Università di Palermo, Dipartimento di Storia, Palermo, workshop Familles, savoirs, reproduction sociale dans l’ancien régime. Atelier II: La transmission des savoirs techniques: à travers et en dehors des familles (Europe, XIVe-XVIIIe siècles) / paper: La diffusione dei segreti tecnici nell’Italia del Rinascimento: famiglie, dinastie, mercati
2006, November - Victoria and Albert Museum, conference At Home in the Renaissance / paper: Patenting Objects for the House in Renaissance Italy
2006, June - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris / paper: Les sociétés pour l’exploitation des inventions dans l’Italie du XVIe siècle
2006, May - École Normale Superieure, Paris / paper: La politica economica della tecnologia: concorrenza internazionale e manodopera specializzata nell’Italia del Rinascimento
2006, May - Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art, workshop on Technology in the Renaissance: Revolution, Genius and Magic / paper: Technology and the Renaissance
2006, May - Università di Teramo, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione, discussant at the conference Vivere d’arte. Finanze e carriere di artisti nell’Italia dell’età moderna
2006, March - Johns Hopkins University, Villa Spelman, Florence / paper: States and Crafts: Relocating Technical Skills in Renaissance Italy
2005, December - Europa delle Corti, Centro di Studi sulle società di Antico Regime, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Rome, conference on Le parole che noi usiamo. Categorie storiografiche e interpretative dell’Europa moderna / paper: Il Rinascimento
2005, July - Centre d’Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance, Université François Rabelais, Tours, conference on Les machines à la Renaissance / paper: Machines et privilèges d’invention à Florence et Venise à la Renaissance
2005, May - Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art, London, workshop on Cool in History / paper: Cool in the Italian Renaissance
2005, April - Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, Cambridge (MA), conference on Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution / paper: The Political Economy of the Italian Renaissance States
2005, February - Courtauld Institute of Art and National Gallery, London, conference on European Trade in Painters’ Materials to 1700 / paper: The Supply of Materials for the Italian Tapestry Industry in the Early Seventeenth Century
2004, October - Society for the History of Technology, Annual Meeting, Amsterdam / paper: The birth of the patent system in Europe, 1474-1624
2004, June - CDHT-CNAM, CNRS, Université Paris VIII and Leverhulme Trust Foundation, Paris, conference on Minorités et circulation techniques du Moyen Age à l’époque moderne / paper: Minorities and techniques in Renaissance Venice
2004, March - University of Manchester, Manchester, conference on The Material Renaissance: Costs and Consumption in Italy, 1400-1650 / paper: States and Crafts: Relocating Technical Skills in Renaissance Italy
2003, November – Società Italiana delle Storiche, Third Congress, Florence, section on Generi, mestieri e apprendistati tra Medioevo ed epoca moderna / paper: Mestieri di donne, mestieri di uomini a Venezia nel Cinquecento
2003, October - Georgetown University, Villa Le Balze, Florence / paper: Inventors and innovations in Renaissance Italy
2003, July - Warwick-CNAM Research Interchange on Cultures of Commerce and Invention, workshop on Useful Knowledge, London / discussant on Learning and Tacit Knowledge
2003, March - Smith College, Northampton (MA), conference on Silk Unraveled / paper: Italy and Silk in the Early Modern Period (XIVth-XVIIth Centuries)
2003, January - University of Oxford, Department of Modern History / paper: The Establishment of New Crafts in Renaissance Italy: Mechanisms and Strategies
2002, November - Discussant at the conference La storia dell’impresa nella lunga durata: continuità e discontinuità, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Venice
2002, September - Università di Bologna, Bologna, conference Disciplinare il lusso: la legislazione suntuaria in Italia e in Europa tra Medioevo ed Età moderna / paper: Il caso veneto
2002, July - Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and University of Reading, conference on Medieval Dyestuffs and Dyeing / paper: The Trade in Dyestuffs and their Application in 14th and 15th Century Venice
2002, May - University of Warwick, AHRB Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures, organisation of the workshop Courts, Elites and Technology in Renaissance Italy
2002, April - Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini, Prato, conference on Energia ed economia, XIII-XIX secc. / paper: Energia e brevetti per invenzioni nell’Italia del Rinascimento
2002, February - Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick / paper: Foreigners and Technology in Late Medieval Genoa and Venice
2002, February - Victoria and Albert Museum, London / seminar: Design and Innovation in the Renaissance
2002, February - Ateneo Veneto, Venice / lecture: I lucchesi: una vicenda fortunata
2002, February - Institute of Historical Research, London / paper: Adventurers and Patents in Renaissance Italy
2001, December - Victoria and Albert Museum, London / paper: Innnovations, Inventions and Patents: the Demand for Novelties in Renaissance Italy
2001, November - Sarah Lawrence College, Florence / seminar: Guilds, Corporatism and Industrial Production in Venice and Florence: A Comparison
2001, October - Meeting of Session 16 of the XIIIth Congress of the International Economic History Association, Vicenza, conference on Wool: products and markets, 13th to 20th century / paper: Invenzioni e brevetti nell’industria laniera italiana del Cinquecento
2001, June - CNAM, Paris, conference on Artisan, industrie. Nouvelle innovations / paper: The Market for Innovation in Renaissance Italy
2001, May - Victoria and Albert Museum, London / paper: The Market for Innovation in Renaissance Italy
2001, March - Università Ca’ Foscari, Department of History, Venice / paper: Il mercato delle innovazioni nell'Italia del Rinascimento
2000, May - Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, conference Le technicien dans la cité en Europe Occidentale (1250-1650) / paper: Inventori, imprenditori e mercato delle innovazioni nell'Italia del Rinascimento
2000, March - Società Ligure di Storia Patria, Genoa, conference Genova, Venezia, il Levante (secoli XII-XIII) / paper: Gli stranieri a Genova e Venezia dal secolo XIII al XV: gli artigiani e i tecnici
1998, November - Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris; conference on Mobilité du capital humain et industrialisation régionale en Europe: entrepreneurs, téchniciens et main-d'oeuvre specialisée (XVIe – XXe siècles) / paper: The spread of the silk industry in Renaissance Italy and Europe: governments' policies, private enterprises, and the international labour market
1998, March - Istituto Storico Lucchese, Lucca / paper: La Comunità dei lucchesi a Venezia nel tardo Medioevo
1997, December - University of Warwick in Venice, 29th Annual Symposium on Themes in Renaissance History and History of Art / paper: Dyes, colours, and fashion in Renaissance Venice
1997, November - Fondazione G. Cini, Venice, organization of the conference Dal baco al drappo: la seta in Italia dal Medioevo al Seicento, with Reinhold C. Mueller and Claudio Zanier / paper: Le donne nell'industria serica veneziana del Rinascimento
1997, May - The Italian Chapel of the European Historical Economics Society, VIth Seminar, Venice / paper: La seta dello Stato veneziano di Terraferma nel Cinquecento: produzione, commercio, politica daziaria
1997, April - Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini, Prato, XIXth Course on Economic History / lecture and seminar: La porta dell'Oriente: prodotti e tecniche del Levante nelle fonti pubbliche e private veneziane del XIV e XV secolo
1997, February - Princeton University, Department of History, Princeton / paper: The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice: The Challenge of Innovation in a Mercantilist Economy
1996, June - Courtauld Institute of Art, London; conference Dress and visual culture in Italy, 1300-1600 / paper: Conservatism and innovation in the silk industry of Renaissance Venice
1996, January - American Historical Association, 110th Annual Meeting, Atlanta / paper: "Not Under the Same Roof": Conflicts Between Merchants and Artisans in the Silk Industry of Sixteenth-Century Venice
1994, May - École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris / paper: Soieries italiennes à la fin du Moyen Age: un réseau de production
1991, April - Johns Hopkins University, Department of History, Baltimore / paper: Individualism in the Business World of Fifteenth-Century Genoa
1989, December – Auditorium Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Lucca, conference on Lucca e l’Europa degli affari, secoli XV-XVII / paper: L’attività artigianale e mercantile dei lucchesi a Venezia nel tardo Medioevo
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2006, July - Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Visiting Fellowship
2006, May-July - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Directeur d’Études
1998-1999 - Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence; annual fellowship for research on The Market for Innovations in Renaissance Italy and Europe
1992-1993 - The Charles S. Singleton Center for Italian Studies, Villa Spelman, Florence; annual fellowship for research on the silk industry of Renaissance Venice