Federica Gigante

Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the history of material exchanges between the Islamic world and Italy in the seventeenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9781399543095
• ISBN-10: 1399543091
• Artikelnr.: 73492715

Autorenporträt

Federica Gigante is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is a historian of the material and intellectual exchanges between the Islamic world and Europe in the early modern period. She received a PhD from the Warburg Institute and SOAS and held fellowships at I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), Anamed (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. She currently leads a ERC-funded project on the role of slavery in the transmission of Islamic material culture and scientific knowledge in the early modern Mediterranean based at the Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East, at the University of Oxford. She was previously Research Associate in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge. She worked for several years in a curatorial capacity at the University of Oxford, at the Ashmolean Museum first and History of Science Museum later, where she was in charge of Islamic scientific instruments.