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
• ISBN-13: 9781399543095
• ISBN-10: 1399543091
• Artikelnr.: 73492715

Autorenporträt

Federica Gigante is Research Associate in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge. 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 Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies), Anamed (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. 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. 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.