Crazy that only 2 months ago I was walking with my cat, Piero, from Appia Antica-> Caffarella after a vet appt (N.b. he did pee on me after this photo was taken and I did deserve it)
Susan Anne Naramore
@sanaramore.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Notre Dame Rome PhD University of Notre Dame | Social & Cultural Historian of Early Modern Italy | writing about the Florentine countryside, historical memory, identity, & state-building
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Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social · 2w ago#CfP: “Crossing Boundaries, Fostering Dialogue: Humanities, Academia and the City of Rome”, 19-20 October 2026, Notre Dame Rome Via Ostilia 15, 00184 Roma (RM), Italy. Abstracts by 30 July 2026 #Skystorians rensoc.org.uk/announcement...
Reminder the deadline is July 30! Please share to early career scholars
Susan Anne Naramore@sanaramore.bsky.social · 2mo agoDeadline extended: 30 July CFP ND Rome & Roma Tre “Boundaries and Intersections in Premodern Italy”
After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.
Deadline extended: 30 July CFP ND Rome & Roma Tre “Boundaries and Intersections in Premodern Italy”
Here's a little teaser from our "Why Machiavelli Matters" Book launch. The terrific discussion is still available to watch! #SRSlyGood crowdcast.io/clips/dba0cb...
Breaking Binaries — By Rachel Willie (for SRS) — Crowdcast
Watch this clip from Book Launch: Why Machiavelli Matters Now by Society for Renaissance Studies.
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Italian maiolica painters served with glaze colours from a suspended circular tray by their assistants, V&A, Li tre libri dell'arte del vasaio: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O132180...
Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano
Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari
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Deadline extended: 30 July CFP ND Rome & Roma Tre “Boundaries and Intersections in Premodern Italy”
#CfP: 'Crossing Boundaries, Fostering Dialogue: Humanities, Academia and the City of Rome', Notre Dame Rome Via Ostilia 15, 00184 Roma (RM), Italy. 19 October 2026 – 20 October 2026, Proposals by 30 June 2026 rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents
“Crossing Boundaries, Fostering Dialogue” brings together a 2-part program: a giornata di studi featuring presentations by postdocs & an expert roundtable on day 2 focused on the professional & structural challenges faced by early-career academics. 19-29 Oct 2026 a ND Rome #CPF #humanities #ECR
Immediately sent this short video to my students. Hope they enjoy this little spring break treat!
Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer@princejvstin.com · 5mo agoWhy was 15th century Italy a maze of polities and not unified like France or England or Spain? In a short video on youtube, @adapalmer.bsky.social explains! youtube.com/shorts/h1oyu...
Currently finishing up a draft of my article on Lucrezia Donati -> a reexamination of her role within the social circle of Lorenzo de’ Medici & what she symbolized in the poetry of the Laurentian brigata.
So excited to be a part of this panel! If you want to hear more about Lorenzo de’ Medici, his teenage friends, and how he portrayed himself in his writing this is the panel for you! #RenSA26
Pope Leo X having an elephant is honestly so on brand for his vibe. I’m here for it.
Ideas Roadshow@ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 9mo ago🐘 A revealing window into the dynamic atmosphere of Leo X’s papal court through a small stucco image in the Vatican Loggia designed by Raphael’s workshop depicting Leo’s pet #elephant Hanno. 🦣 Watch RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT, ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/raphael-a-... 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art
Currently finishing up a draft of my article on Lucrezia Donati -> a reexamination of her role within the social circle of Lorenzo de’ Medici & what she symbolized in the poetry of the Laurentian brigata.
Updated Bsky intro: Postdoc @ Notre Dame Rome|PhD University of Notre Dame| dissertation on the Medici & the countryside/Mugello valley & early modern Tuscan identity | interested in early modern Europe, state-building, identity, cultural memory, masculinity, & gender
Few things calm me more than when my passport arrives with my Italian visa approved. Heading to Rome at the end of August!!
Dissertation defense ✅ Submitted dissertation to graduate school ✅ Have a massive headache ✅
Shout out to everyone I’ve met at #rensoc25 what a wonderful conference and community!
Exited to talk about Perugia and the origin story of the perugini saltless bread! Panel 7.3 #Rensoc25
And with that my dissertation is submitted to my committee. How did 5 years fly by?
T-7 days Count down to submitting dissertation to my committee
The Medici Archive Project is offering 12 short-term fellowships for pre-doc students and postdoc candidates, working on fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscan or Medici history). Deadline: 15 June. www.medici.org/fellowships/
Fellowships – The Medici Archive Project
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The final month of dissertation writing is the most productive and most painful, or is it just me?