Stefano Dall'Aglio
@sdallaglio.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of EM history at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and team member at @vedph.bsky.social | Posts on Renaissance Florence, Digital & Public History, and beyond |
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TODAY IS THE DAY!
My new monograph ‘Il collezionista di meraviglie’ is out today
A web of stories of people, ideas and objects between Baroque Rome and Grand-Ducal Florence, based on a corpus of 17th cent. documents never before seen by any scholar
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
My new monograph ‘Il collezionista di meraviglie’ is out today
A web of stories of people, ideas and objects between Baroque Rome and Grand-Ducal Florence, based on a corpus of 17th cent. documents never before seen by any scholar
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
Reposted by Stefano Dall'Aglio
A great day yesterday at our summer school for the #history day: 'Venetian History, Urban Spaces and New Technologies', with @amandamadden.bsky.social, @sdallaglio.bsky.social, @emmanuelacarbe.bsky.social, Mariangela Giglio and Fabrizio Nevola
vedph.github.io/vessdph2026/...
vedph.github.io/vessdph2026/...
July 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
A great day yesterday at our summer school for the #history day: 'Venetian History, Urban Spaces and New Technologies', with @amandamadden.bsky.social, @sdallaglio.bsky.social, @emmanuelacarbe.bsky.social, Mariangela Giglio and Fabrizio Nevola
vedph.github.io/vessdph2026/...
vedph.github.io/vessdph2026/...
This is where we will be in the next week, from 6 to 10 July. Take a look at the wonderful programme we put together and join us for the open events!
vedph.github.io/vessdph2026/
vedph.github.io/vessdph2026/
July 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
This is where we will be in the next week, from 6 to 10 July. Take a look at the wonderful programme we put together and join us for the open events!
vedph.github.io/vessdph2026/
vedph.github.io/vessdph2026/
Tomorrow I'll present my latest book at The Medici Archive Project in Florence. We'll be talking about art collecting, culture, and science in Grand-ducal Florence and baroque Rome. Everyone's invited!
June 17, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Tomorrow I'll present my latest book at The Medici Archive Project in Florence. We'll be talking about art collecting, culture, and science in Grand-ducal Florence and baroque Rome. Everyone's invited!
Reposted by Stefano Dall'Aglio
Our next seminar on Wed 13 May:
Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter)
Making the Renaissance Public: apps, digital reconstruction and issues of interpretation
Info: www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter)
Making the Renaissance Public: apps, digital reconstruction and issues of interpretation
Info: www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
May 7, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Our next seminar on Wed 13 May:
Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter)
Making the Renaissance Public: apps, digital reconstruction and issues of interpretation
Info: www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter)
Making the Renaissance Public: apps, digital reconstruction and issues of interpretation
Info: www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
Hot from the press:
open access special issue of a joint project of the universities of Venice, Rome Sapienza, and Trent.
My article revolves around queen Catherine de’ Medici and the Florentine exiles in France
rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa02/dimen...
open access special issue of a joint project of the universities of Venice, Rome Sapienza, and Trent.
My article revolves around queen Catherine de’ Medici and the Florentine exiles in France
rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa02/dimen...
March 30, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Hot from the press:
open access special issue of a joint project of the universities of Venice, Rome Sapienza, and Trent.
My article revolves around queen Catherine de’ Medici and the Florentine exiles in France
rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa02/dimen...
open access special issue of a joint project of the universities of Venice, Rome Sapienza, and Trent.
My article revolves around queen Catherine de’ Medici and the Florentine exiles in France
rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa02/dimen...
Reposted by Stefano Dall'Aglio
We are pleased to announce the Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities - #VeSSDPH 2026 which takes place at Ca' Foscari University from 6 to 10 July 2026.
Entirely taught in English. Free of charge.
➡️ Full programme and further information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
Entirely taught in English. Free of charge.
➡️ Full programme and further information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
March 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
We are pleased to announce the Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities - #VeSSDPH 2026 which takes place at Ca' Foscari University from 6 to 10 July 2026.
Entirely taught in English. Free of charge.
➡️ Full programme and further information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
Entirely taught in English. Free of charge.
➡️ Full programme and further information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
Welcome Fabrizio!
We are pleased to welcome Fabrizio Nevola, Prof. of Art History and Visual Culture at @exeter.ac.uk, as Visiting Scholar at the VeDPH working on the project 'Hidden Venice: microhistories of architecture around San Francesco della Vigna'
March 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Welcome Fabrizio!
Welcome James!
We are delighted to welcome James Coleman, Associate Prof. of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, who will spend the Spring semester 2026 in Venice as Visiting Scholar at the VeDPH working on his project Reading Archipelagos: Italian Humanism and Early Modern Books of Islands
March 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Welcome James!
Already ten years (today) without Donald Weinstein, mentor and friend, distinguished scholar of Renaissance Italy.
My 2015 obituary on @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/d...
My 2015 obituary on @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/d...
Donald Weinstein obituary
Other lives: Historian in the study of the Italian Renaissance
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Already ten years (today) without Donald Weinstein, mentor and friend, distinguished scholar of Renaissance Italy.
My 2015 obituary on @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/d...
My 2015 obituary on @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/d...
Our seminar today with Sara Mansutti aligns perfectly with my research interests: a #digitaledition of letters and newsletters from #venice to #florence in the 16th c, it lies at the intersection of #dh and #renaissancehistory.
Looking forward to it!
Looking forward to it!
The Digital Analysis of Ten Years of a Medici Agent's Correspondence
Join Sara Mansutti (UCC) to see how AI & digital methods, applied to 1,200+ handwritten letters, reveal how Cosimo Bartoli gathered, verified, and shared news in Venice (1562–1572)
🔗 www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
Join Sara Mansutti (UCC) to see how AI & digital methods, applied to 1,200+ handwritten letters, reveal how Cosimo Bartoli gathered, verified, and shared news in Venice (1562–1572)
🔗 www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Our seminar today with Sara Mansutti aligns perfectly with my research interests: a #digitaledition of letters and newsletters from #venice to #florence in the 16th c, it lies at the intersection of #dh and #renaissancehistory.
Looking forward to it!
Looking forward to it!
Reposted by Stefano Dall'Aglio
📢 Hot off the press!
The new monograph by @vedph.bsky.social team member @sdallaglio.bsky.social is out, in conjunction with his own online digital database of the same archival documents that the book is based on.
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
www.medici.org/databases/th...
The new monograph by @vedph.bsky.social team member @sdallaglio.bsky.social is out, in conjunction with his own online digital database of the same archival documents that the book is based on.
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
www.medici.org/databases/th...
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📢 Hot off the press!
The new monograph by @vedph.bsky.social team member @sdallaglio.bsky.social is out, in conjunction with his own online digital database of the same archival documents that the book is based on.
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
www.medici.org/databases/th...
The new monograph by @vedph.bsky.social team member @sdallaglio.bsky.social is out, in conjunction with his own online digital database of the same archival documents that the book is based on.
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
www.medici.org/databases/th...
Reposted by Stefano Dall'Aglio
Applications are still open for the Digital and Public Humanities Master’s Degree Programme @cafoscari in collaboration with @vedph!
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 11, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 28, 2025
Join us in Venice!
🔗 Apply here: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
#DigitalHumanities #vedph
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 11, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 28, 2025
Join us in Venice!
🔗 Apply here: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
#DigitalHumanities #vedph
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Applications are still open for the Digital and Public Humanities Master’s Degree Programme @cafoscari in collaboration with @vedph!
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 11, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 28, 2025
Join us in Venice!
🔗 Apply here: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
#DigitalHumanities #vedph
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 11, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 28, 2025
Join us in Venice!
🔗 Apply here: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
#DigitalHumanities #vedph
TODAY IS THE DAY!
My new monograph ‘Il collezionista di meraviglie’ is out today
A web of stories of people, ideas and objects between Baroque Rome and Grand-Ducal Florence, based on a corpus of 17th cent. documents never before seen by any scholar
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
My new monograph ‘Il collezionista di meraviglie’ is out today
A web of stories of people, ideas and objects between Baroque Rome and Grand-Ducal Florence, based on a corpus of 17th cent. documents never before seen by any scholar
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
October 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
TODAY IS THE DAY!
My new monograph ‘Il collezionista di meraviglie’ is out today
A web of stories of people, ideas and objects between Baroque Rome and Grand-Ducal Florence, based on a corpus of 17th cent. documents never before seen by any scholar
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
My new monograph ‘Il collezionista di meraviglie’ is out today
A web of stories of people, ideas and objects between Baroque Rome and Grand-Ducal Florence, based on a corpus of 17th cent. documents never before seen by any scholar
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
Reposted by Stefano Dall'Aglio
What a start!🚀
The VeDPH Seminar Series 2025 opened with Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) and his talk «From the Palazzo Grassi to the Biennale. How AI engages with Art».
A full Lab, 30 people online, and an intense discussion on creativity and AI.
The VeDPH Seminar Series 2025 opened with Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) and his talk «From the Palazzo Grassi to the Biennale. How AI engages with Art».
A full Lab, 30 people online, and an intense discussion on creativity and AI.
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
What a start!🚀
The VeDPH Seminar Series 2025 opened with Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) and his talk «From the Palazzo Grassi to the Biennale. How AI engages with Art».
A full Lab, 30 people online, and an intense discussion on creativity and AI.
The VeDPH Seminar Series 2025 opened with Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) and his talk «From the Palazzo Grassi to the Biennale. How AI engages with Art».
A full Lab, 30 people online, and an intense discussion on creativity and AI.
Our new seminar series!
🎓 New VeDPH Seminar Series in Digital & Public Humanities starts soon!
🗓 Oct–Dec 2025 | 5:00 p.m. CET | Hybrid
🔗 Info & registration: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
🗓 Oct–Dec 2025 | 5:00 p.m. CET | Hybrid
🔗 Info & registration: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Our new seminar series!
For those who want to know more on our MA at Ca' Foscari
#StudentVoices
Beatrice is a student of the Digital and Public Humanities master’s program at Ca’Foscari, a place where technology meets culture, and tradition meets innovation. Her path shows how tech and humanities can truly connect.
🔗 Read her journey here:
www.unive.it/web/it/15165...
Beatrice is a student of the Digital and Public Humanities master’s program at Ca’Foscari, a place where technology meets culture, and tradition meets innovation. Her path shows how tech and humanities can truly connect.
🔗 Read her journey here:
www.unive.it/web/it/15165...
July 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
For those who want to know more on our MA at Ca' Foscari
Hot off the press: my latest article deals with Medici collecting in late 17th cent.
New issue of Journal of the History of Collections Vol. 37, No. 1 (2025) academic.oup.com/jhc/issue/37/1 @sdallaglio.bsky.social @suziebirch.bsky.social @tfraser.bsky.social @rxcoulton.bsky.social
Volume 37 Issue 1 | Journal of the History of Collections | Oxford Academic
Publishes contributions on all aspects of collecting activity, including the contents of collections, the processes which initiated their formation, and the circumstances of the collectors themselves.
academic.oup.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Hot off the press: my latest article deals with Medici collecting in late 17th cent.
Our MA students at Ca' Foscari
What if AI asked questions instead of giving answers?
Sofia Greggio, MA graduate, developed AQUA: a conversational AI exploring local culture and climate change in the Venice lagoon. Applications are still open for the MA in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca' Foscari: unive.it/pag/39288/
Sofia Greggio, MA graduate, developed AQUA: a conversational AI exploring local culture and climate change in the Venice lagoon. Applications are still open for the MA in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca' Foscari: unive.it/pag/39288/
July 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Our MA students at Ca' Foscari
Field trip with my students at M9 Museum
Can museums be digital classrooms?
Our students explored the M9-Museo del 900, reflecting on how digital tools can bring history closer to the public.
Applications are still open for the Master’s Degree in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca' Foscari: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
Our students explored the M9-Museo del 900, reflecting on how digital tools can bring history closer to the public.
Applications are still open for the Master’s Degree in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca' Foscari: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
June 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Field trip with my students at M9 Museum
Tomorrow and on Thursday I'll be at Ca' Foscari University, overlooking the #GrandCanal, for the final event of our MUR-funded project: an international conference on Italian people and books in 16th-cent. France.
Only in person, free access
www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
Only in person, free access
www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
June 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Tomorrow and on Thursday I'll be at Ca' Foscari University, overlooking the #GrandCanal, for the final event of our MUR-funded project: an international conference on Italian people and books in 16th-cent. France.
Only in person, free access
www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
Only in person, free access
www.unive.it/data/agenda/...
Reposted by Stefano Dall'Aglio
Last week, the #Venice Centre for #Digital and Public #Humanities (#VeDPH) hosted a rich afternoon of presentations and discussions. Huge thanks to all the speakers and participants for contributing to such a dynamic exchange of ideas!
www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
June 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Last week, the #Venice Centre for #Digital and Public #Humanities (#VeDPH) hosted a rich afternoon of presentations and discussions. Huge thanks to all the speakers and participants for contributing to such a dynamic exchange of ideas!
www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
Our special event next Thursday at Ca' Foscari university. Everybody's welcome!
Join our event Unveiling the Renaissance Image. A discussion of Barbara Tramelli’s new book Indexing the Early Modern Printed Image: A Digital Catalogue on the Illustrated Book in Lyon (1480–1600)
📆 29 May, 4 PM CEST
📍 VeDPH Lab, Dorsoduro 3484/D, Venice
🔗 www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
📆 29 May, 4 PM CEST
📍 VeDPH Lab, Dorsoduro 3484/D, Venice
🔗 www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
May 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Our special event next Thursday at Ca' Foscari university. Everybody's welcome!
All is ready for the event on #bookhistory and #digitalhumanities that I have organized with Barbara Tramelli at Ca' Foscari in Venice within my PRIN project under the aegis of @vedph.bsky.social.
Everybody's welcome!
Everybody's welcome!
May 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All is ready for the event on #bookhistory and #digitalhumanities that I have organized with Barbara Tramelli at Ca' Foscari in Venice within my PRIN project under the aegis of @vedph.bsky.social.
Everybody's welcome!
Everybody's welcome!
Reposted by Stefano Dall'Aglio
From this week applications are open for all for the Master’s Degree programme in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
How can digital tools transform the way we study, preserve, and share cultural heritage?
Additional information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
How can digital tools transform the way we study, preserve, and share cultural heritage?
Additional information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
April 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
From this week applications are open for all for the Master’s Degree programme in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
How can digital tools transform the way we study, preserve, and share cultural heritage?
Additional information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
How can digital tools transform the way we study, preserve, and share cultural heritage?
Additional information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/