Federica Gigante
fgigante.bsky.social
Federica Gigante
@fgigante.bsky.social
Early Modern History, Islamic Art History, History of Science | University of Oxford | University of Cambridge | I Tatti
My book is now out! 🎉

Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court @edinburghup.bsky.social

Very exciting to see it in the flesh ☺️
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October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
We are looking for contributors to our panel on Manipulations 🤚– the practice of retouching, repurposing, and reframing objects as they move across cultural boundaries and owners – for the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in San Francisco, RSA 2026
July 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
📢 JOB OPENING 📢
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!

This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.

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March 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
February 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
‪My book now has a cover!
Islamic Objects in 17th-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Out shortly with Edinburgh University Press
@edinburghup.bsky.social
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December 23, 2024 at 2:20 PM
🥳New publication! “Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins. A European Network of Exchange,” with Andrew Burnett in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
@warburginstitute.bsky.social.
With many thanks to my coauthor for his patience and good humour.
doi.org/10.1086/732274
#numismatics
November 27, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Oxford nights #Oxford
October 31, 2023 at 9:49 AM
View from the Radcliffe Camera last night #Oxford
October 28, 2023 at 1:45 PM