Laura Ingallinella

What a beautiful cover!!!!!

medieval illumination of a rabbit blowing a buisine

Congratulations to Sebastian Sobecki (@sebsobecki.bsky.social), who, with Ladan Niayesh, has received a grant for "Re-Orienting Female Mobility in the Early Global World", a project which will also involve Laura Ingallinella (@lauraingalli.bsky.social)! uoft.me/bIU

I've dreaded starting to draft the narratives for my interim review file (i.e., first stage of tenure review), but now that I'm finally doing it, I'm finding the entire process healing and affirmative at an oddly profound level #skystorians #academicsky

#earlymodern

Call for Papers: The Fabric of Trust [Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, 19-21 February 2026] The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) will sponsor up to 3 panels at the next Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Francisco, February 19–21, 2026. We welcome proposals on the theme of The Fabric of Trust: how trust was encouraged, experienced, and contested in the early modern world (c. 1400–1700). We are particularly interested in contributions that examine the material, sensory, and gendered dimensions of trust, and the ways in which it was embedded in visual, textual, ritual, legal, and performative practices. Topics may include (but are not limited to): • The visual and material culture of trust (e.g. relics, portraits, textiles, documents) • Gendered expressions and expectations of trust in domestic, civic, or religious contexts • Embodied and sensory experiences of credibility, authority, and faith • Technologies of trust: surveillance, mapping, accounting, and record-keeping • Cross-cultural, mercantile, and diplomatic encounters • Performative strategies in theatre, ritual, or legal speech Proposals from all disciplines will be considered, and themes/topics that lend themselves to interdisciplinary treatment and digital humanities methods and are strongly preferred. TO APPLY: Please submit a proposal as a single WORD document to Andrea Rizzi arizzi@unimelb.edu.au by Friday, 1 August 2025. Your proposal should include the paper's title and abstract (150- word max.), a CV, your current affiliation, email address, and (if applicable) completion date of PhD. Please note that the RSA requires that those presenting papers at its conference must be members of the RSA. Those who do not take out membership before the conference begins are removed from the program.

🚨 RSA 2026 CFP 🚨 Join Andrea Rizzi, Nick Terpstra, and yours truly for a series of panels on trust in the early modern world sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium. Trust us—pun intended—you won’t want to miss this call! More info below & in alt-text.

Today's #UnrulyRenaissance tidbit: In the late fifteenth century, Isabella d'Este employed a buffoon at her court that went by the stage name "Frittella" (Pancake). His real name was Giovan Francesco dei Corioni.

Donation page for the formerly-NEH-funded #sferaproject. The horrors persist, but so do we. 💪

#MedievalSky

Another victim of the current madness - if you could help this medieval project, or at least spread the word, I’m sure it would be appreciated.

The La Sfera Project - Donate On April 2, 2025, the Sfera Project PIs received notice that the federal government was terminating the $118,000 grant the Project was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in August 20...

Many of you know I've been working on the La sfera project with scores of friends for about 5 years. We were thrilled to receive support to bring it to a larger public, and crushed when we lost it when it was nearly 70% complete. We are now seeking donations to finish it
www.sferaproject.org/donate

Like many other #NEH -funded projects. the #sferaproject received notice yesterday that our grant has been cancelled. It's not yet clear what that means for the project, but we hope to have more info soon. Meanwhile, here's a screenshot of what they cancelled (our website-in-development):

Not one of these EOs listed in this letter is valid. Notably, no statutory language is listed. The President’s agenda is not a statutory reason for termination. It really is just straight up lying and people should start just suing the government in the Court of Claims.

6. Funding Restrictions You may not use awards made under this notice to fund: • projects that do not explicitly address one or more of the research categories, as required in the Humanities Significance section of the narrative • projects that involve data collection without analysis • projects for which a primary goal is evaluation of a single humanities program, product, or event, such as an educational initiative, podcast, exhibition, undergraduate minor, etc. • projects for which a primary goal is to curate new collections, digitize existing collections, or create inventories or catalogs of collections that do not result in substantive analyses • projects in which more than 1/3 of direct costs are for equipment, materials, and supplies costs for activities performed by federal entities or personnel promotion of discriminatory equity ideology support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEl) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities • environmental justice initiatives or activities advocacy of a particular program of social or political actionl • support of specific public policies or legislation • lobbying • projects that fall outside of the humanities; the creation or performance of art; creative writing, autobiographies, memoirs, and creative nonfiction; policy studies; and social science research that does not address humanistic questions and/or utilize humanistic methods

The NEH has decided to comply with fascist dictat. www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...

The American Boccaccio Association invites submissions of papers OR complete panels for its 6th Triennial Conference. The conference, titled “Boccaccio 650,” will take place on September 18-20, 2025 in Chicago, at the Newberry Library and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. The conference will be preceded by a Paleography Seminar taught at the Newberry Library by Maddalena Signorini. PALEOGRAPHY SEMINAR: Newberry Library, 16-17 September, 2025. Prof. Maddalena Signorini (Tor Vergata University of Rome) will teach codicology of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The seminar will allow the participation of 15 among graduate students and junior faculty. Please, send your application with CV and letter of interest to: secretary.boccaccio.us@gmail.com CONFERENCE: a plenary session with Simone Marchesi (Princeton University) and Tim Kircher (Guilford College) in conversation with the audience will take place at the Newberry Library on September 19th, while Millicent Marcus (Yale University) will deliver a keynote speech at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura on Saturday September 20th, concluding the event. See details on www.boccaccio-usa.org/events-conferences

Dear friends in Boccaccio, Italian Studies and PCRS, would anyone be interested in putting together a panel on Boccaccio and race for this conference? #medievalsky

Congratulations to Laura Ingallinella, winner of the 2024 YI RnB4Culture Award! RnB4Culture Award 2024 - Acceptance speech by Laura Ingallinella"Dr. Laura Ingallinella is awarded the RnB4Culture Award for her highly engaging project that bridges between early modern and contempor...

Congratulations again to Laura Ingallinella (@medievallaura.bsky.social), winner of the 2024 YI RnB4Culture Award!
www.issnaf.org/post/congrat...

Thanks for the repost, Lisa!!

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Historian: Some call those years the Dark Ages but in reality that was a time of great intellectual ferment.

Italian Fellowships Italian Fellows pursue their own projects and participate in the Academy’s collaborative, interdisciplinary environment.

Great postdoc fellowship opportunity for Italian citizens in #medievalstudies (all disciplines) at the #AmericanAcademyInRome.

Deadline 12 February 2025

#medievalsky #literature #arthistory #archaeology #skystorians #religion #musicology

aarome.org/apply/italia...

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a manel at a conference, workshop, or symposium in Italian Studies, I would likely have enough funding to organize a two-day conference on the persistence of manels in Italian Studies, inclusive of sumptuous meals for all participants.

meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

I am incredibly proud to share the CFP for the first issue of "Riflesso: Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Journal of Italian Studies." Fellow Italian Studies instructors, circulate it with your students! The Editorial Board welcomes essays & creative pieces dealing with any aspect of Italian culture.

The journal has been created by our amazingly talented students at the Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, and while Paolo Frascà and I serve as the journal's faculty support, the initiative will be primarily led by them ❤️

More info on the journal's website: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ri...

And here is the CFP for the inaugural issue: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ri...

I am incredibly proud to share the CFP for the first issue of "Riflesso: Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Journal of Italian Studies." Fellow Italian Studies instructors, circulate it with your students! The Editorial Board welcomes essays & creative pieces dealing with any aspect of Italian culture.

Basile!!!!!!

text of a 17th-century book with anagrams of the name of Aurelia Imperiali, Marquess of Monteforte

A book of anagrams based on the names of Neapolitan noblewomen by Giambattista Basile. Making a living as a poet is tough! #earlymodern

Seriously considering switching my phone notification sound into a recording of my own voice chirping, "You should be writing! You should be writing! You should be writing!" #iamnotwriting

I just submitted the review—forthcoming in the next issue of "Quaderni d'Italianistica"—to a book I truly enjoyed when I first read it and was later offered to review. How nice is it when it happens? #skystorians #earlymodern

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

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