At the Medici Archive Project, as Director of the Birth of News program, he is currently working on the emergence, diffusion and impact of handwritten newsletters. He has published extensively on media history and history of knowledge. Recent publications include: A Mattress Maker’s Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de’ Medici and Livia Vernazza (Harvard University Press: 2014). Brendan Dooley is the Professor of Renaissance Studies in the Graduate School of the College of Arts at University College Cork.
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- CFP: THE JEWS, THE ARTS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (1450-1750)
- CONFERENCE: The Medici and the Dominicans (Palazzo Alberti, 30 January 2026, 9:15 AM)
- CFP: TALKING STONES (Prague, 17–18 April 2026)
- Minority and Majority in Medici Tuscany (Paris, 27 & 28 November 2025)
- Medicine in Early Modern Italy: Between Theory and Practice, 1500-1700
- CALL FOR ESSAYS: Beyond the Sabbaths (1400-1650)
- FERDINANDO I DE’ MEDICI – WORKSHOP
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- Michelangelo and His Politics (26 May 2023)
- FOOD! Workshop (20 January 2023)
- Medici on the Road (16-17 June 2022)
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- Art of Copying (January 2022)
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