Medici Archive Project Staff

Italy

Tiziana Morgese
Intern

United States

Sara Ridings Morrow
Administrative Assistant

Medici Archive Project Staff Bios

Ippolita Morgese, President, completed a degree in Letters at the University of Florence in 1987 and another degree in musical paleography in 1992 at the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra in Rome. In 1995, she completed a post-doctoral Diploma de Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica at the Florentine State Archive, focusing on Florentine institutional history. Dr. Morgese has published widely in the areas of music history and archival history. She is now curating the critical edition of Magistrato Supremo 4449 and 4450 in the Florentine State Archive, which the Project is publishing with the title, "The Pre-history of the Florentine Ghetto."

ALESSIO GIOVANNI MARIA ASSONITIS, Research Coordinator (Research Coordinator, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2004-2007), completed his PhD at Columbia University in 2003 with a dissertation entitled "Art and Savonarolism in Florence and Rome." He taught art history at Columbia University, Barnard College, Herron School of Art, and the Christian Theological Seminary. He also served as Clowes Fellow at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. As a Project Fellow, he is working on the cultural and artistic relations between Florence and Rome from 1537 to 1549. He has published scholarly articles on Raphael, Fra Bartolomeo della Porta, antiquarianism, Lombard art, and Church history. He currently serves as editor of the journal Memorie domenicane. His book on Fra Girolamo Savonarolas theory of art will be published in spring 2007. He is currently completing a monograph on the Dominican painter Fra Bartolomeo della Porta.