Piergabriele Mancuso

Piergabriele Mancuso (BA & MA in oriental languages; MA in music [viola]; PhD in Jewish Studies, UCL) is since 2013 the Director of the Eugene Grant Jewish Program at the Medici Archive Project. He published extensively on Jewish Italian history, on medieval Hebrew philology, on Jewish music and ethnomusicology. In 2017 he launched the Ghetto Mapping Project, a major research project aiming to reconstruct virtually the ancient Jewish ghetto of Florence on the basis of archival-textual evidence. He was the co-curator, together with Alice Legé and Sefy Hendler, of the exhibition “The Jews, the Medici, and Ghetto of Florence – History, Identity, Culture, and Segregation” (Florence, Palazzo Pitti – Gallerie degli Uffizi, 2023-24)