Rebecca Cappelli obtained her Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Siena in 2024: her master’s thesis was entitled “Ornaron la terra e poi le stelle”: tra potere, complotti e ascesa la vita di Lucrezia de Medici Salviati, “La maggior di Lorenzo inclita figlia”. In 2021 and 2023, she had the opportunity to complete an Internship at MAP. Her current research project, which would be developed in a PhD project, continues her research on powerful women in Renaissance Italy and focuses on Elena di Jacopo Salviati (1500-1552) regent of Piombino on behalf of her son Jacopo VI Appiano between 1545 and 1548. During her fellowship at MAP, she will explore wide-ranging archival materials to understand the role and the strategies of Elena Salviati in seeking to control her domains through family intrigues and diplomatic alliances.
- Scholarship
- Fellowships
- Publications
- Conferences
- CFP: THE JEWS, THE ARTS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (1450-1750)
- The Medici and the Dominicans
- 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
- DIVINO GIORGIO LECTURES
- RSA 2024
- Michelangelo and His Politics (26 May 2023)
- FOOD! Workshop (20 January 2023)
- Medici on the Road (16-17 June 2022)
- Medici and Africa (2 & 3 June 2022)
- Art of Copying (January 2022)
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