Georgina Rowley

Georgina Rowley completed her undergraduate degree at the University of East Anglia, specialising in sixteenth-century Italian poetry. She wrote her third-year dissertation on the use of the Heroides as a mode of writing that offered courtesan-poets Veronica Franco and Tullia d’ Aragona a way of expressing their private aspirations publicly. Her interests include courtesans, women artists, matronage, and the studioli of Renaissance noblewomen. Georgina worked as a remote archive assistant with the Archives of the Jesuits in Britain for a year and then completed a six-week in-person placement. Over the last year, she has worked at the Norfolk Heritage Centre, cataloging ex-referenda and researching the collection of rare early modern books. Additionally, she gave a talk regarding her recent discovery of a medieval manuscript leaf. She will be beginning the MA in Art History, Renaissance Culture and Curatorship at the Warburg Institute in the autumn. Georgina will be working with Dr Sheila Barker at MAP to digitize Bronzini’s manuscripts at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze and will search for archival material regarding the relationship between Leonora de’ Medici, Constanza Lenzi Gondi, and Lucrezia Quistelli.