Meet the Director

Alessio Assonitis arrived at the Medici Archive Project in 2004 with a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He became director in 2009 and served as Principal Investigator for digital projects supported by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation (including BIA, 2010-2012; 2013-2014, and MIA, 2015-2017; 2017-2019) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (AVVISO Project, 2021-23). He has published extensively on topics related to Italian Renaissance art, book history, Medici history, archival studies and digital humanities, including thje monograph Bastiano Mainardi: Painter of Altarpieces in Renaissance Tuscany (Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2011) and the edited volumes The Grand Ducal Medici and Their Archive 1537–1743 (with Brian Sandberg; Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2016); Fra Bartolomeo 1517 (with Marilena Tamassia; Nerbini Editore, 2019), and A Companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici (with Henk van Veen; Brill, 2021). He is editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Memorie Domenicane and founder and former editor-in-chief of the MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT academic book series (Harvey Miller/Brepols), established in 2016.