Emma Iadanza

Emma Iadanza joined Medici Archive Project in 2020. After an on-site internship in 2021, she joined the staff as Social Media Manager and Internship Coordinator in summer 2022. She is a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art with a dissertation entitled “The Pazzi Ascendancy: Identity, Patronage, and Network of a Florentine Family, c. 1430–1520.” Building on the rich scholarship on the Medici and other elite families of fifteenth-century Florence, her work considers the infamous Pazzi family as patrons both before and after the Conspiracy of 1478. Emma is a recipient of the Beinecke Scholarship and the Linda Nochlin ‘51 Memorial Scholarship, which will fund her graduate studies, as well as other prizes and scholarships which support her work in the U.S., the U.K., and Italy.