Maurizio Arfaioli

Maurizio Arfaioli has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Medici Archive Project since 2010 and has contributed to the content and development of the Project’s digital platforms and research programs since 2005. He is the author of The Black Bands of Giovanni and has published essays and articles on early modern military history and iconography. In 2019, he was curator of the Gallerie degli Uffizi exhibition Cento lanzi per il Principe, exploring the history of the German Guard of the Medici Grand Dukes (1541-1738). Arfaioli has held research fellowships at the Villa I Tatti (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and at the Italian Academy at Columbia University. His research interests include military history, Grand Ducal Florence, the relations between Spanish Italy and Habsburg Low Countries, early modern military iconography, and digital prosopography. His current projects focus on the Florentine military during Cosimo I de’ Medici’s reign (1519-1574), and on the Army of Flanders (1567-1704).