Dr. habil. Diletta Gamberini

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsArt History,Romance Literature
KeywordsIntellectual life of early modern artists, Italian Renaissance art, Italian Renaissance poetry, Sixteenth-century italian literature
Honours and awards

2020: DFG / Eigene Stelle funding for the project "The Epigrammatic Gaze", at the Central Institute for Art History, Munich

2018: Fellowship (for one semester) awarded by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria. Declined due to incompatibility with the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship.

2017: Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Host institution: Art History Department, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; academic host: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer

2017: William Nelson Prize awarded by the Renaissance Society of America for the best article published in Renaissance Quarterly during 2016, for “Vincenzo Danti’s Deceits,” co-authored with Prof. Michael Cole (Art History, Columbia University).

2016: Fellowship (for one semester) awarded by the Max Planck Society’s Institute of Art History, Florence, Italy, dept. of Prof. Dr. Alessandro Nova.

2015: Melville J. Kahn fellowship (one year) awarded by Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy.

2014: Fellowship (one semester) awarded by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York.

2013: Full publication grant for the doctoral dissertation awarded by the Directive Board of the Center of Studies on Italian Literature “Aldo Palazzeschi,” Florence.

Current contact address

CountryItaly
CityNeapel
InstitutionScuola Superiore Meridionale
InstituteTesti Tradizioni Culture del Libro
Homepagehttps://www.ssmeridionale.it/diletta-gamberini/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ulrich PfistererInstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2018

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2019Diletta Gamberini: “Fra topica e prassi di committenza artistica: Benedetto Varchi e il modello antico del ‘consiglio al pittore.’” . In: Schriften des Italienzentrums der Freien Universität Berlin , 2019, 60-70
2019Diletta Gamberini: “Nel nome del fratello: Pietro Vasari e la memorializzazione poetica dell’arte nell’Italia di fine Cinquecento.”. In: Italique?Poésie italienne de la Renaissance , 2019, 81-104
2019Diletta Gamberini: “‘Divine’ or not? Poetic Responses to the Art of Michelangelo.” . In: Claudia Swan, Tributes to David Freedberg: Image and Insight. Brepols, 2019. 431-442
2018Diletta Gamberini: “The Poetry of the Portraits.” . In: Eds. Ulrich Pfisterer et alii. 'Platz da im Pantheon! Künstler in gedruckten Porträtserien bis 1800.'. Dietmar Klinger Verlag, 2018. 65-79
2018Diletta Gamberini: “‘Antica purezza e dantesca gravità:’ forme dell’appropriazione della poesia di Michelangelo nella Firenze di Cosimo I.”. In: Italique–Poésie italienne de la Renaissance , 2018, 199-233
2017Diletta Gamberini: 'La ‘concucia nana’ di Federico Zuccari: critica d’arte in versi all’ombra del Giudizio Universale per la cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore'. In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 2017, 362-387
2017Diletta Gamberini: “Cellini, Borghini e la disputa sulle esequie di Michelangelo, fra questioni di ‘Paragone’ e di committenza”. In: Carla Chiummo, Antonio Geremicca, and Patrizia Tosini, “Intrecci virtuosi. Letterati, artisti e accademie nell’Italia centrale tra ’500 e ’600”. De Luca, 2017. 39-50
2017Diletta Gamberini: “I colloqui poetici degli artisti della corte fiorentina con Benedetto Varchi”. In: La Rivista. Études culturelles italiennes Sorbonne Universités, 2017, 61-69
2017Diletta Gamberini: “The Artist as a Dantista: Francesco da Sangallo’s Dantism in mid-Cinquecento Florence”. In: Dante Studies, 2017, 169-191