We are looking for a part-time (20 hours/week) library staff member, as soon as possible. Main fields of activity: collection conservation, storage controll and maintenance, user assistance. Applications are accepted exclusively via our application  ...   

Deadline: 19 April 2026. For the academic year 2026/2027 the German Historical Institute in Rome awards scholarships for the training of young academics in the fields of history and music history. The DHI Rome offers various programmes: research scholarships, travel grants, and scholarships to apply for third-party funding.
The duration of the scholarship can be up to 12 months. The current calls  ...   

Andreas Kiesewetter's study, published posthumously by Francesco Panarelli, examines the policies of King Manfred of Sicily (1250/58–1266) in the Mediterranean and situates his activities within a complex, multi-layered network of relations. Particular attention is placed on Albania and Greece, while the analysis also extends more broadly to Byzantium, the Kingdom of Aragon, the Italian maritime republics, and the Islamic  ...   

Genoa's participation in the Otranto crusade against the Turks provides an opportunity to reveal a broader picture of the connections between local politics, international strategies and commercial interests in the Mediterranean at the end of the 15th century. By means of an extensive source corpus, the volume sheds light on the entanglements of informal diplomacy, private interests, emotions, espionage networks, Italian  ...   

Domenico Cimarosa's musical comedy "Le trame deluse", first performed in Naples in 1786, enjoyed great success throughout Europe and was translated into numerous languages. No less a figure than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe adapted the opera in order to stage it at Weimar. Rossini regarded it as more significant than "Il matrimonio segreto", Cimarosa's most famous work. Set in 18th-century Naples, the  ...   

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The latest volume 105 of our journal "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken" is now published and fully available in Open Access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/qfiab/html#latestIssue.   

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