Genoese Merchant Networks in Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean (ca. 1450–1530)
Dr. Carlo Taviani (in collaboration with Takin.solutions and the Università degli Studi di Teramo)
Digital Humanities Project of the DHI Rome
Previously funded by the international research project of the Max Weber Foundation "Knowledge Unbound" (2019–2021)
From the mid-15th century, Genoese families became increasingly active in the southern Iberian Peninsula, establishing settlements in various port cities and trading southward with Africa and northward with Flanders and England. The islands ...
The Restitution of Looted Cultural Property in Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria, 1945–1998
Dr. Bianca Gaudenzi
The restitution of looted cultural heritage is one of the most widely debated topics of the year. Countless bottles of ink have been spent over what has emphatically been described as the "biggest art theft in history", and new provenance works now appear on a monthly basis. Yet very few studies have so far endeavoured to historicise such emotionally-charged subject within the bigger framework of postwar European history. This project ...
