PhD supervision
Interested in supervising students studying:
- Italian cities and architecture (1350-1600)
- Public use of urban space (Early Modern Europe)
- Experiential studies of urban space
Dr Fabrizio Nevola
MA, PhD
Profile
Fabrizio Nevola did his undergraduate degree at University College, Oxford and MA and PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has held research fellowships at the University of Warwick, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), the Medici Archive Project (Florence), and Harvard University's Villa I Tatti (Florence). He specialises in the urban and architectural history of Early Modern Italy, and has also developed a new strand on the street life of contemporary urban environments.
Fabrizio specialises in the urban and architectural history of Early Modern Italy, and has also developed a parallel research strand on the street life of contemporary urban environments; in some of his funded research work he seeks to create a bridge which links these two periods and interests. He was involved in the exhibition at the National Gallery in London, Renaissance Siena: Art for a City (October 2007- January 2008) and is author of Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City, Yale University Press (2007) as well as a number of edited volumes (see below). In 2008 his book, Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture.
Research
Fabrizio has a specialist interest in issues relating to the social and cultural history of Early Modern cities. He works and has published on the ritual use of public space, urban identity, the representation and perception of community groups within cities, as well as the relations between commercial and residential spaces. He has received funding from the British Academy (2009-11) to conduct archival research in central Italy into the property management of commercial real estate by major families. New research looks at the street as a social space, the urban iconography that often binds main streets into a coherent whole and the relations between public and private self-representation. This recent work also engages in cross-chronological discussion, linking the themes and issues of concern for the present to those of the past.
Cities and urban communities
He is currently principal investigator on an AHRC funded research project that looks at the public use of urban space across history, from Renaissance Italy to the present day. More broadly his primary research interests are in cities and urban communities in Early Modern Italy; he has researched and published on varied subjects ranging from urban rituals, to the commercial uses of public space and architecture, surveillance and the street and onto socio-cultural responses to earthquakes. A secondary research interest is around the potential of cross-chronological research on cities, whereby contemporary issues are explored contextually through historical evidence, in collaboration with specialist academics and practitioners.
Street life and street culture
He was principal investigator for an AHRC-funded research network on the theme Street life and street culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the present. In 2011 the project was awarded follow-on-funding from the AHRC for public engagement with policy makers. Themes explored in it have also fed into new funded research within the cross-council ‘Connected Communities’ programme (again through the AHRC).
Ongoing funded research projects
- 2009-12: Principal Investigator for AHRC funded research network, Street life and street culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the present.
- 2011: Principal Investigator for a scoping study for AHRC Connected Communities’ initiative. Research review entitled: ‘Urban communities in Early Modern Europe (c. 1400-1700)’.
- 2012-13: Principal Investigator for AHRC Connected Communities’ pilot demonstrator project. Taverns, Locals and Street Corners: Cross-Chronological Studies in Community Drinking, Regulation and Public Space.
Publications
Book/s
Ascheri, M., Mazzoni, G. and Nevola, F., eds., 2008. L’ultimo secolo della repubblica di Siena: arti cultura e società, Acts of the International Conference, Siena (28-30 Sept. 2003 and 16-18 Sept. 2004). Siena: Accademia Senese degli Intronati.
Nevola, F., ed., 2008. Pio II Piccolomini: Il papa del rinascimento a Siena, acts of the International Conference, Siena, 5-7 May 2005. Siena: Alsaba grafiche.
Ascheri, M. and Nevola, F., eds., 2008. Siena nel Rinascimento: l’ultimo secolo della repubblica. Politica e istituzioni, economia e società, Acts of the International Conference, Siena (28-30 Sept. 2003 and 16-18 Sept. 2004). Siena: Accademia Senese degli Intronati.
Syson, L., Angelini, A., Jackson, P. and Nevola, F., 2007. Renaissance Siena: Art for a City. London-New Haven: National Gallery Publications.
Nevola, F., 2007. Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City. London-New Haven: Yale University Press.
Jackson, P. and Nevola, F., eds., 2006. Beyond the Palio: Urban Ritual in Renaissance Siena. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Book Sections
Nevola, F., 2013. Forthcoming. Construire la ville de la Renaissance. L’exemple siennois. In: Bourdin, S., Paoli, M. and Reltgen-Tallon, A., eds. La forme de la ville, Acts of the International Conference (7-9 November 2011). Amiens: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
Nevola, F., 2013. Forthcoming. Urban responses to disaster in renaissance Italy: Images and rituals. In: Folin, M. and Preti, M., eds. The Wounded City: The Representation of Urban Disasters in European Art (XV-XX Centuries). Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate.
Nevola, F., 2012. Forthcoming. Picturing disaster in Renaissance Italy. In: Schenk, G. J., ed. Learning from Disaster from Antiquity to Early Modern Times. Heidelberg: Springer.
Nevola, F., 2010. A short note for Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Madonna of the Earthquakes (1467). In: Israëls, M. and Waldman, L. A., eds. Toward a Festschrift: Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors. Florence: Leo S. Olschki.
Nevola, F., 2009. Francesco Patrizi: umanista, urbanista e teorico di Pio II. In: Nevola, F., ed. Pio II Piccolomini: Il papa del rinascimento a Siena, Acts of the International Conference, Siena, 5-7 May 2005. Siena: Alsaba grafica.
Nevola, F., 2009. Ordering the piazza del Campo in Siena. In: Jansen, K., Drell, J. and Andrews, F., eds. Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation. Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, pp. 261-264.
Nevola, F., 2009. Strategie abitative dell'élite senese tra '400 e '500: politica, alleanze ed architettura. In: Ascheri, M., Mazzoni, G. and Nevola, F., eds. L’ultimo secolo della repubblica di Siena: arti cultura e società, Acts of the International Conference, Siena (28-30 Sept. 2003 and 16-18 Sept. 2004). Siena: Accademia Senese degli Intronati, pp. 137-152.
Nevola, F., 2008. “la piu gloriosa solemnità che a di de padri nostri giammai fusse veduta”: Feste ed apparati urbani durante il pontificato di Pio II Piccolomini. In: Ricciardelli, F., ed. I luoghi del Sacro. Il sacro e la città fra medioevo ed età moderna, acts of the conference. Florence: Polistampa, pp. 173-188.
Nevola, F., 2007. Civic Identity and Private Patrons in Renaissance. In: Syson, L., Angelini, A., Jackson, P. and Nevola, F., eds. Renaissance Siena: Art for a City. London-New Haven: National Gallery Publications, pp. 16-29.
Nevola, F., 2007. Il palazzo Chigi alla Postierla: sistemazione urbana e genesi del progetto. In: Fargnoli, N., ed. Il Palazzo Chigi Piccolomini alla Postierla. Vol. 6. Asciano: Ali Editoria & Comunicazione, pp. 26-43. (Quaderni della Soprintendenza per il patrimonio storico, artistico e demoetnoantropologico di Siena e Grosseto)
Nevola, F., 2006. “Più honorati et suntuosi ala Republica”: Botteghe and Luxury Retail along Siena’s Strada Romana. In: Blondé, B., Stabel, P., Stobbart, J. and Van Damme, I., eds. Buyers and Sellers: Retail Circuits and Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Belgium: Turnhout, pp. 65-78.
Nevola, F., 2005. The Palazzo Spannocchi: Creating Site and Setting in Renaissance Sienese Architecture. In: Jenkens, L. A., ed. Renaissance Siena: Art in Context. Vol. 71. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, pp. 141-156. (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies)
Articles
Nevola, F., Renzulli, E. and Bardati, F., 2012. Introduction: Tales of the City: Outsiders’ Descriptions of Cities in the Early Modern Period. Citta e Storia, 7 (1), pp. 3-8.
Nevola, F., 2012. Lost in Translation: the Urban Setting of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's Story of Two Lovers. Citta e Storia, 2012 (1), pp. 9-26.
Nevola, F., 2011. Home shopping: urbanism, commerce and palace design in renaissance Italy. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 70 (2), pp. 153-174.
Nevola, F., 2011. “El Papa non verrà:” The failed triumphal entry of Leo X de Medici to Siena (November 1515). Sixteenth Century Journal, 42 (2), pp. 427-446.
Nevola, F., 2010. Introduction: locating communities in the early modern Italian city. Urban History, 37 (3), pp. 349-359.
Nevola, F., 2010. Book Review of A. Savelli, Siena. Il popolo e le contrade (XVI-XX secolo). Urban History, 37 (2), pp. 338-340.
Nevola, F., 2010. Book Review: The cult of Saint Catherine of Siena. A study in civil religion. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 61 (1), p. 178.
Nevola, F., 2010. Machtelt Israëls, ed. 'Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece'. Renaissance Quarterly, 63 (2), pp. 589-591.
Nevola, F., 2010. Michelangelo architetto a Roma. The Burlington Magazine, CLII (1282), pp. 63-64.
Nevola, F., 2009. Review of Il Campidoglio. Storia di un monumento civile di Roma papale, A. Bedon. The Burlington Magazine, CLI (1278), pp. 470-471.
Nevola, F., 2009. Book Review: C. Jean Campbell, The Commonwealth of Nature. Art and poetic community in the age of Dante. Burlington Magazine, CLII (1279), p. 680.
Nevola, F., 2008. Images and Identity in Fifteenth Century Florence - by Patricia Rubin, A History of Florence - by John Najemy and Renaissance Florence: A Social History - edited by Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti (Review Essay). Renaissance Studies, 22 (4), pp. 589-594.
Nevola, F., 2008. The Renaissance Palace in Florence. Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Review Essay). Journal of Design History, 21 (3), pp. 289-294.
Nevola, F., 2007. Palaces, shops and clientage clustering in Early Modern Siena. Citta e Storia, II, pp. 365-379.
Jackson, P. and Nevola, F., 2006. Beyond the Palio: urbanism and ritual in Renaissance Siena. Renaissance Studies, 20 (2), pp. 137-146.
Nevola, F. and Jackson, P., 2006. Introduction. Renaissance Studies, 20 (2), pp. 127-137.
Nevola, F., 2006. Lots of Napkins and a Few Surprises: Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s House, Goods and Social Standing in Late-Fifteenth-Century Siena. Annali di Architettura, 18-19 [2006-7], pp. 71-82.
Nevola, F., 2006. Ritual geography: housing the papal court of Pius II Piccolomini in Siena (1459-60). Renaissance Studies, 20 (2), pp. 201-224.
Nevola, F., 2004. Le patronage architectural du pape Pie II Piccolomini à Sienne. Médiévales, 47, pp. 139-152.
Nevola, F., 2003. 'Lieto e trionphante per la città': experiencing a mid-fifteenth-century imperial triumph along Siena's Strada Romana. Renaissance Studies, 17 (4), pp. 581-606.
Nevola, F., 2000. "Ornato della città”: Siena’s Strada Romana as Focus of Fifteenth-century Urban Renewal. Art Bulletin, 82 (1), pp. 26-50.
Nevola, F., 1999. Siena nel Rinascimento: sistemi urbanistici e strutture istituzionali (c. 1400-1520). Bullettino Senese di Storia Patria, CVI, pp. 44-67.
Reports/Papers
Nevola, F. and Rosenthal, D., 2011. Urban communities in early modern Europe (1400-1700): A Research Review. Other. Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Other
Nevola, F. and Rosenthal, D., 2011. Project website for AHRC funded 'Early Modern Urban Communities Research Review'. Bath: Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath.
Nevola, F. and Clarke, G., 2010. Project website for AHRC funded 'Street Life and Street Culture' research network, created with CI, Dr. Georgia Clarke (Courtauld Institute of Art, London). Bath: Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath.
