Professor Fabrizio Nevola

Professor Fabrizio Nevola is the Head of Art History and Visual Culture and the Deputy Head of the Department for Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies. He was the Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies (2016-20), and is an elected member of University Senate. He specialises in the urban, cultural and architectural history of Early Modern Italy, including a special interest in street life, and is involved in innovative work using digital art history approaches for research and public engagement.

Fabrizio did his undergraduate degree in Modern History and Italian at University College, Oxford and MA (History of Architecture) and PhD (History of Art) 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). In 2022, he was Visiting Professor at Ca' Foscari, University of Venice, Centre for Digital and Public Humanities. 

Fabrizio’s first book, Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City (Yale University Press, 2007) was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture. His most resent monograph is Street Life in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press, 2020): it was shortlisted for the Renaissance Studies Biennial book prize (2022). Among various edited volumes, he most recently edited Hidden Cities. Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2022).