I Tatti is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Francesca Trivellato as the new General Editor of I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History, effective 1 January 2027.
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, Professor Trivellato is a leading historian of early modern Italy and continental Europe whose scholarship has made groundbreaking contributions to the study of economic life and ideas. Her numerous publications include Fondamenta dei vetrai: Lavoro, tecnologia e mercato a Venezia tra Sei e Settecento (Donzelli, 2000); The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period (Yale University Press, 2009); and The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society (Princeton University Press, 2019). She also writes on the history of historiography, with particular attention to the role of Jews in Western academic traditions and the relationship between microhistory and global history. A selection of her essays on these subjects has been published in Italian as Microstoria e storia globale (Officina Libraria, 2023).
In 2025, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from the European University Institute. She has a long association with Florence and with I Tatti, where she has been Visiting Professor. Her distinguished scholarship and deep familiarity with I Tatti make her exceptionally well placed to oversee the continued development of the series.
Professor Trivellato succeeds Professor Nicolas Terpstra, Professor of History and Provost & Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Since becoming General Editor in 2020, Professor Terpstra has overseen the publication of more than a dozen volumes, further broadening the scope of the series with award-winning scholarship. Under his editorship, the series has brought to publication innovative research on a remarkable range of subjects, including studies of Ethiopian pilgrims, Jewish and Christian butchers, the regulation of sound in women’s residential institutions, sexual nonconformity and radical religious dissent in early modern Italy, and of the global reach of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. I Tatti is deeply grateful for his stewardship of the series and for the important body of work he has helped bring to publication.
As of 1 July 2026, all new proposals and enquiries should be directed to Professor Trivellato.