Biography

Gerard González Germain received his Ph.D. in Latin Philology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2011. In his dissertation he studied the false Latin inscriptions created during the early Renaissance and located in Roman Hispania. His main field of research focuses on the rediscovery of Roman antiquities in Renaissance Europe and its repercussion in the Early Modern intellectual history. The interdisciplinary nature of this topic has also led him to make some contributions in the fields of Roman epigraphy and Renaissance humanism.

Project Summary

This project aims to re-examine the figure of Agostino Vespucci, Machiavelli’s secretary in the Second Chancery, after the striking discovery that he must be identified with the humanist who signed as Augustinus Nettuccius. The study of primary sources will be the basis for re-evaluating his political and cultural role in early 16th-century Florence.