Sandra Toffolo
- Ricercatore/Ricercatrice permanente
Sandra Toffolo è ricercatrice all’Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico di Trento (dal 2021). Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca presso l’Istituto Universitario Europeo di Firenze, e ha studiato anche alle università di Nimega (Paesi Bassi), Firenze e Perugia.
Prima di entrare a far parte dell’ISIG è stata ricercatrice presso Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, la University of St Andrews (Regno Unito), il Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance di Tours (Francia), l’Istituto Universitario Europeo, e il Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma. Ha insegnato presso la University of St Andrews, l’Université François-Rabelais a Tours, e l’Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici a Firenze.
Si occupa di mobilità, spazio e della circolazione di persone, oggetti e idee nell’età moderna, in particolare nella Repubblica di Venezia.
È anche collaboratrice scientifique al Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance di Tours, e membro della EU Cost Action People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923).
- Storia culturale e sociale
- Storia della mobilità
- Storia urbana
- Repubblica di Venezia
- Età moderna
Progetti collegati
Pubblicazioni
Monografia
Describing the city, describing the state: Representations of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020).
Curatele
Francesca Brunet, Rosa Salzberg, and Sandra Toffolo eds., Mobility and poverty in Europe between the early modern period and the early twentieth century: Networks, infrastructures, control, special issue of Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient 51, no. 2 (2025).
Stefano Cassini, Tobias Daniels, and Sandra Toffolo eds., Printing the event: The press as mass medium in Italy and Germany in the first age of print (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2025).
Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Sandra Toffolo eds., Crossroads in early modern Italy: Encounters between foreign travelers and local inhabitants, special issue of Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient 49, no. 1 (2023).
Articoli e saggi
(with Francesca Brunet and Rosa Salzberg) ‘Mobility and poverty in Europe: An introduction,’ Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient 51, no. 2 (2025): 5-14.
‘The material culture of mobility: A pilgrim’s books between Italy, the Holy Land, and Switzerland,’ in: Stefano Cassini, Tobias Daniels, and Sandra Toffolo eds., Printing the event: The press as mass medium in Italy and Germany in the first age of print (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2025): 89-104.
(with Stefano Cassini and Tobias Daniels) ‘Printing the event: An introduction,’ in: Stefano Cassini, Tobias Daniels, and Sandra Toffolo eds., Printing the event: The press as mass medium in Italy and Germany in the first age of print (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2025): 1-7.
‘Media e mobilità: Circolazione di informazioni lungo la via di pellegrinaggio nel Rinascimento,’ in: Christoph Cornelissen and Massimo Rospocher eds., L’intermedialità in età moderna e contemporanea (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2024): 89-115.
‘Encounters in Renaissance Venice: Exchange, communication, and interaction between Jerusalem-bound pilgrims and local inhabitants,’ special issue of Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient 49, no. 1 (2023): 49-72.
(with Marta Albalá Pelegrín) ‘Mobility and interactions between travelers and local residents in the early modern period: An introduction,’ special issue of Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient 49, no. 1 (2023): 9-24.
‘The pilgrim, the city and the book: The role of the mobility of pilgrims in book circulation in Renaissance Venice,’ in: Arthur der Weduwen and Malcolm Walsby eds., The book world of early modern Europe: Essays in honour of Andrew Pettegree, vol. 2 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022): 131-153.
‘Pellegrini stranieri e il commercio veneziano nel Rinascimento,’ in: Elisa Gregori ed., Rinascimento fra il Veneto e l’Europa: Questioni, metodi, percorsi (Padova: Cleup, 2018): 263-284.
‘Cities dominated by lions: The fifteenth-century Venetian mainland state depicted by inhabitants of the subject cities,’ Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 46, no. 1 (2015): 305-325.
‘Beschrijvingen van Rome in de middeleeuwen: De Mirabilia urbis Romae,’ Roma Aeterna, special issue ‘Reizen naar Rome’ 3, no. 1-2 (2015): 72-81.
‘Constructing a mainland state in literature: Perceptions of Venice and its Terraferma in Marin Sanudo’s geographical descriptions,’ Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 37, no. 1 (2014): 5-30.
‘Eten naar stand: De invloed van sociale stratificatie op leefregels in de late middeleeuwen,’ Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde 11, no. 4 (2006): 57-64.