Ilaria Berti, ‘Between Imaginary and Reality: Ethnicity and Cooks in the Colonial Space of Cuba at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’.
Cover Image: Nuevo manual del cocinero Criollo, book cover, 1903, Courtesy University of Miami Library, Digital Collections In the cover [...]
Matteo Calcagni, ‘Keeping up Appearances: The Indian Sedan Chair, or Palanquin, through the Eyes of an Eighteenth-century Livornese Seaman’.
At the end of the eighteenth century, many Tuscan seamen periodically landed their ships in ports on the Indian coast. At [...]
Konstantinos Giakoumis, ‘The Family Tomb of the Pavli Family’
Cover Image: Eternity Cemetery, Iaşi, The Family Tomb of the Pavli Family The family tomb, whose photographic glimpse is provided here, captures [...]
Kyriaki Giannouli, ‘Breaking Down the Alphabet: Exploring its Significance in Bernhard von Breydenbach’s Travelogue’.
Cover Image: Arabic Alphabet. https://eng.travelogues.gr/item.php?view=54934 Travel literature has always been a fascinating genre for readers seeking adventure and exotic experiences. [...]
Minutes of MC Meeting, Rabat
Please follow this link to consult the minutes for the Rabat Management Committee Meeting: Minutes PIMO MC meeting Rabat May 27 2023 [...]
Newsletter June 2023
PIMo Newsletter June 2023 Fresh off the back of a hugely successful Summer School, Conference and MC Meeting in Rabat, Morocco, [...]
Ignacio Chuecas Saldías, “A Lamp in the Holy City”: Sephardic Exile, Family Ties and the Messianic Jerusalem. The Ladino Version of the Passover Haggadah, Venice (1624)
On Wednesday 11 November 1665, Venetian public notary Angelo Maria Piccino received the last will of “Signora Ester Senior consort of [...]
Loredana Lorizzo, Perceiving Others. Representing the Different in Baroque Europe
The production of pictorial, sculptural and engraved portraits greatly fostered knowledge of the Other. Effigies of African natives, Moors, slaves, Turks [...]
Emanuele Giusti, Johann Fischer von Erlach, the Mediterranean and Persepolis
Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) is known as one of the most prominent representatives of European Baroque. His architectural work [...]
Call for Final STSM- Deadline June 05 2023
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Katie Barclay, Legacies of Exile: The Stuarts in Rome
A portrait of Maria Clementina Sobieski (1702-1735) overlooks the left aisle of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. It forms part of [...]
Philippe Bornet, The Mediterranean Space through South Indian Eyes, 1778–1786: Visual and Material Elements in the Varttamānappustakam
December 1779. Four men from distant Kerala are waiting for quarantine clearance in Genoa after sailing from Lisbon on a ship [...]
Giulia Iannuzzi, Early-Modern Luxury Timekeeping
An ivory diptych dial made soli deo gloria by Paulus Reinman (active 1575-1609) around 1600 in Nuremberg, at the time an important [...]
Charlene Ellul, Extracting and Recording Paper Features: An AI Approach,
There is no denying that the invention of paper was a major human accomplishment and a medium that had a profound [...]
Simona Cenci, Petrucci’s books of Frottole: the metamorphosis of a musical genre at the dawn of the printing revolution.
At the turn of the 16th century, Ottaviano Petrucci was granted by the Venetian Signoria a twenty-year privilege to print and [...]