01 Oktober 2022 - 31 Januar 2023

INSTITUTE OF AUSTRIAN HISTORICAL RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA

Vortrag von Chiara Petrolini: ERUDITION AND VIOLENCE. SEBASTIAN TENGNAGEL (1563–1636), LOOTED MANUSCRIPTS, AND PRISONERS OF WAR

Chiara Petrolini specializes in the religious and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th–17thcenturies), focusing on religious conversions, Paolo Sarpi, and Tommaso Campanella. She studied the history of philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Centre for Renaissance Studies in Florence. She researched at the Universities of Verona, Macerata, Padova, and Bologna and, most recently, at the University of Vienna on a project on the imperial librarian and Orientalist Sebastian Tengnagel. Currently she is an IFK_Research Fellow.