Jonathan Schiesaro

Research Fellow

Research Profile

Office: 4037, Arts Building
Email: schiesaj@tcd.ie

Jonathan Schiesaro is postdoctoral fellow with the Irish Research Council at Trinity College Dublin, where he is working on a project about the transmission and manipulation of private writings and family documentary heritage in 16th- and 17th-century Florence (Florence and the Forgotten Epigones. Reshaping Family Memory in the Age of the Grand Dukes). He holds an MA in Modern Philology from the University of Milan and an MA in International Relations from the University of Turin, both awarded with honors. He received his PhD in Italian Literature summa cum laude from the University of Zurich, conducting research on a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Before joining Trinity College, he was an international fellow at the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History in Florence.

His main research interests center on art treatises, private writings, and the historiography of the Italian Renaissance, particularly within the Tuscan milieu. He published a monograph on the writings attributed to the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (Baccio Bandinelli e le anatomie degli scartafacci. Il “Libro del disegno”, l’archivio di famiglia e la questione del “Memoriale”, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2023), and co-edited books on Renaissance art treatises (La trattatistica d’arte nell’Italia del Cinquecento. Generi, pratiche, modelli, Rome, Carocci, 2024) and documentary forgeries (“Fucata vetustas”. Prassi e ricezione del falso nella letteratura e nell’arte del Rinascimento italiano, Milan, Franco Angeli, 2023). He also published several articles in the fields of philology, Italian literature, and cultural history.