Francesca Fantappiè (University of Milan – Italy)
Francesca Fantappiè is a historian of Theatre and the Performing Arts, currently a researcher at the University of Milan. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to theatre and music, her scholarship includes work on performers, theatre architecture, stage machinery and designs, as well as the editing of theatrical texts. She curated the exhibition “Florence and the Birth of Opera: Documents and Virtual Reconstructions” (Casa Buonarroti, 2019). In 2021-2023, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Renaissance (CESR) of the University of Tours and in 2019-2020 at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies). She is co-author (with Tim Carter) of the book “Staging ‘Euridice’ (1600): Theatre, Sets and Music in Late Renaissance Florence”, Cambridge University Press, 2021.