Nicolò Ferrari, PhD
Nicolò Ferrari is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. As a cultural historian specialised in music and written cultures of late medieval and early modern Europe, Nicolò's research lies at the intersection of historical musicology, manuscript studies, and digital humanities, with a particular interest on polyphonic music between 15th and 17th centuries.
After studying musicology at the University of Pavia in Cremona, Nicolò moved to the UK where they obtained a doctorate with a dissertation on the polyphonic masses of the fifteenth-century composer, Fremin le Caron. Between 2021 and 2023, Nicolò was a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, where they worked on the catalogue raisonnée of the manuscripts of the Fondo Cappella Sistina of the Vatican Library. In 2023, Nicolò held an Initiative Geisteswissenschaften (IGW) fellowship at Universität Zürich, with a project exploring the emerging field of digital codicology, and examining digitization practices for medieval and early modern music sources. In 2024, Nicolò held a research fellowship at KU Leuven, where they worked on music manuscripts at KBR-Royal Library of Belgium.
At IS PAN, Nicolò is principal investigator of the National Science Centre, Poland SONATA project “Music and Crusading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1453-1683”.
Research interests:
- Late medieval and early modern music
- Manuscript Studies, Codicology, Paleography
- Cultural History
- Digital Humanities
Publications
Książki / Books
• with Thomas Schmidt, The Manuscripts of the Fondo Cappella Sistina to c.1650. Catalogue raisonnée, Studi e Testi (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) [forthcoming]
Artykuły / Articles
• with Thomas Schmidt, “Parvus Undercover: Musical Fragments in the Fondo Cappella Sistina”, Early Music [forthcoming]
• “Texting Polyphonic Settings of the Ordinary of the Mass in the Late Fifteenth-Century”, Journal of the Alamire Foundation 15 (2023) no. 2, 221-238.
• “New Findings on the Origin and Making of Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, Ms VI.E.40”, Muzyka 66 (2021) no. 3, 148-184.
Recenzje / Reviews
• “When Musicology Goes Cultural. On A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance”, Muzyka 69 (2024) no. 4, 165-178
• “Musical Sources: 70 Years of RISM”, Early Music 50 (2022) no. 4, 551-553.
• “Contrafacta. Modes of Music Re-Textualization in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century”, eds. Marina Toffetti and Gabriele Taschetti (Kraków: Musica Iagellonica, 2020), Muzyka 66 (2021) no. 1, 185-189.
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
• Narodowe Centrum Nauki (National Science Centre – Poland), SONATA 19 (2024)
• Royal Historical Society, Early Career Research Support Grant (2024)
• Music & Letters Award (2024)
• Universität Zürich, Initiative Geisteswissenschaften, Fellowship-Programm (2023)
• The University of Manchester, Honorary Research Fellowship (2023)
• Royal Historical Society, Associate Fellowship (2023)
• Society for Renaissance Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021, declined)