Biography
Camilla Marangoni is a PhD candidate of the national program in Heritage Science coordinated by Sapienza University of Rome. Her research project, supervised by Prof. Alessandra Panzanelli and Prof. Maria Alessandra Bilotta, concerns the hand-decorated incunabula kept in the historic libraries of the city of Turin. She aims to investigate the evolution of illumination during the transition from the manuscript to the early-printed book, with a particular focus on evidence pertaining to the duchy of Savoy.
Camilla has an academic background rooted in Art History, specifically in the History of Illumination; she obtained both her BA and her MA at Milan’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. After specializing in the decoration of manuscripts, she became increasingly fascinated with incunabula, which led her to earn a CERL Internship and Placement Grant in 2020 and become a MEI editor. As such, she worked on the Polonsky project ‘Dante 1481’ the following year.
She is also interested in juridical iconography and is a member of the research group ‘Ius Illuminatum’. While at the Huygens Institute, she will analyse images found in the illuminated manuscripts of Canon and Roman Law and evaluate the possibility of describing them with the classification system ‘ICONCLASS’.