Carlo Scapecchi

PhD graduate in History of Art (The University of Edinburgh, 2018-2022) whose primary research interests include Material Culture, Visual Culture, Decorative arts, Charity Institutions, gendered labour, textile history and transnational trade of materials in Early Modern Italy and Europe. The Pasold Research Fund (Edinburgh, 2020) funded the PhD research on tapestry-making in sixteenth-century Florence. Experienced Academic Tutor and Course Organiser at the University of Edinburgh (2019-2023) and The University of Aberdeen, ISC (2022-2023) and Leeds Beckett University ISC (2024-) in Early Modern and Modern History and Medieval, Early Modern, Global History of Art, Philosophy, Academic Skills and Project Skills in Humanities, Business, Finance and Law.

• Convenor of the Edinburgh Early Modern Network (EEMN), a forum of postgraduate students and staff studying Early Modern at the University of Edinburgh

Italian: Native

English: C2

Spanish: B1

French: A2

Czech: A2

• IELTS (7,5 overall; 2018)
• C1 Advanced, Cambridge Institute (2018)
• B2 First, Cambridge Institute (2016)
• Marketing Analytics, University of Virginia, (2018)
• Social Media Marketing, Northwestern University (2018)

List of Publications

Articles:

Carlo Scapecchi, “The Technical Contribution of Women to Weaving Goat Hair in the Spedale degli Innocenti”, Women’s History Today, vol.3, Issue 2, Winter 2021, 40-50

Carlo Scapecchi, “The Importations and Transmissions of Skills in Sixteenth-Century Florence”, Emergence, University of Southampton, vol.XII, 2022, 88-107

Carlo Scapecchi, “The Libro dei Ricordi of the linaiolo Francesco di Agostino da Brucianese (1577-1586): linen-weaving and political events in Late Renaissance Florence”, Journal of Early Modern Studies, Firenze University Press, vol. 13, 2023, forthcoming

Carlo Scapecchi, "A Netherlandish method of recycling wool in sixteenth-century Florence", volume Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max Planck Institute, editors Dr Francesca Borgo and Dr Ruth Ezra, (2024)

Carlo Scapecchi, "The Economy of Filaticcio in sixteenth-century Italy", (forthcoming issue, Fashion Theory) 

Book Reviews:

Carlo Scapecchi, Review of Velvet on My Mind, Velvet on my Loom by Wendy Landry, Journal of Dress History, vol. 5, Issue 5, Late Autumn 2021, 143-146

Work in Progress

-Article on carpet-making in sixteenth-century Tuscany for Renaissance Studies (2024)

-Article on Ulivieri Ventura Vicenti, the art and the devotion in Florentine charity institutions (1550-1600)

-research on Fiammetta Soderini, the wife of Bindo Altoviti, and female entrepreneurship in Renaissance Italy

-research on goldbeating and transcontinental trade of metals in sixteenth-century Italy

Annual Conference (University of Edinburgh), 15 May 2019, “Pierfrancesco Riccio and the Medici Patronage”

Material Culture Seminar Series (University of Edinburgh), 18 November 2019, “Tapestries in Renaissance Florence (1450-1600): Function and Prestige.”

-Northern Early Modern Annual Conference (University of Edinburgh), 27 November 2020, “Disegno and Tapestry-Making in Renaissance Florence.”

Centuries of Dress Workshop (University of Cambridge/Economic History Society), 12 January 2021, “The Exorbitant Wages of Tapestry-Weavers in Renaissance Florence.”

-South Central Renaissance Conference (USA), 27 March 2021, “Tapestry-Making in Renaissance Florence”

-Association for Art History Annual Conference (University of Birmingham), 17 April 2021, “Jan Rost: a Weaver-Merchant in Renaissance Italy”

-Gradnet Conference (University of Southampton), 8 June 2021, “The Incomplete Project of Weaving Goat Hair Tapestries in Renaissance Florence”

-Materials of Early Modern Fashion (Sartorial Society and Pasold Research Fund, UK/Australia), 8 October 2021, “Nova invention di matter in opera il pelo di capra: Weaving Goat Hair in the Spedale degli Innocenti in Florence”

-Euroweb Cost Action Conference (University of Warsaw, Poland), 26 November 2021, “The Mode of Production of Tapestry-Weaving in Renaissance Florence”

-Edinburgh Early Modern Network Seminar Series (University of Edinburgh), 1 December 2021, “How to domesticate Tapestry-Weaving in Renaissance Italy”

-Northern Early Modern Annual Conference (University of Newcastle), 18 January 2022, “Domesticating textile techniques in Ducal Florence.”

-Visual and Material Culture Seminar Series (European Institute University, Florence), 12 April 2022, “Weaving Eastern Mediterranean Carpets in Late Sixteenth-Century Florence”

-Dress Historians Conference, (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh), 28 May 2022, “Precious Glimpses: Goldbeating in Renaissance Florence and American connections.”

Renaissance Society of America Conference, November 2022, “Linen in Renaissance Florence (1450-1600)”

Waste in Early Modern Europe, Conference (Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max Planck Institute, Rome), 15-17 March 2023, “Recycling Wool-Shearings in sixteenth-century Florence”

EMSE, Kellogg College, The University of Oxford, 8-9 June 2023, "Re-creating Sensorial Experiences in Weaving Carpets in Late Renaissance Florence"