ANN: 3-month “Fondazione di Venezia” residential scholarships at Fondazione Giorgio Cini

PERIOD OF RESIDENCE: APRIL 2019 – APRIL 2020

Application deadline: 10 March 2019

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini has created one 3-month residential scholarship to enable Italian researchers who live abroad and children of Italian who emigrated abroad, to return to Italy for a study period at the Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture. The scholarship is worth 3,100 euros (gross sum) and 3 month accommodation free of charge in the Vittore Branca Center Residence in the period April 2019 – April 2020.

The Olivo and Vilma Andreazza scholarship for Italian researchers abroad and children of Italian emigrants is offered by Fondazione di Venezia.

The scholarship is offered within the interdisciplinary context that characterizes the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, to scholars wishing to further their studies of Italian culture – especially that of the Veneto – in one of the following fields: art history, literature, music, drama, early printed books, Venetian history and comparative cultures and spiritualities.

Candidates shall propose a research topic preferably focused on the archives and documents kept in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.

For a guide to research topics of particular interest to the Fondazione Institutes and Research Centers, please visit the “Centro Branca” section on the web page www.cini.it .

It is possible to plan a preliminary visit to our libraries, in order to examine materials to elaborate a research project; for more information, please contact centrobranca@cini.it.