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David Rosenthal

University of Exeter, Art History and Visual Culture, Post-Doc

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University of Exeter, Art History and Visual Culture, Post-DocUniversity of Edinburgh, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Department Member |

Italian (European History)

I am a historian of early modern Italy, with a focus on social and environmental history. I also make locative public history apps.

Current projects
- Flooding, public works and urban unemployment in grand-ducal Tuscany
- Tavern cultures, public space and social change in early modern Italy

Public history and locative media
- 'Hidden Cities' launched in November 2020 with five city apps - Exeter, Valencia, Trento, Hamburg, Deventer - and an interactive website. Free to download.
https://www.hiddencities.eu
- The 'Hidden Florence' app (#2), 2019. Incorporating Hidden Florence 3D, an AR app that allows users to reconstruct the destroyed church of San Pier Maggiore on site and in the National Gallery in London. Free to download.
http://hiddenflorence.org

See also:
http://earlymoderncommunities.org: 'Early Modern Communities: A Research Review' (2011)
http://tavernsproject.com: 'Taverns, Locals and Street Corners' (2012-13)

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Books

D. Rosenthal and F. Nevola, eds., Hidden Cities: Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming, Routledge 2021)

D. Rosenthal and O. Akopyan, eds., Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions (forthcoming, Routledge, 2021)

Kings of the Street: Power, Community, and Ritual in Renaissance Florence

Brepols, 2015

Papers

'The kings of the potenze and the census of 1610: poverty, charity and the carnivalesque in Florence', 2020. https://decima-map.net/the-kings-of-the-potenze/

https://decima-map.net/the-kings-of-the-potenze/ Web article to accompany the online mapping of F... more

The Tailor’s Song: Notes from the Savonarolan Underground in Grand-Ducal Florence

Studies on Florence and the Italian Renaissance in honour of FW Kent (Brepols, 2016), 2016

‘Locating experience in the Renaissance city using mobile app technologies: The Hidden Florence project’

by David Rosenthal and Fabrizio Nevola

The Hidden Florence smartphone app was an experiment to test the potential of GPS technology deli... more The Hidden Florence smartphone app was an experiment to test the potential of GPS technology delivered through mobile technologies as a means of proposing a new form of kinetic, experiential history. This chapter explores the theoretical underpinnings of the app, how locative media can be brought together with the concerns of social and material history in order to ask questions about space, place, movement and identity. In the app, we investigated sites in the neighbourhoods and in the city centre, constructed around the everyday itineraries of an artisan man in the late fifteenth century. The app adopts Stefano Buonsignori’s 1584 map of Florence as an interface, allowing modern walkers to ‘travel in time’, walking in the streets of the past and confronting the elisions and disjunctures between past and present. Here, we consider the possibilities and issues associated with this kind of application - as a research methodology, a pedagogical tool, and as a means of engaging a wide public in urban historical enquiry.

The Barfly’s Dream: Taverns, Community and Reform in Early Modern Italy

Deborah Toner and Mark Hailwood, eds., Biographies of Drink: A Case Study Approach to our Historical Relationship with Alcohol (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), 14-29

Owning the Corner: The “Powers” of Florence and the Question of Agency

I Tatti Studies, vol. 16, nos. 1/2 (2013)

"Every Sort of Manual Type, and Mostly Foreigners": Migrants, Brothers and Festive Kings in Early Modern Florence

The spaces of plebeian ritual and the boundaries of trangression

D. Rosenthal and F. Nevola, eds., Hidden Cities: Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming, Routledge 2021)

D. Rosenthal and O. Akopyan, eds., Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions (forthcoming, Routledge, 2021)

Kings of the Street: Power, Community, and Ritual in Renaissance Florence

Brepols, 2015

'The kings of the potenze and the census of 1610: poverty, charity and the carnivalesque in Florence', 2020. https://decima-map.net/the-kings-of-the-potenze/

https://decima-map.net/the-kings-of-the-potenze/ Web article to accompany the online mapping of F... more

The Tailor’s Song: Notes from the Savonarolan Underground in Grand-Ducal Florence

Studies on Florence and the Italian Renaissance in honour of FW Kent (Brepols, 2016), 2016

‘Locating experience in the Renaissance city using mobile app technologies: The Hidden Florence project’

by David Rosenthal and Fabrizio Nevola

The Hidden Florence smartphone app was an experiment to test the potential of GPS technology deli... more The Hidden Florence smartphone app was an experiment to test the potential of GPS technology delivered through mobile technologies as a means of proposing a new form of kinetic, experiential history. This chapter explores the theoretical underpinnings of the app, how locative media can be brought together with the concerns of social and material history in order to ask questions about space, place, movement and identity. In the app, we investigated sites in the neighbourhoods and in the city centre, constructed around the everyday itineraries of an artisan man in the late fifteenth century. The app adopts Stefano Buonsignori’s 1584 map of Florence as an interface, allowing modern walkers to ‘travel in time’, walking in the streets of the past and confronting the elisions and disjunctures between past and present. Here, we consider the possibilities and issues associated with this kind of application - as a research methodology, a pedagogical tool, and as a means of engaging a wide public in urban historical enquiry.

The Barfly’s Dream: Taverns, Community and Reform in Early Modern Italy

Deborah Toner and Mark Hailwood, eds., Biographies of Drink: A Case Study Approach to our Historical Relationship with Alcohol (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), 14-29

Owning the Corner: The “Powers” of Florence and the Question of Agency

I Tatti Studies, vol. 16, nos. 1/2 (2013)

"Every Sort of Manual Type, and Mostly Foreigners": Migrants, Brothers and Festive Kings in Early Modern Florence

The spaces of plebeian ritual and the boundaries of trangression

Il carnevale e le politiche di pace sociale nella Firenze del Cinquecento

Big Piero, the Empire of the Meadow and the Parish of Santa Lucia: Claiming Neighbourhood in the Early Modern City

The Genealogy of Empires: Ritual Politics and State Building in Early Modern Florence

Review: Caroline Fletcher, The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici (Oxford: OUP, 2016), H-Net: H-Italy (January, 2018)

Review: Elizabeth Mellyn, Mad Tuscans and their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy (Philadelphia: UoP Press, 2014). In Speculum, 19, 1 (2016): 236-37

Review: Ulinka Rublack and Maria Hayward, eds., The First Book of Fashion: The Books of Clothes of Matthӓus & Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), THE (10/12/2015): 45

Hidden Florence

by Nicholas Terpstra, Sharon Strocchia, David Rosenthal, and Fabrizio Nevola

Hidden Florence is a free smartphone app that introduces visitors to the lived experience of Rena... more Hidden Florence is a free smartphone app that introduces visitors to the lived experience of Renaissance Florence through narrated, geo-located walking itineraries. You don't need to be in Florence to use these guided walks as teaching resources! Come visit us at hiddenflorence.org. The fully updated 2.0 version will be live in late March 2019.