David GENTILCORE
- Position
- Retired/Resigned Professor
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david.gentilcore@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Modern History [HIST-02/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/david.gentilcore (personal record)
https://www.unive.it/water-cultures
- Office
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Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Office hours
Office hours, unless otherwise noted, are held in my office in Malcanton Marcorà (third floor 3C09) on Tuesdays from 10.30 to 11.30. Please email me beforehand to make an appointment.
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Publication highlights
David Gentilcore The Water Wheels of Lizzafusina: Technological Innovation, Patenting and Practical Necessity in Sixteenth-Century Venice in TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, vol. 66, pp. 107-133 (ISSN 0040-165X)
DOI 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5062462
David Gentilcore Forward: Health, plague and society in early modern Malta in Carmel Cassar, Health, plague and society in early modern Malta, Kite Group, pp. 1-1 (ISBN 9789918231201)
2024,
Prefazione/Postfazione - ARCA card: 10278/5050260
(a cura di) Gaia Bruno, David Gentilcore I disegni e i discorsi di Giovanni Antonio Nigrone «fontanaro e ingegniero de acqua» (1585-1609 ca.). VOLUME SECONDO. Raccolta di saggi a cura di Gaia Bruno e David Gentilcore , Roma, Viella (ISBN 979-12-5469-657-6; 979-12-5469-658-3)
DOI 2024,
Curatorship - ARCA card: 10278/5076481
David Gentilcore;
Egidio Priani Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity during the Long Nineteenth Century , Cham, Springer Nature (ISBN 9783031224959)
2023,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5004603
David Carmine Gentilcore "Cose rare e ammirande del nuovo mondo". Le piante commestibili americane nell’editoria veneziana tra Cinque e Settecento , Venezia, Marsilio (ISBN 9788829789214)
- URL correlato 2023,
Critical edition of texts/Critical edition of excavation - ARCA card: 10278/5042321
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Born Hamilton, Canada, 1961
Academic Positions
1990-1992: Associate Director/Director, Canadian Academic Centre-Centro Accademico Canadese, Rome, Italy
1994: Wellcome Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer, Department of History, as part of Wellcome Trust University Award, University of Leicester
1999: Reader in History, University of Leicester
2007-2020: Professor of Early Modern History, University of Leicester
2020-- : Professore ordinario di storia moderna, Universita' Ca' Foscari
Education
1983: B.A. (Honours), University of Toronto, Double major in History and Italian Studies
1984: M.A. in History, McMaster University, Canada
1985: Independent Study, Università degli studi di Urbino
1990: Ph.D., University of Cambridge (History Faculty. Supervisors Peter Burke and Robert Scribner. Thesis: The system of the sacred in early modern Terra d’Otranto)
Research Scholarships and Fellowships
1984-1985: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy), university scholarship: held at the Università degli Studi di Urbino
1989-1990: Rome Scholar in History, British School at Rome, Italy
1990-1994: Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Cambridge (with leave for 1991-92). Junior Research Fellow (non-stipendiary), Churchill College, Cambridge.
Visiting Professorships
2000: Visiting Fellow, School of Advanced Study, University of London
2001-2002: Hannah Visiting Professor, McMaster University, Canada
2006: Visiting Professor, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy
2017-2018: European Institutes of Advanced Studies (EURIAS) senior fellow, IMéRA - Institut d’études avancées, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Professional Activities
Awards
2008: Royal Society of Canada, ‘Jason A. Hannah’ medal for Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy
2012: ‘Salvatore De Renzi International Prize’ for the history of medicine, by the University of Salerno medical school and the Ordine dei Medici of Salerno, Italy.
Research Grants
2003-2004: Arts and Humanities Research Board, Leave Award (one semester’s study leave: £13,153)
2003-2008: Core member of the programme on ‘Cultures and Practices of Health’, held jointly at the Universities of Warwick and Leicester. Funded by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (total value: £600,000)
2007-2010: PI, Leverhulme Trust three-Year Major Research Fellowship (value: £112,364). For project ‘The reception and assimilation of New World plants in Italy’
2013-2016: PI, Economic and Social Research Council, three-year research grant, for project ‘Rough Skin: Maize, Pellagra and Society in Italy, 1750-1930’ (value £430,000)
2019-- : PI, European Research Council, Advanced Grant. Six years (5+extension). ‘The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900’ (value €2.45 million)
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