Katalin PRAJDA

 

Katalin Prajda has obtained Italian National Scientific Habilitation (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) in Medieval History (11/A1) and in Economic History (13/C1). Her research focuses on the history of migration and cultural exchange between the 11th and 16th centuries, with a specific emphasis on the mobility of Italians in Central-Eastern Europe and the settlement of ethnic-linguistic groups from that region in Italy.

Her monographs include Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence (2018) and Italy and Hungary in the Early Renaissance (2023), works that have redefined the historical ties between these two macro-regions. She is currently preparing her third monograph, which centers on the dominion of the Upper Adriatic in the 14th and 15th centuries through the lens of the migration of various trading nations.

Alongside her migration research, she maintains an active scientific profile in the fields of material and visual culture and art history, specifically regarding the circulation of objects, ideas, and artistic forms. Her work also analyzes the economic and social history of artistic production—particularly gold- and silversmithing—with contributions appearing in prestigious journals such as the Metropolitan Museum Journal, I Tatti Studies, and Acta Historiae Artium. In the field of Digital Humanities, her focus is on Social Network Analysis, with articles published in Poetics and Historische Zeitschrift.

Her academic background is international. She graduated in History (2003) from the University of Miskolc, Hungary, with a specialization in museum studies (her thesis received a national award in art history), and continued her studies in Art History at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (2002–2006). She earned her Master’s degree (2007) and PhD (2011) at the European University Institute in Fiesole; her doctoral thesis was honored with the Péter Sahin-Tóth Prize by Eötvös Loránd University.

She has taught Italian Medieval History at the University of Vienna and has conducted research funded by prestigious institutions, including The Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, and the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study. Since her doctoral studies, she has collaborated on cutting-edge international Digital Humanities projects based at the University of Chicago and at the University of Vienna.

In addition to her academic work, she is consistently committed to public outreach ("Third Mission") through historical lectures, popular science articles, and the organization of exhibitions.

 

Qualifications

Italian Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor in Economic History                               Apr 2021 – Apr 2030

Italian Scientific Habilitation asAssociate Professor in Medieval Studies                                 Mar 2021 – Mar 2030

Basic Qualification for Teaching in Higher Education                                                             Feb 2022–

Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Vienna              

 

Education

European University Institute                                                  Sep 2006 – Sep 2011

Department of History and Civilization, Ph.D. in History and Civilization             

European University Institute                                                   Sep 2006 – Sep 2007

Department of History and Civilization, MRes. in History and Civilization                

Loránd Eötvös University                                                           Sep 2002 – Jun 2006

Department of Art History, four years completed in Art History                    

University of Miskolc                                                                            Sep 2000 – Jun 2003

Department of Museum Studies, Minor (today MA) in Museum Studies           

University of Miskolc                                                                                  Sep 1998 – Jun 2003

Department of History, five-year degree in History     

                                           

Academic Positions

            University of Vienna                                                                     Nov 2021 – Oct 2025

              Department of History, Post-Doctoral Researcher                                                              Austria

           Harvard University                                                                      Jul 2019 – Jun 2020

 I Tatti, Ahmanson Fellow                                                                                                                    USA

University of Chicago                                                                  Jul 2014 – Mar 2018

Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Research Fellow                                      USA

            Hungarian Academy of Sciences                                              Feb 2016 – Jan 2017

               Department of Medieval Studies, Principal Investigator                                              Hungary

               University of Chicago                                                                Apr 2015 – Mar 2016

               Department of Political Science, Post-Doctoral Researcher                                                USA

               Hungarian Academy of Sciences                                              Sep 2013 – Aug 2015

               Department of Modern History, Post-Doctoral Fellow                                                 Hungary

               Central European University                                                       Oct 2013 – Dec 2013

        Institute for Advanced Study, Junior Fellow                                                              Hungary

               Hungarian Academy of Sciences                                                Sep 2012 – Aug 2013

            Department of Modern History, Contract Researcher                                             Hungary

               New Europe College                                                                      Oct 2011 – Jul 2012

               Institute for Advanced Study, Research Fellow                                                              Romania

               University of Trento                                                                       Jan 2009 – Dec 2009

               Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science                                     Italy

Contract Researcher

Santa Fe Institute                                                                             Sep 2007 – Aug 2008

Contract Researcher                                                                                                                    USA

 

Visiting Fellowships

       Centro Vittore Branca                                                                       May 2022, Oct 2022

        The International Centre for the Study of Renaissance Culture                                    Italy

         Scholar in Residence

       Hungarian Academy in Rome                                                      Feb 2016 – Jan 2017

         Scholar in Residence                                                                                                                     Italy

 

       Princeton University                                                                                  March, 2014

        Institute for Advanced Study, Visiting Scholar                                                                 USA

             Centro Vittore Branca                                                                               2012, 2014

        The International Centre for the Study of Renaissance Culture                                Italy

         Scholar in Residence

Central European University                                                       Oct 2012 – Jun 2013

        Institute for Advanced Study, Affiliated Fellow                                                              Hungary

              European University Institute                                                  Mar 2005 – May 2005

              Department of History and Civilization, Visiting Student                                                                          Italy   

              European University Institute                                                   Mar 2004 – May 2004

              Department of History and Civilization, Visiting Student                                                                          Italy

 

Awards and Honors

University of Vienna                                                                                           Sep 2023

Publication Subsidy for the Monograph: Italy and Hungary                                             Austria

Hungarian Academy of Sciences                                                                      Sep 2017

Publication Award for the Monograph: Network and Migration                                  Hungary

Loránd Eötvös University                                                                                   Oct 2013

Péter Sahin-Tóth Award for her doctoral thesis                                                                     Hungary

The Renaissance Society of America                                                                Mar 2013

Nominee for Kress Travel Award                                                                                                         USA

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo                       May 2011

Congress Travel Award                                                                                                                            USA

Hungarian National Students’ Research Conference (OTDK)                  Apr 2003

2nd-place for her paper/Museum studies thesis  in Art History                                       Hungary

 

Funding & Individual Research Grants 

Harvard University                                                                           Jul 2019 – Jun 2020

Project Title: Cultural Exchange in Early Renaissance Italy.                                               USA

Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund (NKFIH)          Feb 2016 – Jan 2017

PI Project Title: Italy and Hungary in the Renaissance, no. PD 117033.                Hungary

Hungarian Academy of Sciences                                                      Sep 2013 – Aug 2015

Project Title: Diplomacy between Italy and Hungary                                                   Hungary

            Central European University                                                         Oct 2013 – Dec 2013

Project Title: Florentine Social Networks in the Kingdom of Hungary                  Hungary

Giorgio Cini Foundation                                                                               2012 – 2014

Project Title: Il ruolo di mediazione di Venezia nella diplomazia e                                 Italy

 nel commercio a grande distanza tra Firenze e l’Ungheria – co-financing

New Europe College                                                                           Oct 2011 – Jul 2012

Florentines in Transylvania                                                                                                        Romania

European University Institute                                                                            Jan 2009

Research Grant for visiting the Hungarian Academy of Sciences                                             Italy

European University Institute                                                       Jan 2008 – Mar 2008

Research Grant for visiting the Newberry Library, Chicago                                                        Italy

European University Institute                                                       Sep 2006 – Aug 2010

Doctoral Grant of the Department of History and Civilization                                                  Italy

Hungarian National Scholarship Board Office (MÖB)            Mar 2003-May 2003

Project Title: Italy and Hungary in the Fifteenth Century                                                   Hungary

Research Grant for Undergraduate Research in the Florentine National Archives

                                                                                                      

Scientific Collaborations

RELEVEN, Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century                               Nov 2021 – Oct 2025

PI: Tara L. Andrews, University of Vienna

The Changing Social and Rhetorical Foundations                       Apr 2015 – Mar 2018

of Florentine Republicanism

PIs: Niall Atkinson, John F. Padgett, University of Chicago

Co-evolution of Economic, Political, and Kinship                       Jan 2009 – Dec 2009

Networks in Renaissance Florence

PI: John F. Padgett, University of Chicago

State and National Representation in Modern Hungary           Sep 2012 – Aug 2015

PI: Géza Pálffy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Co-evolution of State and Market in Renaissance Florence

PI: John F. Padgett, University of Chicago                              Sep 2007 – Aug 2008

 

 

Research Monographs

1. Italy and Hungary in the Early Renaissance. Cultural Exchanges and Social Networks, Viella, 2023.

Reviewed by Christopher Carlsmith, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 78, Number 3, Fall 2025, 910-911.

Matteo Sanfilippo, Studi Emigrazione: International Journal of Migration Studies, 2025, Vol. 238, 351–352.

Tomislav Matic, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vol. 133, 2025, No. 1.

2. Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence. Friends of Friends in the Kingdom of Hungary (1378-1433), Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Reviewed by Tovah Bender, Renaissance Quarterly, 2020, Vol.73 (2), 660 – 661.

           Ante Bećir, Povijesni prilozi, 2020 (58), 153 – 154.

           Dorottya Kriston, Sic itur ad astra, 2020, Vol. 69, 209 – 2011.

           Mark Whelan, Urban History , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , August 2019 , 556 – 558.

           Brian G. H. Ditcham, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2019, Vol.50 (4), 1193 – 1195.

 

Peer-reviewed Scientific Articles and Book Chapters in English

1. Banking between Florence, Venice, Buda and Dalmatia in the Fourteenth Century, Acta Histriae, 2025, 33/3, 375-404.

 

2. Eastern Slaves and their Masters in the early Renaissance Adriatic – Nuova Rivista Storica, 2024, 937 – 966.

 

3. Re-Evaluating the Eleventh Century through Linked Events and Entities, with Tara L. Andrews, Aleksandar Anđelović, Lewis Read, Márton Rózsa, Historical Studies on Central Europe, 2024, 4, 1, 217–245.

 

4. Subjects of the Kingdom of Hungary, Croatia, and Slavonia as Mercenaries in Fourteenth-Century Italy Social and Cultural Dimensions, Annali dell’Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico, 2023, 25 – 48.

 

5. Italy and Hungary in the Early Renaissance, in: S. Sutherland, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World, 2022, encyclopedia entry, Routledge

 

6. Conflict and Revolt in the Name of Unity. Florentine Factions in the Consulte e Pratiche on the Cusp of the Ciompi Revolt, with John F. Padgett, Benjamin Rohr, Jonathan Schoots, Poetics, 2020.

 

7. Political Discussion and Debate in Narrative Time. The Florentine Consulte e Pratiche, 1376-1378, with John F. Padgett, Benjamin Rohr, Jonathan Schoots, Poetics, 2020.

 

8. of the Florentine Republic at the Royal Court in the Kingdom of Hungary, in: W. Caferro, ed.The Routledge History of the Renaissance, Routledge, 2017,373– 385.

 

9. Florentines’ Trade in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries. Trade Routes, Networks and Commodities, Hungarian Historical Review, 2017, 6, 1, 36 – 58.

 

10. Manetto di Jacopo Amannatini, The Fat Woodcarver. Architecture and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, Acta Historiae Artium, 2016, Vol. 57, 5 – 22.

 

11. Goldsmiths, Goldbeaters and other Gold Workers in Early Renaissance Florence 1378–1433, Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, eds. Eva Jullien, Michel Pauly, Vol. 235, 195 – 220.

 

12. Trade and Diplomacy in pre-Medici Florence. The Case of the Kingdom of Hungary (1349-1434), in: A. Bárány, L. Pósán, eds., Causa unionis, causa fidei, causa reformationis in capite et membris, University of Debrecen Press, 2016, 85 – 106.

 

13. Justice in the Florentine Trading Community of Late Medieval Buda, Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen-Age, 2015, Vol. 127, 2.

 

14. The biographies of Pippo Scolari, called Lo Spano, in: I. Vainovski-Mihai, ed., New Europe College Yearbook 2011-2012, Bucharest, 2014, 363 – 384.

 

15. The Coat of Arms in Fra Filippo Lippi’s Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, Metropolitan Museum Journal, 2013, Vol. 48, 73 – 80.

 

16. Florentine merchant companies established in Buda at the beginning of the 15th century, Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen-Age, 2013, Vol. 125, 2.

 

17. Unions of Interest. Florentine Marriage Ties and Business Networks in the Kingdom of Hungary during the Reign of Sigismund of Luxemburg, in: J. Murray, ed., Marriage in Premodern Europe. Italy and Beyond, CRRS, University of Toronto Press, 2012, 147 – 166.

 

18. Manetto di Jacopo Ammanatini, the Florentine Woodcarver-architect and Pippo Scolari’s Castle in Ozora, in: M. Ciglenečki, P. Vidmar, eds., Art and Architecture around 1400. Global and Regional Perspectives, University of Maribor, 2012, 75 – 79.

 

19. The Florentine Scolari Family at the Court of Sigismund of Luxemburg in Buda, Journal of Early Modern History, 2010, 14, 513 – 533.

 

Peer-reviewed Scientific Articles and Book Chapters in Italian

20. Un regno delle lettere. Carteggi mercantili tra Est e Ovest in: Lettere, comunità di idee e scambi culturali tra il Tardo Medioevo e il Rinascimento / Letters, Communities of Ideas and Cultural Exchanges between the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, eds. Simona Iaria, Erminia Ardissino, Brepols, expected 2026 (in press).

21. La diplomazia fiorentina e il finanziamento della guerra anti-ottomana da Sigismondo di Lussemburgo a Mattia Corvino, in: Raúl González Arévalo, ed., Diplomatie croisée (14e-début 16e siècle), Presses universitaires du Midi, 2025, 51 – 78.

 

22. Mercanti come tramite degli scambi culturali nella Firenze del primo Rinascimento. Il caso del Regno d’Ungheria, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 2022, Vol. 25, 1 – 30.

 

23. Commercio e diplomazia tra Firenze, Padova e il Regno d’Ungheria dalla conquista di Zara (1357) alla conquista di Napoli (1381), in: G. Baldissin Molli, F. Benucci, M. T. Dolso, Á. Máté, eds., Luigi il Grande Rex Hungariae. Guerre, arti e mobilità tra Padova, Buda e l’Europa al tempo dei Carraresi, 2022, Viella, 79 – 94.

 

24. Reti mercantili a servizio della migrazione del primo Rinascimento. L’insediamento dei sudditi della corona ungherese nella Firenze del Quattrocento, in: A. Fara, B. Ligorio, eds., Penisola italiana ed Europa centro- orientale tra tardo Medioevo e prima Età moderna. Economia, Società, Cultura, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, Online-Schriften, Neue         Reihe, 2021, Vol. 7, 55 – 64.

 

Peer-reviewed Scientific Articles and Book Chapters in German

25. Soziale Netzwerke in Mittelalter- und Renaissanceforschung. Dreißig Jahre nach Robust Action, Historische Zeitschrift, 2025, Vol. 320, 648–678.

 
Peer-reviewed Scientific Articles and Book Chapters in Hungarian

26. A firenzei kereskedőtársaságok működése a 14–15. századi Magyar Királyságban. Források és kérdések, in: Gy. Kövér, Á. Pogány, B. Weisz, eds., Magyar Gazdaságtörténeti Évkönyv. 2019. Uradalom- Vállalat, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2019, 45 – 60.

 

27. A Magyar Királyság és a Firenzei Köztásaság diplomáciai kapcsolatai a Zsigmond- korban, in: A. Bárány, L. Pósán, Causa unioni, causa fidei, causa reformationis in capite et membris, Tanulmányok a kosntanzi zsinat 600.évfordulója alkalmából, University of Debrecen Press, 2014, 161 – 175.

 

28. “Olyan vallásosan, szokásaiban és életmódjában olyan mértéktartóan élt”. Adalékok Filippo Scolari és családja vallásosságához, with Tamás Fedeles, Történelmi Szemle, 2014, Vol. 56, 3, 357 – 382.

 

29. A Scolari család és néhány jelentős firenzei textil- és ötvösműhely kapcsolata a Zsigmond-korban, Obeliscus, 2014, 1, 45 – 56.

 

30. Ozorai Pipó: cittadino fiorentino- baro Regni Hungariae. Egy ismert életút kihagyott részletei, Aetas, 2014, Vol. 29, 1, 74 – 83.

 

31. Andrea Scolari váradi püspök (1409-1426) és firenzeiek a Zsigmond-kori Erdélyben, in: Zs. Kovács, J. Orbán, eds., Táguló horizont. Tanulmányok a fiatal művészettörténészek marosvásárhelyi konferenciájának előadásaiból. Museul Județean Mureș, 2013, 21– 32.

 

32. Egy firenzei követjárás útinaplója. (1427), Lymbus. Magyarságtudományi Forrásközlemények, Hungarian National Archives, Budapest, 2012, 7–16.

 

33. Egy firenzei szomszédság a Zsigmond kori Magyar Királyságban, in: I. H. Németh, E. Szívós, Á. Tóth, eds., A város és társadalma. Tanulmányok Bácskai Vera tiszteletére, Hungarian Historical Society, Budapest, 2011, 225– 233.

 

34. Egy firenzei sírköve a középkori Budán. Bene di Jacopo del Bene szerencsétlenül végződött követjárása, in: Á. Tóth, ed., És az oszlopok tetején liliomok formáltattak vala. Tanulmányok Bibó István tiszteletére, CentrArt, Budapest, 29 – 35.

 

35. Manetto di Jacopo Ammanatini, Ozorai Pipó építésze és a firenzei asztalosság, in: Gy. Domokos, Gy. Kovács, M. Mordovin, Gy. Terei, eds., Várak nyomában. Tanulmányok a 60 éves Feld István tiszteletére, Castrum Bene, National Association of Castles, Budapest, 2011, 201 – 206.

 

36. Levelező üzletemberek. Firenzeiek a Zsigmond korban, Századok, 2010, vol. 144, 2, 301– 334.

 

37. Hölgy a képen. Fra Filippo Lippi Kettős portréja és a firenzei Scolari család, in: Anna Tüskés, ed., Ars Perennis, CentrArt, Budapest, 2010, 57 – 62.

 

38. A Scolari család várai Ozorai Pipó idején. Palagio di Tizzano és Castello di Vicchiomaggio. Kutatási beszámoló, Castrum. National Association of Castles, 2006, 1. 47 – 58.

 

Book Reviews in English, German, Hungarian

 

39. John M. Najemy, Machiavelli’s Broken World. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2022. XI, 496 S., ISBN 978-0-19-958092-7, Historische Zeitschrift, 316/3, 2023, 736–737.

 

40. Krisztina Arany, Florentine Families in Hungary in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century. A Prosopographic Study of Their Economic and Social Strategies, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2021, 70, 2, 270–271.

 

41. Omnis creatura significans. Tanulmányok Prokopp Mária 70. születésnapjára, ed. Anna Tüskés, CentrArt Egyesület, Budapest, 2009, BUKSZ- Budapesti Könyvszemle, 2009, 21, 4, 277–280.

 

Other Scientific Publications

 

42. Il consolidamento delle reti fiorentine e le dinamiche del dominio ungherese sulla Dalmazia (1357-1420), SISMED, Società italiana per la storia medievale (2023) II Convegno della medievistica italiana. Matera, 13-16 giugno 2022, 368–371.

 

Invited Lectures

1. University of Milan “La Statale”                                                                            13 May 2026
Title: I protagonisti del commercio dei metalli preziosi attorno alla Guerra di Chioggia Seminar Series of the Doctoral School, Storia Medievale: Metodi e Ricerche

2. German Historical Insitute, Rome (DHI)                                                          31 Mar 2026
Title: Gilded Entanglements. Adriatic Networks of the Precious Metal Industries
Online Seminar Series    

3. Medici Archives Project Forum                                                                                30 Jan 2024
Title: Migration Patterns in Early Modern Italy
Roundtable with Rosa M. Salzberg and Erith Jaffe-Berg MAP FORUM – Online Lectures for Friends of the Medici Archive Project – The Medici Archive Project

4. ePublic of Letters. Seminar series                                                                             21 Feb 2024
Title: Italy and Hungary in the Early Renaissance
Shop talk, Italy and Hungary in the Early Renaissance - Katalin Prajda - February 21, 2024

5. Masaryk University                                                                                                                2022
Title: Florentine Political Debates, 1349-1492. A Social and Semantic Analysis
Shop talk

6. University of Vienna                                                                                                             2022
Title: Making Sense of Florentine Identity: Nicknames in Early Renaissance Florence
Institute of Art History, Urban Sensiorum, Cooperative Research Project between the University of Vienna and the University of Chicago, Gabriel Byng, Niall Atkinson
Public lecture

7. University of Vienna                                                                                                              2022
Title: The Upper Adriatic in the Middle Ages: Cultural Exchanges and their Networks in the Borderlands
Geschichte am Mittwoch, Public lecture

8. Central European University                                                                                              2021
Title: Cultural Innovations and their Exchanges between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Italian States in the Early Renaissance
Hearings for Assistant Professorship in medieval studies, Public lecture

9. Villa I Tatti        Sep 2019
Title: Cultural Exchange in Early Renaissance Italy. The Italian States and the Kingdom of Hungary from Louis I of Anjou through Matthias Corvinus. (1342-1490)
Fellows’ Presentations, Public lecture

10. Hungarian Academy in Rome       22 May 2018
Title: Le comunità fiorentine a Roma e Venezia (1375-1433)
Circolo Medievistico Romano, public lecture

11. École Française de Rome                                                                                               29 Jun 2015
Title: Florentine Trade Networks from Arezzo through Venice to the Kingdom of Hungary
VIII seminario di sudi dottorali, lecture as invited guest

12. European University                                                                                        5 Dec 2013
Title: Friends of Friends. Early Renaissance Florence and Beyond
Department of   History, end-of-term lecture

13. Central European University                                                                                           27 Nov 2013
Title: Renaissance Florence: Playground of Hedgehogs and Foxes
Fellows’ Presentations, Institute for Advanced  Study, public lecture

14. Central European University                                                                                             6 Mar 2013
             Title: Renaissance Florence. An Extended Social Network in Globalized Trade
Fellows’ Presentations, Institute for Advanced  Study, public lecture

15. New Europe  College                                                                                                                Mar 2012
            Title: Florentines in Transylvania in the first part of the Fifteenth Century
            Fellows’ Presentations, public lecture

Talks at International Conferences

16. The Renaissance Society of America, Dublin                                                 30 Mar–2 Apr 2022
Title: Florentine networks between the port city of Pesaro and the Kingdom of Hungary, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

17. SISMED, Matera                                                                                                        13–16 Jun 2022
Title: Il consolidamento delle reti fiorentine e le dinamiche del dominio ungherese sulla Dalmazia (1357-1409)
International Medieval Congress, Leeds                                                           4–7 Jul 2022
Title: Re-evaluating medieval Trieste, cultural exchanges in the Borderlands

18. The European Association of Urban History, Rome                                     29 Aug– 1 Sep 2018
        Title: Italians and the Latin consulate in Buda during the Reign of Sigismund of 
        Luxembourg 

19. MECERN, Zagreb                                                                                                       12–14 Apr 2018
        Title: Friends of Friends. Florentine Networks and Migration in the Kingdom of Hungary 
        (1387-1437)

20. The Renaissance Society of America, Chicago                                             30 Mar–1 Apr 2017
        Title: Language of diplomacy and Coluccio Salutati’s role in recording political 
        debates of the Consulte e Pratiche 

21. The Renaissance Society of America, Berlin                                                  26–28 Mar 2015
Title: The Albizzi regime reflected by the records of Consulte e Pratiche

22. The European Social Science History Conference, Vienna                       23-26 Apr 2014
       Title: Florentine metal and textile trade in Buda and Venice. A Commercial Triangle in   
        15th-century Europe

23. The Renaissance Society of America, NYC                                                        27–29 Mar 2014
Title: The 1427 and 1433 Florentine catasti as Sources for Economic History

24. International Postgraduate Conference                                                          19–21 Feb 2014
on Central and Eastern Europe, London
Title: Commercial relations between Buda and Venice in the Late Middle Ages

25. International Postgraduate Conference                                                         27–29 May 2013
on Central and Eastern Europe, Cluj-Napocaù

Title: Justice, Organization and Representation in the Florentine Trading Community of Late Medieval Buda

26. The European Association of Urban History, Prague                                 28 Aug–1 Sep 2012
Title: Commercial routes between the Florentine Republic and the Kingdom of Hungary in the 15th century

27. The Renaissance Society of America, Washington                                         22–24 Mar 2012
Title: Florentine Tombstones in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary

28. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo                           12–15 May 2011
Title: Cittadini fiorentini - nobiles Regni Hungariae. Florentine merchants’ identity in the medieval Hungarian Kingdom

29. The Renaissance Society of America, Montréal                                                24–26 Mar 2011
        Title: Fra Filippo Lippi’s Double Portrait and merchants’ self-representation in 15th 
        century Florence

30. International Medieval Congress, Leeds                                                               12–15 Jul 2010
      Title: Commuters or immigrants? Florentines in the court of Sigismund of Luxemburg 
       (1387-1437) in Buda

31. The Renaissance Society of America, Venice                                                    8–10 Apr 2010
Title: Florentines as agents of the Renaissance in the Hungarian Kingdom during the Reign of Sigismund of Luxemburg

32. European Social Science History               Conference, Ghent                                   13–16 Apr 2010
        Title: Acting as one: Common action, collectivity and property strategies in the case of a  
        double-rooted Florentine kinship network

33. Congresso AISU, Milan                                                                                                     19–21 Feb 2009
        Title: Vicinanza e reti matrimoniali a Firenze (1351-1427)

34. The Renaissance Society of America, Chicago                                                  3–5 Apr 2008
       Title: The Scolari family. A Florentine consorteria at the Court of Sigismund

Talks at Invited Conferences

35. University of Vienna      3–5 Sept 2025
Title: Identities in Eleventh Century Venice     Austria
Re-Evaluating the Eleventh Century

36. University of Turin                                                                                                         22–25 Jan 2025
             Title: Notizie dall’Ungheria. Lettere dei mercanti fiorentini del Quattrocento              Italy
Letters, Communities of Ideas and Cultural Exchanges from the late Middle Ages to the     Renaissance

37. University of Florence                                                                                                      3 Dec 2024
              Title: Il mito del Rinascimento fiorentino in Ungheria. Nuove prospettive di ricerca
              Italia e Ungheria: itinerari nel patrimonio culturale europeo, 2004-2024

38. University of Maribor                                                                                                 27–29 Nov 2024
        Title: Florentines in the Upper Adriatic around 1400                                                 Slovenia
        Facing Foreigners in Urban Early Modern Europe

39. Italian - German Historical Institute, Trent                                                15–17 Apr 2024
Title: Material exchanges and migration in early Renaissance                                 Italy
 Italy: The testimony of a Florentine Family Memoir
Objects and Spaces of Encounter in Renaissance Italy

40. University of Vienna                                                                                                 22 Jun 2023
Title: Social Networks in Early Renaissance Adriatic, 1358-1420                     Austria

41. Social Networks in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Thirty Years after Robust Action
University of Vienna                                                                                                   1 Jul 2022
Title: Political Communication and Chancellery Practice in Early Renaissance Florence

42. Communication in politics and knowledge: letters - languages - scripts and cyphers
Italian - German Historical Institute, Trent                                                        23–24 Jun 2022
Title: Hungarian Mercenaries and Cultural Exchanges on Italian Battlefields               Italy

43. Crossroads in Early Modern Italy: Encounters between Foreign Travelers and Local Inhabitants

44. University of Padua                                                                                                  30 Nov–1 Dec 2021
Title: Emigrazione e alleanza matrimoniale nella Firenze del primo Rinascimento

 Parentela, alleanze e spazio urbano in Italia ed Europa (secoli XII-XVI)

45. University of Padua                                                                                                    21–24 Sep 2021
Title: Reti diplomatiche e mercantili tra Firenze, Padova e il Regno d’Ungheria dalla Guerra degli Otto Santi (1375-1378) fino alla conquista di Napoli (1381) Luigi il Grade Rex Hungariae

46. Charles University, Prague                                                                                    15–16 Oct 2020
Title: Florentines’ Involvement in Bullion Trade in the Kingdom of Hungary in the      Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Bullion Trade in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

47. University of Lausanne                                                                                             19–20 Oct 2017
 Title: Finanze e attività imprenditoriale nelle industrie pittoriche, 
orafe e di carpenteria nella Firenze del primo Rinascimento
Art et économie, en France et en Italie

48. University of Vienna                                                                                                 15–16 Nov 2017
               Title: Hungarians in Florence and Florentines in Hungary, in the Fifteenth Century
                Migration and the City. Medieval Patterns of Rural-Urban Migration

49. Romanian Cultural Institute, Venice                                                                          2016
Title: Venezia come snodo commercial tra Buda e Firenze
Venezia e l’Europa Orientale

50. University of Oxford                                                                                                           2014
Title: Florentine Ambassadorial Networks in the Kingdom of Hungary between the mid- 14th and early 16th Centuries
Diplomacy and Culture in the Early Modern World, TORCH

51. European University Institute                                                                                            2014
Title: Florentine merchant companies in the Republic of Venice 
and in the Kingdom of Hungary during the first decades of 
the 15th century. A comparative analysis of commercial and social relations
Foreigners in the heart of medieval and early modern Europe

52. University of Debrecen                                                                                                         2014
Title: A Magyar Királyság firenze és velencei kapcsolatai a Zsigmond-korban
Causa      unionis, causa fidei, causa reformationis in capite et membris

53. Hungarian Academy of Sciences                                                                                        2013
Title: Követjárások a Magyar Királyság és a Firenzei Köztársaság között Nagy Lajos és Luxemburgi Zsigmond uralkodása idején
Forum of Young Researchers

54. Charles University, Prague                                                                                                   2013
Title: A neglected source of economic history: Company records of
 the 1427 and 1433 Florentine censuses
Financial Aspects of Medieval Economy

55. Centrartos Fiatal Művészettörténészek Konferenciája, Hódmezővásárhely     2013
Title: Firenzei kereskedőtársaságok a Zsigmondkori Budán. A selyemkereskedelem

56. Castrum Bene, National Association of Castles, Visegrád                                       2012
           Title: Manetto Ammanatini és az ozorai vár
           Annual conference of the Castrum Bene, National Castellological Association

57. Congres de Genealogie şi Heraldică, Iași                                                                        2012
Title: Istoria și genealogia familiei Scolari din Florența la
 începutul secolului al XV-lea în Transilvania

58. Giornata di studi, Venturina                                                                                                2012
Title: Migrazione umana tra l’Ungheria e la città di Firenze nei secoli XIV-XV

59. Fiatal művészettörténészek III. konferenciája, Târgu Mureș                                   2011
Title: Andrea di Filippo Scolari váradi püspök sírköve a firenzei és a magyarországi sírkövek kontextusában
 

60. Lorand Eötvös University                                                                                                      2010
Title: Firenzei mesterek a Scolari család szolgálatában és lehetséges kapcsolataik a Zsigmond kori Magyar Királyság tárgyi emlékeivelDisputatio de Quodlibet. Konferencia Marosi Ernő tiszteletére

61. Hajnal István Kör Társadalomtörténeti Egyesület Konferenciája, Kőszeg          2010
            Title: Egy firenzei szomszédság a Zsigmond-kori Magyar Királyságban

62. University of Maribor                                                                                                      2011
Title: Central European visual heritage and Florentine masters in the Hungarian        Kingdom during the reign of Sigismund of Luxemburg- poster
Art and Architecture around 1400. Global and Regional Perspectives. International colloquium under the auspices of CIHA 

63. University of Oradea                                                                                                       2009
Title: Florence: a multicultural city as destination for Romanians
Post-Communism and the New European Identity

64. Fiatal Művészettörténészek II. Konferenciája, Budapest                                 2009
              Title: Fra Filippo Lippi kettős portréja mint komplex művészettörténeti probléma

65. University of Toronto                                                                                                      2009
Title: Unions of Interest; Marriage and Economic 
Strategies among Florentine Merchants in Medieval Hungary
To Have and To Hold: Marriage in Pre-modern Europe: 1200-1700,

66. University of Pécs                                                                                                             2009
Title: Kultúraközvetítő firenzeiek: Andrea Scolari, Giovanni Buondelmonte és Giovanni Melanesi
Egyház és műveltség a régi Magyarországon

67. European University Institute, Florence                                                                2007
              Title: Florentines in Hungary during the Reign of Sigismund
               June Paper Presentations

68. European University Institute, Florence                                                                2006
              Title: Relationships between Florence and Hungary during the Reign of King Sigismund
              Presentation of first-year researchers

69. Castrum Bene, National Association of Castles, Miskolc                                 2004
             Title: 15. századi várak Firenzében és Magyarországon

70. University of Veszprém                                                                                                 2003
            Title: Az ozorai várkastély és szabályosság a várépítészetben
             National Students’ Research Conference

 

University Service

Erasmus Mundus Academic Coordinator                                        Jan 2023 – Oct 2025

            Department of History, University of Vienna

            Coordinator for partner institutes located in 

 

Languages

English Cambridge Proficiency Exam, 2021

Italian CELI C2 „A”, 2019

German ÖSD C1, 2019

Romanian Rolang School, Bucharest, B2, 2012

French Institut Français Centre Saint-Louis, Rome, A2, 2018

Latin, Vernacular Italian Reading skills

Hungarian mother tongue