Visiting Scholar: Filip Malesevic

Dr Filip Malesevic is currently Professor of Modern European History at Bilkent University in Ankara (Turkey). His research focuses on the cultural history of the Roman Curia, Rome and the papacy between the 14th and 17th centuries.

His most recent publication is a monographic study on Cardinal Cesare Baronio’s influence on the design of the Basilica of St John Lateran in the late 16th century, published by De Gruyter (Rome Unveiled). He is also continuing to edit a critical edition of the letters and unpublished works of the scholar-cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto (1514–1585) for the same publisher (Monumenta Sirletana Romanae Curiae).
In the second half of this year, the second volume of a trilogy (Holy Family and Sacred Palace) will be published, in which he traces Guglielmo Sirleto’s ecclesiastical career and scholarly work, using this to outline the political and ecclesiological thinking of the Curia during the age of the Council of Trent (Dominion of Redemption). As a visiting researcher at the Roman Institute of the Görres Society, he is conducting archival research and is currently working on the completion of a paper on Giorgio Vasari’s St Bartholomew cycle in the Sala Regia.

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Category: Researcher as guest