2018 IAS/Kress Foundation International Travel Grant

Alessandro Vanoli (Independent Scholar, Rome)

Hercules in Sicily: The Mediterranean Past in Fifteenth-Century African and Spanish Sources presented at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, 2018. New Orleans, LA

Alessandro Vanoli (Independent Scholar, Rome Italy) received the IAS/Kress Travel Grant to present his paper “Hercules in Sicily: The Mediterranean Past in Fifteenth-Century African and Spanish Sources” at the 64th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans in 2018. The paper was part of an IAS-Sponsored panel titled “Beyond Scylla and Charybdis: Exchanges between Early Modern Sicily, Spain, and North Africa I” organized by Cristelle L. Baskins (Tufts University) and Elizabeth Kassler-Taub (Case Western Reserve University).


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