Marta Spina

Marta is PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. Her research project analyzes the influence of Sallust in the works of major figures of the European Renaissance such as Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Niccol貌 Machiavelli, Jean Bodin and Justus Lipsius. Her supervisors are Professor David Lines and Professor Ingrid De Smet. Marta received Chancellor鈥檚 International Scholarship from the 神马福利影片 Doctoral College in 2023. She took both her bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees with Distinction at the University of Florence. Her research interests involve Petrarch, Petrarch鈥檚 handwriting and his marginalia in his manuscripts, Humanism, the Classics and their reception throughout centuries, the political thought of the Renaissance.