Dr Marina Inì

I am an early modern cultural historian interested in material culture, history of medicine, spatial and urban history of the early modern Mediterranean. My current research interests focus on diversity, cross-cultural encounters in urban contexts, and funerary practices in Italy between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries.
I hold a BA in Beni Culturali (Cultural Heritage Studies – History of Art) from the Università degli Studi di Trento, an MSc in Architectural History and Theory from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (Girton College). After the PhD, I was the recipient of a Rome Award at the British School at Rome.
My PhD dissertation, entitled The System of Lazzaretti in the Early Modern Mediterranean, analyses the role of quarantine stations in shaping the socio-cultural history of the shared Mediterranean area. I have published my research in several articles and book chapter. My recent article for the Historical Journal has been shortlisted for the 2024 Alexander Prize awarded by the Royal Historical Society. I am currently working on a book proposal for Manchester University Press.
Undergraduate
Part I, Paper 16: European history 1450-1760
Part II, Paper 14: Material Culture in the Early Modern World
Par IA, Outline 5: Europe in the World 1450-1780
MPhil
Mobility, Encounters and Diversity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Contact
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Key publications
Articles:
Mammoli, Raissa, Marina Inì, Ramona Quattrini: ‘Metodologie a Supporto Della Ricerca Storico-Archivistica e per la Trasparenza del Modello HBIM del Lazzaretto di Ancona nel Progetto di Luigi Vanvitelli’, Archeologia e Calcolatori, 33.1 (2022).
Marina Inì, ‘Materiality, Quarantine and Contagion in the Early Modern Mediterranean’, Social History of Medicine, 34.4 (2021), 1161–84 <https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa124>.
Chapters in edited volumes:
Inì, Marina 'Architecture and plague prevention: lazzaretti in the eighteenth-century Mediterranean’ in Public Health in the Early Modern City in Europe, ed. by Mohammad Gharipour (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 83-123.
Inì, Marina, ‘Emotions in Quarantine: Architecture and Public Health in Early Modern Quarantine Centres’ in Early Modern Italian Architecture: Symbols and Appropriations, ed. by Tomasetti Valentina and Francesca Lembo Fazio (Routledge, 2023).
Blog posts
'Early Modern Quarantine and Present Social Distancing', Doing History in Public.
'Contagion, susceptible surfaces and disinfection', Renaissance Skin.
'The Archive in Decline: The Emergency of Archival Collections in Italy', Doing History in Public.
'A Fumigated Letter from the Lazzaretto of Verona', Doing History in Public.