Luigi Coiro
Luigi Coiro is a research fellow at the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the Orientale University of Naples. He completed his postgraduate specialisation at the Federico II University of Naples and his doctorate at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. A specialist in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century southern Italian art, with a particular focus on sculpture and the figure of Cosimo Fanzago, he has been a research associate at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History and for the Naples Digital Archive project at CIRICE (the Interdepartmental Research Centre on the Iconography of the European City at the Federico II University of Naples).
Gianluca Forgione
Gianluca Forgione is an associate professor of Museology and the Critique of Art and Restoration at Ferrara University. He gained his doctorate from the Federico II University of Naples with a thesis on the Girolamini, published in book form in 2020, and has held research posts with, among others, the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, the Fondazione Longhi, and the Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo. His scholarly interests centre on artistic relations between Naples, Rome, and Emilia in the Baroque age. In 2022 he published a study on Raimondo di Sangro’s artistic patronage (I simulacri delle cose. La Cappella Sansevero e il barocco romano).
Sabrina Iorio
Sabrina Iorio is a consultant at the Fondazione Banco di Napoli as archivist and digital humanist. She collaborates in research, databasing and digitisation projects with the Federico II University of Naples and the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. She gained her doctorate from the Federico II University with a thesis on Giacomo Lazzari and the marble trade in early-seventeenth-century Naples, focusing particularly on the socio-economic aspects of workshop organisation and the dynamics of some of the city’s major Baroque construction yards.
Eleonora Loiodice
Eleonora Loiodice gained her doctorate in the Humanities (History of Science) at the Università degli Studi di Bari, where she was also a research fellow. In 2020 she was awarded a research grant by the Museo Cappella Sansevero and the Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici in Naples, and she now teaches History and Philosophy in senior schools. Her research centres on the history of scientific thought in relation to anthropology, theology, and comparative mythology; she specialises in early modern and modern philosophical and scientific thought, in addition to the history and techniques of scientific communication.
Augusto Russo
Augusto Russo is a researcher in the History of Early-Modern Art at the Federico II University of Naples. He gained his doctorate at the same university and held a fellowship from the Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo. His research interests focus on Baroque painting and sculpture, with particular attention to the Neapolitan setting, to the figure of Francesco De Mura, and the portrait genre. He has conducted research at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London (2023–2024).
Mariano Saggiomo
Mariano Saggiomo gained his doctorate from the Federico II University of Naples, working on Neapolitan art of the early modern age, with particular reference to the lay patronage of places of worship and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century collecting. He is an adjunct professor of the History of Early-Modern Art at the same university and a postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History. His monograph Memorie perdute. Chiese gentilizie napoletane tra tardo Medioevo ed Età moderna is currently in press for the Hertziana’s digital series.