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The German Historical Institute in Rome is part of the Max Weber Foundation and funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. We study the Italian history and music history, as well as the history of German-Italian relations from the early Middle Ages to the present day. Central to us are an interdisciplinary and transepochal perspective and a particular focus on transregional and transnational contexts in southern Europe and the Mediterranean area.
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Deadline for the next volume 106 (2026): 31 January 2026
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Call for Papers: Deadline 18 February 2026
Comparative Perspectives on Genetic Criticism in Music The IMS Study Group Comparative Perspectives on Genetic Criticism, founded in 2025, invites proposals for its first international conference at the DHI Rome. The conference seeks to take stock of current research questions, methodological approaches, and terminological frameworks in genetic criticism and sketch studies in music, while explicitly ...
Internships at the DHI Rome
Every year, the German Historical Institute in Rome awards several six-week internships to students of history, music history and Digital Humanities mainly of higher semesters, whose studies are focused on the field of German-Italian relations or Italian history.
The application deadline for the period from mid-August to the end of 2026 is 15 March 2026.
Applications are accepted exclusively in ...
Genoa's participation in the Otranto crusade against the Turks provides an opportunity to reveal a broader picture of the connections between local politics, international strategies and commercial interests in the Mediterranean at the end of the 15th century. By means of an extensive source corpus, the volume sheds light on the entanglements of informal diplomacy, private interests, emotions, espionage networks, Italian ...
Domenico Cimarosa, Le trame deluse (1786)
Domenico Cimarosa's musical comedy "Le trame deluse", first performed in Naples in 1786, enjoyed great success throughout Europe and was translated into numerous languages. No less a figure than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe adapted the opera in order to stage it at Weimar. Rossini regarded it as more significant than "Il matrimonio segreto", Cimarosa's most famous work. Set in 18th-century Naples, the ...
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QFIAB 105 (2025)
The latest volume 105 of our journal "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken" is now published and fully available in Open Access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/qfiab/html#latestIssue.
We provide a reproduction service to all of our external readers within the framework of copyright law.
