Elena Vaiani is a former researcher of the Scuola Normale Superiore, where she has studied since the beginning of her academic training. She graduated in History of archaeology and her PhD was in History of art criticism (supervisors: prof. Salvatore Settis and Paola Barocchi). The main topics of her research are collections of antiquities and antiquarianism in the Modern Age in Europe, and history of archaeology (numismatics, gems, small objects). She has collaborated with the Istituto per gli Studi filosofici (Naples) for the book La correspondance de Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc avec Lelio Pasqualini (1601–1611) et avec son neveu Pompeo (1613–1622), ed. by V. Carpita and E. Vaiani, Paris 2012, and with the Royal Collection (Windsor Castle) for the two catalogs:  The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A/V: The Antichità Diverse album, London 2016, and The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A/VIII (1-2): Egyptian and Roman antiquities and Renaissance decorative arts, with Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò and Helen Whitehouse, London 2018. Her most recent publications are the entries Fortunio Liceti. De Lucernis Antiquorum / Bernard de Montfaucon, L’Antiquité Expliquée et répresentée en figures in Phönix aus der Asche, ed. by Ulrich Pfisterer and Cristina Ruggero, Munich 2019, p. 158–9; 296–7, and “Un correspondant du passé: les manuscrits de Nicolas-Fabri de Peiresc”, in : L’Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures (1719–1724) de Bernard de Montfaucon: histoire d’un livre, ed. by Véronique Krings, Bordeaux 2021, 2 vols., I, p. 151–89
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