Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
Academic Activities & Research Interests
Prof. Ingrid Rowland writes and lectures on subjects ranging from classical antiquity to contemporary art and architecture for general as well as specialist readers. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, she won the inaugural Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation in 2021. Her books, in both English and Italian, include The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome (1998), The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery (2004), From Heaven to
Arcadia (2005), Giordano Bruno, Philosopher/Heretic (2008), From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town (2013), Villa Taverna (2014), the official history of the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art (with Noah Charney, 2017, and the forthcoming The Lies of the Artists (2024). In 2009, Giordano Bruno won the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society of Italian Historical Studies. She has also published translations of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture (1999), Giordano Bruno’s Italian dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies (2014), and of two comedies by the seventeenth-century Tuscan forger Curzio Inghirami (2024). She has produced critical editions of the correspondence of the sixteenth-century banker Agostino Chigi (2001) and Volume 7 of the sixteenth-century Historiae Senenses of Sigimondo Tizio (2023) from manuscripts in the Vatican Library.
Contact: Ingrid.D.Rowland.19@nd.edu