After studying at Ca’ Foscari University and the State Archive of Venice, Miss Marchiori moved to Cambridge to pursue a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, which she completed in 2025. During her doctoral studies, she held fellowship at the Huntington Library, the Shakespeare Folger Library, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the British School at Rome.
Miss Marchiori is a historian of science and medicine in medieval and early modern Europe, with particular interests in the articulations of textual transmission and the histories of practice. Her doctoral dissertation explored the reception of Cornelius Celsus’ De medicina from c.1000 to 1800, and she is currently revising it for publication. Her next project looks at surgical techniques and technologies as vibrant sites of encounter among medical practitioners, farriers, blacksmiths, and other artisans.
Marchiori, Silvia M. "Persistence and Innovation in the Greco-Roman Medical Tradition: The Reading and Writing Practices of a Tenth-Century Monk." Social History of Medicine 38, no. 4 (2025): 723-47 (https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf032)
