Antonia Belli, M.Sc.

Antonia Belli is a doctoral candidate in History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. Her research focuses on the material culture of pharmacy in early modern Italy, and its connection to wider contemporary artistic and scientific cultures. She is currently studying the production, use, and circulation of medicine chests in Italy between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a focus on the woodworkers, alchemists, apothecaries, and artists that collaborated to create these objects. In 2024, she spent a semester at Yale University as a visiting research student. In 2023 she was awarded a Lisa Jardine Scholarship to conduct archival research in Florence, investigating the production of medicine chests in the Fonderie Medici at the Uffizi Gallery. She obtained a Masters in History and Philosophy of Science also from University College London (2020), and a BSc in Physics with Philosophy from the University of York (2019). At the Bibliotheca Hertziana, she is researching the production and circulation of medicine chests in Rome, focusing on the collections of the Museo di Storia della Medicina at Università la Sapienza and the Museo dell’Arte Sanitaria.