Federico ZAVANELLI undertook undergraduate studies in Musicology at the University of Pavia. In 2018 he graduated with distinction from the MA in Musicology at the University of Southampton writing a dissertation on the reception of Franco of Cologne in Marchetto da Padova’s Pomerium, under the supervision of Professor Mark Everist. He is currently a third-year PhD student at the University of Southampton and visiting student at the University of Bristol working under the supervision of Professors Mark Everist and Emma Hornby. His research on mensural music and theory in Italy c. 300 is fully funded by the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (Arts and Humanities Research Council). Since 2018, Federico has been researching on early theoretical outputs witnessing measurable music in Italy. In 2015 he worked as an intern at the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (Diamm) and spent a period as Assistant Researcher for the “Tudor Partbooks Project” in partnership with the University of Oxford and the University of Newcastle.
