PIMSPontifical Institute
of
Mediaeval Studies

Alessandra Ignesti completed a Ph.D. in musicology at McGill University in 2022 under the supervision of Julie E. Cumming with a dissertation titled “Ippolito Baccusi and the Musical Culture of North-Eastern Italy.” She held post-doctoral positions at KU Leuven, the University of Oslo, and the University of Pavia. Her work is published or forthcoming in the Journal of the Alamire Foundation and edited volumes published with Brepols, Routledge, Liverpool University Press, and École nationale des chartes. With Remi Chiu, she is co-editing the complete Masses of the Baccusi for A-R Editions. Her research interests include late Renaissance sacred polyphony, chant, and liturgy, with a special focus on late medieval repertoires. At PIMS, she will develop a project centered on the neo-Gregorian chants for the Divine Office as transmitted in manuscripts from the “Beneventan region,” distinguished by their characteristic script. While the project emphasizes textual and melodic analysis, it also explores the historiae as a cultural phenomenon, closely tied to the emergence of new forms of devotion.