Public Writing and Speaking 
Dr. Fiorani writes and lectures widely about art and its relations to science and technology.
She has delivered public lectures for cultural institutions, museums, and libraries in the US and abroad, often in connection with special exhibitions or other public events.
She has presented her research in a variety of academic setting, including universities and research centers in Paris, New York, Naples, Zurich, Oslo, Rome, Florence, Richmond, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Notre Dame, Turin, and Fort Worth, Berlin, Providence, Washington DC, among others.
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| 2023 |
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC: Leonardíssimo: His World and Its Waters. Public Program with Walter Isaacson, Carmen Bambach, Mario Livio, April 17. |
| 2023 | Profs and Pints – Charlottesville, VA, September 26. Presentation Title: Leonardo da Vinci’s Way of Seeing. |
| 2022 | 11th Annual Italian Art Society/Kress Lecture in Italy, Cortona, Italy, June 30. Presentation Title: Leonardo da Vinci and Cortona. Wetlands, Mapping, and the Art of Painting in Renaissance Italy. |
| 2022 | The Medici Archive Project: The Medici and the Perception of Sub-Saharan Africa Florence. Presentation Title: Maps of Africa at the Medici Court in the Sixteenth Century |
| 2022 | Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Universite de Lyon. Séminaire Renaissances. Laboratoire d’expérimentation Historiographique, May 12 Presentation Title: Le ‘taccuino’ de Léonard de Vinci. |
| 2022 | Science, Technology and Society Across the Commonwealth, University of Virginia, April 28 Presentation Title: Leonardo da Vinci and Optics. |
| 2021 | Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Plank Institute for Art History, Rome, October 7 Presentation Title: New Approaches to Renaissance Mapping: At the Intersection of Global Trade, Art Making, and the Mobility of Materials. |
| 2021 | UVA Lifelong Learning, Charlottesville, April 29 Book Presentation: The Shadow Drawing. How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint. |
| 2021 | UVA Club of New York, October 14 Presentation Title: Why Leonardo da Vinci Still Matters Today. |
| 2020 | Uffizi Gallery, Florence, October 6 Roundtable on Leonardo da Vinci and the Battle of Anghiari. |
She also spoke to numerous academic institutions, including the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti (Florence), the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts atthe National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), the Max Planck Gesellschalft for the History of Art (Florence), the Getty Center (Los Angeles), the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), the Max Planck Gesellschalft for the History of Science (Berlin), the Warburg Institute (London), the Polytechnic, the John Carter Brown Library (Providence), University of Turin, Oxford University, American Academy in Rome, the Norwegian Institute (Rome), the Dutch Institute (Florence), the Institute Henri Poincare (Paris), the Biblioteca Leonardiana (Vinci).
"Why Leonardo da Vinci Matters Beyond a $450 Million Painting," in Public Seminar, April 25, 2019 http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/04/why-leonardo-da-vinci-matters-beyon...
"Beyoncé Embraces the World of Art", in Garnet News, October 17, 2018
http://garnetnews.com/2018/10/17/beyonce-embraces-world-art/