Nina Lamal

Nina Lamal specialises in the political, cultural and diplomatic relations between the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlands, the Italian states and the Holy Roman Empire. She combines in-depth historical research with digital publications, bridging the gap between traditional archival work and open-access platforms.

Digital Edition of the Correspondence of Alvise Contarini

She leads the digital edition project of the correspondence of Alvise Contarini (1624–1625). This initiative makes the letters of this Venetian ambassador in The Hague digitally available, enriched with annotations and contextual analyses. This gives both academic researchers and a wider audience access to these valuable sources.

Publications and Editorial Work

Lamal is the author of Italian Communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (Leiden, 2023) and editor of the Correspondence of Christofforo Suriano (suriano.huygens.knaw.nl).

She recently edited several special issues of journals, including:
• Jesuits and Print (Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2023, together with Jan Machielsen)
• Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Past Achievements and Future Perspectives (Early Modern Low Countries, 2025, together with Lieke van Deinsen and Feike Dietz)

Career and Research Experience

Lamal obtained her PhD in 2014 from KU Leuven and the University of St Andrews with a thesis on Italian interest in the Revolt in the Netherlands (1566–1648).

After obtaining her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universal Short Title Catalogue in St Andrews. She then led a research project on handwritten news in the seventeenth century at the University of Antwerp.

Since 2020, she has been affiliated with NL-Lab, where she worked within the VIDI project Inventing Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (2020–2024). She received a Rome Grant from the British School in Rome (2018) and was a Long Room Hub Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (2025).