Professor of History of Science in the Renaissance, University of Urbino
Director of the New Rossana and Carlo Pedretti Foundation, Lamporecchio University of Urbino
After graduating in Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the University of Pisa, she went on to complete a postgraduate course in Art History and a PhD from the Scuola Superiore Alti Studi di Santa Chiara, both from the University of Siena. She then completed a postgraduate course in Humanist and Renaissance Civilization at the National Institute of Renaissance Studies and a postdoctoral program at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris.
He is the director of the Nuova Fondazione Rossana e Carlo Pedretti, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. He is the editor-in-chief of the series Leonardo Studies for Brill (Leiden-Boston) and teaches "History of Science in the Renaissance" at the University of Urbino. She has been a visiting professor at the Department of Robotics at UNAM in Mexico City and at UCLA in Los Angeles, and has also held a fellowship at the Museo Galileo in Florence. She is a full member of the Ente Raccolta Vinciana in Milan and a member of the editorial board of the journal Leonardiana (Pisa-Rome, Fabrizio Serra Editore) and the magazine Leonardi Vinci Academy for FedOA University Press (Naples, University of Naples Federico II). Sara Taglialagamba is Action Chair of the Horizon Europe COST Action call entitled LEAF – LEonardo's Codex Atlanticus and other miscellaneous Folios: A Digital Reconstruction (CA24143), a highly competitive call for excellence: with his position as Action Chair he coordinates an ideal working team, composed of the most important Leonardo scholars in the world and great international scholars.
Her research focuses on multiple aspects of Leonardo da Vinci's work and the Renaissance, fostering the study of the relationship between art and science and extending it to other protagonists of Renaissance artistic and scientific culture, such as Andrea Verrocchio and Lorenzo della Volpaia. She has explored Leonardo's scientific and mechanical interests, focusing her studies on specific fields such as automation, robotics, clockmaking, architecture, and hydraulics. One of the strands of her research specifically focuses on Leonardo's hydraulic devices, fountains, and water features, with a particular focus on artifacts, technologies, and buildings in the context of the history of gardens and the history of hydraulics between the 15th and 20th centuries.