The Fondazione Giorgio Cini  offers scholarships and co-financing to scholars at the graduate, postgraduate, and advanced levels who are willing to spend a research period in Venice, living and working at the Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture, an international resource for humanities studies in Italian culture, with particular emphasis on the visual arts, history, literature, music, and drama from an interdisciplinary point of view. The libraries hold over 2000 volumes including illuminated incunabula and 16th-century Venetian publications, featuring works by Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Holy Bibles, and volumes related to popular culture. Applications include a research proposal to be pursued in Venice in the Cini and other libraries, cv, and admission form sent by email.