Donata Battilotti teaches History of Architecture at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Udine. She studies modern architecture, investigating its patronage, construction sites, and relationship with the history of the city and the territory, focusing her research mainly on Veneto, Friuli and Tuscany. She has worked in particular on the figure and works of Andrea Palladio, the reconstruction of the urban image and territory of Vicenza in the 16th century through tax documents, Venetian villas, the construction of the Palazzo Comunale and the Contarena and I Maggio squares in Udine, Friulian architecture in the 18th century, and commercial and manufacturing settlements in Livorno and Florence in the Renaissance period. She is a member of the scientific council of the Andrea Palladio International Centre for Architectural Studies.