A Joint Villa I Tatti - European University Institute event
Organized by Catherine Kovesi
This two-day conference aims to unravel the complex interaction of competing paradigms at the origins of modern consumption practices, and explore how those paradigms evolved as they continued to inform global cultures to the present day. Excessive consumption and the ethics of greed are burning...
This concert marked the the conclusion of our yearly Master class which offers to talented young musicians a week’s course performing on historic keyboard instruments in Tuscany, under the expert guidance of Professor Ella Sevskaya. The Master class began as a collaboration with the P. I. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory of Moscow, to facilitate the studies of Russian students who rarely have the opportunity of playing on historic instruments in their own country. In recent years we have extended the...
A Conference organized by John Henderson and G. Geltner Sponsored by the Medici Archive Project & Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies For Call to papers, click here; deadline 15 February
Against tenacious misconceptions, pre-modern cities in and beyond Italy are finally beginning to shed their reputation as demographic black holes. The revised view of earlier cities’ relative salubriousness, however, is...
Seminar: Ricercati: Percorsi dei classici H. Kitamura, I problemi della traduzione latina delle "Antichitates Judaicae", di Giuseppe Flavio. D. Porciatti, Diffusione e fortuna del romanzo greco nella narrativa italiana da Boccaccio a Torquato Tasso. C. Marsico, Postille sulla fortuna di Nonio nell’Umanesimo. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Piazza Savonarola, 1
Lecture: Deborah Parker: INFERNO REVEALED. From Dante to Dan Brown Palazzo Rucellai, Via della Vigna Nuova, 18, Email: info@isiflorence.org, Phone number: 055 2645910