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Please join us for the opening events of the academic year, where the new I Tatti Fellows give informal presentations of their research projects. These presentations are open to the public.
9:30 - 10:30
Janna Israel (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art):
The Nature of Ores: Vannoccio Biringuccio and Early Modern Metallurgy
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 11:45
Cristiano Zanetti (Independent Scholar):
Engineering the Engineer in Renaissance Milan
11:45 - 12:45
Daniele Conti (Independent Scholar):
Old Stars, New World: The Scientific and Astrological Background of the Renaissance ‘Querelle’ of the Ancients and the Moderns
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30
Oren Margolis (Somerville College, University of Oxford):
Aldus Manutius: A Cultural History
15:30 - 16:30
Alessio Cotugno (University of Warwick):
Alessandro Piccolomini’s Institutione and its Contexts (1542-1560): Textual and Intellectual History
16:30 - 17:00 Tea