I Tatti organized a conference in China. “Space in Renaissance Italy,” held on October 16-17, first at the Harvard Center Shanghai, and then at Fudan University, was also the first I Tatti event to take place at a Chinese university.... Read more about Report from China: Shanghai Conference and Lectures
This conference aims to unravel the complex interaction of the competing paradigms of luxury and greed, which lie at the origins of modern consumption practices. In the western world, the phenomenon of luxury and the ethical dilemmas it raised appeared, for the first time since antiquity, in Renaissance Italy.... Read more about Conference: Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in the Early Modern World (25-26 Sept.)