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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.
Worldmaking and the Transmission of Ideas
10:30 - 11:15
James Pilgrim: Invisible Worlds: Art, Uncertainty, and the Renaissance Globe
Coffee
11:30 - 12:15
Nicolae Alexandru Virastau: acopo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo's Universal History and Its French Reception
12:15 - 13:00
Vuk Uskokovic: “The Sage and the Savage: A Genealogy of Thinking about Primitive Humanity from Boccaccio to Late Renaissance Ethnography
Lunch
14:30 - 15:15
Tancredi Artico: Orientalism Unbound. The Shaping of Muslim Orient and Otherness in the Italian Baroque Libretto (1623-1699)
15:15 - 16:00
Camilla Russo: Books on the Margins: Writing, Copying, Vernacularizing at the Stinche between the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance
image: Birds at Baran, probably from the Baburnama, Mughal India, late 16th century. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
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