Fellows’ Presentations I: Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Date: 

Tuesday, September 8, 2026, 10:30am to 3:15pm

Location: 

I Tatti (Myron and Sheila Gilmore Limonaia) / Zoom
Johann Bayer, Draco, from Uranometria, Augsburg, 1603

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. 


Histories of Science: Stars, space, birth, and monsters
 

10:30 - 11:15
Luca FarinaFrom Arabic to Latin via Byzantine Greek: How Astral Sciences Shaped the Renaissance Multilingual Mediterranean

Coffee

11:30 - 12:15
Tommaso De Robertis: Science from Alexandria: Rethinking Space and Spatiality in Renaissance Italy (1450-1600)

12:15 - 13:00
Giulia Lovison: Bodies of Evidence: Pregnancy, Medicine, and Law in Renaissance Italy

Lunch

14:30 - 15:15
Chiara Beneduce: “Monsters and the Making of Science. University Debates on Anomalous Births from Paris to Padua (14th–16th Centuries)


image: Johann Bayer, Draco, from Uranometria, Augsburg, 1603

 

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