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Arts - 19 Dicembre 2020

The Musical Art that Erases Time and Space to Unite Against Racism

What does Salomone Rossi, Jewish violinist and composer from Mantua (1570), have to do with the contemporary African-American musicologist and composer, Brandon Waddles (1988)?

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News - 3 Ottobre 2020

After the Disastrous Presidential Debate We’re Better Off Sticking with Machiavelli

In Italiano The US presidential election is just over a month away and the eyes of the world are on that fateful moment that has the potential to change the destinies of millions of people far beyond the borders of the United States. The almost unanimous reaction after the first debate on Tuesday was one […]

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Arts - 20 Maggio 2020

The Uffizi’s Latest Purchase: A Rare Panoramic Print of Renaissance Florence

At the end of April, about a week after his press conference with Stampa Estera on Facebook, Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Galleries, announced the purchase of a very rare print: a panoramic view of Renaissance Florence dating to 1601. “The Uffizi”,” he explained, “had recently bought it from an antiquarian map dealer in […]

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Arts - 10 Maggio 2020

Know Thyself: Ingrid Rossellini and Her Legendary Family’s Passion for History

In Italiano On April 8th, 2020, the NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò hosted Ingrid Rossellini during one of the episodes of “Tutti A Casa!”. Interviewed by Stefano Albertini, Rossellini discussed her latest book, and the influences of her father Roberto Rossellini, who would have celebrated his 114th birthday on the same day. “Know Thyself: Western […]

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Arts - 5 Marzo 2020

Raphael, Renaissance Superstar, Celebrated in Mega Show, “Raffaello 1520-1483”

On loan from 55 different private collections and museums, never before have so many works by Raphael been displayed in a single exhibition. Architect, draughtsman, painter, poet and archaeologist who died of mysterious causes at the young age of 37, who knows what he might have accomplished had he lived Leonardo’s 67 or Michelangelo’s 89 years.

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Arts - 8 Luglio 2019

The (Un)Familiar: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance Nude with Jill Burke

In The Italian Renaissance Nude (Yale University Press, 2018), Dr. Jill Burke, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, constructs a novel interpretation of the Renaissance nude by examining how nakedness, both in art and everyday life, was perceived at the time. In conversation with Ilgin Nas, a senior at Harvard College, she provides […]

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Arts - 22 Maggio 2019

Towards a More Complete Biography of Vittoria Colonna with Ramie Targoff

Ramie Targoff, Professor of English at Brandeis University, discusses her new biography Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018). She is joined by Amelia Linsky, Ph.D. candidate in Italian Studies at Harvard University.

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Arts - 21 Settembre 2018

The Spectacle of Mathematics, in Arielle Saiber’s Measured Words

Arielle Saiber’s Measured Words takes readers through seminal works of four exceptional Renaissance ‘computers,’ her term for scholars engaged in mathematics as language. The four exceptional thinkers, calculators and writers Saiber has chosen to explore in the book – Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia and Giambattista Della Porta – “unequivocally demonstrate how mutually meneficial conversation […]

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Arts - 22 Giugno 2018

James G. Turner Uncovers the Erotic Dimensions of Italian Renaissance Art

Proportion, harmony, mythological subject-matter – all well-known and indisputable effects of classical recovery on Renaissance artistic expression. But James G. Turner (James D. Hart Chair in English at UC Berkeley) in Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality, and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy underscores an easily neglected side of art and court culture during the Italian Renaissance. Uniting the erotic and […]

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