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Schermata 2019-09-11 alle 17.19.58

Arts - 11 Settembre

Spostando Caravaggio con Francesco Zucconi

Nel suo nuovo libro Displacing Caravaggio: Art, Media and Humanitarian Visual Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) Francesco Zucconi, assegnista di ricerca presso IUAV, indaga come l’estetica dei capolavori del pittore barocco viene rimediata nei diversi mezzi di comunicazione usate dalle ONG, particolarmente in relazione alla crisi umanitaria in corso nel mediterraneo. In conversazione con Matthew D’Ambrosio Griffith, dottorando […]

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Arts - 8 Luglio

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 - 15 Giugno

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante with Elena Lombardi

Professor Elena Lombardi (University of Oxford) discusses her book Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her book brings to light the several uses of fictional women readers for authors such as Dante and Bocaccio. She is joined by Luca Politi, graduate student in Italian at Harvard University.Headline: Imagining the Woman […]

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Arts - 22 Maggio

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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Libri - 8 Maggio

Discovering the Italianness of Tex Willer with Elizabeth Leake

Elizabeth Leake, Tex Willer. Un cowboy nell’Italia del dopoguerra, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018. Professor of Italian Studies at Columbia University, Elizabeth Leake offers her readers a fascinating exploration of Tex Willer: one of the most widely read Italian comic book heroes. In Tex Willer. Un cowboy nell’Italia del dopoguerra she enlightens us as to how much this pop-culture character embodied and shaped Italian (masculine) identity […]

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Arts - 13 Aprile

Luca Cottini on “The Art of Objects”: At the Origins of Made in Italy

In The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928 (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Luca Cottini, Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Villanova University, traces the fascinating history of early Italian industrial culture from post-unification Italy to Fascism. In this conversation with Elena Bellina, Lauro De Bosis Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and Assistant Professor of Italian at the University […]

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Libri - 30 Ottobre 2018

“Ridere del mondo”: Emilio Russo rilegge le Operette morali di Leopardi

Tuttora scarsamente conosciuto all’estero ma sempre canonico nella formazione degli studenti italiani fin dagli anni della scuola, Leopardi è, come e più di ogni altro classico, un autore che “si è sempre già letto”: su di lui pesano pregiudizi che sono spesso l’esito di interpretazioni accettate senza essere ridiscusse, e che talvolta scoraggiano la lettura […]

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Arts - 8 Ottobre 2018

Ellen Lockhart on the Singing Statues and Animated People of Enlightenment Italy

In her recent book Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830, Ellen Lockhart, Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto, breaks new ground on questions of national identity and Enlightenment ideas in Italy through the unique lens of Italian theater and ballet. Science, philosophy, music criticism, and cultural history are all in play […]

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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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Libri - 19 Luglio 2018

Un Galileo a Milano: quando al Piccolo arrivò il più sofferto testo di Brecht

In questa intervista con Dalila Colucci (Harvard University), Massimo Bucciantini si sofferma sul dirompente valore sociale e politico del Galileo di Strehler nell’Italia degli anni Sessanta: un’autentica provocazione teatrale, destinata a segnare in maniera indelebile la luminosa parabola brechtiana del Piccolo di Milano

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