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Arts - 28 Ottobre 2020

Watching Italian Films in a Transnational Landscape with Áine O’Healy

Áine O’Healy is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and in her last book Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame, she deals with one of the most urgent concerns in contemporary global society, that of migration, and with one of the major threats of Western society, […]

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Arts - 24 Settembre 2020

Virtue Politics: Using the Humanities to Reform Politics in the Renaissance

Published by Harvard University Press in 2019, Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy delivers a new account of political thought in the Italian Renaissance concerned with virtuous leadership and good citizenship. For the series Harvardiana, Historian James Hankins is interviewed by Luca Politi, graduate student in Italian at Harvard University.

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Arts - 28 Dicembre 2019

The World After Plants According to Emanuele Coccia

Emanuele Coccia, Associate Professor in the History of Philosophy at the EHESS in Paris, presents his new book The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (2019) recently published in English by Polity Press. In conversation with Alberto Parisi, Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at Harvard, they discuss the personal and scientific origins of the book, its […]

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Arts - 27 Novembre 2019

John P. McCormick on Machiavelli’s Populist Politics

John P. McCormick, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, presents his book Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, & the Virtue of Populist Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). In conversation with Anne Ratnoff, Ph.D. student in French at Harvard University, McCormick discusses rehabilitating the notorious political philosopher’s image, how his reading of Machiavelli […]

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Arts - 27 Novembre 2019

Gabriele Pedullà and the Machiavellian Tumult

Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) is the English version of Gabriele Pedullà’s 2011 Machiavelli in tumulto: conquista, cittadinanza e conflitto nei “Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio” (Rome: Bulzoni). Professor Pedullà is associate professor of Italian Literature at the Università di Roma Tre […]

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Libri - 16 Novembre 2019

Nel meccanismo dell’opera-laboratorio di Pasolini con Paolo Desogus

Per giustificarsi e legittimarsi in un tempo in cui ha perso la propria immediatezza, l’opera artistica deve mostrarsi come tale, esibendo cioè le sue modalità di funzionamento. Operazione semiotica e gesto politico sono quindi connessi, se è vero che questa esigenza di puntellare l’arte con un livello metadiscorsivo viene avvertita da Pasolini negli anni del […]

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Arts - 11 Settembre 2019

Displacing Caravaggio: 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 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 - 15 Giugno 2019

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 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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