Arts - 27 Novembre 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 […]
Arts - 27 Novembre 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 […]
Libri - 16 Novembre 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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Arts - 12 Giugno 2018 Lucia Dacome on the First Anatomical Models and their Makers Lucia Dacome, Associate Professor and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar Chair in the History of Medicine at University of Toronto, in conversation with Valentina Frasisti, PhD student in Italian Studies at Harvard, presents her most recent work: Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Dacome illustrates that the production of anatomical knowledge was influenced by religious interests, power and politics, as well as a shift in […]