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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Travel - 29 Aprile 2018 Palazzo Strozzi, Young Americans, and the Renaissance in New York The award includes a month-long sojourn in Florence – where students take coursework in Renaissance studies – and excursions to other major Italian cities. The creator and backer of the High School Renaissance Award is journalist Mario Calvo Platero, Chairman of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation US.
Lifestyles - 13 Dicembre 2017 I Think, I Act and I Construct: Scientists, The Pioneers of Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial scientists help to transform the most complex problems in the world of research into businesses. To raise the number of scientists setting up businesses and find equal interests in research work and its entrepreneurial translation, a country must be equipped with laboratories where scientists can combine thought with action.
Arts - 3 Dicembre 2017 In New York, Hope for the Future is Found Again with Leonardo and Michelangelo After two centuries, two great Tuscan artists are at the center of cultural life in the capital of modernism. In times of moral, value, and identity crises in the Western world, Leonardo and Michelangelo have remained pillars of stability that reassure us of our model of civilization.
Arts - 16 Ottobre 2017 Thanks to the Digital Artisans, the Florentine Renaissance Revives Cultural consumption is a historical legacy of the Renaissance that still permeates our ways of thinking, communicating and interacting. The modern-day renaissance generation consists of millions of individuals, highly diversified on age, who share a passion for entrepreneurship associated with technology and culture.
Arts - 12 Giugno 2017 Botticelli and the Search of the Divine Until July 9, the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston hosts the exhibition "Botticelli and the Search of Divine" with thirty works by the Italian painter that focuses on Botticelli's visual poetry and his different styles during the years, from mythological subjects to religious ones