“Mona Lisa” Through the Ages: Mysterious, Hypnotic and Forever Baffling

Leonardo and Rome: The Special Relationship

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...

Know Thyself: Ingrid Rossellini e la sua ereditata passione per la storia

Arts

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

byPaola Vacirca

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...

Arts

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

byItalian Studies at Harvard

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...

Arts

Towards a More Complete Biography of Vittoria Colonna with Ramie Targoff

byItalian Studies at Harvard

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. ...

English

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

bySarah Axelrod

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,...

Palazzo Strozzi, i giovani americani e il Rinascimento a New York

Travel

Palazzo Strozzi, Young Americans, and the Renaissance in New York

byStefano Albertini

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...

Penso, agisco, costruisco: sono gli scienziati i pionieri del fare impresa

Lifestyles

I Think, I Act and I Construct: Scientists, The Pioneers of Entrepreneurship

byPiero Formica

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...

A New York la speranza nel futuro si ritrova con Leonardo e Michelangelo

Arts

In New York, Hope for the Future is Found Again with Leonardo and Michelangelo

byStefano Albertini

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.

Grazie agli artigiani digitali, rinasce il Rinascimento fiorentino

Arts

Thanks to the Digital Artisans, the Florentine Renaissance Revives

byPiero Formica

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...