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Seminario “Il Mediterraneo allargato tra storia e attualità”

Il Mediterraneo è tornato ad essere il centro delle dinamiche geopolitiche del mondo. Dalla prospettiva italiana si parla di Mediterraneo e di Mediterraneo allargato, che è un orizzonte più ampio, che converge verso l’antico mare. Qui gli aspetti politici sono complessi e si stanno

moltiplicando: dalle Zone economiche esclusive e dallo sfruttamento sostenibile del mare alle comunicazioni non solo marittime ma anche informatiche, all’uso delle risorse rinnovabili, al turismo visto su scala mediterranea, alla circolazione delle persone, alle emergenze belliche, alla

sicurezza nazionale e internazionale. L’Italia si misura con tutto questo di giorno in giorno. Si tratta della normalità per un paese che di per sé costituisce il centro del Mediterraneo. E dietro al presente c’è una lunga storia, in cui l’Italia ha ricoperto per secoli un ruolo fondamentale. Una

storia in cui un particolare significato ha riguardato per secoli Venezia, il suo Stato e la sua civiltà. Nella storia del Mediterraneo, Venezia è infatti una protagonista. Essa nasce in un punto remoto dello spazio mediterraneo, si espande e vi si integra, domina la parte orientale del mare con la sua marineria e i suoi commerci, rappresenta la giuntura tra l’Oriente e l’Europa. A Venezia il Mediterraneo allargato trova il suo nesso più remoto.

Partendo da questi presupposti è il caso di interrogarsi quanto la realtà di oggi si specchia nella storia del Mediterraneo, dell’Italia di Venezia. E quanto queste storie si ripresentano in forme aggiornate nelle dinamiche odierne. Sono domande a cui si cercherà di rispondere nel Seminario Il Mediterraneo allargato tra storia e attualità, a cura dell’Istituto per la Storia della Società e dello Stato Veneziano.

La Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Settant’anni di storia

La Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Settant’anni di storia, edited by Pasquale Gagliardi and Egidio Ivetic and published by Marsilio, is the third volume marking the historical stages of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, after Venezia 1951 – 1971. Vent’anni di attività della Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice 1972) and La Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Cinquant’anni di storia, edited by U. Agnati (Electa, Milan 2001). This book thus follows on from the previous two by highlighting what has been achieved in the 21st century, which saw a new phase in the life of the Foundation. The recent history of the Foundation is reviewed, including a commemoration of the most important cultural figure in its development, Vittore Branca, who died in 2004.

The contributions to the book are divided into two sections: “A New Landscape” and “Reports and Personal Accounts”. In the first section, several authors describe the architectural restorations and art works of the past twenty years, enabling the Foundation to update into a material and cultural landscape capable of meeting the demands of our age. In the second, the authors reflect on the experiences of cultural life, research and study, the activities of the institutes and research centres, and the wealth of archives, collections and artistic heritage. Seen overall, the book pays tribute to the Foundation on San Giorgio Maggiore by bearing witness to an extraordinary place.

Seminar The History of Venetian Civilisation. Italy and the Mediterranean

The history of Venice spans more than a millennium and encapsulates the features of various histories, such as Byzantine history, the history of Italy, and the history of the Mediterranean and of Europe. In this way Venice undoubtedly expressed its own civilisation. Vittore Branca was a firm believer in the notion of the “civilisation of Venice”, often the subject of study and reflection in the early decades of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Indeed, many specific books and an initial major synthesis were devoted to the civilisation of Venice. How important is the subject today? Should the study of Venetian civilisation be relaunched?

This seminar brings together leading experts to reflect on the issue by assessing the state of the art of Venice historiography and charting the distinctive features of a state and a unique political, ideological, economic and cultural system in the Mediterranean and Europe.The seminar provides the opportunity to commemorate Gaetano Cozzi, long-serving director of the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society, this year being the centenary of his birth.

Book Launch La Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Settant’anni di storia

On 21 October 2022, La Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Settant’anni di storia, edited by Pasquale Gagliardi and Egidio Ivetic will be officially presented. Published by Marsilio Arte, this book retelling seventy years of the Foundation is the third volume marking the historical stages of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, after Venezia 1951-1971. Vent’anni di attività della Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice 1972) and La Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Cinquant’anni di storia, edited by U. Agnati (Electa, Milan 2001). In 1972, the book on the first twenty years was an opportunity to illustrate the aims of the Foundation and its creation through the conversion of the island and monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore into something unique in Italy. It was an initial assessment of the enormous work done in the years when Count Vittorio Cini was still alive and when the Foundation’s social impact on the city of Venice and the education of entire generations of students was as equally significant as the cultural excellence and intense artistic life that the island hosted and promoted.

In 2001, the Foundation’s fiftieth anniversary was celebrated with a timely, detailed volume reviewing the artistic and cultural heritage, the magnificent collections, the libraries, the life of the research and study institutes, the cultural events and the activities carried out in the three decades from 1970 to 2000, and, of course, a commemoration of Vittorio Cini, who had died in 1977. The book marking the Foundation’s seventieth anniversary complements the two previous collections of essays. It thus continues the tradition of describing a distinctive experience by seeking to highlight what has been achieved in the 21st century, which saw a fresh phase in the life of the Foundation.

Starting from the landmark of the new millennium, the recent history of the Foundation is reviewed, including a commemoration of the most important cultural figure in the Foundation’s development, Vittore Branca, who died in 2004. The contributions to the book are divided into two sections: “A New Landscape” and “Reports and Personal Accounts”. In the first section, several authors describe the architectural restorations and art works of the past twenty years, enabling the Foundation to update into a material and cultural landscape capable of meeting the demands of our age. In the second section, the authors reflect on the experiences of cultural life, research and study, the activities of the institutes and research centres, and the wealth of archives, collections and artistic heritage. Seen overall, this book pays tribute to the Foundation as it visits San Giorgio Maggiore, and as such is a fragment of it, bearing witness to an extraordinary place.

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Libri a San Giorgio | «Studi Veneziani»

The book review that aims at promoting and popularizing the publishing production of the Giorgio Cini Foundation resumes in June.
On July 5, volumes 79, 80, 81 and 82 of “Studi Veneziani” covering the years 2019 and 2020 will be presented. This is an opportunity to highlight the richness of the topics covered and the interdisciplinary approach of the only journal dedicated to the history of Venice and the Venetian State and the expressions of Venetian Civilization in the forms of politics, institutions, society, culture, art and literature.

«Studi Veneziani 79»

«Studi Veneziani 80»

«Studi Veneziani 81»

«Studi Veneziani 82»

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Study Symposium: Venice the Second Byzantium

On June 21, 2022, the “Venice the Second Byzantium” Study Seminar will gather top scholars to reflect on the link between Constantinople and Venice.
To all those who for centuries landed there, Constantinople appeared a wonder, sublime city, an unforgettable enchantment. Of it remains an unquenchable nostalgia. Venice was born and formed Byzantine, became what it is in a complex relationship with the motherland, the imperial polis on the Bosporus. The wonder of Constantinople, after the fall of its civilization in 1453, is as if it had been translocated into the wonder of Venice. There is something familiar between these two cities, something that eludes but is felt in the suspended atmospheres. Not so much the details, but the whole, a certain idea, a being between West and East. The “Venice the Second Byzantium” Study Seminar gathers top scholars to reflect on this famous formula that evokes the ties between the two cities and their histories. It is also a way of recalling a formula dear to Vittore Branca, longtime Secretary General of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, who considered that of Venice a unique civilization.

Following is the day’s program:

10 a.m.

Peter Schreiner, Universität zu Köln

What does alterum Byzantium mean?

Caterina Carpinato, Ca’ Foscari University Venice

The Fall of the Polis in the Άλωσις της Τροίας of Nikolaos Lukanis (Venice, Nicolini da Sabbio, 1526)

Sandra Origone, University of Genoa

Genoa and Venice in the confrontation with Byzantium

Beatrice Daskas, Ca’ Foscari University Venice

Βασίλεια πόλις / Civitas regia.

Reflections around a topos between Constantinople and Venice

Niccolò Zorzi, University of Padua

The gaze of the other.

Venice in the mirror of Byzantine sources

3:00 p.m.

Silvia Ronchey, University of Roma Tre

Escape from the First Rome. Bessarion and the legacy of Byzantium.

Eleftherios Despotakis, Johannes Guttemberg-Universität Mainz

Byzantium and Venice in the Perspective of Archival and Manuscript Sources.

A case-study of the library of the monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai

Gianmario Guidarelli, University of Padua

Venetian Renaissance architecture and Byzantium.

Problems and perspectives of research

Egidio Ivetic, Institute for the History of the Venetian Society and State – Giorgio Cini Foundation

The sea of Venice as a Byzantine legacy

Ermanno Orlando, University for Foreigners of Siena

“And here it seems to them that they are entering a second Byzantium.”

Venice and the Diaspora from the Balkans in the xv century

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«Studi Veneziani», N.S., LXXXII (2020)

Edited by the Istituto per la Storia della Società e dello Stato VenezianoFabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Rome, 2021
Studies
- Fausto Lanfranchi, “È da levar ogni pensiero di fortificar essa terra di Udene, né in piccola né in gran forma.” Udine nel quadro dei progetti di difesa della patria del Friuli alla metà del Cinquecento tra incertezze e rinvii
- Serena Tagliapietra, La morte di marmo: i monumenti funebri della Venezia barocca (1630-1718)
- Rossana Vitale d’Alberton, I lazzaretti per gli animali del Cadore nel Settecento. Tra leggende e antiche credenze i rimedi popolari per la polmonara
- Notes and documents
- Andrea Donati, Giulio Savorgnan in un ritratto inedito di Domenico Brusasorzi a confronto di altri capitani del Cinquecento
- Antonio Manno, Uno studio sulla chiesa di S. Zulian a Venezia, nel Cinquecento
- Simona Bortot, Un’edizione dei Discorsi sopra le prime stanze de’ canti d’Orlando furioso a cura di Laura Terracina
- Liv Deborah Wahlberg, Venetian devotion to the sanctuary of Loreto and the ‘Contarini ex-voto’
- Mauro Sarnelli, Una recente biografia su Pietro Aretino
- Francesco Fecondo, Il diavolo nel campanile. Analisi della riscritturalualdiana del racconto di Edgar Allan Poe
- Reviews
- Giovanni Ricci, Appeal to the Turk. The broken boundaries of the Renaissance (G. Bellingeri)
- Lingua e toponomastica. Percorsi di toponomastica nell’arco alpino orientale, a cura di Ester Cason, Maria Teresa Vigolo (E. Castro)
- Fabio Massimo Bertolo, Marco Cursi, Carlo Pulsoni, Bembo ritrovato. Il postillato autografo delle Prose (D. Perocco)
- Gianpietro Zucchetta, Venezia e il fuoco. Cronaca documentata degli incendi a Venezia (M. Pitteri)
- Salvatore Bono, Schiavi. Una storia mediterranea (xvi-xix secolo)
  e Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie (A. Pelizza)
- Andrea Savio, Nobiltà palladiana. La famiglia Godi fra Vicenza e l’Europa (M. Pitteri)
- San Vito e Leguzzano. Due paesi diventati comunità dal Medioevo agli anni Duemila, a cura di Paolo Snichelotto (M. Pitteri)
- Silvano Fornasa, Il tempo di un respiro. Il miracolo del ritorno alla vita in terra vicentina (M. Pitteri)
- Giuseppe Berto, Anonimo veneziano, introd. di Cesare De Michelis (R. Ricorda)

❗️ CANCELLED ❗️ Historical Studies Seminar The Presence of the Sacred

Having reached its fortieth annual edition, the Historical Studies Seminar promoted by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Institute of History confirms the enduring vitality of the event in 2020, thanks to the presence, as always, of illustrious senior speakers and younger but equally competent colleagues.

There is nothing new as far as the overall organisation is concerned. As usual, there will be ve half-day sessions dedicated to the ve historical geographical areas that will be considered. The new feature this year concerns the topic, which goes under the title of “The Presence of the Sacred”. This framework-title contains a wide range of themes: from churches as assembly meeting places to the motivations of urban events, sacred and profane love, borderline consecrations, ecclesiastical benefices and suspicions of profanatory irreverence.

Historical Studies Seminar Great and Small Illusions

From 13 to 15 May, the annual study meetings organised by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society will focus on “Great and Small Illusions”. Topics for discussion will include the illusory drive giving rise to the birth of the city; the yearning for the ideal villa; the expectations aroused by modernity; and the ambitions underlying the cardinalate in the 16th century.
Pointing out that illusions, whether accompanied or not by delusions, are a fundamental feature of the human condition is obvious but not banal. Hence the five half-day sessions of the seminar on the theme of great and small illusions, historically found in various geo-historical areas of the Italian peninsula. For example, the great illusion running through the history of Venice of its unique birth for an exceptional destiny – a great illusion that we are tempted to describe as collective. Then there are the illusions woven into individual events, such as those that fuelled Pietro Bembo’s aspirations to don the cardinal’s purple.

Historical Studies Seminar Places for Culture; Culture for Place

The seminar on “Places for Culture; Culture for Places” will be – at least this is the aim of the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society – a stimulating opportunity for reflection on the interaction between the container and the content, between the setting and the person who thinks, speaks and writes in it. In other words, to choose some Venetian examples, we might consider Petrarch’s home at Arquà, the Asolo garden of Bembo’s dialogue on love, the Palazzo Ducale as the headquarters and expression of state supremacy, or the Padua botanical garden gradually transformed from its auxiliary purpose as an apothecary laboratory to an indispensable resource for botany as an independent discipline.

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