Books at San Giorgio

The series of book launches presenting the latest publications produced by the Giorgio Cini Foundation will resume in autumn.

The first date, Thursday 6 October, will be focused on the most recent issues of Studi Veneziani, the prestigious review edited by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society. Now into its sixty-fifth year, as usual, the review contains a very rich collection of essays on various aspects of the history of Veneto and Venetian art, politics and culture, as well as a large number of reviews of major studies on these themes published in recent years.

The second date, on 13 October, will be devoted to the volume Giordano Riccati, illuminista veneto ed europeo in the “Veneto Music Studies” series. This book brings together the papers presented at a conference held on San Giorgio in 2010, as part of the events promoted by the Veneto Region to commemorate the third centenary of the
birth of the Treviso intellectual Jacopo Riccati (1709-1790). An eminent 18th-century scientist and man of letters, Riccati worked in the fields of mathematical sciences, acoustics, music and architecture. Like the conference that preceded it, the book contains – and this is particularly interesting – not only papers given by major experts
in the field, but also the results of research specially commissioned for the occasion and conducted by young scholars on specific topics in the history of architecture, the history of mathematics, acoustics and musicology.

Books at San Giorgio will end on 4 November with the presentation of Rodolfo Pallucchini e l’arte contemporanea, a recent release by publishers Scripta from Verona. The book presents the proceedings of the 2008 conference organised by the Giorgio Cini Foundation and the Veneto Regional Committee for the Celebrations of the Centenary of the Birth of Rodolfo Pallucchini (1908-1989). An illustrious professor of the history of modern art at the University of Padua, organizer of memorable post second world war Biennale exhibitions, founder and editor of Arte Veneta, and a director of our Institute of Art History, Pallucchini also cultivated specific interests in contemporary art, which
are duly dealt with for the first time in this book.

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