Event Category: Italian

“Purim and Local Purims in Early Modern Italy: Tales of Freedom and Survival” with Martina Mampieri

March 4, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Cherpack Lounge Martina Mampieri is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow in the Department of History and the Program in Jewish Studies at Penn. She is currently working on a project entitled “BookSHUK: The International Market of Jewish Manuscripts and Books (1900-1948),” which studies history of the global market for Jewish manuscripts and early printed books in […]

Aristotelian Physiology and the Early Sicilian Poetry: Images, Spirits, and Transmission A Lecture by Matteo Pace (Connecticut College)

March 5, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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Class of 1955 Conference Room, 241 Van Pelt Library   At the courts of Frederick II Hohenstaufen and his son Manfred, science and poetry flourished as sources of leisure even amid the most dramatic throes of war. It is no surprise that during their tumultuous reigns, the Hohenstaufen rulers patronized translations, fostered intercultural dialogues, and […]