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The Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies plans a host of events throughout the year, on the 91视频 campus, at other sites around the city and online.  to keep current with our calendar!

Upcoming events sponsored by the Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies

"Helen and 'Belle': Italy and the Italian Past through American Eyes"
Wednesday, April 8, 2:00pm on campus, Campus Center 3-3540

A white marble bust of a woman

The 91视频 Catherine Frisone Scott Center, in collaboration with the History Department, is pleased to host Dr. Brian Maxson, Professor of History at East Tennessee State University. Dr. Maxson will be delivering a talk at 2:00 pm (Campus Center 3-3540, University Drive North, Boston, MA 02125).

Years before Isabella Stewart Gardner turned her house into a museum and shrine to Italian art, teenager “Belle” spent months in Rome with her friend Helen Ruthven Waterston. Belle appears with some regularity in Helen’s diaries, providing at times amusing anecdotes about two American teens experiencing the Grand Tour in the mid 1800s. Beyond her comments about Belle, Helen’s diaries also offer insights into how Americans balanced admiration of and prejudice against Italians. Finally, the memorialization of Helen after her premature death in Naples at the age of 17 also illuminates the at times odd ways elite Bostonians processed Italian culture and history before people like Isabella Stewart Gardner popularized the idea of an “Italian Renaissance” in the United States.

Attendance is free to all. We hope to see you on April 8!

 

Past events sponsored by the Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies

  • "Fiction on Trial: Philip Roth, Ralph Ellison and Pietro di Donato at Yeshiva (1962)" with William Connell
  • "'The Fable is Called Mandrake': Medicine and Medical Lore in Machiavelli's Mandragola" with Catherine Freddo
  • The Frisone Center faculty bring a week-long iteration of Cinema Ritrovato On Tour to the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and The Brattle Theatre
  • "Imagining the World in the Renaissance" with Carrie Beneš
  • "Appearances of the Uninhibited Planet: An Ecosemiotic Approach to the Re-semanticised Landscape of Gianni Celati" with Sara Massafra
  • "Portraiture and Identity in the Roman Empire": The Frisone Center faculty give a tour of ancient Roman portraiture at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
  • The Frisone Center faculty co-organize a stop of Cinema Ritrovato On Tour, screening rare and restored films across three days
  • “The Face of Migration: Humanizing Global Migration through Storytelling” with Pamela Kerpius
  • “When Your Latin Teacher Is a Statue: Marta Marchina (1600-1646) and Pasquino” with Skye Shirley
  • The Frisone Center faculty screen Pupi Avati’s 2022 film, Dante, introduced by Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani
  • The Frisone Center faculty give a tour of Strong Women in Renaissance Italy at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
  • Lorenzo Buonanno, Shannon McHugh and Eugenio Refini convene Staging the Renaissance: A Conversation with the Authors of Three New Books
  • Laurie Nussdorfer presents her forthcoming publication, City of Men: Service and Servants in Baroque Rome, joined by Timothy McCall
  • Jessica Maratsos presents her 2022 monograph, Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy, joined by Stuart Lingo
  • Denis Brotto presents his 2021 documentary Logos Zanzotto, joined by Giovanni Zanzotto
  • "Do Black Lives Matter in Italy?" with Angelica Pesarini
  • Giulia Bertoluzzi presents her 2018 documentary Strange Fish
  • The Frisone Center faculty give a tour of Titian: Women, Myth & Power at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum
  • "Seeing Is Believing? Mario Schifano's Nonfigure" with Aja Martin
  • "Neorealism on TV: Italy, Television, and the Search for 'Genuine Food'" with Joseph Perna
  • "Wine over Water: Wine Culture in Medieval Italian Literature" with Danielle Callegari
  • "Machievelli: Yesterday and Today" with Christopher Celenza
  • Deception, Deceit, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era: 2017 New England Renaissance Conference at 91视频
  • Discussion and Reception Inaugurating the Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies in Memory of John B. Frisone

 

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