I Medici e il Levante: culture e dialoghi tra Firenze e il Mediterraneo Orientale (1532-1743)

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Archivio di Stato di Firenze - Auditorium

Begins:

Friday, June 7, 2013

I Medici e il Levante / The Medici and the Levant

(1532-1743)

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June 7, 2013

09:00 Welcome and Introduction - C. Zarrilli (Director, Archivio di Stato di Firenze), A. Assonitis (Director, The Medici Archive Project)
09:20 Opening Address - M. Caroscio (Independent Scholar), B. Sandberg (Northern Illinois University)

Panel 1 - Chair: S. Morrison Gallacher (IMT Lucca)

09:40 V. Prestini (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”) – Diplomazia ed economia nella politica ottomana di Cosimo I (1537-1574)
10:05 O. Mercan (European University Institute) – What Went Wrong?: Relations Between the Medici and the Ottoman Empire in the Second Half of the Sixteenth-Century
10:30 N. Capponi (Archivist, Centro Studi Famiglia Capponi) – Pointed Red Cross Ahoy: The Flip Side of Tuscan Maritime History in the Eastern Mediterranean 10:55 Coffee Break

Panel 2 - Chair: G. Ricci (Università di Ferrara)

11:15 L. Cirri (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) – L’Ordine di Santo Stefano e i Turchi: lettura comparativa dell’apparato iconografico ed emblematico dei granduchi toscani
11:40 M. Alberti (Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia) – The Discovery of Theatre in the Arab World: Theatre Festivals of the Medici Described by a Special Spectator: the Druze Emir Fakhr ad-Din
12:05 T. Gurney (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) – Oracles, Jews, Bandits, Slaves: The Early Modern Mediterranean at Play in the Theater of Giovan Battista Andreini
12:30 Discussion

Panel 3 - Chair: F. Morena (Independent Scholar)

14:45 W. Kynan-Wilson (Trinity College, Cambridge) – Imagining and Re-Imagining the Orient: The Ottoman Imagery of Jacopo Ligozzi in Medici Florence
15:10 S. Nelson (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz)– Answering the Call: Crusade and Ottoman Spolia in the Medici Collections
15:35 M. Caroscio, I. Sabatini (Independent Scholars)– Fascinated by the Levant: Imported Ceramics and Carpets in 16th Century Tuscany

Panel 4 - Chair: L. Molà (European University Institute)

16:20 F. Martelli (Archivio di Stato, Firenze) – Smirne, Istanbul e la corte ottomana nella seconda metà del Seicento attraverso la corrispondenza degli osservatori medicei
16:45 M. Farina (Università per Stranieri di Siena), S. Fani (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”) – Travelling Books: The Typographia Medicea and the East
17:10 Discussion

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