Professor Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale, Pisa):

Moulding the People: Machiavelli, Michelangelo

In his Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli compared the act of imposing new political orders on an uncivilized population to the carving of a statue from a piece of rough marble: an allusion, according to many scholars, to Michelangelo’s David. Did Michelangelo respond in some way to Machiavelli’s allusion?

Lecture length: approximately 1 hour. To be followed by a question and answer period.

This lecture will be held online, via Zoom Webinar. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 1 day before the event.

This event is free and open to the public. If you are registering from outside of the Penn community, please select "Other" in the "Penn role/s" checkbox. For questions or for further information: email kislak@pobox.upenn.edu

Co-sponsored by The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University; The Center for Italian Studies; the Italian Studies Section of the Department of Romance Languages; and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

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