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Vita di Niccolò Machiavelli fiorentino by Marco De Luca and Simone Testa

Reading and webinar

The beautiful illustrations by Marco De Luca and text by Simone Testa describe Machiavelli’s relationship with Cesare Borgia, his exile from Florence imposed by the Medici family on the suspicion of having plotted against them, the correspondence with his good friend and Ambassador in Rome Francesco Vettori, the return to his hometown, the ideas behind his masterpiece Il Principe.

2019 marked the 550th anniversary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s birth. Referred to as “Old Nick” in Seventeenth-century English literature because of his realistic political teachings, Machiavelli was born and bread in the thriving, yet troubled city of Florence. There, he was among the protagonists of a very critical period in the history of the city, when the Medici regime came to an end, and a republican government was implemented. In that context, Machiavelli was a very influential voice. When he was chased from his post as secretary in the Florentine chancellery, and found himself in confinement in the countryside, he wrote the influential political treatise The prince. Filled with an innovative approach to a wide variety of crucial topics, the book had an immense impact on Western culture. Since then, Machiavelli has been either very much loved, or loathed by his readers. In all cases, his teachings remained a corner stone in political writing, and political practice.

Introduced by ICI Director Katia Pizzi, Florentine actor Roberto Caccavo will read Machiavelli’s letter to Francesco Vettori dated 10 December 1513 (in Italian).

Followed by a conversation with the authors and Lisa Sampson (UCL) and William Landon (Northern Kentucky University, University of Edinburgh)

Marco De Luca teaches Italian literature in a secondary school in Bologna. He has studied comics and illustrations. He has authored and illustrated short stories for the magazine Cenerentola. He is the creator of the illustrations of the graphic novel Voivod (published in the UK by Markosia)

Simone Testa teaches Storia di Firenze (History of Florence) at the International Studies Institute in Florence. He has written extensively on culture and political literature in 1500 and 1600, and on the use of literature in cinema.

Roberto Caccavo is an eclectic actor, working for both cinema and theatre. Among others, he has worked with Angelo Savelli and Riccardo Massai. He interpreted the famous Italian cycling champion Fausto Coppi in the 2014 film Mi chiamava Valerio.

Dr Lisa Sampson is Reader in Early Modern Italian Studies at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at UCL. She works on Modern Italy, focusing on theatre and literary culture women’s writing, academies and court culture. She is the author of several publications including Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: the making of a new genre, and her co-edition of Italian Academies 1525-1700: Networks of Culture, Innovation and Dissent, resulting from a major AHRC collaborative project on which she was a senior investigator (CI) with partners from Royal Holloway, London and the British Library.

Dr William Landon is Professor in the Department of History and Geography at the Northern Kentucky University. He received hi M.Sc. and Ph.D. in History, with an emphasis on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, from the University of Edinburgh. He has published two books on Machiavelli: Politics, Patriotism and Language: Niccolò Machiavelli’s “Secular Patria” and the creation of an Italian national identity and Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli: Patron, Client, and an Epistle written concerning the Plague.

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  • Organizzato da: ICI London