Lessons will be held from Monday to Friday, starting from 7 June 2021 to 25 June 2021.
*You can choose to join the full summer program (3 weeks) or just 1 or 2 weeks.
Week 1 (7-12 June 2021)
- Opening Lecture
- Citizenship and Civic Virtues in the Roman Res Publica (Fabrizio Oppedisano)
- Face, self-representation and power in the Roman Empire (Maria Luisa Catoni)
- 24 August 410: The Sack of Rome amid Institutional Crumbling, Religious Conflicts and Millennialism (Fabrizio Oppedisano)
- Temporal Power and Spiritual Power in Rome between the Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Umberto Longo)
Assessment: written test for those attending just the first week
Visit: Colosseum and the Roman Forum. At the end of the visit students will attend a ‘journey through ancient Rome’: a 3d reconstruction of the Forum of August (http://www.viaggioneifori.it/en/#augusto )
Week 2 (14-18 June 2021)
- Cola di Rienzo and the Myth of Rome in the Late Middle Ages (Umberto Longo)
- Politics and Culture in the Renaissance Courts: Ferrara (Riccardo Bruscagli)
- Politics and Culture in the Renaissance Courts: Florence (Riccardo Bruscagli)
- Machiavelli Reader of Tito Livio (Gianfranco Pellegrino)
- Politics and Culture in Renaissance Rome (Fabrizio Conti)
- The Church of Rome Facing the Protestant Challenge: Council of Trent and Counter-Reformation (Elena Bonora)
- The Art in the Service of Counter-Reformation (Consuelo Lollobrigida)
Assessment: written test for those attending: a) just the second week; b) the first and second week
Visit: Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
Week 3 (21-25 June 2021)
- Napoleonic Rome, the Second City of the Empire (Chiara Lucrezio Monticelli)
- Rome in the Crumbling of the Papal State (Luca Coniglio)
- The Italian Opera as a Means of Political Communication in 19th Century Italy (Carlotta Sorba)
- Rome, Capital City of the Kingdom of Italy: Monumental Policies in the Service of the Nation (Francesco Bartolini)
- Politics and Planning of Urban Space in Fascist Rome (Danilo Breschi)
- Politics, Culture and Urban Planning in post-World War II Rome (Bruno Bonomo)
Assessment: written test for those attending: a) the whole program; b) just the third week; c) the second and third week
Visit: Mussolini’s Rome