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Academic Program

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