A cycle of 4 lectures by Professor Luigi Ballerini

June 4-11-18-25 2021 at 6 PM EST

First session: June 4, 6 PM EST

Dante’s Ulysses and Boccaccio’s Guido Cavalcanti: early examples of a renewed concept of VIRTUE. The value of LITERATURE.

Second session: June 11, 6 PM EST
Florentine Humanism – A philological approach to Greek and Latin Texts. The Fall of Constantinople. Cosimo de Medici, patron of the arts.

Third session: June 18, 6 PM EST
Aristoteles: Ethic s and Politics. Leonardo Bruni  

Fourth session: June 25, 6 PM EST
The Council of Constance (1417) – Poggio Bracciolini – The notion of Honest Pleasure Pleasure. A look at Leonardo Strozzi’s and Paolo Veronese’s holy banquets. The Birth of Modern Gastronomy.