Dr Matteo Augello is a fashion historian based in London, where he collaborates with the Italian Cultural Institute on their fashion programming. He lectures internationally and his first monograph, Curating Italian Fashion: Heritage, Industry, Institutions, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022. He has worked for institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and World Stage Design, and is currently a Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas.
A drinks reception will follow the talk
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In recent years the development of new methods of archaeological survey have transformed our understanding on Roman towns in Italy. This talk will discuss the methods used and illustrate some of the new discoveries, discussing their importance for our understanding of Italy’s rich cultural heritage.
Martin Millett is Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and President of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His work focues both on the impact of Roman imperialism on indigenous societies and on the application of survey methods in archaeology. He has led fieldwork and excavation projects in Britain, Spain, Portugual and Italy. In Italy he has led projects at a variety of Roman town sites as well as at Portus, the harbour of Imperial Rome. He is currently working on a new synthesis of Roman Britain for Princeton University Press.
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Since the 16th century British monarchs and their families have collected and commissioned works by some of the greatest Italian artists. Michael Hall, author of the 2017 book Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection, delves into this enduring royal fascination with Italy. He highlights the diverse collecting styles and artistic passions of three key figures: Charles I, George III and Prince Albert. Through their differing approaches, Hall reveals how each contributed to a legacy that celebrates the splendour of Italian artistry.
Micheal Hall is an architectural historian and former architectural editor of Country Life. He was editor of Apollo (2004–10) and The Burlington Magazine (2017–24). His book Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection was published by Penguin in 2017.
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Dr Michael Hall
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Following the succes of the exhibtion at Palazzo Pitti (Florence) in 2023/2024, heading to NY in 2025.
The Ghetto of Florence has been for more than two centuries the architectural-material baricentre of Florentine Jewry, being established by Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici in 1570-71, and being then demolished at the end of the 19th century as part of a major urban renewal plan known as “Risanamento” (lit. “the healing”) aiming to change the physiognomy of the old town and turn it into a modern and fully “Italianised” city. The making of the ghetto in Florence represented a major diversion from the “old” Medici’s tolerant standing on the Jewish minority, the implementation of canon laws aiming to mark a physical, material border between the two communities. While officially conceived to marginalise the Jews, the ghetto in fact served as a geographical barycentre, segregating but also protecting its inhabitants, offering them a “physical/material” dimension and point of reference that in the pre-ghetto time the Jews of Tuscany, like those of Italy and of the Diaspora on the whole, had been aprioristically and sistematically denied.
Piergabriele Mancuso received his doctoral degree in Jewish Studies from University College London, 2009. He also studied in Oxford (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) as a Phd student fellow (2004) and at the Warburg Institute, London (Sophie Fellowship Programme, 2006). He has been Senior Lecturer on History of Music and Venetian History at Boston University Study Abroad and was visiting lecturer at University of Kentucky (College of Fine Arts), “Cà Foscari” University, Venice (Department of Oriental Languages), at Università dell’Insubria in Como, and University of Padua. In 2001 he graduated in music (viola) and for many years he has been a professional contemporary music performer. His research interests include Jewish music and ethnomusicology, Venetian history (that he taught for almost 20 years to American students!) and history of the Jews in Medici Florence. In June 2013 he was appointed director of the Eugene Grant Jewish History Program at the Medici Archive Project. In 2018 he launched the Ghetto Mapping Project, a major research program aiming to reconstruct, on the basis of archival documents, the architectural, demographic and nonetheless artistic-cultural features of the ghetto of Florence. His book on the making of the Florentine ghetto – Before the Ghetto – Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Grand Duchy and the Jews – 1569-1570, will soon be published by Brepols.
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Photo credit: Telemaco Signori, a Florentine painter (1835-1910) showing a portion of the ghetto a few years before its demolition. The work is now at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.
Since it was founded in 1941, the British-Italian Society has worked to promote knowledge and understanding in the UK of Italian culture, including Italy’s history, institutions, way of life, language and wider contribution to civilisation.
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