British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Italian Lectures

This lecture series was endowed by Mrs Angela Mond. The lectures are intended to be on Italian literature, history, and art – particularly Italy’s part in the Renaissance. The lecture was first delivered in 1917.

ITALIAN LECTURES (2001 onwards)
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2011  Myself When Young: Becoming a Musician in Renaissance Italy - or Not, by Bonnie Blackburn

2009  Leon Battista Alberti and the Redirection of Renaissance Humanism, by Martin McLaughlin

2007  Architectural Politics in Renaissance Venice, by Deborah Howard

2005  Dante's Epistle to Cangrande and its Two Authors, by Carlo Ginzburg

2003  Charity and Usury: Jewish and Christian Lending in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy, by Brian Pullan

2001  'Viva Savoia': The Cultural Foundation of the Kingdom of Italy, 1849-1878, by Andrew Lyttleton