“Conspiracies, Intrigues, and Betrayals in the Italian Renaissance.” Featuring Arianna Capirossi and Giacomo Ventura (University of Bologna), in conversation with Dario Brancato (Concordia University).

The Italian Renaissance produced some of the greatest artistic and literary achievements in European history, but it was also shaped by conspiracies, betrayals, and bloody episodes vividly portrayed in novels, theatrical works, and more recently in television series such as The Borgias. In this conversation, the speakers will explore the darker side of the Renaissance, examining power struggles and the political and religious tensions that marked this iconic period of Italian history.

Monday, June 8 – 6 PM
Free admission with reservation (RSVP)
Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal
1200 Dr. Penfield Avenue

Event in Italian

Arianna Capirossi earned her PhD from the Universities of Florence, Sorbonne, and Bonn. She is currently a tutor and postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna, where she specializes in Humanist and Renaissance literature and the reception of Latin classics. She has published the monograph La ricezione di Seneca tragico tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento and the critical edition of the Florentine chronicle Nuova opera by Giovanni Cavalcanti, both published by Firenze University Press.

Giacomo Ventura is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, where he teaches Italian Literature, Text Analysis, and the Teaching of Italian Literature. His research focuses on Bolognese Humanism, the technical and scientific lexicon of Italian humanists, and Benedetto Varchi as historian. He is responsible for the critical edition of Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Historia Monstrorum (National Edition) and is part of a team preparing an annotated edition of De casibus virorum illustrium (International Boccaccio Edition).

Dario Brancato is Full Professor of Italian and Chair of the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics at Concordia University. His research focuses on Florentine history and culture in the sixteenth century and on the reception of the Classics in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, subjects on which he has published extensively. He has collaborated with several Italian and international universities, including Bologna, Pisa, and Harvard.