27 februari 2023
Our knowledge of Italian societies before the Roman conquest is not what we would like, as a consequence of a fundamental lack of first-hand literary sources. In fact, annalistic sources basically provide us with a narrative of wars, and not much more. We have...
14 februari 2023
This KNIR Research Dialogue offers an interpretation of fascist colonial rhetoric and practices in North and East Africa between 1922 and 1943 from the perspective of the environmental history. On the one hand, it highlights the historic paramount role played by the...
3 januari 2023
Since the end of the Second World War, Italians have faced the question of what to do with the physical traces of the Fascist regime, and whether to preserve, demolish, alter, or renovate buildings and monuments of that era. Fascist sites represent a difficult...
28 november 2022
The Paduan antiquarian Lorenzo Pignoria composed a small treatise on the gods of different parts of the world as an appendix to Vincenzo Cartari’s famous mythographic work. Pignoria’s Aggionta, compiled in three editions starting in 1615, constituted a new way of...
27 september 2022
About the lectures Artist collective de Onkruidenier will talk about their views of the relationship between landscape, science and art. The best-known artists of the Renaissance often practised many different professions and were seen as craftsmen as well as...
