An Evening of Italian Madrigals

Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Blue Heron vocal ensemble, directed by Scott Metcalfe Italian Madrigals on texts by Petrarch and Tasso SCHEDULE Pre-concert lecture at 6:15 by Mauro Calcagno and Scott Metcalfe, followed by the concert at 7:00 pm. ABOUT Music in the Pavilion Series Presented by the University…

Oltre i bordi: Screening with Director Simone Brioni

Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329-A Stony Brook University professor Simone Brioni has spent the past ten years researching Italian colonialism. On a return visit to Italy, he discovered a box of photographs taken in Italian East Africa (Eritrea and Ethiopia) in the 1930s by a distant relative who had been sent to…

Machiavelli the Aristotelian? Discussing the Greek Sources of Modern Political Thought

Class of 1955 Conference Room, Van Pelt Library In a letter that he wrote to Francesco Vettori on 26 August 1513, Niccolò Machiavelli rejects Aristotle’s teaching in political matters, suggesting that practice is a better teacher than authority. Machiavelli did something similar in both The Prince and the Discourses suggesting that the Aristotelian idea of…