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…
Events
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…
“Early Readers of Machiavelli: What we know, what they teach us” with Gabriele Pedullà (Università Roma 3)
Cherpack Lounge…
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…