Round table
Global Florence:
The Making of an Exhibition
in collaboration with the European University Institute (EUI)
Battista Agnese (ca. 1500-1564), Atlas, ff. 12v-13r, 1543, 45 x 32 cm. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Med. Palat. 245.
This panel explores the conception and organisation of Global Florence: The World of Francesco Carletti, c. 1573-1636, an exhibition to be held at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence (October 2026 to January 2027). Bringing together the historians, art historians, librarians and the exhibition curators, the panel discusses the curatorial vision, the selection of manuscripts and rare materials, conservation and display challenges, and the collaborative partnerships that have shaped the project. The panel also considers the exhibition's engagement with Florence as a global centre of intellectual and cultural exchange in the early modern world.
Chair: Bianca de Divitiis; Speakers: Eugenia Antonucci (Laurenziana); Alexandria Brown-Hedjazi (Syracuse); Brian Brege (Syracuse); Paula Findlen (Stanford); Francesca Gallori (Laurenziana); Lia Markey (Newberry Library); Giorgio Riello (EUI).
This lecture is part of this year's Summer School “Welcome to Florence”. Workers, Foreigners, and Other Communities in the Renaissance and in the Present (October 5-10 2026).
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09 October 2026, 5:30pm
This event will take place in Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai.
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