Wednesday Lectures

The Grand Dukes and the Cathedral Facade

A lecture by Timothy Verdon 

Three collectors in early 20th-century Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Ghiberti, Brunelleschi and the Gates of Paradise

A lecture by Jason Arkles

The Emotional Language of Justice in Renaissance Italy

A lecture by Fabrizio Ricciardelli

The Forger’s Craft: The Making of a ‘Renaissance’ Drawing

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Italy in the American Imagination

A lecture by Ian Bickerton

When Computers look at Art

A lecture by David G. Stork

Boccaccio’s Decameron in Florence

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

The Girl with a Peach: courage and compassion in wartime Tuscany

A lecture by Anne Copley

How Florence Won my Heart

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Southbound Sagas: Medici’s South American Tales

A lecture by Gastòn Javier Basile

How They Were Seen Part III: A Walk around Florence in the 1480's

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Byron 200

A performance by Jan Noble with an introduction by Mark Roberts

Plague in Florence

A lecture by John Henderson

Brunelleschi’s Dome

A lecture by Ross King

How the Medici Came to Know About the World: The Origin of Newspapers in Early Modern Florence

A lecture by Alessio Assonitis

Vernon Lee and the efforts to preserve old Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Painting the Past: How the Renaissance was Invented

A lecture by Kevin Murphy

A Lost Renaissance Masterpiece Restored: Pontormo at San Lorenzo

A lecture by Elizabeth Pilliod

“Sono arrivati degli inglesi”. The British presence in Florence through the images of Alinari Archives

A lecture by Giorgio van Straten

Finding, Fixing, Faking, Making: The Dealer Stefano Bardini and the Many Hands of Bardini & Co.

A lecture by Lynn Catterson

Dante’s Florence

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

The Liberation of Florence (1944)

A lecture by Valdo Spini

Facts and Fictions in Renaissance Florentine Family Books

A lecture by Lisa Kaborycha

Divine Blue

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi 

Images of Love in the Renaissance

A lecture by Elaine Ruffolo   

Palazzo Strozzi by Arturo Galansino

A lecture by Arturo Galansino

Porcelain from Florence: the Ginori factory

A lecture by Oliva Rucellai

‘Of glorious and generous fame’: The lasting influence of Francesco Petrarca

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence   

Lorenzo Bartolini and the Truth of Nature

A lecture by Jason Arkles   

The Importance of Florence in Music History

A lecture by Anthony Cummings   

Distinguishing Donatello

A lecture by Jeremy Boudreau

The Jewish Ghetto of Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Pre-Raphaelite ‘Sisterhood’ in the villas of Bellosguardo

A lecture by Francesca Baldry

Between the Sheets

A lecture by Duncan Geddes

Raphael’s Madonna del Baldacchino and the Basilica of Santo Spirito

A lecture by Timothy Verdon

The Bookseller of Florence

A lecture by Ross King

How they Were Seen - Sculpture

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Female Forerunners: A Room of their own

A lecture by Linda Falcone

The Bargello from 1880s to the present day.

A lecture by Paola D’Agostino

The Grand Tour & Beyond. The Paradigm of Florence

A lecture by Fabrizio Ricciardelli

Gesture in Renaissance Art

A lecture by Kevin Murphy

The Black Death

A lecture by Elaine Ruffolo

Castiglion del Bosco Wine Tasting

Talk and Taste

At the British Institute Library 

Palazzo Lanfredini

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Ponte Santa Trinita: "Where it was, as it was"

A lecture by Jason Arkles

The Paliotti of Santo Spirito

A lecture by by Margaret Zaho

RESTORATION: A day in the life of Artemisia... today

A lecture by Elizabeth Wicks

The Gipsoteca of the Galleria dell’ Accademia

A lecture by Cecilie Hollberg

Smell of the Botteghe

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

All in the (Medici) Family: Cultural Propaganda in Palazzo Pitti

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

Quattro Corone Fiorentine

 Zanobi da Strada between Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio

A lecture by Jason Houston

Brigida Baldinotti, The Most Celebrated Unknown Writer of the Quattrocento

A lecture by Lisa Kaborycha

Jan Noble: Shelley 200

A special Event in the Library

Revisiting Vinci: Legends and letters from Leonardo’s childhood

A lecture by Jeremy Boudreau

The Fake-makers of Bardini & Co

A lecture by Lynn Catterson

Botticelli’s Secret

A lecture by Joseph Luzzi

How they were Seen

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Palazzo Davanzati: a Medieval Time Machine

A lecture by Paola D'Agostino, Director Musei del Bargello

Rosalba Carriera: “First Painter of Europe"

A lecture by Angela Oberer

Frescobaldi: a Family History in Wine

Talk and Taste

At the British Institute Library

A League of their own: Women artists in grand-tour Florence

A lecture by Jeremy Boudreau

Who is Fra Angelico?

A lecture by Carl Strehlke

The Sitwells at Montegufoni

A lecture by Mark Roberts

The Rise of the Medici

Violence and Justice in Quattrocento Florence

A lecture by Fabrizio Ricciardelli

The Young Michelangelo

A lecture by Elaine Ruffolo

Villa Stibbert - A Castle with a View

A lecture by Martina Becattini

Artemisia UpClose!

A lecture by Linda Falcone

New light on the Latin Inscriptions of Medici Florence - CANCELLED

A lecture by Patrick Kragelund

The Colognole Estate

Lecture and wine tasting

Egg Tempera Painting in the Renaissance

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Quick Tickets to Paradise: Martyrs and Miracles in Art

A lecture by Duncan Geddes

Sala della Niobe at the Uffizi

A lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

Madness in Romantic Opera

A lecture by Matteo Sansone

Florence Baptistery: History, Art, Myth

A lecture by Timothy Verdon

A Beautiful Darkness: Rivalry, Competition, and Madness in Renaissance Florence

A lecture by Stephanie Azzarello

The Mysterious Maurice de Bosdari

A lecture by Lynn Catterson

D.H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas in Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Tenuta degli Dei: Lecture and Wine Tasting

Lecture and Wine Tasting

Santa Trinita, Life and Death in a Renaissance Square

A lecture by Kevin Murphy

David in Florence

A lecture by Margaret Zaho

Machiavelli’s Florence by Day and by Night

A lecture by Marcello Simonetta

The Melancholy of Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici

A lecture by Alessio Assonitis

Painting Large Frescoes in the Renaissance

A lecture by Alan Pascuzzi

Multi-Media Spectacle in Renaissance Florence

A lecture by Kate Bolton-Porciatti

Leonardo's Workshops

A lecture by Luke Syson

Royals in Florence

A lecture by Deirdre Pirro

Henry James in Florence

A lecture by Mark Roberts

Cultivating the Renaissance

A lecture by Katie Campbell

Festivities at the Duomo - 1436

A Lecture by Jeremy Boudreau 

Religious History of the Duomo

Wednesday Lecture by Timothy Verdon, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Gozzoli in Florence

Wednesday Lecture at the BIF

Women in Dante

Wednesday Lecture by Alexandra Lawrence

WARD ROUND AT THE UFFIZI

Wednesday Lecture by Duncan Geddes, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

The Grand Duke and the Merchant of Pisa: Ferdinando I's Relations with the Jews of Tuscany

Wednesday Lecture by Lisa Kaborycha, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

SECRETS OF THE FLORENTINE MASTERS: DRAPERY STUDIES

Wednesday Lecture by Alan Pascuzzi, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Omnium Gatherum: American Sculptors in Risorgimento Italy

Wednesday Lecture by Jeremy Boudreau, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Sir Horace Mann and the Grand Tourists

Wednesday Lecture by Mark Roberts, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

A Castle in Chianti – the Story of Sonnino

Wednesday Lecture by Caterina Sonnino, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Guardians and Messengers: Archangels in Florence

Wednesday Lecture by Jeremy Boudreau, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Pinocchio in Florence

Wednesday Lecture by Anna Kraczyna and John Hooper, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Monumental Dante

Wednesday Lecture by Jason Houston, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Currency of Diplomacy: Friendship, Propaganda and the Power of Renaissance Portrait Medals

Wednesday Lecture by Paola Vojnovic, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Artists' Payment in the Renaissance

Wednesday Lecture by Alan Pascuzzi, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

Urban safari: Lions, Giraffes, Monkeys and a Hippo in Renaissance Florence

Wednesday Lecture by Jeremy Boudreau, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

The monumental complex of Santa Croce, instructions for use - Narrating seven hundred years of history and building for the future

Wednesday Lecture by Stefano Filipponi, in person at the British Institute Library and online via Zoom

George Eliot and the writing of Romola

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Ghiberti´s homage to Brunelleschi - artistic rivalry in early 15th century Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

From Moore to Gormley and beyond: contemporary presences in the cradle of the Renaissance

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

TOSCANA… SARDA? Politics, Propaganda and Plebiscite in 19th-century Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Henry Moore and Tuscany

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Medieval Politics: Guelfs vs. Ghibellines

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Fighting spirits

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Poggio Bracciolini: Travel and Treasure Hunting in the Age of Humanism

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The Acton-Mitchell Family at Villa La Pietra: Writing, Collecting, and Gardening

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Patterns of Patronage in Santo Spirito

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Bronze Casting in the Renaissance

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The Tower that Giotto never built

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The Birth of Opera in Renaissance Italy

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Power and Sexuality in Renaissance Art

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Walter Savage Landor in Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Sculpture and Scrutiny: Public Art and Public Opinion in Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Alessandro Sinigaglia and Florentine Resistance

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Godi, Fiorenza! Dante’s Poetic (and other) Feelings about Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

On Art, Feminism and Eros: Mina Loy and the Avant-garde in Florence

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

A Taste of Modernity - The Tuscan Wine Revolution

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

The Origin of the Renaissance Palace Typology in Florence, 1382-1432

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Fallen Marys: The Magdalene and Other Wayward Saints in Renaissance Art

Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

Rediscovering the Raphael Cartoons at the V&A

Online event, via Zoom

Il Parco delle Cascine

Online event,  via Zoom

The Art of Goldsmithing: the Secret of the early Renaissance?

Online event, via Zoom

House of Secrets 2: Eccentricity and Debauchery in fin de siècle Florence

Online event, via Zoom

Settignano

Online Event - via Zoom  

Some 20th Century Literary Visitors to Florence

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

The Epicurean Machiavelli

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

Il Borgo Ognissanti

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

Leonardo, Zeffirelli and the Corsi family

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

Did Raphael have a Florentine Period?

At the British Institute of Florence's Library and online, on Zoom

American sculptors in Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Il Sesto di San Piero Scheraggio: History, Art and Life in the Heart of Florence’s Historic Centre.

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

New Jerusalem: Florence, the Medici and the Jews during the Renaissance

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Firenze NOW!

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

'With exquisite workmanship and skill': il parato di S.Giovanni embroidered from designs by Antonio Pollaiolo

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Boccaccio’s Decameron: a guide to Life after the Plague

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

James Joyce was born in Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Twelve and a half Centuries in Twelve and a half Hectares

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Oscar Wilde’s loyal friend Reggie: Reginald Turner in Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

House of Secrets: Palazzo Rucellai

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Tuscany, the Mediterranean and the birth of Europe

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

LA COSTA SAN GIORGIO IN OLTRARNO: An uphill encounter with Florence’s Southside

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Healing not Broken

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

Florentine Renaissance Art In The Domestic Sphere: Art And Daily Life In Renaissance Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on Zoom

La Piazza della Santissima Annunziata - A Renaissance Crossway of Faith, Charity and Hope

Virtual Cultural Event, on ZOOM

Early Anglo-Florentines, and some 18th-century visitors to Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on ZOOM

Virtual Event - Portraits and Selfies : the evolution of tourism in Florence

Virtual Cultural Event, on ZOOM

ART STORIES - TOSCANA… SARDA? Politics, Propaganda and Plebiscite in 19th-century Florence

at the British Institute Library

The apprenticeship and early lives of Leonardo and Michelangelo: a comparison

at the British Institute Library

Talking Pictures

alla Biblioteca del British Institute

Getting the message through: composers, scores, performers

at the British Institute Library

Talking Pictures

at the British Institute Library

Renaissance food and banqueting

at the British Institute Library

MUSIC AL BRITISH - Ashley Fripp (piano)

at the British Institute Library

The midwives at the Nativity

at the British Institute Library

ART STORIES - POGGIO BRACCIOLINI: Travel and Treasure Hunting in the Age of Humanism

at the British Institute Library

Some nineteenth-century literary visitors to Florence

at the British Institute Library

Talking Pictures

at the British Institute Library

Florence and the changing concept of childhood

at the British Institute Library

MUSIC AL BRITISH - Warwick Lister (violin) and James Gray (piano)

at the British Institute Library

Pierrot: a silent witness of changing times

at the British Institute Library

Talking Pictures

at the British Institute Library

A mausoleum for the Medici: the Pollaiuolo in the provinces

at the British Institute Library

ART STORIES - The Tower that Giotto Never Built

at the British Institute Library

The Orion Piano Trio

at the British Institute Library

Building a monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista

di Jason Houston 

ART STORIES SERIES - To Giorgio with Love:Vasari’s Lives of the Artists in the Age of Academic Painting

by Jeremy Boudreau

The boy bishop, the feast of fools and the feast of asses

di Mark Roberts

Talking Pictures...again

at the British Institute Library 

The Pinocchio papers: what Italy’s best-loved fable tells us about the Italians and their country today

di John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna 

ART STORIES SERIES - Urban safari: Lions, Giraffes, Monkeys and a Hippo in Renaissance Florence

by Jeremy Boudreau

Music al British

at the British Institute Library

Monsters and why we need them

di Charles Lambert 

Talking Pictures...again

at the British Institute Library  

Plautilla Nelli’s Last Supper

di Linda Falcone

ART STORIES SERIES - River Babies: Infant Navigators of the Historic Arno River Floods

by Jeremy Boudreau

A Royal Tourist in Florence

with Simon Gammell

Talking Pictures...again

at the British Institute Library  

Music al British

at the British Institute Library

The limits of medicine

with Duncan Geddes and Tonino Pieri

ART STORIES SERIES - Medici Maladies: Gout, Cannonballs, Murder and Syphilis in the Medici Family Tree

by Jeremy Boudreau

How music learning and listening affect brain structure and function

di Piero Dolara

Talking Pictures...again

at the British Institute Library

The Villa Farnese at Caprarola and its gardens

di Paul Gwynne 

ART STORIES SERIES - Sculpture and Scrutiny: : Public Art and Public Opinion in Florence (Past and Present)

Join Head of History of Art Jeremy Boudreau for the first of our Tuesday evening Art Stories. 

Music al British

The inaugural concert for our new Music al British series will feature acclaimed international violinist Elvira Bekova:

Elvira Bekova  -  Violin

Ivan Sokolov  -  Pianoforte

Book Aid International: the stories of our lives

by Kamin Mohammadi and Emma Taylor 

The Iranian writer and journalist Kamin Mohammadi joins Emma Taylor of the British-based charity Book Aid International to narrate inspiring stories about the importance of reading in our lives.

Andrea del Verrocchio, master of Leonardo da Vinci

Lecture in English by Arturo Galansino 

Insieme 200: celebrating 200 years of US diplomatic presence in Florence

Lecture in English by Benjamin Wohlauer

La passione: how Italy seduced the world

Lecture in English by Dianne Hales 

Death in Venice: corpses, cemeteries and Catholicism

Lecture in English by Alex Bamji 

The lady is a spy: Stan Harding in Florence

Lecture in English by Melanie King 

Roma Britannica: Britain and the British in the Latin inscriptions of Rome

Lecture in English by Tyler Lansford

The Shepheardes Calender (World premiere performance)

Lecture in English by David Salvage 

Resubstantiating antiquity: revival and architectural reuse in the Renaissance

Lecture in English by Michael Waters

Resurrection: the iconography of Easter

Lecture in English by Mark Roberts

Killing Caesar

Lecture in English by Simon Gammell

SHAKESPEARE WEEK 

Becoming Michelangelo

Lecture in English by Alan Pascuzzi

Twenty-five years after the English translation of Carlo Rosselli’s ‘Socialismo Liberale’: meaning and prospective

Lecture in English by Nadia Urbinati

Giuliano da Sangallo’s non-conformist Renaissance

Lecture in English by Dario Donetti

Lovely faces: the biology of beauty

Lecture in English by Duncan Geddes

Howard Pyle: American master, studente di Firenze

Lecture in English by Jeffrey Pike

The eyes that look: the secret story of Bassano’s ‘Hunting dogs’

Lecture in English by Julia Grigg and Giuliana Ericani

A lecture for Black History Month Florence

Lecture in English by Angelica Pesarini

Two kings, two statutes, two hospitals: how Santa Maria Nuova inspired the creation of the Savoy Hospital in London

Lecture in English by Manila Soffici

Leonardo da Vinci: beauty and utility

Lecture in English by Sara Taglialagamba

Behind the Medici men: the ladies

Lecture in English by Daniela Cavini

The writing on the walls: inscriptions in the streets of Florence

Lecture in English by Graham Avery

Insieme200: celebrating 200 years of U.S. diplomatic presence in Florence

Lecture in English by Benjamin Wohlauer

Economists and charlatans

Lecture in English by David K. Levine

Christmas comes but once a year

Christmas event - Staff and members

My father the poet Peter Russell

Lecture in English by Sara Russell 

Between Italy and Greece: letters across the Mediterranean Sea

Lecture in English by Sara Moran 

Bella figura: how to live, love and eat the Italian way

Lecture in English by  Kamin Mohammadi 

Concert for the centenary of the First World War

Music by Sinforosa Petralia (pianoforte) and Lea Galasso (violoncello)

Bernini, Benjamin West and the dirty secrets of art history

Lecture in English by Loyd Grossman 

Bartolomeo Ammannati e le sue costruzioni a Firenze

Lecture in Italian by Marco Calafati 

Women artists of the 1900s

Lecture in English by Linda Falcone

Who gets the money, who gets the estate? Untying the knot of cross-border inheritance

Lecture in English by Maria Grazia Antoci 

A Florentine composer between two worlds: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

Lecture in English by Matteo Sansone 

Stories of Italian migrants in the United Kingdom

Lecture in English by  Rino Garro 

Muriel Spark: appointment in Arezzo/Florence

Lecture in English by Alan Taylor

Spine-tingling tales from the private library of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Lecture in English by William Zachs 

Egypt and Mesopotamia in John Alfred Spranger’s 1929-1936 photo reportages

Lecture in English by Stefano Anastasio

Theatre, magic and philosophy: Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian legacy

Lecture in English by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath

Remembering Iris Origo: her war diaries

Lecture in English by Benedetta Origo and Katia Lysy

Monochrome: curating in black and white

Lecture in English by Jennifer Sliwka

“A mirror endowed with memory…” Photography, Artists & the Art Market in late 19C Florence

Lecture in English by  Lynn Catterson

Recitativo/Clouds and Noise – Fragments after Lucretius and Negri

Performance by David Ryan and musicians

Language of my choosing

Lecture in English by  Anne Pia

Concert George Wilson and Natasha Hall

Music for pianoforte and violin by Mozart, Beethoven and Chausson

Florence and The Grand Tour

Lecture in English by Mark Roberts

Due medici toscani del Settecento e i rapporti con la cultura britannica: il mugellano Antonio Cocchi e Michelangelo Giannetti da Barga

Lecture in Italian by Manuele Bellonzi

‘Measure for Measure’ and the quest to overcome sexual tyranny

Shakespeare Week lecture by Eric Nicholson

Art and the biology of consciousness

Lecture in English by Duncan Geddes

Birth of a nation. Italian art from the postwar to 1968

Lecture in English by Arturo Galansino

Climate change and the future of the Paris Agreement

Lecture in English by Joanne Scott

Bernard Berenson and Asian art; Asian art and me

Lecture in English by Carl Strehlke

Artemisia Gentileschi in Florence, 1613-1620

Lecture in English by Sheila Barker

The concept of modern art in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance

Lecture in English by Robert Brennan

Il lato nascosto dell’ovvio (eccezionale, naturalmente).

Lecture in Italian by Maria Luisa Ciminelli

Concert Alice Michahelles (pianoforte) and Francesca Taviani (violoncello)

Music by Chopin, Vaughan Williams and Chaplin

Make art, not walls: a Black History Month Florence event

Lecture in English by Virginia Ryan

The challenge of migration in the European Union

Lecture in English by Caterina Francesca Guidi

Il ruolo dell'Inghilterra nel Risorgimento italiano

Lecture in Italian by Giovanni Cipriani

Love letters from Mount Rushmore

Lecture in English by Richard Cerasani

Blurring the boundaries: Italian neo-realism and documentary film

Lecture in English by Patrick Hazard

Noel, Noel

Christmas event with readings and carols by our staff and members

Italian political rhetoric

Lecture in English by Franco Andreucci

All other news (I mean lies): the forging of 17th-century news discourse in a sceptical news society

Lecture in English by Nicholas Brownlees

The archive of the British Institute of Florence

Lecture in English by Alyson Price

An evening with the Chairman of the British Institute of Florence

Event hosted by Richard Jacques

A brief history of Virago Press

Lecture in English by Lennie Goodings

Upon this rock by Mark Roberts

Book Presentation in English

Concert Margaret Bruce (pianoforte) and Dearbhla Nolan (trumpet)

Music by Schubert, Hansen, Liszt and others

Visite reali a Firenze

Lecture in Italian by Domenico Savini

Italian academies and their networks, 1525-1700

Lecture in English by Simone Testa

Rooms and Views: filming in Florence with Merchant Ivory

Lecture in English by Sarah Quill

EU-UK relations after Brexit

Lecture in English by Renaud Dehousse

A Europe of states or a Europe of getting things done

Lecture in English by Richard Rose

The character, legacy and genius of Michael Faraday

Lecture in English by John Meurig Thomas

Ian Greenlees (Director 1958-1980) and his friendship with Norman Douglas

Lecture in English by Mark Roberts

Herbert Percy Horne e la sua collezione

Lecture in Italian by Elisabetta Nardinocchi

Heading for the Exit: the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union

Lecture in English by Helen Wallace

Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, in Florence and Rome

Lecture in English by Flora Fraser

Relations between the United Kingdom and Italy: the past, the present and the future

Lecture in English by Jill Morris

British reactions to the bimillennium of Augustus, 1936-1937

Lecture in English by Christopher Smith

Renaissance tapestries and textile diplomacy

Lecture in English by Jeremy Boudreau

An Englishman in New York

Lecture in English by Bill Jacklin

The marvels of Clarence Bicknell

Lecture in English by Graham Avery and Marcus Bicknell

Picasso and the meaning of Guernica

Lecture in English by Robin Blake

The English and the Uffizi: three centuries of cultural exchange

Lecture in English by Eike Schmidt

Richard III and representations of tyranny in Shakespeare and early modern drama

Lecture in English for Shakespeare Week by Martin White

I miei maestri: gli scrittori che mi hanno formato

Lecture in Italian by Marco Vichi

Heritage: who needs it?

Lecture in English by Loyd Grossman

Adventures in ‘artigianato’

Lecture in English by Eve Borsook

A talk for International Women’s Day

Lecture in English by Julia Race

The magic of books or the magic of Facebook?

Lecture in English by Giuliano Amato

Storie e storia: scritture africane come fonte

Lecture in Italian for Black History Month Florence by Maria Stella Rognoni

Inglesi ingessati - gessi nella collezione Bartolini della Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze

Lecture in Italian by Cecilie Hollberg

Playful pictures: art and carnival culture under Lorenzo de’ Medici

Lecture in English by Chriscinda Henry 

Rock and roll diplomacy: how American music influenced the Rolling Stones, and how the Stones changed America

Lecture in English by Abigail Rupp

The outlook for the European economy and financial markets

Lecture in English by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi 

Caravaggio and the guardian of mercy

Lecture in English by Terence Ward 

President Trump: the path to the White House and his prospects

Lecture in English by Federico Romero

Readers and musicians

Christmas readings and music, with mince pies

Ai Weiwei a Firenze

Lecture in Italian by Arturo Galansino

The UK and Europe post the referendum

Lecture in English by Brigid Laffan

From Aristotle’s teleology to Darwin’s genealogy

Lecture in English by Marco Solinas

The 1966 flood: an eye-witness account

Part of the Month of Mud

Lecture in English by Swietlan Kraczyna

L’alluvione a Firenze: sgomento e riscatto di una città

Part of the Month of Mud

Lecture in Italian by Bruno Santi

Why save Florence? A film-maker reflects on the 1966 flood

Part of the Month of Mud

Lecture in English by Roger Graef

Writing history, creating a dynasty: the sacred work of Lucrezia Tornabuoni

Lecture in English by John Hoenig

‘Think cinematographically, eat cinematographically, sleep cinematographically’: the films of Bernardo Bertolucci

Lecture in English by James Sholto Douglas

The organ at the Badia Fiorentina: an instrument of European importance

Lecture in English by Robin Walker 

The Olympic spirit: citius, altius, fortius

Lecture in English by Michael Griffiths

The paradox of the democratic Prince: Machiavelli and political leadership in contemporary democracies

Lecture in English by Richard Bellamy

Lombard bankers in London

Lecture in English by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli

Europe after Brexit

Lecture in English by Bill Emmott

L’immagine delle ville medicee: le lunette Utens

Lecture in Italian by Alessandra Griffo

Primo Levi: chemistry, literature and memory

Lecture in English by Luigi Dei

The myth of republicanism in Renaissance Italy

Lecture in English by Fabrizio Ricciardelli

‘I am not what I am’: hidden identities in Shakespeare’s plays

Lecture in English by Luigi Giannitrapani

Bernard Berenson and tactile values

Lecture in English by Marion Thain

From Florence to South Kensington to New York: J. Pierpont Morgan’s bronze doors

Lecture in English by Lynn Catterson

Three (and a half) collectors in early 20th-century Florence: Acton, Loeser and Horne (and Langton Douglas)

Lecture in English by Mark Roberts

Ferdinando Tacca: a theatre cast in bronze

Lecture in English by Anthea Brook

A recital of music by Beethoven, De Falla and Brahms

Concert by Duo Goldenberg

Speaking Shakespeare in the English-speaking cinema

Lecture in English by Russell Jackson

Cities of the Levant: a warning from history?

Lecture in English by Philip Mansel

The trial of Jesus

Extended lecture in English by Joseph Weiler

Un critico riflette sul cinema italiano

Lecture in Italian by Giovanni Bogani

Dante and Lady Philosophy

Lecture in English by Andrew Frisardi

De tous les livres celui que je préfère est mon passeport

Lecture in English by Julia Race

Pictures, words and the imagination in Cimabue’s Vita Christi

Lecture in English by Holly Flora

Middle-ground morals for Middle Sea migrants

Lecture in English by Martino Traxler

Art: mirror of the soul

Lecture in English by Richard W. Serrin

Wines in opera: dithyrambs, brindisi and mischief

Musical lecture in English by Matteo Sansone and Tanya Di Rienzo

Nature’s secretaries: Renaissance women and the art of writing artless letters

Lecture by Lisa Kaborycha

Escape to Italy: D.H. Lawrence remembers his elopement with Frieda

Lecture by Ross Robins

Concert by Carla Giometti (soprano) and Adriano Sebastiani (guitar)

Music by Giuliani, Schubert, Dowland, Britten and others

The procession of the Three Kings

Christmas lecture by Mark Roberts

A reading of his poems, a performance of his music

Lecture by Baret Magarian

La liberazione della Donna: music, theatre and sexual politics in early Seicento Florence

Lecture with music by John Hoenig

Senza parole: comunicare coi gesti in Italia

Lecture in Italian by Massimo Castagna

Il Viaggio dei Romantici alla Ricerca della Felicità

Lecture in Italian by Luigi Giannitrapani

When the world answered: Florence, women artists and the 1966 flood

Lecture by Linda Falcone

Translation as ethical hospitality

Conferenza in inglese: Franca Cavagnoli

Corruption in late Republican Rome

Corruption in late Republican Rome

Lecture by Valentina Arena

Looking beyond the Renaissance: modern Florence (1865-2015)

Lecture by David and Ann Wilkins