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Global Florence (HEC-RS-GLOFLO-26)

HEC-RS-GLOFLO-26

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Global Florence explores the global role played by the city of Florence in the early modern period. Hailed as the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence has been an important cultural, artistic and cultural centre in the Renaissance. Yet, its history is often told in national and regional terms unlike that of important ‘global’ cities such as London, Amsterdam or Istanbul. This block seminar is constructed around the opening of a new exhibition at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana entitled ‘Global Florence: The World of Francesco Carletti, c. 1573–1636’. The seminar has three aims: first, to recast the narrative of Florence as a city connected with the rest of the world. Second, to use a specific primary source, the journey of Francesco Carletti—Florentine merchant, former repentant slave trader, and the first person to have accidentally circumnavigated the globe (1594–1602)—to explore Florence’s relationships with the wider world in the early modern period. And finally, to reflect on how historiographical reinterpretations can be communicated to the wider public through an object-based exhibition and a catalogue.  

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