Bonaccorso Pitti’s many faces, nine lives and his Memoirs
A successful merchant, experienced politician, subtle ambassador and notorious gambler, Bonaccorso Pitti (1354-1432) has fascinated […]
Category: Faculty News
Architecture speaks!
Professor Franco Pisani has been chosen to speak at the Architecture Symposium being hosted by […]
Hide and seek for five centuries in translation
As the title suggests, the over forty essays collected in “Le masque de l’écriture. Philosophie […]
Discovering Mantegna
ISI’s art history and museology Professor Francesca Marini introduces the discovery and publication of a […]
Creative writing by ISI professor
From Voyages Journal, a publication of Gonzaga University in Florence. Serena Baldini teaches Italian language and […]
A need for change
ISI Florence professor Pierluca Birindelli breaks new ground with his latest essay “Keeping it in the […]
Book release: ”The Passage from Youth to Adulthood”
“The Passage from Youth to Adulthood” by Pierluca Birindelli (ISI professor of Anthropology) explores a society […]
Hot off the press (Harvard University Press)
Scholars of Italian literature tend to depict Florentine chancellor and humanist Coluccio Salutati (d. 1406) […]
A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
In March 2014 ISI professor Franco Pisani was invited to the Frascari Symposium Confabulations, taking […]