Join the the sixth meeting of The Academia Bessarione on April 6th at 8.00pm (European time) to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death discussing connections with The English Cemetery in Florence, including Fanny Trollope.

The Academia Bessarione takes its name from discovering sixty years ago a scholar’s house in a garden, and coming to realize it was Cicero’s definition of happiness as having a library and a garden. We sought something more fluid than a print publication, one that allowed for human voices, productive interactions among scholars, coming together as they did in Renaissance Academies and also in Parisian bluestocking salons, where women as well as men, bass and treble, could be heard. We use the Cardinal Bessarion and his casina in Rome, echoing Cicero’s definition of happiness as a library in a garden and began a Zoom discussion group in November 2020.

Details

• For more information on The Academia Bessarione please visit the Florin website
• To join the Zoom meeting please request to register by emailing Julia Bolton Holloway at juliananchoress@gmail.com
• Download the Powerpoint presentation for this meeting from the Florin website