We regret that due to personal reasons Margaret Bruce is unable to give the concert on the 15th June. There will therefore be no cultural programme event on this day.

Wednesday, June 08, 2011. 18.00

Lecture: Mark Roberts

Oscar's loyal friend Reggie: Reginald Turner in
Florence

Wednesday, June 01, 2011. 18.00

Lecture: Sheila Barker

Caravaggio, Artemisia, Bernini: new documentary
discoveries on baroque art at the Medici Archive
Project

Wednesday, May 25, 2011. 18.00

Lecture: Carlo Arborio Mella and Eleonora Negri

Monteverdi's "L'incoronazione di Poppea" at the
Maggio Musicale

Wednesday, May 18, 2011. 18.00

Lecture: Jane Fortune

Invisible women: forgotten artists of Florence

Wednesday, May 11, 2011. 18.00

Lecture: Lauren Jennings

Dolce suono": manuscripts of song and poetry
from late-medieval Florence

Wednesday, May 04, 2011. 18.00

Lecture: Katie Campbell

Paradise of exiles: the Anglo-American gardens
of Florence

Wednesday, April 27, 2011. 18.00

Lecture: Michael Byrne

Shakespeare and Verdi

Wednesday, April 20, 2011. 18.00

Lecture: James Bradburne

Picasso, Mirò, Dalì: angry old men, the making of
an extraordinary exhibition

Wednesday, April 13, 2011. 18.00

Shakespeare Week lecture: Keir Elam

"Draw the curtain and show you the picture":
the graphics of Twelfth Night

Wednesday, March 30, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

Joel Kaplan
Two painters and a horse: the Florentine poetry of the Brownings

Wednesday, March 23, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

Darren Clarke
A Bloomsbury marriage: Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant at Charleston

Wednesday, March 16, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

Sandro Servi and Stefano Farina
Two wooden door-plates: new evidence for
anti-Semitic persecution in Florence, 1943-44

Wednesday, March 09, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

Frank Nero
Beyond Communism, beyond Fascism:
Marinetti's tactile panels

Wednesday, March 02, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

Andrea Rizzi
A Florentine diplomat at the court of Queen Elizabeth I

Wednesday, February 23, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

Gert Jan van der Smam
Art is long, time is fleeting: images of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni

Wednesday, February 16, 2011. 18.00

Readings

Readings for St Valentine's day
The rose's red, the violet's blue, / The honey's sweet, and so are you

Wednesday, February 09, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

Mary Westerman
All dressed up with nowhere to go:
display techniques of historic costumes

Wednesday, February 02, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

John Hoenig
Making a spectacle: Buontalenti's theatre designs for the wedding of
Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine

Wednesday, January 26, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

Niccolò Capponi
An unlikely prince: the life and times of Machiavelli

Wednesday, January 19, 2011. 18.00

Lecture

Linda Falcone
In other words: adventures in Italian expression

Wednesday, December 15, 2010. 18.00

Christmas Event

An evening of Dylan Thomas

Wednesday, December 01, 2010. 18.00

Lecture

Luca Verzichelli: Modern Italian politics: a never-ending transition

Wednesday, November 24, 2010. 18.00

Lecture

Bruce Edelstein: Bronzino and Eleonora di Toledo: a painter and his patron

Wednesday, November 17, 2010. 18.00

Performance International

Bed among the lentils

Wednesday, November 10, 2010. 18.00

Lecture

Pratibha Parmar: OUT in the main || stream

Wednesday, November 03, 2010. 18.00

Lecture

Christopher Smith: New light on early Rome

Wednesday, October 27, 2010. 18.00

Lecture

Cristina Acidini: Caravaggio and the Caravaggeschi

Wednesday, October 20, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: James Bradburne

Bronzino: the making of a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition

Wednesday, October 13, 2010. 18.00

Concert

Eclectic genius of early-twentieth-century British music

Wednesday, October 06, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Victor Lodato

Inventing the world: the power and appeal of young narrators in
contemporary fiction

Wednesday, September 29, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Christopher Newall

The Etruscans: painters and patriots

Wednesday, September 22, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Christobel Kent

A fine and private place: Florence as a setting for fiction

Wednesday, June 30, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Michael John Angel

Pietro Annigoni: English portraits and Tuscan frescoes

Wednesday, June 23, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Daniel Waissbein

Literary Anglomania or Anglophilia? The case of J.L. Borges

Wednesday, June 16, 2010. 18.00

BLOOMSDAY lecture: Jeremy Lane

‘Waking the dead': the Hades episode in Joyce's Ulysses

Wednesday, June 09, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Alexandra Richardson

Alexander Hardcastle and the Greek temples of Agrigento

Thursday, June 03, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Graham Avery

Sigeric: an Anglo-Saxon Archbishop in Tuscany

Wednesday, May 26, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Sue Brown

Joseph Severn and the rewards of friendship

Thursday, May 20, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Peter Stanford

Back in step with Europe: why the secular British are shaking
off their post-Reformation distaste for pilgrimage

Wednesday, May 12, 2010. 18.00

Reading: Matthew Licht

A reading of recent short stories

Wednesday, May 05, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Lynn Catterson

Stefano Bardini and his putative Michelangelo

Thursday, April 29, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Brian Keeble

The visionary art of Cecil Collins

Wednesday, April 28, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Anthony D'Elia

A sudden terror: the attempted assassination of Pope Paul II

Wednesday, April 21, 2010. 18.00

Shakespeare Week: Kate McLuskie

A lover or a tyrant? Performing The Merchant

Wednesday, April 14, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Catherine Payling

‘Written in water': Shelley and the death of Keats in Rome

Wednesday, March 31, 2010. 18.00

Musical concert

A concert of chamber music

Wednesday, March 24, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Michael March

The Dog of Hearts: poetry in the heart of Europe

Wednesday, March 17, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Martino Traxler

Is repatriation of art always the moral choice?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Robin Butler

How the British manage changes of government

Wednesday, March 03, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Michael Kwakkelstein

The reception of the Antique in Netherlandish painting
and drawing of the 16th and 17th centuries

Wednesday, February 24, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Louis A. Waldman

Agnolo Bronzino and the death of Pontormo

Wednesday, February 17, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Roberta Cremoncini

The Estorick collection of modern Italian art in London

Wednesday, February 10, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Edward Chaney

Lord Arundel and the obelisk of Domitian

Wednesday, February 03, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Marco Del Panta

The EUI and the city of Florence

Wednesday, January 27, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Jeffrey N. Cox

Revisioning Rimini: rereading Dante in the Cockney School

Wednesday, January 20, 2010. 18.00

Lecture: Nigel Konstam

The museum of artists' secrets

Wednesday, December 16, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Mark Roberts

Horace Mann at the Casa Manetti in via Santo Spirito

Wednesday, December 09, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Paul Blanchard

Art on the run: the Florentine heritage in the Second World War

Wednesday, December 02, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Mary Beckinsale

Four examples of ‘feminist' art

Wednesday, November 25, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Candida Cave

Those Mitford girls

Wednesday, November 18, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: James Bradburne

The pleasures of seduction

Wednesday, November 11, 2009. 18.00

Concert: Glen Capaldi

A crooner in the library

Wednesday, November 04, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Peter Vassallo

Florence as a setting in the novels of E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence

Wednesday, October 28, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Alessandro Cecchi

Baroque Splendours of the Pitti Granducal Palace and the Boboli Gardens

Wednesday, October 21, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Rosalynd Pio

Petrarch, Simone Martini and the cards

Wednesday, October 14, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Warwick Lister

The music of Giovanni Battista Viotti

Wednesday, October 07, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Michael Holroyd

Edward Gordon Craig: his family, friends and enemies

Wednesday, September 30, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Joel Kaplan

Wilde in Italy

Wednesday, September 23, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Sarah Dunant

The author discusses Sacred Hearts her latest novel in the Renaissance Trilogy

Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - Wednesday, July 01, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Tessa Murdoch

Pietre dure in the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - Wednesday, June 17, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Kate Bolton

A portrait of Ethel Smyth, composer and writer

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - Wednesday, June 10, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Laura Macy

The Italian madrigal and renaissance games

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - Wednesday, June 03, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Francesca White

The figures of Virgil and Dante in the illuminated manuscripts of the Divine Comedy

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - Wednesday, May 27, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Peter Maxwell Davies

Master of the Queen's Music: Is it possible today?

Wednesday, May 20, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Lynn Catterson

A 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus recarved by Donatello

Wednesday, May 13, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: John McCourt and Maria Anita Stefanelli

Two Irish writers: Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney

Wednesday, May 06, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Tania String

Myth and memory in representations of Henry VIII, 1509-2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Christopher Newall

‘Of Mountain Beauty': science and spirituality in Pre-Raphaelite landscape art

Wednesday, April 22, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Clare Asquith

The hidden dimensions of Macbeth

Wednesday, April 15, 2009. 18.00

Lecture: Robert Hellenga

A reading from his recent fiction

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Cultural Programme

Cultural programme April - July 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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Cultural programme January - March 2009

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - Wednesday, December 10, 2008

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Cultural programme September - December 2008