A lecture by Lisa Kaborycha
The English flocked to the Continent throughout the 17th to the 19th centuries, doing what was known as the “Grand Tour.” Both a rite of passage and sort of cultural pilgrimage, this journey with its immersion in the arts and antiquities of Europe was considered essential for anyone with pretensions to education. These intrepid “Grand Tourists” came in droves to Italy, and Florence soon became a favorite destination. Though the earliest travelers were primarily young men, it was not long before women were venturing abroad as well. Comparing the written accounts of those male and female travelers we often find strikingly different responses to the Florentine experience. Our point of departure for this talk is the popular 1992 advice book Men Are from Mars and Women Are from Venus, which made the claim that the sexes live in essentially divergent realities and communicate quite differently. Lisa Kaborycha will test that claim by examining the entertaining, clever, and sometimes surprisingly insightful observations that reveal differences between men and women’s views of Florence.
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This lecture is curated and presented in partnership with Palazzo Tornabuoni.