The Renaissance stems from the encounter of the rediscovery of antiquity and the geographical and intellectual expansion of civic life, from the encounter of the eastern Greek culture with the western Latin tradition, from the fall of Constantinople (1454) and the discovery of the Indias; from the recovery of the classical world with Petrarch and Erasmus to the mathematical construction of the new future of Luca Pacioli, Copernicus and Kepler, from Savonarola to Luther: it encompasses the very heart of the European cultural tradition and it is essential as a founding moment of our cultural heritage.
This BIP offers a reassessment of the European Renaissance as a basis to rebuild or cultural foundations both in terms of its internal dynamics, as in view of the cultural and geographical links between the mainland and the Mediterranean Sea.
The Physical part will consist of:
- 5 workshops at La Corrala, UAM (Madrid, Spain)
- One seminar at the Thyssen-Bornemizsa Museum
- 3 cultural visits to the Prado Museum, El Escorial Monastery, and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The virtual part will take pace between 14 October and 16 December 2025, each Tuesday after the following schedule:
- Introduction: Culture and Society in the Mediterranean, 14 October 2025
- History and Politics, 22 October 2025
- Literature I, 28 October 2025
- Literature II, 4 November 2025
- Art and Artistic Literature I, 11 November 2025
- Art and Artistic Literature II, 18 November 2025
- Music, 25 November 2025
- Science, Philosophy and Religion, 2 December 2025
- Global Renaissance and the Mediterranean, 9 December 2025
- Conclusions, 16 December 2025