Imagining Archives: Early Modern Italy and the World.

Filippo de Vivo is delivering his inaugural lecture Imagining Archives: Early Modern Italy and the World. This is a free event but does require booking. The lecture shall be one hour and followed by a drinks reception

Lecture details:

Professor Filippo de Vivo’s inaugural lecture shows how archives are much more than stores of sources for modern historians. They grew as a result of centuries of non-neutral selection, preservation and discarding. And as such, they always inspired fantasies: of control, omniscience, continuity, survival as well as fracture and loss. Faced with new challenges, the Renaissance elaborated new archival fictions and fears in Italy and the world.