The seminar on “Places for Culture; Culture for Places” will be – at least this is the aim of the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society – a stimulating opportunity for reflection on the interaction between the container and the content, between the setting and the person who thinks, speaks and writes in it. In other words, to choose some Venetian examples, we might consider Petrarch’s home at Arquà, the Asolo garden of Bembo’s dialogue on love, the Palazzo Ducale as the headquarters and expression of state supremacy, or  the Padua botanical garden gradually transformed from its auxiliary purpose as an apothecary laboratory to an indispensable resource for botany as an independent discipline.

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