Homage to Vittore Branca

It is an honour for the Giorgio Cini Foundation to celebrate Vittore Branca’s 90th birthday with this photo and documentary homage. Curated by the Foundation, which was created by Vittorio Cini and guided by Branca himself for over fifty years, the exhibition pays tribute to the life and work of this charismatic and prominent figure of Italian and international culture.
The exhibition displays photographs documenting Branca’s encounters with heads of state, popes, and illustrious political and cultural figures, including Alcide De Gasperi, Giovanni Spadolini, Hailè Selassiè I, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, John XXIII, John Paul II, Max Horkheimer and Ezra Pound. It also exhibits original excerpts from Branca’s most important correspondence with important figures of our time, such as Giovanni Battista Montini, Josè Ortega y Gasset, Federico Fellini, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Andrè Malraux and Aldo Moro.
Two additional volumes provide another essential side of Branca. The first is an important edition, printed in Venice in 1492, of Decameron by Boccaccio, of whom Branca is one of the major living scholars. The second is the autograph manuscript of Poliziano’s Seconda centuria dei Miscellanea, a work of fundamental importance for the history of humanistic philology, believed to be lost until it was discovered by Branca himself, who edited a critical edition in 1961.
The picture is completed by a selection of Branca’s publications, testimony to his intense work as a scholar, and by volumes he has edited for the Giorgio Cini Foundation.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
27 September – 2 November 2003

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