The Vittore Branca Course on Italian Civilisation

As part of the new cultural project underlying the activities of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, in recent years moves have been made to further define and develop a school named after Vittore Branca.
With the aim of continuing the lessons of the eminent professor, it was decided to focus the School’s academic and teaching programme on the history of Italian civilisation, in all the variety and complexity of its cultural and artistic manifestations, starting from literature, and then going on to embrace all the other disciplines.
The creation of the Vittore Branca Course of Italian Civilisation, intended for students on honours degree courses, PhD students and doctors in humanities is the first initiative in this direction. Directed by Cesare De Michelis, professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Padua and a former student of Vittore Branca, the course bring together a large group of teachers round a well-defined thematic core and is organised in twenty lessons to be held over two weeks.
For three years the Vittore Branca Course of Italian Civilisation is dedicated to studying the relations between Venice and Italian civilisation in the centuries of European modernisation: the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The 18th century is the theme for the lessons in 2007, which is inaugurated by a master lecture to be given by Marc Fumaroli, the world famous critic, literary historian and lecturer at the Collège de France.
The Giorgio Cini Foundation with Fondazione di Venezia, Leo S. Olschki Editore, Marsilio Editori, RCS Libri and Il Sole 24 Ore, offer the best qualified students an appropriate number of scholarships to cover the cost of enrolment in the course and, for those from outside Venice, board and lodgings.

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The Vittore Branca Course on Italian Civilisation
Tel. +39 041 2710227 – Fax +39 041 5223563
e-mail: scuola.branca@cini.it