The Italian Cultural Institute of Haifa is pleased to invite you to a free online lecture by Prof. David Malkiel, Bar Ilan University. Event in ENGLISH, coordinated by Prof. David Palterer, Politecnico di Milano, UNESCO Chair of Mantua.
The conference will focuse on the observations of two eighteenth-century visitors to Mantua’s Palazzo Tè, Rabbi Isaac Lampronti of Ferrara (1679-1756) and Hayyim Yoseph David Azulay of Jerusalem (1724-1806), especially their impressions of the echo in its Chamber of the Giants. The rabbis’ response to Palazzo Tè closely resembles that of dozens other European travelers, whose writings about the echo chamber exhibit the same fascination with recent advances in scientific knowledge, and like them, Lampronti and Azulay labor to synthesize their experience with the traditions and beliefs that make up their worldview. The Palazzo Tè literature emblematizes the explosive increase in the diffusion of knowledge in early modern Europe, in the arts as well as the sciences, and the importance of travel and travel writing in that process.
Event in English, FREE online.
Wednesday, January 27,at 7.30 pm (Jerusalem time)
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87510742530?pwd=ZEV2SHFBN1JaR3BJanZ6YktLTnpHZz09
Meeting ID: 875 1074 2530 | Passcode: 216760
