The Jews, the Arts and the Mediterranean (1450-1750)
the Medici Archive Project – Firenze
Université de Versailles–Saint-Quentin
Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
International Conference
12 giugno 2026
OPENING REMARKS 9:00-10:00
Alessio Assonitis (The Medici Archive Project)
Roberto Calabretto (Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi – Università di Udine)
Jorge Morales (Université de Versailles–Saint-Quentin)
Piergabriele Mancuso (The Medici Archive Project – Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi)
SESSION ONE 10:00-11:15
Chair: Piergabriele Mancuso (The Medici Archive Project)
Sara Ballester (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
I Fonseca e i Cortizos de Villasante a Venezia nel Seicento: mercanti, agenti e committenti al servizio della Corona di Spagna
Silvia Papini (Università di Pisa)
Isaque Coronel and Jewish Artistic Agency in Early Modern Livorno
Elizabeth Weinfield (The Juilliard School, New York)
‘Extraordinary Subtill Queanes’: Musical Diplomacy and Jewish Women in the Early Modern Constantinople Harem
SESSION TWO 11:30-12:45
Chair: Assunta Vitale (The Medici Archive Project)
Federico Dal Bo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Italian Beauty: Bianchi Girari Ornaments in Early Hebrew Prints
Anna Smoliarova (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Recovering Judaism in Exile: The Ferrara Bible (1553) and the Patronage of Doña Gracia Nasi
Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University, New York)
Devorà Ascarelli: Translation, Transformation, and the Artistic Creativity of an Italian Jewish Writer
SESSION THREE 14:15-15:00
Chair: Jorge Morales (Université de Versailles–Saint-Quentin)
Riva Arnold (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
An Enigmatic Portrait: Antonio Campi’s Portrait of a Man with a Hebrew Tablet
Asher Salah (Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem)
Theatre in the Ghetto of Florence: Staging and Spectatorship
SESSION FOUR 15:15-16:30
Chair: Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (University of Cambridge)
Eliana Miraglia (Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance)
In and Beyond the Ghetto: Jewish Music Experience and Repertoire in Medici Tuscany
Galliano Ciliberti (Conservatorio “Nino Rota” di Monopoli)
Ascoltare il ghetto. Viaggiatori francesi e inglesi e le pratiche sonore ebraiche nella Roma tra XVI e XVII secolo
Nathanaël Eskenazy (Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier)
«Émanciper» le chant de David ? Pour une relecture des psaumes de Marcello et Giustiniani
DISCUSSIONE FINALE