2011

12 October  Emblems in the Margins: The Four Seasons Tapestries at Hatfield House
Michael Bath, Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde

2 November Homo Ludens Revisited: From Huizinga to Zemon Davis and Beyond
Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of London

23 November Senza far disegno: Caravaggio and the Antique
Salvatore Settis, Professor of the History of Classical Art and Archaeology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

2012

1 February Vasari and Portraiture
Alessandro Nova, Director, Kunsthistorisches Institute, Florence

22 February In Search of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Lost 'Long Documentum'
Martin Camargo, Professor of English, Classics and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois

7 March Medieval Hypertext: The Illuminated Manuscript in an Age of Virtual Reproduction
Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Franko Professor of German Art and Culture, Harvard University

14 March Palla Strozzi Orator
Stephen Milner, Serena Professor of Italian, University of Manchester

25 April Have the flames of Diamper destroyed the cultural and historical patrimony of the Saint Thomas Christians?
Prof. István Perczel, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
NB: this lecture will start at 5.00 pm

30 May 'Where Europe Begins and Ends: Problematics of Literary History, 1348-1418.
David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
See: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~dwallace/europe/index.html

31 May The restoration of Giotto's Crucifix for the church of Ognissanti, Florence
Anna-Marie Hilling, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence

6 June Title to be confirmed
Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading, The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, and The Library at Night

13 June  The invention of Religion in Early Modernity
Guy Stroumsa, Professor of Abrahamic Religions, University of Oxford: