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Recent talks and presentations

June 8th, Palazzo Zelli , Vetralla  “Vetralla and the Tuscia area: important visitors throughout  the centuries”

with Rusty Wilson , Port Lecturer

with Rusty Wilson , Port Lecturer

with Julie James, Assistant Cruise Director

with Julie James, Assistant Cruise Director

Guest Lecturer and Italy  expert -on the 2,600 passenger Grand Princess for  Greek Islands cruise  May 14-26 sailing from Venice to Civitavecchia

  • Presentation of “Travels to Tuscany & Northern Lazio

  • Presentation of “Travels to Tuscany & Northern Lazio"  at the Biblioteca degli Uffizi Florence  on  November  22, 2007  with  Maurizio Bossi (head of Gabinetto Vieusseux and Centro Romantico, Palazzo Strozzi),  Cristina Acidini (Superintendent of  Museums in Florence) and Claudio Di Benedetto (Director of the Uffizi Library

 

  •  La Tuscia vista dagli Inglesi, Conference  Hall, Provincia di Viterbo, Nov  21, 2007

With USAC students    

     

  • Italian Culture series – Università della Tuscia,  USAC  Program -Spring &  Fall semesters 06 - 07

           Fall semester  2007  -Visit to Palazzo Papale, Viterbo  (photo M. Anderson)

  • La Tuscia  vista dagli inglesi – pittori e scrittori di ieri e di oggi-Tuscia as seen by English painters and writers of yesterday and today”- Rocca Farnese, Valentano (VT) , 11-17 agosto, 2007  with week long Art exhibit by contemporary painters  (with Rosetta Virtuoso & Museum of Valentano)   

       

                       With artists Jackie Leto, Nancy Hart, Pat Smith

    Vetralla: storie di  papi, re e gente   comune- Stories of popes, kings and common  people Comune di Vetralla, 17 agosto, 2007- Memorial day for Prof. Enrico Guidoni .

 

  • 2nd Art Retreat - “Drawing and Pastels in Etruria”  with Martha Wakeman,  Lake of Bolsena , May 2007

  • - “Early Expats- international contacts in the Viterbo area”- Museum Vetralla, March 2007

  •   Prima degli Svedesi- i contatti internazionali nella Tuscia”, “International contacts in Etruria before the Swedish” Biblioteca di Blera, Jan 7, 2007

  • Book presentation -Brockton Public Library,  Massachusetts,  June 2006 (with Mary Jane McCool)

  • Presentation at “Italian Weekend” Hawthorn Inn, Camden, Maine, June 2006 (With Marianne Shanahan)

  • “La Storia Segreta di Vetralla - Vetralla’s  Secret History” Scuola  di Vetralla, Nov&Dec.06

  •  Gli Stuart  in Italia-200 anni dopo”-The Stuarts in Italy-200 Years Later” SISA Italian Heraldry Society - Atlantic Hotel, Rome, Nov. 2006

  • Presentation  at Feltrinelli International bookshop, Florence, Nov.  2005

 (with Contessa  Rezia Corsini Miari )

  • “Artisti Stranieri a Civita Castellana -Foreign Artists at Civita Castellana -1700 to Today”  - Palazzo Montalto-Belei,Civita Castellana, April, 20,2005

  • Santa Rosa Prize presented by  Viterbo’s Mayor , G. Gabbianelli

  • Montefiascone nei Diari del Cardinale Henry Stuart”, Montefiascone in the Stuart Diaries”  Biblioteca di Montefiascone, April,2005

  • Travels to Tuscany-the Diaries of  Cardinal Henry Stuart”- at  British  Society of 18th Century Studies,  St. Hugh’s College, Oxford,   January 7, 2005

      

  • Il Cardinale Henry Stuart -I suoi viaggi e le sue permanenze a Pisa tra il 1763 e 1776  “Stuart’s Travels and Stays in Pisa -1763 -1776” - at Palazzo dei Cavalieri di S. Stefano, Accademia Nazionale dell’Ussero, Pisa, Nov. 2004  (with Conte A. Agostini  Venerosi Della Seta & Sergio Scarselli)

 

  •  Presentation at Museo della Città e del Territorio, Vetralla, June 2004

    (Fulvio Ferri, author, Antonio Mattei, Enrico Guidoni)

  

  • Stemmi Farnesiane a Vetralla: una crocevia d’arte, architettura e araldica”-“Farnese  heraldry in Vetralla: a crossroads of art, architecture and heraldry” presented at SISA Heraldry conference in Torino,  Nov.2004

      Due Cardinali Inglesi a Vetralla”- “Two English Cardinals in Vetralla” -Heraldry conference, Società Italiana di Studi Araldici-Basilica di Superga  Torino, May 2002 (with Conte Gustavo di  Gropello )

 

  • Stuart mementos in Viterbo Province” - Guest Speaker - The Caledonian Society of Rome, Scots College- Rome, Oct.2002

   

  • Papal Palace, Viterbo with Rome’s American church, Santa Susanna 

    (with Rev. Greg Apparcel)

 

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