FROM THE COLUMNS OF HERCULES UP TO THE ARGONAUTS’ VOYAGES

International Symposium

Circulation of people, commerce, diplomacy and Realpolitik of élites and marginal elements in the „Habsburgianate“ cultural continuum between the Mediterranean basin, the Pontic space and the Maritime Silk Road (1492–1700)

Programme

Opening Session - Chairman: Florian Schwarz

10:00–10:20       
Welcome Address and Introduction

10:20–10:45       
Michele Bernardini: Bratutić, Sa’deddin’s Dalmatian translator

10:45–11:15       
Lukás Rybár: Habsburg intelligence on Safavid Persia: the case of Michael Černović

11:15–11:45       
Coffee break

Late Morning Session - Chairman: Giorgio Rota

11:45–12:15       
Tomislav Popić: Italian merchants and moneylenders in Dal­matia in the 15^th century

12:15–12:45       
Lena Sadovski-Kornprobst: Apulian New Christians in Vene­tian Dalmatia. Circum-Adriatic dimensions of the migration of converted Jews and their descendants in the late 15^th and early 16^th centuries

12:45–13:45       
Lunch break

Early Afternoon Session - Chairwoman: Lena Sadovski-Kornprobst

13:45–14:00       
Walter Pohl (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Welcome ad­dress on behalf of the Global Eurasia Thematic Platform  

14:00–14:30       
José Manuel Floristán: Greek emigrants in the territories of the Spanish monarchy (16^th-17^th centuries). Adaptation and con­flicts

14:30–15:00       
Davide Trentacoste: Defending, advising and assessing (and sometimes spying): Tuscan military architects and engineers during the reign of Ferdinand I (1587-1609)

15:00–15:30       
Giorgio Rota: Italians between two worlds and Americans in Persia: some remarks on two possible avenues of research

15:30–16:00       
Coffee break

Late Afternoon Session - Chairman: José Cutillas

16:00–16:30        
José Francisco Cutillas: The Persianate World vision of Pedro Cubero Sebastian on his journey around the world (1671-1679)

16:30–17:00        
Paolo Ognibene: Father Arcangelo Lamberti’s Relatione della Colchide (1635–1653).

17:00–17:30        
Nana Kharebava: A superheroine against Shah and Habsburgs? On Ketevan/Catharina’s literary figure by Teimuraz I and Gryphius

17:30–18:00        
Tea break

Evening Session - Chairman: Velizar Sadovski

18:00–18:30        
Nicola Melis: The multiple status of middlemen in Ottoman lands (16^th–17^th century)

18:30–19:00        
Saverio Marchignoli: The travel to Constantinople of fra Leonardo “the Macedonian” of Pistoia by appointment of the Medici, the discovery of Michael Psellos’ copy of the famous Codex Hermeticus and its influence on the Academy of Florence

19:00–19:30        
Final Discussion

19:30                      
Conclusions on behalf of the Conveners

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