Italy in the Global Renaissance

Описание: Italy in the Global Renaissance
Professor Virginia Cox
Recorded Wed 10 December, 2025 - Queen Square, Bath

Ready to take your journey of discovery? Renaissance: Journeys of Discovery at BRLSI is a year-long programme of talks and events exploring the many joys, revelations and something of the broader cultural legacy of a movement still making waves in the 21st century. Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Martin Luther, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hieronymus Bosch… if you love culture then you’ll love our amazing talks series!

But where did it all begin, and how did the Italian Renaissance relate to the broader global picture? As part of the Renaissance: Journeys of Discovery series we are delighted to be joined by Professor Virginia Cox, author of the forthcoming Cambridge University Press book The Italian Renaissance: A Cultural History”.

Her talk offers a fresh vision of an iconic moment in cultural history, and explores key artistic, literary, and intellectual developments, while investigating the Renaissance beyond Florence. This talk visits a wide range of communities around the world: from minority-ethnic and minority-religious communities in Renaissance Italy, to the Jesuit missions in India, Japan & China and the diffusion of Renaissance culture (in its Iberian and Italian variants) in the Americas and in Asia.

In doing so Professor Cox delivers an incisive overview of Italy’s relationship with the European and non-European worlds, the ethnic and religious diversity within Italy and the global dissemination and hybridisation of Italian Renaissance culture.

Virginia Cox, Honorary Professor of Early Modern Italian Literature & Culture, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College. Virginia graduated with a PhD from Cambridge and worked at the University of Edinburgh, UCL, University of Cambridge and New York University, before returning to Cambridge as Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College in 2021.