Harder Endowed Lecture: Andrea di Robilant - This Earthly Globe

When:
Wednesday, Jun 04, 2025 6:00p -
7:00p

Where:
Boston Athenaeum
10-1/2 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02108
Boston, Massachusetts 02108

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
akwebiiha Angela

Categories:
Art, History, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good

Event website:
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In This Earthly Globe,  Andrea di Robilant brings to life the palace intrigues, editorial wheedling, delicate alliances and vibrant curiosity that resulted in this coup by the editor Giovambattista Ramusio. Learned and self-effacing, he gathered a vast array of both popular and closely guarded narratives, from the journals of Marco Polo (he fact-checked them!) to detailed reports on Northern African cultures from the Muslim scholar and diplomat al-Hasan ibn Mohammad al-Wazzan (later known as Leo Africanus). Diverse voices spill out from these chapters as di Robilant recounts how Ramusio pursued the sources, and how he understood both the darker episodes of “exploration” involving colonial violence and the voyage stories which included accounts of people from African and Asian lands, who had a great deal to share about their cultures. The result is a far-flung and delightful homage to one of the founding fathers of modern geography.


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