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Reshaping the Past — Cristoforo Colombo

This is the first of two talks–the second will take place in December and will be dedicated to “Memory, Monuments and Community”–on the political use of history. The animated discussion that in recent times has taken place about both the figure of Colombo and the presence of monuments dedicated to the representatives of the Confederates in the south of the United States has been developing in an unsatisfactory manner, comprised of immovable defenses and attacks without historical content.

In this first meeting we asked historian, and expert in the period of exploration and the conquests, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to trace a portrait of Cristoforo Colombo beyond hagiography and denigration.











When: Thu., Nov. 30, 2017 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Ave.
212-879-4242
Price: Free
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This is the first of two talks–the second will take place in December and will be dedicated to “Memory, Monuments and Community”–on the political use of history. The animated discussion that in recent times has taken place about both the figure of Colombo and the presence of monuments dedicated to the representatives of the Confederates in the south of the United States has been developing in an unsatisfactory manner, comprised of immovable defenses and attacks without historical content.

In this first meeting we asked historian, and expert in the period of exploration and the conquests, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to trace a portrait of Cristoforo Colombo beyond hagiography and denigration.

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