John H. Pollack
John H. Pollack is Curator, Research Services, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. He has worked in this department since 1995. His responsibilities include providing assistance to students and scholars, and teaching and organizing class sessions centered on the collections. He is also responsible for the Furness Shakespeare Library, which is part of the Kislak Center.
John holds a PhD in English from Penn and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. He specializes in Early American literature and history, and early modern book history. His research has focused on topics including Native American languages; colonial writings from New France; and Benjamin Franklin and colonial education.
![Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Vinegia: Per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, [1537]), title page, printer's mark](/sites/default/files/2021-01/IC5_M1842_531d_1537_TP%20crop_3.jpg "Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Vinegia: Per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, [1537]), title page, printer's mark")
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Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Vinegia: Per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, [1537]), title page, printer's mark
The Center for Italian Studies, the Italian Studies Section of the Department of Romance Languages, and the Kislak Center welcome distinguished historian Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) for a series of lectures and conversations. We gratefully acknowledge our Penn partners and The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University for their assistance.
These events will be held remotely, via Zoom. Link information will be provided to registrants. All events are free and open to the public.
Among Carlo Ginzburg's many publications are The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (1980), The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries (1993), History, Rhetoric, and Proof (1999), Threads and Traces: True, False, Fictive (2006).
Professor Ginzburg will present at the following public events:
Tuesday, February 23, noon EST: Reproduction/Reproduction: An Experiment in Historical Anthropology (on Dante)
Tuesday, March 2, noon EST: Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture, hosted by the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Microhistory and Global History: A Conversation with Professor Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study)
A recording of this program is publicly available via youtube.
Tuesday, March 16, noon EDT: Moulding the People: Machiavelli, Michelangelo
Tuesday, April 6, noon EDT: Montaigne, the Wave, the Diagram: Depicting Life (and Death)
Registration and more information
Monday, April 12, noon EDT [NOTE NEW DATE]: Annenberg Seminar in History
Morphology and History: A Conversation with Professor Roger Chartier (History, Penn)
Registration and more information
Penn sponsors: Italian at Penn; the Center for Italian Studies; the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies; the Department of History; the Workshop in the History of Material Texts; the Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series; and Penn Libraries. The talks on February 23, March 16, April 6 are jointly sponsored by The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University; Italian at Penn; and the Center for Italian Studies.
![Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Vinegia: Per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, [1537]), title page, printer's mark](/sites/default/files/2021-01/IC5_M1842_531d_1537_TP%20crop_1.jpg)
![Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Vinegia: Per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, [1537]), title page, printer's mark](/sites/default/files/2021-01/IC5_M1842_531d_1537_TP%20crop_2.jpg)
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![Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Vinegia: Per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, [1537]), title page, printer's mark](/sites/default/files/2021-01/IC5_M1842_531d_1537_TP%20crop.jpg)