23rd Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture in Judaic Studies March 2, 2021 | Zoom

Carlo Ginzburg and Francesca Trivellato

This event was cosponsored by the Center for Italian Studies, the History Department, Italian at Penn, the Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, the Workshop in the History of Material Texts, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections.

Between 1594 and 1602, Carletti circumnavigated the world, traveling and trading in West Africa, the Spanish Americas, the Philippines, Japan, China, briefly stopping in Malacca and Ceylon before arriving in Portuguese India on his way back to Europe. Captured by the Dutch off St. Helena, he found his goods confiscated and litigated until 1605 for their return before traveling through France to reach Tuscany in 1606. The account of his journey forms the focus of this online workshop series, entitled “Carletti’s World: An Early Modern Global Voyage” held on Fridays from February to June 2021, at 9-11am PST / 12-2pm EST/ 5-7pm GMT / 6-8pm CET / 2-4am JST:

Organizers: Pieter M. Judson, Lucy Riall, Giorgio Riello (EUI)

A series of discussions with prominent scholars in the field of global history.
Each conversation will take place at 17:00-18:30 (Florence time) and each will involve a reading to be distributed in advance of the session.