Programma Completo

As part of the Italian Port Days initiative, promoted by the Italian Ports Association

Andrea Addobbati (University of Pisa) presents the book by Despina Vlami

Mercanti greci a Livorno 1750-1868. Commercio, nazione, famiglia

published by ETPBooks, Athens

Introduced by Umberto Cini, President of the Borgo dei Greci association

Addresses from the Councillor for Tourism and Commerce of the Municipality of Livorno, Rocco Garufo, and the  President of the Fondazione Livorno Arte e Cultura, Olimpia Vaccari

The author will attend

9.30: Welcome addresses from the Mayor of Livorno, Luca Salvetti, H. E. Ambassador of Greece to Italy, Theodoros Passas, the President of the Regione Toscana, Eugenio Giani, Honorary Consul of Greece to Livorno, Elena Konstantos, and the President of the Hellenic Cultural Institute of Milan, Nikos Frangos

First session  The institutional, religious and social evolution of the Greek community of Livorno

Chair: Roberto Bizzocchi(University of Pisa)

10.00: Opening speech:Anthony Molho(European University Institute – Florence)

10.30: Daniele Edigati(University of Bergamo) Churches, nations and the Prince: the Greeks of Livorno from diocesan control to Leopoldian jurisdictionalism

11.00: Lorenzo Benedetti (University of Pisa), Under the Gaze of the Church. Archbishop Francesco Guidi and the Orthodox Greeks in Livorno

11.30: Katerina Galani (Institute for Mediterranean Studies of Rethymno) Greek navigation and trade in Livorno in the late 18th century

12.00: Despina Vlami (Academy of Athens) Making a life in Livorno: the Greek merchant community of the city-port through the notarial registers (1795-1878)

 Chair: Lucia Frattarelli Fischer(Interdepartmental Centre of Jewish Studies – University of Pisa)

15.00: Antonella Capitanio (University of Pisa)Precious furnishings from the Greek churches of Livorno

15.30: Maria Konstantoudaki-Kitromilides (University of Athens)Documents concerning the church and the old Greek Community of Livorno from the State Archive of Livorno, and details on the funerary monuments of the cemetery

16.00: Vincenzo Farinella(University of Pisa)The pictorial programme of Palazzo Maurogordato, Livorno.

16.30: Konstantina Balafouti-Menarin(University of Bologna)National identity, multicultural society and good living: from Livorno to Syros, the first Greek recipe book

 Second session:  Historical and literary aspects of the Greek presence in Livorno

9.00: Address from the Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Livorno, Simone Lenzi

Chair: Andrea Addobbati (University of Pisa)

  9.30: Opening speech by Paschalis Kitromilides on Diaspora and Enlightenment

10.00: Mathieu Grenet(Université d’Albi – Institut Universitaire de France) Greek notable and Epirote merchant: the Livornese trajectory of Alexander Patrinos (1765-1825)

10.30: Maria Christina Chatziioannou(National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens) From the international trade of Livorno to the political economy of the Greek state. Deciphering Andreas Louriotis (Ioannina 1789- Athens 1854)

11.00: Caterina Carpinato(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Language and national sentiment: Dimitrios Drossos, the Palli family, and Giorgio Kutuffà’s Grammar of the Modern Greek Language (1825) 

11.30: Umberto Cini (Office of Interpreters and Translators of the Italian Chamber of Deputies) The European education of Spyridon Zambelios (1834-1839): unpublished letters from a Livornese archive

Third session:  Livorno’s contribution to the Greek Revolution, the publication of Ellinikì Nomarchìa, and the philhellenic milieu of Tuscany

Chair: Paschalis Kitromilides (Academy of Athens)

15.00: Alessandro Volpi (University of Pisa) Philhellenic circuits. The “other” philhellenism of the Vieusseuxs

15.30: Christos Bintoudis (La Sapienza University of Rome) Enrico Mayer, a Hellenophile of Franco-German origin in Livorno in 1821

16.00: Francesco Scalora (CHS GR, Harvard University) Demetrio Camarda (1821-1882), proponent of Hellenic studies in Livorno

16.30: Giovanni Ranieri Fascetti (University of Pisa) European secret society support of the Greek cause for freedom: the Livorno-Pisa crossroads

17.00: Kalliopi Oikonomou (1st Lyceum of Pefki, Attica) Giuseppe Chiappe, philhellene: from lawyer in Livorno to volunteer in the 1821 Revolution

17.30: Closing speech by Giovanni Salmeri (University of Pisa) via videoconference from Adana (Turkey)