Santa Rosa – The Faculty of Human Sciences at the National University of La Pampa will host an international lecture entitled “The Artist of the Soul: Giotto and His World” on 17 November at 11 am local time. The event will explore the life and work of Giotto di Bondone, a key figure of the late Middle Ages and a forerunner of the Italian Renaissance. The lecture will be delivered by Alessandro Masi, an expert on the subject and Secretary of the Società Dante Alighieri in Rome. The event will be coordinated by Helga Lell, Laura Pérez, Raquel Miranda, Juan Cruz López Rasch and Gerardo Rodríguez, and moderated by José Francisco Minetto. Drawing on Masi’s book of the same name (Neri Pozza, 2022), the lecture will offer a detailed historical and biographical journey through the artist’s masterpieces, from the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi and the Scrovegni Chapel to his connections with figures such as Dante, Cimabue, Boccaccio and Petrarch. It will explore both his revolutionary approach to painting and the complexities and contradictions of his private life. The lecture will be available online to registered participants via this link. (9colonne)