s a contribution to the Lucrezia Borgia celebrations, the Insitute for Renaissance Studies, one of the best-known worldwide for the study of Renaissance civilisation, culture and society, is putting forward a series of initiatives intended to develop research and study into the historical period in which Duke Alfonso I d'Este' wifw lived.
The title of the 5th Week of Renaissance High Studies, the traditional annual appointment of the Institute, will be "The Age of Alfonso I". The five-day event will focus on analysis and discussion of what was the golden period of the Estense city. There will be talks from internationally renowned scholars, and the winners of twenty-two scholarships on Renaissance civilisation will present their papers. In the course of this Week of High Studies Klaus W. Hempfer's book "Letture discrepanti. La ricezione di Ariosto nel Cinquecento" will also be presented and a public debate will follow chaired by Ariosto's most eminent scholars.
Another initiative, jointly taken with the Hungarian Academy and co-funded by the European Union, will focus on the humanist Giano Pannonio, a student at Ferrara university, one of the most complex personalities of italian Humanism, giving further evidence of the dynamism and the political and cultural open-mindedness which constantly marked the international relationships of the Estense dukes.
Finally, the Insitute will organise four public lectures, held by the most distinguished scholars of Renaissance civilisationi in Ferrara, on the political, cultural and social aspects of this crucial, highly fruitful historical period.

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