Too Much to Know: Information Management in Comparative Perspective & Tommaso Porcacchi

Activity Type: 
Seminar
Presenter: 
Dennis Looney (French & Italian)
Date: 
Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 12:30
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 501G

Dennis Looney will lead an informal seminar on links between Ann Blair’s work (Too Much to Know:
“Information Management in Comparative Perspective") and his research on the systematization of history by Tommaso Porcacchi of the Giolito Press, in the 1560s and 1570s.

*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”

UCIS Unit: 
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Humanities Center
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
World Regions: 
Europe
Western Europe
European Union