Firenze e gli anglo-fiorentini, lunedì 7 luglio ore 17.00

The Golden RingThe Risorgimento's Anglo-Florentines
a lecture byJulia Bolton Holloway
Monday, July 7, 5:00pmACCENT Study Center, Aula Firenze

The lecture will be on the vibrant circle of friends, especially women, who worked together to achieve the Abolition of Slavery and Italy's Risorgimento, researched through the lens of the Swiss-owned, so-called 'English' Cemetery in
Florence.

Julia Bolton Holloway received her Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of California at Berkeley. At the same time that she was writing her dissertation on pilgrimage in Dante's Commedia, she was having to help her father write on Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Her edition of EBB's Aurora Leigh and Other Poems (Penguin) helped her become known to the Swiss who own the so-called 'English' Cemetery in Florence where EBB is buried, along with Frances Trollope, Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough and many Abolitionists at the time of the Risorgimento. She has researched and enabled the restoration of this historic cemetery, carried out by skilled Romanian Roma to whom she teaches the alphabet, while she also researches and publishes on Dante's teacher, Brunetto Latino, and on medieval women contemplatives, like St Brigitta of Sweden and Julian of Norwich.