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This book tells the story of an intellectual adventure that involved scholars and experts from various disciplines and of different religious beliefs. The adventure reached a climax in a three-day meeting on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, in September 2010 but has actually stretched out over a period of three years, from summer 2009 to summer 2012.
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The Dialoghi di San Giorgio are a new version of a long-standing annual event at the Foundation, the Corso di Alta Cultura (“Course of High Culture”). For almost 50 years this course saw authoritative scholars and leading witnesses of our age come to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, where the Foundation is based. The Dialoghi have gathered and developed the legacy of those courses by adapting them to the times without sacrificing their spirit and function. As at the time of the Corsi di Alta Cultura, today for the Cini Foundation the Dialoghi provide an emblematic opportunity to bear witness to the values that have always inspired its actions over time: a faith in knowledge that stems from dialogue, the search for truth in freedom, and the sense of providing a service to the scientific community, to the city and society in general. The Dialoghi of 2004 (Atmospheres of Freedom. For an Ecology of Good Government), 2005 (The Architecture of Babel. Creations, Extinctions and Intercessions in the Languages of the Global World), and 2007 (Inheriting the Past. Tradition, Translation, Betrayal, Innovation) led to the publication of the following books, respectively: Bruno Latour and Pasquale Gagliardi (eds.), Les atmosphères de la politique. Dialogue pour un monde commun (Paris: Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond/Le Seuil, 2006);
Paolo Fabbri and Tiziana Migliore (eds.), The Architectures of Babel. Creation, Extinctions and Intercessions in the Language of the Global World (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2011);
Pasquale Gagliardi, Bruno Latour and Pedro Memelsdorff (eds.), Coping with the Past. Creative Perspectives on Conservation and Restoration (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2010).
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Gagliardi, P. (2013). Introduction. In: Gagliardi, P., Reijnen, A.M., Valentini, P. (eds) Protecting Nature, Saving Creation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342669_1
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