Fleming Foundation Summer Symposium 2024

The Florentine Renaissance
July 15-19 at Riverview Resort, Rockford, Illinois

Program

Monday July 15
4:30: Registration
5:00 Thomas Fleming I: “Death of a Republic”
6:00 Reception with Drinks and Supper at Riverview

Tuesday July 16
9:00 E. Christian Kopff I: “Petrarch the Humanist”
10:30 Thomas Fleming II: “Petrarch, Renaissance Man”
Lunch Break
2:00 Gail Fleming I: “Florentine Architecture and Sculpture”
3:30 Thomas Fleming III: “Petrarch the Poet, The Poetry Contest”
5:30 Drinks and Dinner at The Rockford Country Club

Wednesday July 17
9:00 E. Christian Kopff II: “The Influence of Cicero”
10:30 Thomas Fleming IV: “The Occult Revolution”
Lunch Break
2:00 John Yost: ”Savonarola”
3:30 Thomas Fleming V: “The Fall and Rise of Lorenzo”
5:30 Drinks and Dinner at Villa Pipistrelli

Thursday July 18
9:00 E. Christian Kopff III: “Plato and Humanism”
10:30 Garret Fleming & Thomas Fleming: “Tuscan Cuisine”
Lunch and Excursion to White Pines State Park
5:30 Drinks and Dinner at White Pines Lodge

Friday July 19
9:00 Gail Fleming II: “Florentine Painting”
10:30 E. Christian Kopff IV: “Machiavelli the Traditionalist”
Lunch Break
2:00 Thomas Fleming VI: “Machiavelli and ‘the State’”
3:30 Dibattito: The Renaissance in Florence-
Classical Restoration or Anti-Christian Revolution
5:30 Il Gran Finale: Bevande e Cena a Villa Pipistrelli

Saturday July 20
Wisconsin Excursion
Piercing the Cheddar Curtain