Translating Utopia Tommaso Campanella and the City of the Sun Not a purely visionary philosopher, an interpreter in his own way of Machiavelli and Galileo, Campanella looks to a possible world where the reasons of politics and modern science can find renewed support in the word of a God, who is not mere ‘geometer’. This …
Dominicans in Istanbul and the Church of St. Pierre A Conference at the Atatürk Kitaplığı Claudio Monge and Paolo Girardelli will retrace the history of the Dominicans in Istanbul until the building of the Church of Sen Piyer according to the project of Gaspare Fossati.The conference will be moderate by Elçin Macar. Claudio Monge : …
Gregory of Nazianzus and the question of the divinity of the Holy Spirit Elif Tokay teaches History of Religions at University of İstanbul. İn 2013 she gained her Phd. at the University of Cardiff with a thesis on arab translations of Gregory of Nazianzus’s homilies. İn 2021 she published the first book in Turkish on Gregory, …
Week 1 Hi everyone ! We’re Marie (right) and Thaïs (left) and we arrived in Istanbul a week ago. We’re gonna stay here for 3 months helping the Dominican’s community by doing multiples tasks such as : Gardening Rearranging/ cleaning the library Helping for prayers, communication, network,… It’s very exciting ! Moreover, we’re teachers 2 …
Byzantium in Color Polychromy in Bizantine Sculpture Silvia Pedone, a member of Dost-I, is an art historian and Byzantinist. SHe works at the prestigious Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome and carries out his research activity between Italy and Turkey. In 2022 she published the results of an extensive research on the theme of color …
Latin Catholicism in Ottoman Istanbul Property, People and Missions Vanessa R. de Obaldía (University of Mainz, DoSt-I) and Claudio Monge (DoSt-I) have edited the book “Latin Catholicism in Ottoman Istanbul – Property, People and Missions“- The volume aims at being a contribution on a topic not widely covered yet by the academic community. İt focuses …
The Fossati Brothers on Youtube The International Conference on the Fossati Brothers, Swiss architects from Morcote to İstanbul has been held the 1st and the 2nd of October 2021. The first session has been held at Russian Consulate and the second at the Sen Piyer Church. Both building have been build by Gaspare Fossati. Here …
Latin Catholicism in Ottoman Istanbul Property, People and Missions Philippe Bourmaud will discuss the book “Latin Catholicism in Ottoman Istanbul – Property, People and Missions” with its editors, Vanessa R. de Obaldía (University of Mainz, DoSt-I) and Claudio Monge (DoSt-I). The volume aims at being a contribution on a topic not widely covered yet by …
Close Encounters A 1622 Jesuit’s Translation of the Quran The manuscript Animadversiones, Notae ac Disputationes in Pestilentem Alcoranum is an almost entirely unknown translation of the Qur’an into baroque Latin completed by the Jesuit priest Ignazio Lomellini in 1622, of which only one copy exists. It is accompanied by extensive commentaries and includes a complete …
