{"id":10542,"date":"2019-03-31T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2019-03-31T06:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:30:26","slug":"house-of-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/house-of-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo\u00a0with Allison Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Join the Brown University Library on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library<\/strong> for a presentation on the book House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo<\/em> <\/a>(Bloomsbury, 2019) by author Allison Levy (Digital Scholarship Editor, Brown University Library and Visiting Scholar in Italian Studies) in conversation with Sheila Bonde (Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

House of Secrets<\/em>\u00a0tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated fa\u00e7ade. The house, beginning with its piecemeal assemblage by one of the richest men in Florence in the fifteenth century, has witnessed endless drama, from the butchering of its interior to a courtyard suicide to champagne-fueled orgies on the eve of World War I to a recent murder on its third floor. When the author, an art historian, serendipitously discovers a room for let in the house, she lands in the vortex of history and is\u00a0tested\u00a0at every turn\u2014inside the house and out. Her residency in Palazzo Rucellai is informed as much by the sense of desire giving way to disappointment as by a sense of denial that soon enough must succumb to truth.\u00a0House of Secrets<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0about the sharing of space, the tracing of footsteps, the overlapping of lives. It is about the willingness to lose oneself behind the fa\u00e7ade, to live between past and present, to slip between the cracks of history and the crevices of our own imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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