Starting from Rimini, focusing on the crucial figure of Leon Battista Alberti, the first stage of the Itinera Adriatica initiative sets forth a scientific dissemination endeavor, an innovative educational project, a cultural promotion effort, and a territorial enhancement initiative. This initiative was conceived by Professor Silvia Fiaschi and Professor Guido Giglioni of the Department of Humanities at the University of Macerata, within the broader and well-established seminar project they direct, Adriatic Humanism: Research, Narratives, Readings (http://philelfiana.unimc.it/linee-di-ricerca/umanesimo-adriatico/), initiated in 2021 as part of the activities of CIRAM-Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca sull’Adriatico e il Mediterraneo (https://ciram.unimc.it/it/focus/umanesimo-adriatico/home ) and now in its seventh cycle (http://philelfiana.unimc.it/umanesimo-adriatico-vii-ciclo/).
The Itinera Adriatica are conceived as a ‘traveling laboratory’ of field research – connected to various lines of inquiry within the humanistic and Renaissance spheres – aiming to refocus attention on the conservation sites of the literary and documentary heritage of the Sinus Adriaticus. These sites provide a space for the exercise and creativity of philological, literary, historical, and philosophical competencies, fostering their understanding, awareness, and potential. They seek to promote the development and strengthening of collaborative networks among institutions, in pursuit of new and additional project activities: this opening event indeed involves collaboration with the universities of Bologna and Pavia, and notably with the Gambalunga Library of Rimini, which hosts the afternoon roundtable discussion dedicated to the multifaceted figure of Alberti. Drawing on manuscripts preserved at the Gambalunga, the contributions of Silvia Fiaschi, Guido Giglioni, and Cecilia Muratori, coordinated by Guido Bartolucci, aim to underscore the multiplicity of Alberti’s roles – philosopher, writer, architect, creator of a veritable “engineering of images and words” in the Italian Renaissance.
The Itinera Adriatica stimulate interaction among the academic community, young researchers, students, and civil society.
