Casting call “Le vie dell’acqua”

We are looking for 7 actors – 4 boys and 3 girls – to play teenagers around 17 years old in Micoll’s film “Le vie dell’acqua” (“The Ways of Water”). If you live in Veneto (the film will be shot in Padua and Venice) and you are interested in participating just use the QR code…

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MICOLL goes on air

Today, Thursday 26 December, at 5:30 pm (in Italy) our PI Stefania Gialdroni will be virtually in Canada as a guest on the radio show “L’ Eco del Lazio” hosted by Tony Porretta and Iolanda Russo (Extra Tv) on CHINRadio “The Voice of Canadian Multiculturalism”, to talk about merchants, migration, and communications tools in history (among other…

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New Project: “Cities as Breeding Grounds”

Very proud to be part of this new project funded by the FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen / Research Foundation – Flanders). Title: Cities as breeding grounds: Legal change in financial law (c. 1620-c. 1750) Senior research projects fundamental research – G0ACT25N FIN-code:7010 All credit, however, goes to Luisa Brunori and Dave De ruysscher, who…

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“Lights, camera, action!”

First two days of shooting (and a lot of brainstorming) for MICOLL’s movie ‘Le vie dell’ acqua’ in the heart of the University of Padua, the Palazzo del Bo. Great start with interviews with prof. Carlos Petit (Universidad de Huelva), prof. Andrea Caracausi (Università di Padova), prof. Matthias Heinz (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) and our…

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Micoll visits the Venice Film Festival 2024

Yesterday Micoll’s team (Stefania Gialdroni, Jake Dyble and Chiara Lo Giudice of the related project IUSTITIAM) visited the Venice Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia) together with the director of the project’s film Fabio Masi and one of the producers, Benedetto Orestini (Gruppo TKube). We had the great opportunity to meet the Director…

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A day trip along the canals

Learning by experience! Stefania Gialdroni, Chiara Lo Giudice, David De Concilio and Jake Dyble along the waterways used by merchants from the Middle Ages until the 1960s to transport men and goods. Thanks to the director of the Museum of river navigation (Museo della navigazione fluviale), Maurizio Ulliana, yesterday we had the opportunity to navigate…

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Micoll’s first time at the Accademia della Crusca!

What a great day for #Micoll ! Our PI, together with Francesca Fusco and Davide Basaldella, was for the first time at the Accademia della Crusca, one of the leading (and most ancient) institutions in the field of research on the Italian language. Its headquarters is located inside the Villa Medicea di Castello, on the beautiful…

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Reprint of the first edition of Stracca’s “De Mercatura”

The first edition of the fundamental “De mercatura seu marcatore” by Benvenuto Stracca (Venice, 1553), which is considered the founding work of commercial law as an autonomous discipline, has been recently reprinted in its original form. Thanks to the initiative of Marco Cian, prof. of Commercial Law at the University of Padua, the editor Giappichelli…

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PHEDRA Summer School 2024 – Call for applications

Our PI Stefania Gialdroni will be one of the members of the panel of this amazing Summer School devoted to the analysis of the sources of commercial law history. More infos HERE. The International Research Network I.R.N. PHEDRA organizes its second Summer School in La Rábida (Palos de la Frontera, Spain) on 25-28 June 2024. Following the…

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