Spanish domination, Manzoni and the Byzantine reliquary of Agliate

How Spanish domination influenced social life, the economy and culture of Lombardy and what differences there are between reality and the story told by Manzoni . And then the connections between East and West represented by a precious Byzantine reliquary kept in the Basilica of Agliate . Two events to immerse yourself in the past.

In Biassono, organized by the Museo Civico Carlo Verri, the day after tomorrow at 9 pm in the museum's branch in Ca' de Bossi, in via Umberto I, Maurizio Boerci will talk about "Society and economy in Spanish Lombardy : city and countryside between Manzonian narration and historical reality". It will be an opportunity to understand "how the social and economic events of the long period of Spanish domination in Italy, and in particular in Lombardy, had an important weight in the construction of today's society", they explain from the museum, clarifying how our vision of that period was influenced by the portrait that Manzoni made of it in The Betrothed, as an era of decadence, but which today, in light of the data, should be reevaluated without conditioning. Free admission. The conference will also be broadcast live streaming on the museum's YouTube channel.

On Saturday at 9 pm in Carate, instead, in the Basilica of Agliate Ermanno Arslan, one of the greatest experts in early medieval archaeology, will delve into the theme "From the Jordan to the Lambro - The Byzantine reliquary of Agliate". At the end, a guided tour of the basilica with art history experts. FL

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