Lesung: Tobias Roth: Die Welt der Renaissance in Florenz

In the organizer's words:

As part of the special exhibition"The Pazzi Conspiracy: Eight, Violence and Art in Renaissance Florence", author and Renaissance expert Tobias Roth reads from his book.

The poet Angelo Poliziano was standing just a few meters away when the 25-year-old Giuliano de' Medici was murdered with 19 stab wounds during mass in Florence Cathedral on 26 April 1478. He writes a text about his experiences and the course of the conspiracy, which is also inextricably linked to the name of the Pazzi family through this text. Poliziano's "Little Report on the Pazzi Family Conspiracy" was printed in two places that summer, appearing in both Rome and Florence. It shaped the views of his contemporaries and those of subsequent centuries.

Even though the poet was an eyewitness, his account is not the whole truth: Poliziano provides the official Medici version of events, as he was a close confidant of Lorenzo de' Medici, educated his children and was at the forefront of Florence's literary biotope.

The author, translator and Renaissance expert Tobias Roth introduces this biotope, presents the poet Angelo Poliziano and his account of the Pazzi conspiracy and reads from his translation of the "Little Report", which was published in his book "World of the Renaissance: Florence" by Galiani Berlin in 2024. In this way, the interplay of politics and culture that characterized the reign of the Medici and the entire Renaissance is revealed in the exhibition through the harmony of literature and art.

Tobias Roth was born in Munich in 1985, where he now lives again after studying in Freiburg and Berlin. In 2017, he completed his doctorate at the HU Berlin with a thesis on the poetry of the Italian Renaissance. As an author, translator and editor, he has published around four dozen books to date. The tome "Welt der Renaissance" (Galiani 2020), which he selected, translated and annotated, was on the Spiegel and Swiss bestseller lists.

Price information:

You can attend the reading with a Bode Museum admission ticket, annual pass or Museum Island ticket.