The conversations of the Incontri d’Autunno (Autumn Meetings) cycle are back again this year. They take their origin from the documents, manuscripts, and ancient books preserved in the Library and Archive of the Bottacin Museum in Palazzo Zuckermann, as well as from the numismatic and artistic museum collections.
Four encounters are planned for the occasion, ranging from the discovery of coins in Roman funerary contexts in the Veneto region (the famous ‘obolus of Charon’), to the events bordering on the fictional of a member of the Sun King’s court who later became a professor at the University of Padua and a famous numismatist, to the important series of coins of the Phoenician people in the numismatic collection of the Bottacin Museum, and finally the story of the friendship between Nicola Bottacin and the unfortunate emperor of Mexico, Maximilian of Hapsburg.
Bottacin Museum, Medagliere Hall 5.30 p.m.
Programme:
Thursday 17th October
Noè Conejo Delgado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) ‘Currencies for travelling, buying or paying? Some considerations on the ritual use of coins in the necropolises of the Veneto’.
Thursday 14 November
Marco Callegari (Bottacin Museum Library) ‘A member of the Sun King’s court in Padua: Charles Patin doctor, numismatist, university professor, academic (Paris 1633 – Padua 1693)’.
Thursday 28 November
Alessandro Cattaneo (University of Padua) ‘From Lebanon to Padua: the Phoenician coins of the Bottacin Museum’.
Thursday 12 December
Valeria Vettorato (Bottacin Museum) ‘The Merchant and the Emperor. The friendship between Nicola Bottacin and Maximilian of Hapsburg, Emperor of Mexico’.
Admission free while places last.
Information:
Palazzo Zuckermann – Bottacin Museum Library and Archives
tel. +39 049 8205675 – 8205669
website https://padovacultura.padovanet.it/it/musei/incontri-dautunno-2024-0
