The Padrón Real of Diego Ribero: the cartography of the known world after the expedition of Magellan and Elcano
The Padrón Real of Diego Ribero: the cartography of the known world after the expedition of Magellan and Elcano
Film clip detailing life in the “new world” begins at Ellis Island of the family’s Mancuso. As soon as the disembark, the family realizes how it is quite different from what they had foreshadowed.
The film is in Italian and Sicilian.
Slave trips to the East.
The dawn of globalization. video-lesson by Ugo Fabietti, one of the greatest Italian anthropologists
The Atlantic passage.
From slavery to its abolition: story of a revolution
We are all citizens of the world
The enslavement of the natives in colonial America. From Joshua J. Mark, translate by Alfonso Vincenzo Mauro
The collections have been developed by the Institute of Neohellenic Research, the Institute of Byzantine Research and the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity.
The film draws a parallel – between similarities and differences – between the two eras, asking the following questions: why, after all, has nothing changed? Today, migrants ignore the dangers of travel, the warning of those who have already attempted the crossing, the political and administrative reality in the country of arrival. By continuing to spend a fortune to risk your life in the waters of the Atlantic or the Mediterranean.