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Renaissance Refugees: Negotiating Displacement in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Monday, May 5, 2025 3:00 PM | Royce Hall 23 About the Lecture During the early modern period, campaigns of ethnic cleansing forced entire populations to flee, creating diasporic networks across the Mediterranean and beyond. Ferdinand of Aragon’s “pious cruelty” as Machiavelli famously put it in the Prince, set an example that was repeatedly imitated...