Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Vittore Branca Center

Named after Vittore Branca, a world-renowned Italianist who was Secretary General and later on President of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture is a new international resource for humanities studies.

The Vittore Branca Center aims to provide a place of study and meeting for young researchers and expert scholars, writers and artists interested in furthering their knowledge in a field of Italian civilisation (especially the culture of the Veneto) – visual arts, history, literature, music, drama - from an interdisciplinary point of view.

The residential facilities on the Island provide scholars and researchers with the opportunity to work and stay at length in Venice at economically reasonable conditions in a setting conducive to reflection and intellectual exchanges.

Researchers at the Vittore Branca Center will also have privileged access to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini libraries and archives housed in the Foundation. The ideal piazza of the Vittore Branca Center is the Nuova Manica Lunga, the new heart of the restyled user services in the Giorgio Cini Foundation library complex.

Being a resident is an essential requisite for attending the Vittore Branca Center: only through the physical and emotional involvement of prolonged immersion in the context of San Giorgio Maggiore will it be possible to take full advantage of the countless opportunities offered. Moreover, only in this way will young researchers and expert scholars be able to enjoy the mutual benefits of working side by side.