The conference of Professor Venturi, a professor at the Faculty of Arts, at University of Florence, fits within the context of the cycle of conferences dedicated to the collecting and the formation of the great Museums.
This time, the theme of the collecting will be addressed from a new point of view: that of the literati.
Emphasis will be given to people like Horace Walpole, Honoré de Balzac and Gabriele D'Annunzio, writers from the eighteenth century, have understood this phenomenon as a union of art and literature.