Ruins That Speak: Ageing Bodies, Collapsing Cities An interview with Salvatore Settis
Ruins That Speak: Ageing Bodies, Collapsing Cities An interview with Salvatore Settis

Summary/Abstract: Salvatore Settis is a most distinguished and highly reputed Italian art historian and archaeologist. His name resonates with some of the most important art history and humanities research centers in the world. Specialized in Italian Rennaissance and antiquity, in 1994 he became director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities (now the Getty Research Institute) in Los Angeles, a position that he held until 1999, when he returned to Pisa, where he would lead the Scuola Normale Superiore from 1999 to 2010. Since 2010 he has been Chair of the Scienti(c Council of the Musée du Louvre. He is also a member of the Académie Française, the Academies of Sciences in Berlin and Munich, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, and the American Philosophical Society. Having followed for years professor Setttis’s publications and exhibitions, I had the honor to meet him in Pisa, where he generously accepted to have this conversation for the present issue of our journal, dedicated to a topic that he had been pursuing for decades now, in many of his writings and exhibitions, mentioned in our conversation that follows.

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