part of PALACE WOMEN: OLTRARNO AND BEYOND
Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze. Palazzo Adami Lami, Lungarno Guicciardini 17 – Florence
How did music score and underscore the swell of women’s increasing liberties at the turn of the
twentieth century? Writer and curator Claudia Tobin, with violinist Ruth Palmer and pianist Alessio
Enea, set out to uncover the musical sisterhood between a network of European women artists, writers
and music critics who took inspiration from Florence, including suffragette composer Dame Ethel
Smyth, her friend the writer and activist Vernon Lee frequented Villa San Francesco di Paola. Presented
at the Lyceum in Florence, of which these women were members, this event is part of a research grant
that connects archives in the UK and Florence, including at the Villa I Tatti Harvard Centre for
Renaissance Studies, Lyceum Club archive, the British Institute of Florence, Somerville College Oxford
and the British Library in the UK.
