Centro Studi di Civiltà e Spiritualità Comparate


Responsabile
Francesco Piraino
francesco.piraino@cini.it


Segreteria
tel.: 041 27210228
email: civilta.comparate@cini.it

In keeping with its own history and tradition, the Giorgio Cini Foundation has created a Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities. The new Centre has evolved naturally from the previous Venice and the East Institute, which was founded in 1958 with the principal aim of promoting the study of the civilisations of India and the Far East.


The Centre focuses on the study of different cultures, religions and spiritualities from a comparative perspective. This comparison is intended as an instrument for promoting dialogue between civilisations, in order to discuss ideas, but also political, theoretical and aesthetic experiences.

Fondo Tiziano Terzani

Tiziano Terzani (Florence, 14 September 1938 - Orsigna, 28 July 2004) was a reporter and a writer. He witnessed and scrupulously narrated major 20th-century events on the Asian continent, where he lived for thirty years. A polyglot traveller driven by a great curiosity, throughout his life, he explored the significance of international political-religious issues and the human condition in th...