Program:

9:00 Institutional greetings

9:30 First session (chaired by Mario Rizzo)
Introduction

Gastone Breccia (University of Pavia – Cremona Campus)

The brave and the effective: Pavia and the new face of the battle

Fabio Romanoni (Independent researcher)

Pavia between roads and strategies: the geopolitical weight of the city in the early sixteenth century

10.30 Coffee break

11:00 Marco Galandra and Luigi Casali (Independent researchers)

Pavia 1525, turning point of military art

Michele Maria Rabà (Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe of the National Research Council)

Pavia “under siege”: the defense of the city and its countryside in the Italian Wars of the sixteenth century

12.00 Debate

14.30 Second session (chaired by Alessandra Ferraresi)

Maurizio Arfaioli (The Medici Archive Project, Florence & New York)

History (and historiographers a) of an absence: Giovanni de’ Medici and the Battle of Pavia (1525-2025)

Marco Merlo (Museo delle Armi “Luigi Marzoli” in Brescia)

The tools of battle: small arms and armor

Fabrizio Ansani (King’s College London)
Technological innovation in its socio-economic context. Firearms in Italy in the early sixteenth century

16.00 Debate and conclusions

Conference promoted and organized by the Pavese Society of Homeland History APS with the support of the Promoting Committee and High Coordination of the Five Centenary of the Battle of Pavia.

Scientific committee:

Mirko Volpi (President of the Pavese Society of Homeland History APS), Piero Majocchi, Fabio Romanoni, Mario Rizzo (Councilors of the Pavese Society of Homeland History APS).