"Ligurian treasures Moneglia Classica”, 2012, (31 th Edition)                                     Classical music concert season (www.feliceromani.it )

10-11 October 2008 – Conference: “The Oratory of the Disciplinanti in Moneglia - A monument to a community’s artistic and religious history”
With the support of:

• Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church
• United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organisation – Unesco, Italian National Commission
• Region of Liguria – Province of Genova
• Archival Superintendence for Liguria – Superintendence to Architectural and Environmental Heritage for Liguria – Superintendence to Artistic, Historical and Ethno-anthropological Heritage for Liguria 
  
• Genova State Archive – University of Genova – "G. D'Annunzio" University in Chieti Pescara
• “Società Economica” Association in Chiavari.

4 - 12 October
Sacred art exhibit in the Church of Santa Croce

Conference program

Friday, October 10th
9.15 AM Welcoming speech from the local authorities

10 AM First sitting

Valeria Polonio, Genova University
Church and people in the Moneglia area, Middle Ages to Early Modernity

Giulio Firpo, Chieti – Pescara University
On the economic relations between Moneglia and Tuscany in the thirteenth century

Giovanni Battista Varnier, Genova University
Between universal and particular: profile of lay brotherhoods in the Church

Franca Franchini Guelfi, Genova University
The brotherhoods’ artistic and cultural heritage. Local self-determination and devotional traditions in the ligurian region.

2 PM Second session

Luigi Pellegrini , Chieti –Pescara University
Franciscan presence in Eastern Liguria

Riccardo Musso, Archival Superintendence for Liguria
Factions in central-eastern Liguria between the fifteenth and sixteenth Centuries

Paolo Fontana, Director of the Archdioceses’ Archive in Genova
“Such unurbanized, daring folk." Moneglia in the words of the Archdioceses' diocesan tribunal in Genova.

Andrea Lercari, Historical Archive of the Municipality of Moneglia, Academy of Local History
Moneglia’s social condition as described in public and private archives

Giorgio Casanova, Institute for the Study of Material Culture
Moneglia and Barbary pirates: the 1564 Easter landing

Furio Ciciliot, Savona Stria Patria Society
Moneglia: stories from the sea (fifteenth-nineteenth Centuries)

             Saturday, October 11th

9.30 AM  First sitting

Roberto Santamaria, Genova State Archive
The Oratory in Moneglia in archival sources

Anna De Floriani, Genova University
Medieval frescoes in the Oratory of the Disciplinanti in Moneglia

Gian Luca Zanelli, Superintendence to Artistic, Historical and Ethno-anthropological Heritage for Liguria
IThe renaissance building site for the Oratory of the Disciplinanti in Moneglia

Giuliana Algeri, ex-Superintendent to Architectural and Environmental Heritage for Liguria
The fourteenth-century Madonna of the Disciplinanti

Federica Volpera, Art historian
The Limoges chest from the Church of Santa Croce in Moneglia

2.30 PM Second sitting

Giorgio Rossini, Superintendent to Architectural and Environmental Heritage for Liguria
Spatial organization of the Oratory of the Disciplinanti's frescoes. Rendering presentation regarding the Oratory's architectural and artistic history.

Mauro Moriconi, Superintendent to Architectural and Environmental Heritage for Liguria
The Oratory’s typology and problems related to knowing and safeguarding the building

Debora Pizzorno, Architect.
The Church of Santa Croce and the Oratory of the Disciplinanti’s forecourt: materials, techniques, shapes.

Roberto Spinetto, Architect
IThe exterior of the Oratory restored: finding new light

             6 PM Closing

Giuliana Algeri.

Guided tours.

Promoted and set up by the Municipality of Moneglia together with the Opera d’Arte Association (1990-2004) and the Studies and Research Center Ad Monilia (2004 –2008)

May 11th-12th, 2007: Conference on Luca Cambiaso. Restoration and research.

Exhibit of Luca Cambiaso's painting "La Pentecoste" in the Church of Santa Croce