FPUL Small Talk with Tilar J. Mazzeo: “Espionage and the Archives: Diaries of Count Ciano”
On Wednesday, October 9, the Friends of PUL will be joined by Tilar Mazzeo, New York Times bestselling author of “Sisters in Resistance,” an exhilarating story about how three women risked their lives to ensure that the diaries of Galeazzo Ciano made it into the hands of the Allies during World War II. Ciano, the son-in-law of Benito Mussolini, and his foreign minister, began keeping diaries about Hitler’s inner circle in 1939, and used them to express his disgust of the Nazis and to capture “the political squabbles” between men like Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels. The efforts of his wife - Mussolini’s daughter, a spy sent by the Germans who became his lover, and the wife of an American banker saved the manuscripts for posterity. The diaries were ultimately used as evidence against the Nazis in the Nuremberg trials, and later, found their way to the archives housed in Princeton University Library’s Special Collections.
Current Friends of PUL members are invited to attend in person. Registration is required.
The presentation will also be available by Zoom for non-members.
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- Date:
- Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location:
- Firestone Library - Special Collections, C-Floor
- Audience:
- Friends of Princeton University Library Student Friends of Princeton University Library
- Categories:
- Events Friends of the Princeton University Library Event
Dr. Tilar Mazzeo has held a number of tenured, sessional, and research-exclusive academic positions over a twenty-year career, in fields ranging from English literature and narrative nonfiction to management and business in the wine industry, including posts as Professeure Associée at the University of Montreal, as the Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English (and a head of department) at Colby College, and posts at other institutions ranging from Vancouver Island University, the University of Wisconsin system, Oregon State University, Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, and the University of Washington.
Dr. Mazzeo completed doctoral studies in the Department of English and in the Program in Theory and Criticism at the University of Washington. She retired early from teaching and the academic track in 2019 in order to pursue writing full-time. Her books have been New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times bestsellers. Dr. Mazzeo is a 2022-2023 Public Scholar with the National Endowment for the Humanities (US).
This event is part of the Friends of the Princeton University Library Small Talks Series.
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