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Giovanna Bossi Rosenfeld
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Giovanna Bossi Rosenfeld: biographical note
The first lucky event of my life was to be born in Florence, in a family who has a special love for art and history.
I did my best to honour these family traditions in my studies: art high school, Architectural degree in History of Florentine urban design (University of Florence, 1986 ‘Laurea’ Magna cum Laude and publication) and free lance work in architecture restoration and research field about the history of Florence. I received my License of Tourist Guide in Florence in 1998.
History is a great passion for me, especially history
of Jewish people in Florence and Tuscan. As a Tourist Guide
and former official guide in the Synagogue and Jewish Museum
of Florence I focus my activity on designing Jewish itineraries. I currently
collaborate with the Jewish Community of Florence and during
the “Ketanà” summer activity I guide the children in
Jewish itineraries in Florence that I design especially for them.
I also have good connections with the other Jewish Communities of
Tuscany, Livorno, Pisa, Siena and Pitigliano, and I can design
itineraries to visit these cities. I am a member of the association "Friends
of the Jewish Museum of Florence" and of “La Piccola Gerusalemme”
(Little Jerusalem) di Pitigliano.
I am studying Hebrew and I regularly visit Israel, where I have Israeli tour guide friends with whom I exchange my professional experience.
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As an architect, in my professional activity my special
expertise lies in the restoration of historically valuable
buildings and the survey of historical monuments,
such as Palazzo Medici and Palazzo Strozzi.
I continue to deal in architecture and design field teaching
Interior Design in an American university level institute in Florence (Studio
Art Centers International, since 1987).
After the terrorist outrage in the Uffizi area of May
1993 I leaded a group of architects for the surveying and reconstruction
project of one of the building of the Uffizi Gallery, for the Ministry of
Public Works.
As a freelance researcher I published several works about
the history of Florence in the XIX century, focusing on
the life of the many foreigner communities in town. In addition, I am a
lecturer on this subject in Florentine institutions.