Tra pace e guerra: gioco e diplomazia/Between peace and war: games and diplomacy

In a year featuring the Summer Olympic Games, held against a global geopolitical background that connotes anything but a suspension of hostilities, it seemed a worthwhile idea to offer a number of accomplished and interested scholars an opportunity to reflect on the subject of games and diplomacy, between peace and war. The area covered in the present case includes the specific subject of the Olympic Truce, from its origins in Ancient Greece to its revival by the neo-Olympic movement, and also explores the ways in which sport and spectacle, from Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance, offered opportunities for diplomatic contacts or served similar purposes through the planning and performance of the events themselves.