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From Joseph Connors: Letter from Florence From Katharine Park: he verve of every new Fellow who he last time I spent a full semester at walked into my office in September, I Tatti was in the spring of 2001. It T This year we have two T the abundant vendemmia, the large was as a Visiting Professor, and my Letters from Florence. number of families and children: all these husband Martin Brody and I spent a Director Joseph Connors was on were good omens. And indeed it has been splendid six months in the Villa Papiniana sabbatical for the second semester a year of extraordinary sparkle. The bonds composing a piano trio (in his case) and during which time Katharine Park, among Fellows were reinforced at the finishing up the research on a book on Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor outset by several trips, first to Orvieto, the medieval and Renaissance origins of of the History of Science and of the where we were guided by the great human dissection (in mine). Like so Studies of Women, Gender, and expert on the cathedral, Lucio Riccetti many who have worked at I Tatti, we Sexuality came to Florence from (VIT’91); and another to Milan, where were overwhelmed by the beauty of the Harvard as Acting Director. Matteo Ceriana guided us place, impressed by its through the exhibition on Fra scholarly resources, and Carnevale, which he had helped stimulated by the company to organize along with Keith and conversation. Christiansen of the When we returned this Metropolitan Museum. The spring, it was to live in the doors of the Uffizi were opened main villa during my semester to us on a closed Monday by as Acting Director, while Joe Alessandro Cecchi to study the was in Cambridge. The recently restored Adoration of experience was again the Magi by Gentile da memorable, but for somewhat Fabriano, while Fellow Machtelt different reasons. If last time Israels explained the Madonna Françoise & Joe Connors above – I Tatti was above all a place for della Neve by Sassetta in the Marty Brody & Katy Park at right us, this time it was above all a Contini Bonacossi Collection, a community of people. The little-visited enclave within the director’s quarters are in the Uffizi. In October the Sonatori della Harvard better, ideally through teaching. heart of the house, down the hall from Gioiosa Marca presented Folie all’italiana, So in January I set out for Cambridge for the library, overlooking the garden, with the fifth concert in the series, Early Music a semester of battling blizzards, teaching the kitchen below and the administrative at I Tatti. Also in October there was a the arcana of Italian architecture, and offices upstairs. Only living in this conference on Alberti, his architecture making friends for I Tatti. If Harvard, like environment do you truly begin to and its patrons, organized along with the Siena, had city gates with inscriptions understand the intricate rhythms of the Centro Studi Leon Battista Alberti, which (“Siena Opens Her Heart Wider to You” household and the close relationships continued with visits to Rimini and on the Porta di Camollia), one might read, between the academic activities of the Mantua. Finally in December, after years “Cor magis tibi Harvard pandit.” community and its domestic and of frustration, the gods smiled on I Tatti Cordiality was indeed the keynote in administrative life. All of the collective and permission finally arrived from many lunches and dinners with intellectual activities of the Center – Fiesole to build the Deborah Loeb Brice colleagues in literature, history, seminars, lectures, workshops, field trips, Loggiato. No finer Christmas present architecture, economics, and especially concerts, and conferences – as well as the could be imagined. music, and an unforgettable welcome was scholarly work of individual When I accepted the post of Director extended at Eliot House by Lino Pertile. Fellows and Visiting Professors, ultimately there were suggestions from many Continued on Continued on quarters that I should get to know page 3 page 3

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Fellows II Piccolomini’s FRANCES ANDREWS, Francesco De Patronage of Real Dombrowski Fellow, University of St. and Ephemeral Andrews, History. “The Employment of Architecture (1458- the ‘Religiosi’ by Governments of early 1464).” Renaissance Italy.” GUIDO REBECCHINI, VICTORIA AVERY, Rush H. Kress Fellow, Committee to University of Warwick, Art History. “The Rescue Italian Art Production of Bronze Objects in Fellow, Art History. Renaissance Venice.” “Between Rome and FLAMINIA BARDATI, Florence J. Gould Florence: Cardinal 2 Ippolito de’Medici Fellow, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, Art History. “Artisti toscani alla (1510-1535).” corte di Francia nel primo Rinascimento: MICHAEL WYATT, Domenico da Cortona, Girolamo Robert Lehman Pacherot e Antonio Juste.” Fellow, Stanford At the end of year party GIOVANNA BENADUSI, Ahmanson Fellow, University, Literature. University of South Florida, History. “Moccicone: Bernardo Dovizi da MARGARET HAINES, Opera di Santa Maria “The Last Wills of Women in Renais- Bibbiena and the Margins of Medici del Fiore, Art History. “Online Digital sance Tuscany.” Power.” Edition of the Sources of the Archive of MONICA CALABRITTO, Lila Wallace- Santa Maria del Fiore in the Cupola Reader’s Digest Fellow, Hunter College, Reader in Renassance Studies Period.” CUNY, Literature. “The Madness of PATRICK L. BAKER, Harvard University, MICHAEL ROCKE, Villa I Tatti, History. Paolo Barbieri of Bologna: A Comparison History. “Edition and Translation of Italian Texts of Social, Legal, and Medical related to Homoeroticism (14th-17th Perspectives.” Visiting Professors centuries).” st MAURIZIO CAMPANELLI, Andrew W. VICTOR COELHO (1 sem), Robert Mellon Fellow, Scuola Nazionale di Studi Lehman Visiting Professor, University of ORMER ELLOWS Medioevali, Roma, Literature. “Storia e Calgary, Musicology. “Renaissance F F fortuna della traduzione ficiniana del Instrumentalists and their Repertories, UPDATE Corpus Hermeticum.” 1420-1600.” nd MATTEO DUNI, Jean-François Malle CAROLINE ELAM (2 sem), Art History. “Roger Fry and Italian Art.” RALPH HEXTER (VIT’92) became Fellow, Syracuse University, Florence, nd History. “I giuristi scettici e la stregoneria ALINA PAYNE (2 sem), Harvard the fifth President of Hampshire nel rinascimento (1450-1600).” University Visiting Professor, Harvard College in August. Before moving University, Art History. “Relationship FEDERICA FAVINO, Jean-François Malle to Hampshire, which belongs to the between Architecture and the Figural Fellow, Centre A. Koyré, CNRS, Paris, Five College consortium in Amherst, History. “Le pratiche del sapere Arts and the ‘paragone’ Discussions in the Florentine Academic Environment.” Massachusetts, he was Professor of scientifico. Matematica, geometria e st cultura a Roma nell’età di Galileo.” PATRICIA RUBIN (1 sem), Courtauld Classics and Comparative Literature SILVIA FIASCHI, Francesco De Institute of Art, University of London, and Executive Dean of the College Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Pavia, Art History. “What’s in a Name? The of Letters and Science at the Literature. “Tradurre dal greco nel’400: Identification of Works of Art from the University of California at Berkeley. ricerche sulle versioni latine dell’umanista Renaissance.” A graduate of both Harvard and DAVID RUTHERFORD, Central Michigan Francesco Filelfo.” Oxford Universities, Hexter received GIUSEPPE GERBINO, Deborah Loeb Brice University, History. “The Reception of Lactantius and the History of the Book.” his Ph.D. from Yale University. His Fellow, Columbia University, Musicology. nd “Music and the Myth of Arcadia in RONALD WITT (2 sem), Robert books include A Guide to the Renaissance Italy.” Lehman Visiting Professor, Duke Odyssey: A Commentary on the MACHTELT ISRAËLS, Hanna Kiel Fellow, University, History. “The Intellectual English Translation of Robert Art History. “Sassetta and his Franciscan History of Western Europe 1450-1550.” Fitzgerald (New York: Vintage Books, Patrons.” 1993) and Ovid and Medieval Senior Research Associates CRAIG MARTIN, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Schooling: Studies in Medieval EVE BORSOOK, Villa I Tatti, Art History. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, History. School Commentaries on Ovid’s Ars “Rethinking Averroism in the “Medieval Mosaic Technology.” Renaissance.” ALLEN GRIECO, Villa I Tatti, History. “A amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, and FABRIZIO NEVOLA, Deborah Loeb Brice Social and Cultural History of Alimentary Epistulae heroidum (Munich: Bei der Fellow, Università di Siena, Art History. Habits in Renaissance Italy.” Arbeo-Gesellschaft, 1986). “Imagining the Renaissance City: Pius

VILLA I TATTI Letter from Joseph Connors continued Letter from Katharine Park continued

Every encouragement was given by the Provost and Associate rest on the collaboration of the fifty-odd people who make up Provost, Steve Hyman and Sean Buffington, and by the Dean of the staff. The smoothness with which they work together is Arts and Sciences, Bill Kirby. Tom Lentz and I established a the product of much reflection, coordination, and commitment, program for the scientific staff of the Harvard University Art and it is they who give I Tatti its unique character and warmth. Museums to visit I Tatti, first in line being the curators of Italian The spring and of Chinese art. Harvard University Press agreed to publish semester, like two new I Tatti series, one of monographs in history, the other the fall, was a the Berenson Lectures in the Italian Renaissance, the first of busy one. This which will be given by Edward Muir (VIT’73) in March 2006. year’s May I had long conversations with the directors and administrators conference, of Dumbarton Oaks and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced which focused Study, Harvard research centers with administrative structures on the work of 3 and missions similar to I Tatti. In a delightful visit to Los Angeles the great and San Francisco in April, Françoise and I found many old thirteenth- friends of I Tatti and perhaps won new ones as well. And back century sculptor in Boston there were enormously sympathetic contacts with and architect Tony Molho & Giovanna Benadusi colleagues at the MFA and Arnolfo di the Gardner Museum, and Cambio in the context of Florence’s religious, political, and with many former Fellows cultural life, drew a lively audience of several hundred, as did who live in the Cambridge the June concert by the Paris-based ensemble L’Arpeggiata. Our area. beautiful new harpsichord, generously donated by Frederick I returned to I Tatti Hammond (VIT’72), was inaugurated at a more intimate concert twice during the semester, in the Big Library, performed by Professor Hammond himself. once for the visit of The Fellows were responsible for three exciting giornate curators from the National di studio, in which they presented their work in progress. The Gallery in London and the first, New Work in the History of Science and Medicine, which Sara Matthews, Susan Bates, Monica Opificio delle Pietre Dure included several advanced doctoral students from Harvard, Calabritto & Peggy Haines to examine the Sassetta focused on Renaissance constructions of madness, on mechanics panels with infrared and medicine, and on the mathematical sciences. The second reflectography, and once for the Arnolfo di Cambio conference, was devoted to cardinals as patrons of the arts, and on their literary, which I had entrusted to the care of Peggy Haines (VIT’76,’88- artistic, and musical commissions: from tomb sculpture to ’06), Julian Gardner (VIT’06) and David Friedman madrigals, from castles to baths. (VIT’70,’71,’77,’89) and had been following closely ever since The final giornata took us to the Biblioteca Laurenziana, my first month at I Tatti in 2002. But in June, after the Harvard where Fellows who work on the Renaissance history of classical Commencement, I could hardly wait to return home, to the philology introduced us to their research on Ficino and Filelfo late blooming of Margrit’s flower beds, to Visiting Professors using original manuscripts. Returning to I Tatti in the afternoon, whom I had invited and with whom I would have loved to we heard discussions of a variety of topics relating to Tuscan overlap, and to a class of Fellows who had lost none of their history outside Florence, including the resolution of family sparkle. The year was capped with the farewell dinner, when disputes, communal administration, urban development, and the Eve Borsook (VIT’82-’05) was presented with a two-volume role of portraiture in religious devotion. Each giornata collection of her complete articles and reviews, gathered with culminated in lively discussion and a dinner for the exhausted loving care by Patrick Baker, the first Reader in Renaissance participants, and together they became the basis for a series of Studies. A few days later there was a wonderful “Noi Altri” panels for next year’s meeting of the Renaissance Society of dinner with the staff and their families. It was the most heart- America in San Francisco. This group of Fellows was remarkable warming of welcomes: Cor magis tibi Aedes Tattianae pandunt.” for their intellectual initiative (not to mention their inexhaustible Joseph Connors sociability), and they were individually and collectively Director wonderful to work with. In conclusion, I note the retirement of Amanda George, Two New Publications Series Andrew W. Mellon Librarian for Acquisitions and Collection I Tatti is starting a series in Renaissance history with Harvard Development (see pages 4 and 19). Although she will be missed University Press and in Renaissance art history with Yale she will remain, like this year’s Fellows, a continuing part of University Press London. Initially we hope to publish one or I Tatti’s community. possibly two monographs a year in each series. Enquiries Katharine Park should be directed to Joseph Connors ([email protected]). Acting Director

AUTUMN 2005 THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSOn

s recent readers of the Newsletter eminent Renaissance scholar Charles expert knowledge of its collections and Aknow, for the past several years we Trinkaus (VIT’82). Adding to this earlier procedures that she takes with her will have made a major effort to strengthen bequest, Pauline has now given 121 well- be difficult to replace fully. We wish her the Biblioteca Berenson’s periodical chosen volumes, together with some all the best in her new ventures. holdings – identified some years ago as 1,500 offprints, from her and Charles’s Since Amanda’s departure, Manuela one of the chief priorities of collection library. Apart from the intrinsic value of Michelloni, assistant cataloguer since development in the Library – by these additions, the offprints are also a 2003, has assumed most of her expanding subscriptions and by acquiring unique testimony to the network of responsibilities as acquisitions librarian, missing back issues of journals we already Charles Trinkaus’s relations with other doing so with her characteristic talent, received. This project has been sustained scholars. We are grateful to Pauline for dedication, and efficiency. We will also 4 by a munificent grant given in 2000 by be making at least one new appointment her continuing kindness toward the the Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation. Library. to the library staff in the coming months. This year the balance of these funds was In March and April 2005, the IRIS During the year’s second half, we used up, and it is thus an appropriate consortium updated its system software, benefited from the skilled services of moment to summarize the results of this Aleph, adopting the latest release available Lukas Klic as a part-time library assistant. extremely productive campaign. in Italy, version 16.02. The staff side of Before moving temporarily to Florence Over the last five years, the Library this version possesses several attributes to study fine arts – he is an art student at has begun subscriptions to fully 98 new that increase its functionality for the Massachusetts College of Art in journals, including numerous recently acquisitions and cataloguing operations, Boston – Lukas had worked for years as founded Renaissance reviews and many while the new online public catalogue an assistant at the Fine Arts Library at older ones that were deemed necessary offers enhanced search capabilities and an Harvard. His experience and his excel- additions, particularly in the fields of attractive and easily legible display. lent Italian helped him to fit easily into Italian literature and history. The number Despite the shutdown of library the Berenson Library, where he assisted of journals currently received now stands operations for several weeks during the with public services and carried out at 556. What’s more, to the greatest extent migration to the upgraded system, several special projects. We’ll miss Lukas’s possible we have also completed the runs acquisitions and cataloguing levels competence and good cheer, and we wish of over 60 important established journals maintained and even slightly increased him the best as he returns to Boston to that had critical and often very sizeable the sustained pace of recent years. More continue both his art studies and his work gaps. All told, retrospective purchases of than 3,800 volumes, including with our friends in the Fine Arts Library. periodicals have added well over 3,000 periodicals and offprints, were In April 2005, librarian Ilaria Della volumes. These acquisitions have vastly accessioned this year, in addition to several Monica completed a Master’s degree in improved the Library’s periodical hundred other items such as CD-ROMS, Archival Sciences at the University of holdings, an essential part of its research microfilms, and microfiches. This figure Florence, graduating with the highest resources, by providing both broader includes gifts of 268 books and 196 honors. We are extremely proud of Ilaria’s coverage and greater historical depth. I’d offprints from I Tatti appointees, current accomplishment, which she adds to the like to express our deepest appreciation and former, as well as from other post-graduate specialization in Art to I Tatti Council Chairman Debby institutions and individuals. Such History she received in 1997. Her new Brice for her dedicated and unfailingly donations are vital to the Library’s welfare professional competency will be put to generous support of the Berenson Library. and to the excellence of its collections, good use as we continue to organize and This year the Library also received and are, as always, sincerely appreciated. inventory the Library’s manuscript another important gift from Pauline In January the Library lost one of its collections, as well as I Tatti’s large and Moffitt Watts (VIT’82) who, several years mainstays when, after 33 years of skillful growing institutional archive. For her ago, donated the invaluable microfilm and dedicated service, Amanda George degree, Ilaria’s final project involved the collection of Renaissance humanists’ texts retired. Amanda began working in the reorganization and analytic description of belonging to her late husband, the Library as a half-time cataloguer in 1972, the archive of the Committee to Rescue moved to a full-time position in 1983, Italian Art (CRIA), now held by the and in 1989 became Head Librarian and Berenson Library. These papers were left acquisitions librarian. Since 1998 until by Myron Gilmore, Director of I Tatti her retirement this year, she held the title from 1964 to 1973, but were neglected of Andrew W. Mellon Librarian for for many years before being discovered Collection Development. Over these in a wooden trunk in a farmhouse on many years Amanda has been an essential the I Tatti estate in 2003. Ilaria’s account protagonist of the growth of the of this project follows. Biblioteca Berenson into a major Michael Rocke international research institution, and her Nicky Mariano Librarian Stefano Iossa, Amanda George & Marco Spallanzani

VILLA I TATTI where Myron Gilmore (VIT’64-’73) was however, in the fascinating the Director and Millard Meiss (VIT’69) correspondence among the extraordinary – Chairman of the CRIA Advisory personalities involved, such as that The Papers of the Committee – was a permanent guest and between Paul Kristeller, member of Committee to Rescue at times also Director pro tempore. The CRIA’s Executive Committee, and CRIA papers rediscovered in 2003 Emanuele Casamassima, Director of the Italian Art turned out to be those from the office in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Palazzo Pitti. The material consists for The Committee to Rescue Italian the most part of financial documents, Art terminated its activities in 1973. especially receipts for staff salaries and for Through the Committee’s assiduous he Committee to Rescue Italian Art the work carried out by specialists and work of fund-raising and organization, 5 T(CRIA) was founded shortly after restorers. and thanks to the generosity of hundreds the devastating Florentine flood of 4 My colleague in the Master’s of concerned benefactors, a substantial November 1966 by Fred Licht and Bates program, Gabrielle Capelli, and I have part of the cultural heritage of Florence Lowry, both professors of art history at produced a finding aid to the CRIA and Venice was saved from the ravages of Brown University. Within just a few days papers which is now held in the Berenson the flood and tides and preserved for they brought together a remarkable Library. From the CRIA papers and the future generations. The legacy of CRIA group of historians, art historians, and finding aid we gain the impression of a continues to this day, however, in another literary scholars, all united by a deep love big enterprise working around Florentine tangible way at I Tatti. With the money for Florence and by their concern for its Renaissance vestigia: manuscripts from remaining when the organization cultural heritage. The Committee’s aim the Archivio di Stato, cinquecentine from concluded its work, an endowment fund was to raise funds for restoring works of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, and was established to support one of the art, documents, and books damaged by works of art such as the wooden Harvard Center’s annual fellowships. the flood. Some of the scholars on the Maddalena by Donatello, or paintings by As mentioned previously, when Committee, such as Paul Oskar Kristeller, Cimabue, Beccafumi, Paolo Uccello, as CRIA’s Palazzo Pitti office shut down, Felix Gilbert, and Sydney Freedberg well as the Pazzi Chapel and the cloister the papers it produced ended up at I Tatti, (VIT’74,’81,’89), had the task of setting by Brunelleschi at Santa Croce. due surely to the decisive role the Harvard priorities, while a team of specialists in The many people who were Center had played in the recovery efforts. the conservation of paintings, books, and associated with CRIA formed an indus- During the organization and sculptures were to recommend methods trious and peaceful army of scholars, inventorying of this collection, other and procedures. restorers, and chemists, every one of papers relating to CRIA came to light in The sum the Committee sought whose names was carefully recorded. the Center’s institutional archive. These to raise was $2.5 million, a goal it These documents are thus an important documents, produced by Myron Gilmore very nearly reached. Most of the source for the history of Florentine and Millard Meiss from I Tatti, consist funds went toward financing craftsmanship and Italian industry, but also mainly of technical reports on individual restoration projects both in Florence for the development of the field of restoration projects, photographs, and and in Venice, whose artworks and conservation and the restoration of correspondence. These materials will also monuments had also suffered heavy paintings, architecture, and paper. During soon be put in order and fully described damage from exceptionally high this period, in fact, Florence became a in a separate finding aid. tides. A number of scholars also unique testing ground for new At this point, only one piece of the received grants from CRIA to enable conservation theories and practices. The CRIA archive is missing, that is, the them to collaborate on restoration importance of these papers lies also, papers produced by Bates Lowry and his projects. staff in the New York office. The For the supervision of the entire discovery of these documents would project there was an office in the United close the circle, and allow the full activities States, located at first in Providence, then of this remarkable organization to be in New York, headed by Bates Lowry, and reconstructed and studied. Any readers a second office in Florence, in Palazzo of the Newsletter who have information Pitti, staffed by an annually appointed on the possible location of CRIA papers representative and a secretary (Judith elsewhere are kindly requested to contact Munat), which had organizational and me at [email protected]. financial functions. Finally, a kind of Ilaria Della Monica headquarters was established at I Tatti, Reference Librarian Ilaria Della Monica

AUTUMN 2005 RECENT ACQUISITIONS

BOOKS BY FORMER FELLOWS mong the many recent additions to the Library, whether purchased by one of the endowed book funds, from donations given Aby the Friends of the Biblioteca Berenson, or given directly, are the following recent publications by former Fellows. We are delighted this list grows each year, but as space is very limited, please forgive us if your volume is not listed or the title has been abbreviated.

ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI (VIT’99). Flamboyant and Flavourful Bird. Florence: JOHN W. O ’MALLEY (VIT’67,’68). Four Passatempi rinascimentali: storia culturale Centro Di, 2004. Cultures of the West. Cambridge, MA: del divertimento in Europa (secoli XV- CAROLINE ELAM (VIT’82,’05). Roger Fry Bellnap Press of Harvard U.P., 2004. 6 XVII). Roma: Carocci, 2004. and the Re-Evaluation of Piero della PATRICIA J. OSMOND (VIT’98) ed. MAURIZIO A RFAIOLI (VIT’04). The Black Francesca. New York: Frick Collection, Revisiting the Gamberaia. Florence: Bands of Giovanni: Infantry and 2004. Centro Di, 2004. Diplomacy during the Italian Wars (1526- GIANFRANCO FIORAVANTI (VIT’86) ed. IVAYLA POPOVA (VIT’03). Byzantium - 1528). Pisa: Pisa U.P. , 2005. Anonymi Quaestiones super octavum Italy: Some Aspects of the Cultural CECILIA ASSO (VIT’99) & ADRIANO librum Physicorum. Tavarnuzze Interaction (14th-15th Centuries). Sofia, PROSPERI (VIT’81) eds. Desiderius (Firenze), 2004. 2004. Erasmus. Scritti religiosi e morali / CLAUDIO GIUNTA (VIT’00). Codici: saggi MÁRIA PROKOPP (VIT’82,’86). Affreschi Erasmo da Rotterdam. Torino: Einaudi, sulla poesia del Medioevo. Bologna: Il medievali nella regione di Gömör del 2004. Mulino, 2005. Regno d’Ungheria. Somorja: Méry GAUVIN A. BAILEY (VIT’01). Art of JAMES HANKINS (VIT’89,’93). Humanism Ratio, 2005. Colonial Latin America. London: and Platonism in the Italian Renaissance. PIOTR SALWA (VIT’84). La narrativa Phaidon, 2005. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, tardogotica toscana. Fiesole: Cadmo, SERGIO BERTELLI (VIT’66,’67). Trittico: 2003-2004. 2004. Lucca, Ragusa, Boston: tre città mercantili JANEZ HÔFLER (VIT’87,’02). Der Palazzo FRANCESCO SBERLATI (VIT’96). tra Cinque e Seicento. Roma: Donzelli, Ducale in Urbino unter den Montefeltro L’ambiguo primato : l’Europa e il 2004. (1376-1508): neue Forschungen zur Bau- Rinascimento italiano. Roma: Carocci, MIKLÓS BOSKOVITS (VIT’73) ed. Da und Ausstattunggeschichte. Regensburg: 2004. Bernardo Daddi al Beato Angelico a Schnell & Steiner, 2004. SILVANA SEIDEL MENCHI (VIT’74,’75,’94- Botticelli: dipinti fiorentini del Lindenau- PAVEL KALINA (VIT’00). Praha 1310- ’03) & Diego Quaglioni eds. Museum di Altenburgi. Firenze: Giunti, 1419: kapitoly o vrcholné gotice. Praha: Trasgressioni: seduzione, concubinato, 2005. Libri, 2004. adulterio, bigamia (XIV-XVIII secolo). BARBARA C. BOWEN (VIT’82). Humour F. W. K ENT (VIT’78,’83,’87,’96,’97). Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004. and Humanism in the Renaissance. Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of FRANCESCO TATEO (VIT’66). I nostri Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Magnificence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins umanisti: il contributo pugliese al CHRISTOPHER S. CELENZA (VIT’00). The U.P., 2004. Rinascimento. Fasano: Schena, 2002. Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, STANKO KOKOLE (VIT’00). Totius NIKOLAUS THURN (VIT’93) trans & ed. Historians, and Latin’s Legacy. Baltimore: antiquitatis egregius admirator: Drei neapolitanische Humanisten über Johns Hopkins U.P. , 2004. Christophorus Raubar zwischen die Liebe : Antonius Panormita - SAMUEL COHN, JR. (VIT’89,’94). Popular Kampanien und Krain. Regensburg: Hermaphroditus, Ioannes Pontanus - De Protest in Late-Medieval Europe: Italy, Schnell & Steiner, 2003. amore coniugali, Michael Marullus - France and Flanders. Manchester: ROBERT MANIURA (VIT’01). Pilgrimage Hymni naturalest. St. Katharinen: Scripta Manchester U.P. , 2004. to Images in the Fifteenth Century: The Mercaturae, 2002. WILLIAM J. CONNELL (VIT’93) trans. & ed. Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of TIMOTHY VERDON (VIT’87). Maria Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince. Boston: Czestochowa. Woodbridge: Boydell nell’arte europea. Milano: Mondadori St. Martin’s, 2005. Press, 2004. Electa, 2004. GEORGE W. D AMERON (VIT’88). JOHN MONFASANI (VIT’74,’83). Greeks MARCO V ILLORESI (VIT’00). La fabbrica Florence and its Church in the Age of and Latins in Renaissance Italy: Studies dei cavalieri: Cantari, poemi, romanzi in Dante. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania on Humanism and Philosophy in the prosa fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Press, 2004. 15th Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2005. MASSIMO DANZI (VIT’92), La biblioteca CAROLINE P. M URPHY (VIT’02). The ZYGMUNT WAZBINSKI (VIT’76). Ut ars del cardinal Pietro Bembo. Ginevra: Pope’s Daughter. New York: Oxford U.P., natura, ut natura ars: studium z Droz, 2005. 2005. problematyki medycejskiego kolekcjonerstwa SABINE EICHE (VIT’83). Presenting the JOHN M. NAJEMY (VIT’70,’71,’75,’99) ed. drugiej polowy XVI wieku. Torun, 2000. Turkey: the Fabulous Story of a Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300- 1550. New York: Oxford U.P. , 2004.

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e were particularly fortunate to and Persian miniatures, not normally on Additional photographs have Whave had as a Fellow this year view, by storing them in acid-free boxes. also been acquired from Antonio Machtelt Israëls, who is studying the early At the same time the Studio Calderai – Quattrone (Carpaccio’s St. Ursula Quattrocento Sienese painter Sassetta. Mazzei has recently made an evaluation cycle in the Venice Accademia), Our three splendid panels in the Salone of I Tatti’s Oriental Collection. Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia, – of St. Francis in Glory flanked by St. During the clearing out of the and Roberto Sigismondo, a Roman John the Baptist and the Blessed Ranieri Casa Morrill on Costa San Giorgio, photographer who specializes in 7 – come from Sassetta’s altarpiece for the some ornamental prints collected by remotely located murals from all over church of S. Francesco in Borgo Gordon Morrill during the years and Italy. Sansepolcro. A combination of Israëls’ some original drawings by him have Much of this new material has been presence, widespread interest in the been discovered. These are now labelled and filed by our regular helper, painter and his painting techniques, as carefully stored in the Berenson Senior Research Associate Eve Borsook well as a lively curiosity on the part of Archive in acid-free portfolios made (VIT’82-06). Darcy and Treacy Beyer, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure provided especially for them. generous donors to the Fototeca, a perfect opportunity to make a careful Among the users of the Berenson continue to volunteer their time for scientific examination of our panels using Archive, we must mention Prof. Yoshiaki similar work during their stays in x-ray and infra-red reflectography. This Shimizu, Frederick Marquand Professor Florence. Two Syracuse University was carried out by conservator Roberto of Art and Archaeology at Princeton, who students, Morgan Ridler and Jamie Bellucci and the technicians of the studied the sizeable correspondence of Pachuta, have carefully filed negatives, Opificio under the direction of Dr. Yukio Yashiro (1890-1975), a Japanese art while a group of particularly precious Cecilia Frosinini and attracted several historian and founder of the Yamato photographs have been repaired by Carla scholars from abroad including Christa Bunkakan (Museum of Japanese Art) at Gambacorta and Pamola Picchetta of Gardner von Teuffel (VIT’94,’06), as well Nara who wrote widely on Sandro Fotocartarestauri continuing our as a team of specialists from the National Botticelli as well as on Japanese Art. program of restoration of photographic Professor Shimizu was also very material. interested in the famous Chinese scroll Perhaps surprisingly, the collection in the Berenson Collection entitled in the Fototeca Berenson has never been Painting of a Country Retreat (Shan catalogued. Thanks to a grant from the –shuang tu), dated before 1453. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The academic year 2004-2005 support from Darcy and Treacy Beyer and involved us in several new projects and from the Cabot Family Foundation, we there was a noticeable increase in users will soon start a project to rectify this of the Fototeca. Several thousand situation. We will have more to say about photographs were added including this project in next year’s Newsletter, but images of the drawings from in preparation for this and the future plan Chatsworth (Devonshire Collection) to digitize the images in the collection, Machtelt Israëls, Martin Wyld & and the final installment of the Assisi we have visited a number of other Christa Gardner von Teuffel examine the Sassetta series. The latter, as mentioned in institutes with similar collections and previous issues of the Newsletter, have attended conferences in Bologna, consists of details of the recently Bolzano, Rome, and Florence. The Gallery of London, including Dillian cleaned St. Francis cycle in the upper technology has developed so much in Gordon, Ashok Roy, Martin Wyld, and Church photographed by their recent years, and we have much to learn! Luke Syson (VIT’06). Roberto Bellucci conservator, Bruno Zanardi. In the wake Fiorella Superbi has also started to examine the rest of the of the Assisi project we have started to Agnes Mongan Curator of the Fototeca Berenson Collection with a view to update the photographic documentation Berenson, Curator of the Berenson reporting on the condition of the of Giotto’s frescoes in the Scrovegni Collection and Archive paintings. Chapel in Padua, which were & Special attention has been given to photographed by Antonio Quattrone Giovanni Pagliarulo the conservation of our Chinese scrolls after their recent cleaning. Photograph Librarian

AUTUMN 2005 Italian composers. The madrigal descriptions of tournaments and collections by Tuscan composers are other forms of entertainment NEWS amongst the most interesting for our involving music, were purchased FROM THE holdings: the sole from libraries MORRILL MUSIC surviving bassus part of throughout Italy. Giovanni Del Turco’s We thank in LIBRARY Primo libro de madrigali particular the a cinque, published in Biblioteca Estense Florence in 1602, which in Modena for its 8 uring World War II a large also contains works by generous D collection of highly valuable Luca Bati and Lorenzo del collaboration in this manuscripts and prints of early music Turco; the only complete Christopher Stembridge project. was evacuated from the Preussische copy of a book of five- Gifts for the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin to a and six-part madrigals by library included two Benedictine monastery in Silesia, the Pisan composer Orazio recent publications by former now in Poland. For decades this Battaglioni, dedicated to Alberigo Fellows: Tony Cummings (VIT’90), precious material was thought to Cybo Malaspina in 1574; a complete The Maecenas and the Madrigal: Madrigali a cinque voci... libro Patrons, Patronage, and the Origins secondo by Giovan Piero Manenti, of the Italian Madrigal (Philadelpia, musico del Sereniss. Gran Duca di 2004); and Anna Maria Busse Berger Toscana (1575), and the Secondo (VIT’93,’06), Medieval Music and libro de madrigali a cinque voci by the Art of Memory (Berkeley, 2005). Cristofano Malvezzi da Lucca Funds donated by Melvin Seiden in (1590). Dedicated to Emilio de’ honor of F. Gordon and Elizabeth Cavalieri, this last also contains Morrill purchased a fine facsimile works by Jacopo Peri and Duritio edition of the manuscript Modena, Isorelli, an obscure musician who is Biblioteca estense, Alpha M.5.24 Ugo Casiglia & Marc Adams known to have performed in (ModA), a fundamental source for Malvezzi’s fourth Florentine composers of the ars subtilior such intermedio of 1589 and to have as Bartolino da Padova, Johannes have perished in a wartime fire, collaborated with Emilio de’ Ciconia, Anthonello da Caserta, although one of the monks had Cavalieri in the composition of Matteo da Perugia, Filippotto da testified to seeing crates being Lamentations for Holy Week (1599). Caserta, Jacob Senleches and removed from the monastery by The Sienese composer Desiderio Antonio Zacara da Teramo. An army trucks in 1947. It was not until Pecci, Ghiribizzoso Intronato, is accompanying editorial volume by 1977, in fact, that the books and represented by the only surviving former Fellow Anne Stone (VIT’01) manuscripts from the monastery of source of his Arie a una, due, e tre will shortly be published. Grüssau were officially declared to voci ... opera seconda (1626), edited Kathryn Bosi be extant and located in the by Alessandro Della Ciaia. F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill Jagellonian Library in Krakow. A second substantial acquisition Music Librarian Following a visit to the Jagellonian project for the microfilm collection Library last September, I was given centered around the court of Ferrara, permission to acquire a substantial whose musical life in the last decades number of microfilms of manuscripts of the sixteenth century under the and early printed music from this patronage of Alfonso d’Este II remarkable collection, which is now achieved a brilliance and intensity likely to remain in Poland. We rarely surpassed by other Italian purchased eight important courts of the time. Forty manuscripts of Renaissance music, manuscripts and books of early together with 40 volumes of early printed music by composers printed music which for the most associated with the court of Ferrara, Alina Payne & Marty Brody part are unique sources of music by together with pastoral plays,

VILLA I TATTI FORMER FELLOWS I Tatti (VIT’64,’70), and two younger scholars, James Moore and UPDATE Ulysses Roseman, Jr. His inaugural The Ugo recital, a memorable performance of works by Frescobaldi and Domenico PETER FARBAKY (VIT’02) recently Casiglia Scarlatti, revealed the extraordinary curated the exhibition Mariazell and Harpsichord quality of the instrument, which Hungary: the memory of a place of includes an unusually warm tone in pilgrimage at the Kiscell Museum in the upper registers. Budapest, 28 May – 12 September Professor Hammond is Irma 2004. This exhibition had its origins Brandeis Professor of Romance in the early history of the building Culture and Music History at Bard where the Kiscell Museum is housed: College, and a former Fellow of the the Trinitarian Monastery of Kiscell, American Academy in Rome as well 9 th founded in the mid-18 century. as of Villa I Tatti. His scholarly Kiscell (in German Klein-Mariazell) interests concentrate on Italian was an important place of pilgrimage illa I Tatti records with great pleasure the gift of a harpsichord from baroque keyboard music (in where a copy of the miraculous statue V particular, on the life and works of of the Virgin in the monastic church former music Fellow Frederick Hammond (VIT’72). This instrument, Girolamo Frescobaldi) and on the of Mariazell in Upper Styria was history of musical and artistic venerated. Hungarian relations with made by the renowned Palerman maker Ugo Casiglia, is based on the harpsichord patronage in seventeenth-century Styrian Mariazell date back to the Rome. His many publications Middle Ages when the Hungarian by Giovanni Battista Giusti (1693) held in the Smithsonian Institute. An “inner- include Girolamo Frescobaldi king Louis the Great of Anjou (1342- (Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1983), 82) built a church and donated a outer,” the body of the Casiglia is made from limewood and spruce, with the Music and Spectacle in Baroque painting of the Virgin in gratitude for Rome (New Haven: London: Yale his victory over the Turks around inner case sides and mouldings in Tuscan cypress, while the soundboard is in walnut U.P., 1994), and Life and the Arts in 1370. The exhibition held in the the Baroque Palaces of Rome: former monastery of Kiscelli in and the keys are covered with Italian boxwood and ebony. The outer case is Ambiente Barocco (New Haven: Budapest last year documented the London: Yale U.P., 1999), which he history of the Hungarian veneration made entirely from limewood lacquered of the Mariazell shrine from the age a warm yellow with dark blue and silver of Louis the Great to the end of the decoration. The harpsichord is now Hapsburg monarchy. A fascinating housed in the Berenson Studiolo, where overview of a wide variety of cult its lovely lines harmonize with the works images was offered through the of art and its beauty of tone enchants the exhibition of some 300 works of art Fellows and visiting musicians who from 40 Hungarian, Austrian and play it. Croatian public and private To acknowledge the generosity collections relating to the shrine of of Professor Hammond and to Mariazell: paintings, statues and celebrate the arrival of the applied art objects such as harpsichord, we invited musicians, commemorative embroideries, instrument makers and museum portable altarpieces, ex-votos and curators from Florence to join the Frederick Hammond popular prints (including some Villa I Tatti community on Tuesday delightful Baroque precursors of the 5 April 2005 in the Big Library for a concert and reception. After a modern postcard). The exhibition’s edited with Stefanie Walker. A catalogue Ungarn in Mariazell – welcoming address by Director Joseph Connors, Professor harpsichordist, and former student of Mariazell in Ungarn; Geschichte und Ralph Kirkpatrick, he has performed Erinnerung (Budapest, 2004) was Hammond spoke at length about his experiences in Florence as widely in the United States and edited by Péter Farbaky and Szabolcs Europe both as continuo player and Serfözö, and included contributions harpsichordist and as music Fellow at I Tatti, before dedicating the soloist. He was made a Cavaliere al from ANDRÁS SZILÁGYI (VIT’84) and instrument to the memory of Merito della Repubblica (Italy) in ZSUZSA URBACH (VIT’98). Howard Mayer Brown, outstanding 1988. a musicologist and former Fellow of Kathryn Bosi F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill Music Librarian

AUTUMN 2005 evening, Council member ROBERT ERBURU graciously hosted a dinner at the COUNCIL NOTES Huntington Ritz-Carlton. Two days later in San Francisco, former Acting Director Gene Brucker (VIT’64,’80,’84,’87) his has been a year of change within and effort to I Tatti, its mission and its hosted a lunch attended by I Tatti friends Tthe I Tatti Council and it is with committees. We extend our deepest and former Fellows. regret that we report the retirement of gratitude to all three for their many On the afternoon of the May Council three members and longtime friends efforts and steadfast friendship and we meeting, friends of I Tatti convened at the whose great affection for the Harvard hope they will return often to Center has had a profound effect on the I Tatti where a warm welcome program in Florence. will always be reserved for them. LEWIS W. B ERNARD first visited I Tatti DEBORAH LOEB BRICE chaired as a student in 1963; he returned in 1994 10 the annual I Tatti Council and instantly believed in the Harvard meeting on 5 May 2005 at the Center and its mission. In 1996 he and Cosmopolitan Club in New York his wife Jill returned for a longer visit, City and was delighted to staying at the Papiniana, after which he welcome, in absentia, new joined a small I Tatti advisory group prior Council member GUILLAUME to becoming a Council member. He has MALLE who works for Credit given much support, time, kindness, Suisse First Boston (CSFB). The advice, and help in the effort to bring new son of the late Council member John Landor, Pat Rubin, & Mary Gibbons friends to I Tatti. RICHARD EKMAN’S first Jean-François Malle, Guillaume contact with I Tatti came when he was Malle shares his father’s enthusiasm for Cosmopolitan Club for a fascinating Director of Research Programs at the art and the Renaissance. He and his wife lecture by Katharine Park (VIT’01,’05) National Endowment for the Christina have still to visit I Tatti, a entitled Secrets of Women: Art and Humanities. In 1991 he became pleasure to which we all look forward. Anatomy in Renaissance Italy. Former Secretary of the Andrew W. Mellon At the meeting, DEBBY BRICE, Alexa Director WALTER KAISER (VIT’89-’02) Foundation with particular responsibility Mason, FREDERICK KOONTZ, Graziella warmly introduced the speaker, who talked for issues of higher education, technology, Macchetta and Villa I Tatti Acting about the origins of human dissection, and libraries. Ekman, who is now Director Katharine Park, brought the which date back to the 13th century and President of the Council of Independent Council up-to-date on I Tatti’s affairs: grew out of embalming to preserve the Colleges, joined the I Tatti Council in new appointments, closer scholarly ties bodies of saints, an Italian practice which 1995 and has unfailingly provided between Harvard and I Tatti, publications, was important in the consolidation of enlightened support, most especially in the budget, and an update on the Scholars’ religious cults and in the history of anatomy. the Biblioteca Berenson. FRANK E. Court Project. In addition, the Council This year, we had the pleasure of RICHARDSON, who also joined the small was pleased to learn of the trip to welcoming a number of Council advisory group in 1996 after several California in early March where Joe members to I Tatti. In September, MARY visits to I Tatti, has been a committed, Connors spoke about I Tatti to friends WEITZEL GIBBONS and John Landor spent longtime friend, and has greatly and members of the Harvard-Radcliffe their usual month of research in Florence, appreciated its importance as a research Club of Southern California at the using the Biblioteca Berenson and getting center, a home, and a national Atheneum in Pasadena. The lecture was together with friends. In October, monument. He has devoted much time followed by a reception. Later that ROSEMARY WEAVER and her daughter Wendy came for dinner, and JIM CHERRY JR and his wife Sylvie Dubouillon THE 2005 VILLA I TATTI COUNCIL Cherry stayed in the house, as did FRED Deborah Loeb Brice, Chairman Joseph Connors, Director KOONTZ, who visits every year. In March, Anne H. Bass Walter Kaiser Susan Mainwaring DEBBY BRICE spent three days at I Tatti, Jean A. Bonna Virgilia Pancoast Klein Roberts while BARNEY and Bannie MCHENRY Susan Braddock Frederick S. Koontz Neil L. Rudenstine stopped by on a warm summer morning James R. Cherry, Jr. Troland S. Link Melvin R. Seiden in July to see the garden, which this Anne Coffin Timothy D. Llewellyn Sydney R. Shuman summer displayed the stunning lotus D. Ronald Daniel Guillaume Malle Craig Hugh Smyth flowers (nelumbo nucifera) in the pond Robert F. Erburu Barnabas McHenry Daniel Steiner below the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Gabriele Geier Benedetta Origo William F. Thompson Limonaia. Mary Weitzel Gibbons Joseph P. Pellegrino Rosemary F. Weaver William E. Hood, Jr. Marilyn Perry Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Graziella Macchetta Development Associate

VILLA I TATTI The Scholars’ Court Project

e are delighted to announce that Wconstruction will begin on the new Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato this fall. With the permits finally in hand, Charles Brickbauer, our architect, has been working hard to finalize the designs We wish to take this opportunity to thank the many donors who have so generously and work out the details with engineers underwritten various parts of this project: and contractors. A groundbreaking ceremony has been planned for the The Ahmanson Foundation (Fototeca Reading Room) afternoon of Thursday, 20 October 2005 Anonymous Gift (Loggiato Study) 11 to which you are all invited. On the Anonymous Bequest (Loggiato Study) ground floor, the Loggiato will hold 12 Victor K. Atkins, Jr. (Loggiato Study) studies for the Fellows. Because of the Jean Bonna (towards a Loggiato Study in honor of Jean-François Malle) slope of the hill, the floor below will be Deborah Loeb Brice (Loggiato) partially underground and partially above The Bunge Corporation Foundation ground. There will be a further three Sylvie & James R. Cherry, Jr. studies and a conference/concert hall on Richard H. Ekman this floor where lectures and small Gabriele Geier (Loggiato Study) concerts will be held. The area around Mary Weitzel Gibbons (Loggiato Study) will be beautifully landscaped with a small Florence Gould Foundation Inc. (Florence Gould Hall) garden off the lower level studies, and a Virgilia & Walter C. Klein (Study Garden) small formal garden between the Frederick S. Koontz (Loggiato Study) Loggiato and the Gabriele Geier Granaio. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation (Loggiato Study) We hope to keep the noise and confusion Arthur L. Loeb (Loggiato Study) away from the Library as much as possible, Guillaume A. Malle (towards a Loggiato Study in honor of Jean-François Malle) but we apologize in advance for any Mr. & Mrs. M. D. Moross (Loggiato Study) disruption this building will cause to Joseph P. Pellegrino those working at I Tatti during the The Billy Rose Foundation coming year. Melvin R. Seiden (towards a Loggiato Study in honor of Jean-François Malle) After the Brice Loggiato is completed, William F. & Julie Thompson (Loggiato Study) the building currently housing the The Dorothy Wagner Wallis Charitable Trust (Loggiato Study) Fellows’ studies and the Fototeca will be William & Rosemary Weaver (Gioffredi House Study) completely renovated. Named Giving Paul & Harriett Weissman (Fototeca Office) Opportunities remain for both building Steve Ziger & Jamie Snead projects. A study in the Brice Loggiato can be named with a gift of $100,000 and Towards a Fellows’ Study for a gift of $50,000 a study can be named Geraldine Albers in the Gioffredi House. The room Susannah F. Baxendale Andrew Hopkins David S. Peterson housing the Islamic Library in the Jane F. Bestor Peter Howard Brenda Preyer Gioffredi House can be named with a gift Alison M. Brown Isabelle Hyman Guido Rebecchini of $150,000, the new Library/Fototeca Beverly L. Brown Gary Ianziti Peter Riesenberg Building can be named for $1,500,000, David A. Brown Machtelt Israëls Clare Robertson the Reading/Reference Room there for Maurizio Campanelli Rachel Jacoff Guido Ruggiero & Laura $250,000, the Courtyard Garden there for Samuel Cohn, Jr. Pavel Kalina Giannetti $150,000. The goal of $100,000 to name Joseph J. Connors Masakata Kanazawa H. Colin Slim a study for the Fellows has not yet been Dario Covi Myron Laskin, Jr. Randolph R. Starn reached. All former Fellows and Visiting Janet Cox-Rearick Patrick Macey Sharon Strocchia Professors are urged to donate towards Alan Darr Thomas E. Martin Marica Tacconi this goal. Council Chairman Deborah Amedeo De Vincentiis Pedro Memelsdorff John A. Tedeschi Brice has also promised to match 50% of Samuel Edgerton Maureen C. Miller Karel Thein any gift that comes in. Do take advantage Sabine Eiche Nelson H. Minnich Franklin Toker of this extraordinary challenge and help Everett Fahy Branko Mitrovic Prof. & Mrs. Richard Turner us to improve I Tatti’s facilities for future Creighton E. Gilbert Jerzy Miziolek Mary Vaccaro generations of Renaissance scholars. Werner L. Gundersheimer Anthony Molho Timothy Verdon Margaret Haines Philippe Morel Ronald G. & Mary Ann Witt H. Wiley Hitchcock Mauro Mussolin T. C. Price Zimmermann Jessie A. Owens

AUTUMN 2005 Lectures & Programs with support from the Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman.

A chronological listing follows of public - DAVID RUTHERFORD, “The Readers of lectures held at I Tatti during the 2004/ Lactantius.” 2005 academic year. Institutional - “New Work in the History of Science affiliation is not given for members of and Medicine.” One-day colloquium I Tatti’s 2004/2005 academic with KATHARINE PARK, MONICA community. CALABRITTO, MATTEO DUNI, FEDERICA Massimiliano Casini & FAVINO, CRAIG MARTIN, ELIZABETH 12 Silvia Fiaschi - Early Music at I Tatti – V: SONATORI DE MELLYN (Harvard University), ELLY LA GIOIOSA MARCA, “Follie all’italiana.” TRUITT (Harvard University), ALISHA - “Leon Battista Alberti Architetto e i Suoi RANKIN (Harvard University). Landi, Kapsberger, Sances, Merula, Committenti.” International conference - ALBERT ASCOLI (University of Cazzati. in collaboration with Fondazione Centro California, Berkeley), “What’s in a Word? - One-day workshop at Biblioteca Studi Leon Battista Alberti, Mantova. ‘Fede’ and its Doubles between Laurenziana and Villa I Tatti: SILVIA - ALESSANDRO CECCHI (Galleria degli Machiavelli and Luther.” FIASCHI, MAURIZIO CAMPANELLI, Uffizi), “Nuove ricerche su Sandro - STEPHEN CAMPBELL (VIT’00, University GIOVANNA BENADUSI, FABRIZIO NEVOLA, Botticelli, la sua famiglia e la sua bottega of Pennsylvania), “The Body of Eros: MACHTELT ISRAELS, FRANCES A NDREWS. nella Firenze del Quattrocento.” Petrarchism and the Rise of Mythological - VICTOR COELHO, Lute concert in Big Painting c.1500.” Informal talks and musical events Library: “Composing, Playing, and - FREDERICK HAMMOND (VIT’72, Bard included a concert on the lute Hearing the Renaissance Fantasia for College), Celebration of the new harpsichord by early keyboard player Lute, 1507-1550.” harpsichord made by Ugo Casiglia. Christopher Stembridge to open the - SILVANA SEIDEL MENCHI (VIT’74, - “Workshop on Cardinals” with academic year in September, a talk by ’75,’94-’02, Università di Trento), “Apelle, MICHAEL WYATT, VICTORIA AVERY, Henk Van Os (University of Amsterdam) Arminio e il duplice Ercole. GIUSEPPE GERBINO, GUIDO REBECCHINI, a long-time friend of I Tatti who was Combinazione di linguaggi e FLAMINIA BARDATI. staying on the property in November and comunicazione umanistica in Erasmo e - “Arnolfo’s Moment.” International who spoke on “Some News about nella sua cerchia.” Conference. Rembrandt’s Abraham and the Sacrifice - STEPHEN ORGEL (Stanford University), - Early Music at I Tatti – VI: of Isaac,” and in December the conductor “Book of the Play: Performance and L’ARPEGGIATA, director CHRISTINA Frans Brüggen gave a talk on, “My Print in Early Modern Culture.” PLUHAR, with JAN VAN ELSACKER (tenor), Music,” which he accompanied with “Homo fugit velut umbra,” music by some beautiful musical illustrations.

FORMER FELLOWS UPDATE

VICTOR COELHO (VIT’98,’05), who holds the chair of GINO CORTI (VIT’71-‘03), Research Associate Emeritus, University Professor of Music at the University of Calgary turned 90 on 14 April 2005. Joe and Françoise Connors and who is a member of I Tatti’s Academic Advisory presented him with a beautifully bound album amicorum Committee, has accepted a senior position as Professor of full of wonderful memories of friendship and collaboration Music and Chair of Musicology in the College of Fine Arts from his many friends around the globe. As GENE BRUCKER and College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at (VIT’65,’80,’84) has noted, “Every historical or art historical Boston University, to begin 1 January 2006. book on Renaissance Florence by an Anglo-American for MARICA TACCONI (VIT’03), Associate Professor of the past 50 years contains an acknowledgement of critical Musicology at Pennsylvania State University, has been assistance received from appointed the new Executive Director of the Institute for Gino Corti,” “a superb the Arts and Humanities there for three years from 1 July paleographer with an 2005. She previously served as the Institute’s Associate encyclopaedic knowledge Director for two years and for one semester as its Acting of the Florentine archives.” Director. Do take a moment to click ANDREW HOPKINS (VIT’04) has been appointed a research on the link on the front page professor at the University of l’Aquila. of our web site: www.itatti.it

VILLA I TATTI were copied at several of the great cathedral and especially monastic The Readers of Carolingian monastic communities, and libraries. From the 12th century on, the in the 12th century renewed interest in design and technology of the book the literature of antiquity again flourishes, especially after the rise of the Lactantius occasioned the production of some new universities. Lactantius’ works were now manuscripts or repairs and emendations divided into chapters and the chapters n January 2005, David Rutherford, to older ones. In the 13th century writers given headings; rubrication and initials IProfessor of History at Central such as Vincent of Beauvais and Gilbert arranged the text visually while Michigan University and Visiting of Tournai demonstrated clear knowledge marginalia assisted in scanning for desired Professor here this year, presented a talk of his work, but no excerpts found their topics and in following his thought. entitled “The Readers of Lactantius” in way into the florilegia that became the When Lactantius’ works went to print in the Geier Library. The full extent of the basic tools of scholastic thought. Only 1465 (the first dated book printed in readership of Lactantius (ca. 250-ca.325) after 1350, following the enthusiasm of Italy), a broad readership had again is unknown, but his readers can be Petrarch and Boccaccio, did Lactantius’ emerged. His works – produced in the 13 recognized by various categories and works begin to circulate with regularity. turmoil of the pagan/Christian conflicts distinguished by respective settings. All By the mid-15th century, a diverse – resonated among the governing elites of Lactantius’ surviving works were readership – humanists and scholastics as and the expanding middle classes as they written after his conversion to well as merchants, lawyers, princes, popes, faced new institutional, social, political, Christianity, that is, in the years around and prelates – emerged and sparked and religious upheavals. The frequent the Great Persecution (303-311), or later controversy regarding his ideas. publication of his work testifies to a steady as a member of Constantine’s court. In tracking the peregrinations of readership through the 17th century. Among his contemporary readers were Lactantius’ works, one moves from their Ron Witt the dedicatees (including Constantine) original circulation in scrolls to the Robert Lehman and surely some of the pagan elites and transition into codex in the fifth and sixth Visiting Christian faithful for whom he wrote. century. By the ninth century the Professor The generation of Jerome and Augustine scriptorium had replaced the Roman David testified to his continued influence, but system of private patronage and bookstalls Rutherford the Pelagian and Arian controversies of for reproducing texts. The private speaking the fifth and sixth centuries began to give libraries of the Roman elites and in the Paul Geier readers pause. Lactantius’ manuscripts ecclesiastical dignitaries gave way to Library Apelle, Arminio e il duplice Ercole

was one of the foremost Germanicus, intent on destroying a centers of Calvinism at the crowd of scholastic theologians. The time and its printers and epigram accompanying this figure engravers were deeply engaged ironically criticizes Luther’s violence Maurizio Campanelli & Michael Wyatt in the battle against Rome. and prophesies his defeat. It was also The iconographical motifs of no coincidence that, in the frontispieces Arminio, victor over the Roman legions of various Basle editions from 1519 to n November, historian SILVANA in Teutoburg, and of Apelle, intent on 1523, Erasmus himself was represented I SEIDEL-MENCHI (VIT’74, ’75, ’94- exposing the defamation of which he was as Hercules Gallicus, capable of ’03) spoke on Apelle, Arminio e il victim, though drawing on ideas actually winning men’s minds with the sole duplice Ercole: combinazione di present in Erasmus’s works (including the force of his eloquence. The linguaggi e comunicazione umanistica clandestine Iulius), are portrayed in the iconography of the Basle prints thus in Erasmo e nella sua cerchia. She frontispieces with an anti-Roman thrust becomes a historical source, furnishing analyzed images from the frontispieces that goes well beyond the humanist’s own new materials for a reconstruction of of a number of Erasmus’s works printed position. Seidel-Menchi attributed to the controversial relationship between between 1516 and 1523 in Basle. As Erasmus the paternity of a loose leaf with Erasmus and Luther. she reminded her audience, this city the image of Luther as Hercules Maurizio Campanelli

AUTUMN 2005 Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472): Six Centuries On

he National Committee constituted October 2004, in collaboration with the th Tto celebrate the 600 anniversary of Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance the birth of Leon Battista Alberti is doing Studies, with Leon Battista Alberti: things in style. The mission of the architetture e committenti. Committee, which was established by the This last conference opened on 12 Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 2002 October at I Tatti to a distinguished and is chaired by Professor Francesco public crowded into the Gilmore Paolo Fiore, th 14 Limonaia. It continued on the 13 in is to pro- Florence with site visits to a number of mote, Alberti buildings linked to the patronage organize, of the Rucellai. We then moved to and co- Rimini to study and admire the recently ordinate the Bill Kent, Allen Grieco & restored Tempio Malatestiano, and we Riccardo Pacciani extra- finished in Mantua on the 15th and 16th ordinary with an exploration of the churches of solutions to their completion and their variety of Sant’Andrea and San Sebastiano. The site subsequent restoration. The conference Daniela Lamberini celebrations threw new light on Alberti’s architecture, that are presented new ideas, particularly during taking place all over the country to the days in Mantua, asked stimulating celebrate this multi-faceted and complex questions, and opened new avenues of figure: humanist, artist, architect, and research. principal writer of Renaissance treatises. The centennial year continued with Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines a conference in Florence in December have been mobilized for some time and 2004 entitled Alberti e la cultura del a number of cities have been involved. Quattrocentro (1400-1470). And finally, to harvest the fruits of this rich crop of studies, promoted by the praiseworthy National Committee, the celebrations Federica Favino & Isabelle Chabot concluded with three exhibitions, which opened in Florence, Mantua and Rome visits, interspersed with conference in the spring of 2005. papers, stimulated debate and discussion Daniela Lamberini (VIT’86) among the participants. The 26 speakers, University of Florence among whom were many scholars of international fame, covered topics Gary Ianziti ranging from the commissioning of buildings to their use, from architectural

In addition to Genoa, where Alberti was born, celebrations have taken place in Padua, Bologna, Florence, Rimini, Rome, Ferrara, Mantua, and Urbino, where he matured and worked with other humanists, artists, and commissioners. Howard Burns In Mantua, the Centro Studi Leon Battista Alberti initiated the Alberti celebrations in October 2002 with the The full conference program listing all international conference entitled speakers and their papers can be found Impegni civili del De re aedificatoria; on our web site at www.itatti.it under the followed in October 2003 by Leon Yolanda Plumley, Victor Coelho, Calendar section. Battista Alberti, storico delle arti; and in & Michael Rocke

VILLA I TATTI Arnolfo’s Moment

rnolfo di Cambio was a sculptor and, through the work. The liveliest debate Aaccording to Vasari, an architect who, centered on architecture. For some, along with Cimabue and Nicola and Arnolfo’s role at Santa Croce was the Giovanni Pisano, revived good design in centerpiece of his architectural style and post-medieval Italy. Arnolfo died for others it was an anonymous work. sometime between 1302 and 1310 and Time and again throughout the this has given the commemoration of the conference, the limited documentation 15 700th anniversary of his death a flexible and the ambiguous physical evidence was thrown up as a challenge to the Julian Gardner, Claudia Bolgia & Paul Crossley architectural attributions of Vasari and modern art history. At an extreme, even the idea of a comprehensive project for Roman saints and Roman church Florence cathedral – the foundation of practices, and a new dedication to the Arnolfo’s reputation in the city – was put universal Virgin rather than the local into question. Could Arnolfo’s role have Reparata all testify to the Roman been limited to the façade, commissioned connections of the project. The choice in competition with Giovanni Pisano’s of Arnolfo, who worked exclusively for façade for Siena? A way through the Guelph patrons, especially the Roman church, fits the same profile. Arnolfo question was proposed in the paper delivered for Marvin Trachtenberg David Friedman (VIT’70,’71,’77,’89) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Franklin Toker & David Friedman which offered a definition of the remarkable period in Florentine history at the end of the 13th century without deadline. I Tatti’s contribution to the being concerned with the authorship of national celebration was a conference the projects. It is that same idea of shared held on the 26th and 27th of May of 2005 responsibility that characterized the that drew on the wide range of expertise papers on the physical development of represented within its community. the city. The speakers agreed that there Speakers included historians of sculpture, was no comprehensive design for the painting, architecture and urbanism but grand expansion of the 1280’s and 90’s also scholars of liturgy, theology, and the but that the plan was, instead, the product Marica Tacconi, George Gorse & Kathy Bosi institutions of the Church. Most papers of many institutions, public and private, analyzed working together. Arnolfo’s The con- The full conference program listing all work in ference viewed the speakers and their papers can be found Rome and cathedral, too, as a on our web site at www.itatti.it under Tuscany but cooperative project, the Calendar section. others ex- with papers that plored the tended to correct a broader picture which gives European most of the credit context of his for the building to achievement. the commune. The Here, instead, it was conference Guido Rebecchini, Lorenzo Biagini, Mauro the role of the began with a Mussolin, Tito, and Barbara Furlotti bishop, fresh from session the building project devoted to Arnolfo’s artistic identity. at Orvieto, and a papal faction among the They argued for and against a series of canons that was the focus of attention. A Riccardo Francovich & Valentino Pace attributions, introducing the man reformed liturgy that emphasized

AUTUMN 2005 The Body of Eros

TEPHEN CAMPBELL (VIT’00) crossed dimension to viewing. Textual Stown from Villa Spelman, where he references were far from being is resident director of the Johns Hopkins abandoned however, as the program, to present a rich and stimulating argument proposed a reception paper entitled The Body of Eros: response based on classical sources Petrarchism and the Rise of Mythological circulating in that same courtly Painting c.1500. As in much of milieu that stressed the tactile values Campbell’s earlier work, the artworks and the lure of the flesh, perhaps considered were placed into their cultural originating in Lucterius’ consideration of eros in book IV of context, in this case the environment of Stephen Campbell, who has recently edited Artists at 16 De rerum natura (as in the eulogy the court studiolo, described as a setting Court: Image-Making and Identity 1300-1550. Boston: suited to private or even furtive viewing, of touch by Mario Equicola). Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2004 and the circulation of poetic and Having considered the theme philosophical texts which addressed the of the embodied eros (or Cupid) in Petrarchan mold, and arguing for the moral and physiological basis of human Italian poetry (Niccolò da Correggio, erotic reciprocity between subject and emotions and sensations. By considering Paride da Ceresara) and art (Raphael, viewer, as opposed to more commonly- the role of the beholder of a number of Correggio, Parmigianino), the final part held neoplatonic textual interpretations. types of paintings, he offered “an of the talk presented the genre of the male Fabrizio Nevola historically meaningful consideration of portrait characterised perhaps most Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow the erotic” that took its subject matter successfully in Raphael’s portrait of Bindo beyond an interpretation based upon the Altoviti. Campbell proposed that we formal association of specific subjects should reconsider these images as directly from mythology with their source texts, relating male beauty to the male gaze, and instead considered the emotional while accommodating the type into a In Search of Botticelli

andro Botticelli gazed down defiantly upon Alessandro The lecture visited Sandro’s household counting twenty SCecchi’s audience in the Myron and Sheila Gilmore members, as well as the bustling workshop, both accommodated Limonaia from the large projection screen, the way he portrayed in the house of his father the tanner Mariano di Filipepi in the himself in the Adoration of the Magi of the Galleria degli Uffizi. Via Nuova di Ognissanti. (The neighborhood, also, for example, The traits of his life grew manifest too as Cecchi, Conservator home to the Vespucci and to Angelo Poliziano who held the in Chief of Early Renaissance Painting at the same museum, parish-church of San Paolino as a benefice, emerged as the fruitful unfolded the results of years of patient archival research. setting for Botticelli’s career.) Cecchi added flesh to the names of members of the bottega and situated a broadened spectrum of patrons in the immediate circle of the Medici. Vasari’s assertion that the artist died in poverty found proof in the discovery of the refutation of his inheritance by his heirs in 1510. During the dense discussion which followed, Cecchi argued that disegno was the highest common factor of Botticelli’s art, regulating the production of paintings often delegated to collaborators as well as the manufacture of highly prized decorative objects. With the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent and the rise of Savonarola, the epoch that had nurtured commissioners appreciative of Botticelli’s intellectual art and of the brilliant opulence of the pictorial surface of his tempera grassa was eclipsed, marking an abrupt end to his fortunes. The lecture at I Tatti was a richly packed foretaste of a monograph promising to restore the balance between Botticelli’s artistic stature and our knowledge of the vicissitudes of his life. Machtelt Israëls Alessandro Cecchi, Joe Connors and Machtelt Israëls Hanna Kiel Fellow

VILLA I TATTI this obscene fashion in his Adone: “Perish the foul inventor who first introduced this Early Music barbaric custom among us. The New Spaniard calls this impious and profane at game saravanda and ciaccona.” The follia seems to have originated in Portugal. It was described as a noisy and fast dance I Tatti performed with tambourines and other percussion instruments. th By the beginning of the 17 century, Giuseppe Gerbino & Patrick Baker ciaccona and follia were used as harmonic and rhythmic formulae for sets of century, a repertory of great stylistic and variations. And this was a sure sign of expressive variety that, among other their popularity. Their picturesque 17 things, gave the large audience an his year’s two concerts shared a licentiousness also began to fade away. opportunity to admire the subtle T common passion for dance, The Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca offered elegance of Belgian tenor Jan van suggestive rhythmic movements, virtuoso splendid examples of the variation Elsacker. Composers active in Rome in exuberance, and bouts of improvisatory techniques associated with this repertoire, the circles of the Borghese and Barberini frenzy. I overheard somebody in the from Andrea Falconiero’s Folias echa para families (Landi, Girolamo Kapsberger, audience talking about the somewhat mi Señora Doña Tarollila de Carallenos, and Luigi Rossi) took center stage, devilish nature of this music. Back in the to the famous and stylized versions by providing an interesting cross-section of early seventeenth century, some people Arcangelo Corelli and Antonio Vivaldi. the styles in vogue in one of the musical did think that this was the devil’s music. The ciaccona made a welcome return capitals of the so-called “new music.” But I am thinking of the ciaccona, a dance on 9 June during the second concert. the program also included milestones of The French ensemble L’Arpeggiata the avant-gardes from the North such as directed by Christina Pluhar performed Tempro la cetra, the memorable solo four examples by Maurizio Cazzati, piece with which Claudio Monteverdi Antonio Bertali, Giovanni Felice Sances, opened his seventh book of madrigals. and Stefano Landi. Sances’ and Landi’s Among the three encores performed at pieces, scored for voice and basso the end of the concert is worth continuo, well illustrated another aspect mentioning Landi’s sweetly melancholic of this semi-improvisatory tradition, Passacaglia della vita, a perfect conclusion namely the adaptation of dance for a splendid concert melancholically frameworks for vocal compositions. titled Homo fugit velut umbra. Indeed the selection proposed by Giuseppe Gerbino L’Arpeggiata focused on the vocal Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow Christina Pluhar of L’Arpeggiata repertory of the first half of the 17th tuning her theorbo

David Wright (VIT’71), form characterized by an irresistible and who returned to Florence for obsessively repeated rhythmic formula. the Alberti conference, has The ciaccona was one of the dances recently named I Tatti as the featured in the first concert of this season, beneficiary of his estate. performed by the renowned ensemble Another Fellow has named I Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca in the I Tatti as the beneficiary of Myron and Sheila Gilmore Limonaia on his pension plan, while a 7 October. The other musical protagonist third has named I Tatti as of that night was the follia. Both ciaccona the beneficiary of his life and follia would seem to have had exotic insurance plan. There are origins. The ciaccona might have been many ways of giving to imported to Spain from the colonies in I Tatti, some of which provide the New World. From Spain, it reached tax benefits. If you would the Italian peninsula, probably via Naples, like further information, please get in touch with Alexa Mason (+39 055 603 with an already well-established 251 or [email protected]) or Graziella Macchetta (+1 617 495 8042 or reputation for moral turpitude. Even [email protected]) or write to them at the addresses on the Giovanni Battista Marino condemned front page.

AUTUMN 2005 History of Science Day

n 8 February 2005, Villa I Tatti in her piece titled: “Madmen, Averroes both positive and negative. O hosted a workshop on the history Spendthrifts & Melancholics: Federica Favino’s “In ‘Urbe of Renaissance science. The workshop, Madness and the Civil Law in mathematicus.’ Metodi di indagine e organized by Acting Director Katharine Florence, 1350-1600.” prospettive di ricerca” ended the session Park, featured four current Fellows - The subjects for the first with its analysis of the social and Monica Calabritto, Matteo Duni, afternoon session ventured outside epistemological status of mathematicians Federica Favino, and Craig Martin - and of the Italian borders. Alisha Rankin in 17th-century Rome. Needless to say three Ph.D. candidates from Harvard described the culture of collecting the discussions were not limited to the University - Elizabeth Mellyn, Alisha and using pharmacological recipes formal sessions of the workshop but Rankin, and Elly Truitt. Professor Park among women in German courts in carried over into the tea and coffee breaks 18 commented and organized the her work, “Recipes at Court: that punctuated the talks. subsequent discussions. The workshop Noblewomen and the Tools of Craig Martin was an opportunity for these scholars to Healing in 16th-century Germany.” Hanna Kiel Fellow showcase their recent research as well as Elly Truitt moved on to French to interact with the larger I Tatti literature where she concentrated on community. Many of the papers posed the frequent occurrence of automata methodological or historiographical at tombs and other liminal spaces in problems rather than a finished project, her paper called, “Graven Images: thereby Automata, Tombs, and Corpses in soliciting Medieval Literature, 1150-1420.” suggestions The final session took the and criticism. participants back to Italy. Craig Martin’s The large at- “The Changing Meaning of Averroista,” tendance examined the various receptions of encouraged Craig Martin rich debate and much ex- change of ideas FORMER FELLOWS UPDATE among the participants as RICCARDO SPINELLI (VIT’94) was Ashgate, 2005). The collection well as among the recipient of the prestigious 2004 includes essays by a number of I Tatti the other Fel- Premio Salimbeni per la Storia e la Fellows from years past: CECIL H. lows and Visit- Monica Calabritto & Critica d’Arte for his book, Giovan CLOUGH (VIT’64), VICTOR COELHO ing Professors. Flaminia Bardati Battista Foggini: “Architetto Primario (VIT’98,’05), CAROLINE ELAM The morn- della Casa Serenissima” dei Medici (VIT’82,’05), GEORGE L. GORSE ing session (1652-1725). Firenze: Cassa di (VIT’89), KENNETH GOUWENS focused on the relations between Risparmio di Firenze, 2003. The (VIT’98), PATRICIA J. OSMOND medicine, law, and definitions of prize, which was established in 1982, (VIT’98), RICHARD SHERR (VIT’83), madness and sorcery. Matteo Duni was awarded on 30 October 2004 at CHARLES L. STINGER (VIT’73), gave a paper titled “The Witches’ S. Severino Marche. He has also WILLIAM E. WALLACE (VIT’91), and Advocate: Jurists, Inquisitors and the recently edited the catalogue of an T. C. P RICE ZIMMERMANN (VIT’71). Question of Witchcraft in the Italian exhibition held at Palazzo Chigi Gouwens has also recently edited the Renaissance,” that examined Saracini, Siena, last January: Oltre la primary-source reader The Italian skepticism and its use in trials of scuola senese: dipinti del Seicento e Renaissance: The Essential Sources suspected witches. Monica del Settecento nella collezione Chigi (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004). He is Calabritto spoke on the varieties of Saracini. Firenze: S.P.E.S., 2005. currently co-editing with definitions for perceived mental CHRISTOPHER S. CELENZA (VIT’00) a afflictions in her paper “Doctors, KENNETH GOUWENS (VIT ’98), collection of essays in honor of Chroniclers and Nuns: Learned and Associate Professor of History at the RONALD G. WITT (VIT’69,’05), ‘Popular’ Visions of Madness in University of Connecticut has forthcoming from Brill in 2005-06, Sixteenth-Century Italy.” Elizabeth recently co-edited with Sheryl E. and continues work on a biography Mellyn examined legal categories Reiss, The Pontificate of Clement VII: of Pope Clement VII. and their connotations for madness History, Politics, Culture (Aldershot:

VILLA I TATTI series “Early Music at I Tatti,” now into Newsbriefs its fourth year. Dr. Bosi is co-editor of the “Opera omnia” of Benedetto Pallavicino in the series “Corpus MANDA GEORGE, Andrew W. mensurabilis musicae” (American Mellon Librarian for Collection A Institute of Musicology). She has Development, retired in January after 33 published articles on the madrigals of years of dedicated service. Countless Pallavicino and on musical tributes for the Fellows have commented in their end- commedia dell’Arte actress Isabella of-year reports on how swiftly and Andreini. helpfully she obtained books vital to their Alexa Mason, Katy Park & research. She will be sorely missed, Nelda Ferace although she lives close enough to pop in from time to time. She will be busy in met in April in Cambridge, England. 19 retirement, however, with translations and photography. Her most recent exhibition, I Tatti sponsored three coordinated “Taccuino Vinciano” which took place panels on various aspects of “Erotic in July 2005 at the Convento Cultures of Italy” at which past and dell’Incontro in Bagno a Ripoli, displayed present Fellows presented their work. In a collection of her beautiful photographs addition, of course, dozens of former I Tatti Fellows gave papers or led other of the Vinci countryside and revealed her Julian Kliemann & Patrizia Carella extraordinary eye for color, detail, and panels. Some 120 of them also braved shape. the elements to attend our reception held LESSANDRO SUPERBI, the third at Clare College on the Friday evening. A generation of his family to work at Sadly, the weather was hardly spring-like, I Tatti, has been promoted to Assistant to so the reception was held in the Junior the Director for Administration. Superbi Common Room instead of the beautiful joined the I Tatti staff in 2000 helping out gardens. Next year’s RSA meeting will his father Giorgio Superbi in the financial be held in San Francisco (23-25 March office. Since then, he has taken over the 2006). I Tatti will once again sponsor a day-to-day finances of the institute and number of sessions and is again planning will now assume responsibility for to host a reception for former Appointees. personnel, legal services, and advisor to Details will be forthcoming. the director.

LLEN RIECO Keeping I Tatti safe: Carlo Fei, Marco G (VIT’89-’06) has been Pompili, Riccardo Balloni & Apromoted to Lila Acheson Wallace Massimiliano Gavilli – Reader’s Digest Assistant Director for Scholarly Programs and Gardens and Grounds. He remains one of the Senior ATHRYN BOSI has been named the F. Research Associates and will continue his Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill K scholarly work on the history of food. Music Librarian. Kathryn has worked hard since 1973 to shape the Morrill Help on hand from Gianfranco Scala ELDA FERACE has retired as Assistant Music Library, which was established as (cabinetmaker), Marco Nesi (plumber), Director for Administration. She Gianni Martilli (IT), part of the Biblioteca Berenson in 1964 N came to I Tatti in 1962 and was appointed Claudio Tozzetti & Stefano Leonessi with funds given by F. Gordon and to her role as Assistant Director by Craig (electricians) Elizabeth Morrill in honor of Mr. Hugh Smyth. She has been the lynchpin Berenson. Kathryn has almost single- of the institute for so many years; we are handedly managed the acquisition and isitors from Harvard this year glad that she will not be retiring cataloguing of the large collection of Vincluded BILL BOARDMAN (Associate completely. She will, indeed, stay on reference works, monographs, scores, Vice President for Capital Giving) and temporarily as Assistant Director for microfilms and CDs covering Western his wife Alice, SEAN BUFFINGTON Special Projects with particular music to 1630, which is generally (Associate Provost for Arts and Culture responsibility for overseeing the Scholars’ considered the finest reference library for and Director of Cultural Affairs) and Court project. medieval and Renaissance music in Italy. Provost STEVEN E. HYMAN and his family. She is also responsible for concerts he annual meeting of the performed at I Tatti and produces the T Renaissance Society of America

AUTUMN 2005 Former FELLOWS Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest UPDATE Special Grants

MAURIZIO ARFAIOLI (VIT’04) has been appointed a Medici Archive ormer I Tatti Appointees are eligible to apply for two kinds of grant to promote Project Fellow (2005-2008). During Ftheir scholarship. his MAP fellowship, Arfaioli will The Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Publications Grant provides subsidies for work on a full-length study of The scholarly books on the Italian Renaissance. These can be a monograph by a single Life and Wars of Chiappino Vitello, author or a pair of authors, or a collection of essays by autori varii. Books that grow who was one of the most famous directly out of research carried out at I Tatti are especially appropriate. military leaders of the 16th century. In addition, Special Project Grants are occasionally available to former Appointees who wish to initiate, promote, or engage in an interdiciplinary project in Italian Renaissance studies such as a conference or workshop. 20 RONI W EINSTEIN (VIT’01), Lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, was a 2005 Recipients will be chosen by a committee of senior Renaissance Scholars, plus RSA Research Grant Winner for his the Director acting as chairman. The applicant’s covering letter should include a brief project on “Sin, Guilt and Social project description, a budget, and a short list of publications since the I Tatti Control in Jewish-Italian appointment. The application deadline is 1 October each year. Communities.” He is in the middle For Publications Grants, the book must already be accepted by a publisher, who of a research Fellowship at the should write a letter describing the planned publication and giving precise figures for University of Pisa, with a project on the print run and cost. The publisher’s letter is quite important; cursory letters only a “Kabbalah as an agent of modernity few lines long that merely affirm acceptance of a manuscript will not be considered. If in Italy and its link to Counter- a former Appointee has finished a manuscript but the relationship with the publisher is Reformation.” still tentative, then he or she should wait until there is a firm contract before applying. Grants can also be made for translating books, though since funds are limited, direct publication subsidies will take priority. CHRISTOPHER S. CELENZA (VIT’00), who will take up a new position as Publications grants can assume two forms. They can be made directly to the Professor of Romance Languages at publisher in order to ensure a higher quality of publication or a lower list price. The Johns Hopkins University this fall, publisher should explain exactly how this would happen in the letter. Grants can also was the RSA’s 2005 Phyllis be made to an individual to reimburse expenses for photographs and reproduction Goodhart Gordan Book Prize rights. It is also possible to split a grant, earmarking some for the publisher and the rest winner with his book The Lost for reimbursement of personal expenses. Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Applications for the publication of first books or collected essays may find $4,000 Historians, and Latin’s Legacy to $5,000 a good target figure, but for major, expensive books that are the fruit of long (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins years of research the subsidy can go as high as $8,000. Since repeated grants will be U.P., 2004). very rare, Appointees should wait until they are publishing a substantial book to apply.

2004/2005 LILA W ALLACE – READER’S DIGEST GRANT RECIPIENTS: VICTORIA KIRKHAM (VIT’78,’89,’96) Professor of Romance Languages at JANE FAIR BESTOR (VIT’99) towards the publication of Succession and Statecraft in the University of Pennsylvania, has Renaissance Italy: The Este of Ferrara, 1264-1598. won a Guggenheim Fellowship JILL BURKE (VIT’01) towards the conference Revisioning High Renaissance Rome. (2005-2006) for her book in IAIN FENLON (VIT’76) towards the publication of Ceremonial, Identity, and progress, Creative Partners: The Memorialization in Counter-Reformation Venice. Marriage of Laura Battiferra and JANEZ HÖFLER (VIT’87,’02) towards the Italian translation of Der Palazzo Ducale in Bartolomeo Ammannati. Guggenheim Urbino unter den Montefeltro (1376- Fellowships are awarded annually for 1508): Neue Forschungen zur Bau- und distinguished scholarly achievement Ausstattungsgeschichte. and exceptional promise for future MARCO SPALLANZANI (VIT’82-‘03) accomplishment. They include towards the English translation of Tappeti substantial stipends and are among a Firenze nel Rinascimento. North America’s most prestigious NICHOLAS TERPSTRA (VIT’95) towards research awards. the publication of Orphans of the Renaissance: Caring for Abandoned Children in Florence and Bologna. Katy Park & Ron Witt

VILLA I TATTI A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL I TATTI PUBLI- Publications CATIONS with support from the Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund, the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman, and the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Publication Fund.

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Acts of an International Conference, Villa I Tatti, June 6, 2003, edited by Florence: Leo S. Olschki BE Florence, Villa I Tatti, 27-29 June 2001, Nicholas Eckstein, Florence: Leo S.

Editor-in-Chief F edited by Massimiliano Rossi & Fiorella Olschki. JOSEPH CONNORS Gioffredi Superbi, 2 vols, Florence: Leo 22. Arnolfo’s Moment: Acts of an Editors

OUND 21 S. Olschki, 2004. International Conference, held in ALISON BROWN ELIZABETH CROPPER Florence, Villa I Tatti, 26-27 May 2005. CAROLINE ELAM 23. In Memoriam Nicolai Rubinstein, three IAIN FENLON F. W. K ENT memorial speeches delivered by O DAVID QUINT Riccardo Fubini (VIT’65-’73), Michael

Mallett (VIT’75), F. W. Kent (VIT Editorial Co-ordinator N FIORELLA GIOFFREDI SUPERBI ’78,’83,’87,’96,’97) at a ceremony

organized by the Archivio di Stato di Editorial Administrator OUR Firenze, The Harvard University Center NELDA FERACE

for Italian Renaissance Studies: Villa W Frances Andrews I Tatti, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul ITATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY: & Louise Rinascimento and the Scuola Normale Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Bourdua Superiore di Pisa on 28 April 2003, edited General Editor EB by F. W. Kent of Monash University, JAMES HANKINS Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2005. S Editorial Board

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AUTUMN 2005 IN MEMORIAM I Tatti records with sorrow the following deaths:

LISABETH BLAIR MACDOUGALL editor of “Studies in Medieval and Early and Life in Italy, 1300-1600, and the E (VIT’80), an art historian who Modern Civilization” at that university’s Rand Lectures in Art History to be directed landscape architecture studies press from 1988 to 2004. His own delivered at the University of North at Dumbarton Oaks from 1972 to publications include Civility and Society Carolina, Fathers of Invention: The 1988 died of pneumonia on 12 in Western Europe, 1300-1600 Last Judgment, from Giotto to October 2003. MacDougall received (Bloomington: Indiana U.P.,1988), Michelangelo. her B.A. from Vassar College, her M.A. Medieval Italy: Constraints and Creativity from the Institute of Fine Arts, New (Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1981), and ÁBOR HAJNÓCZI (VIT’86,’04), 22 York University, and her Ph.D. from Florence in Transition (Baltimore: Johns Professor and Director of the G Harvard University in 1970. Despite Hopkins Press, 1967). He was one of Institute of Italian Studies at the Péter working on Italian Renaissance throne I Tatti’s earliest Fellows in 1963/64. Pázmány Catholic University in rooms and audience halls during the Hungary, died on 18 January 2005 year she was a Visiting Professor at ONA GOFFEN (VIT’77), Board of after a short illness. He had first come I Tatti (1979/80), MacDougall was RGovernors Professor of Art History to I Tatti as a two-month Fondo best known for her work on garden at Rutgers University, died on 8 Amicizia Fellow in 1985, and returned history and indeed helped to transform September 2004 at the age of sixty. A most recently as an Andrew W. Mellon the study of gardens into an academic graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Research Fellow last year, with a discipline. Her many publications Rona Goffen received her MA in 1968 project to work on a Hungarian include Fountains, Statues, and and her Ph.D. in 1974 from Columbia edition of Leon Battista Alberti’s De Flowers: Studies in Italian Gardens of University. She taught at Indiana re aedificatoria. A graduate of the the Sixteenth and Seventeenth University, Princeton University, and University Szeged, Gábor Hajnóczi Centuries (Washington, D.C.: Duke University prior to joining the received his Ph.D. in 1993 and his Dr. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library faculty at Rutgers University in 1988. (Habil.) in 2001. In addition to his and Collection, 1994). She was a distinguished art historian of academic career in Hungary, he was the Italian Renaissance whose Assistant Director of the Hungarian ARVIN BECKER (VIT’64), a publications include, Piety and Patronage Academy in Rome from 1992 to M leading scholar of medieval, in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and 1995. He worked extensively on Renaissance and early modern the Franciscans (New Haven & London: Leon Battista Alberti and also European history, died on 11 January Yale U.P., 1986), her first book, and, her published on Andrea Palladio, 2004 at the age of 81. He was a last book, Renaissance Rivals: Vitruvius, and the ideal city in the graduate of the University of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian Renaissance, among other topics. Pennsylvania where, after serving in (New Haven & London: Yale U.P., WWII, he received his Ph.D. in 1950. 2002.). Rona Goffen, who was an I Tatti OSEPH B. TRAPP (VIT’92), former Becker was Professor Emeritus of the Fellow in 1976/77, continued working JDirector of the Warburg Institute, Department of History, University of throughout her illness and was preparing died on 13 July 2005 at the age of 79. Michigan when he died, and had been a new volume, Renaissance Women: Art Born and educated in New Zealand, Trapp came to the UK in 1951 and joined the Warburg Institute in 1953, This year’s Appointees travelled where he was Librarian from 1966 to widely together (to Milan, Paris, 1976 and then Director from 1976 to Cambridge, Orvieto, Vicenza, Siena, 1990. In his retirement he came to and elsewhere) and enjoyed each I Tatti as a Visiting Professor in 1992. other’s company on numerous occasions, including evenings at the He wrote extensively on Sir Thomas homes of the Visiting Professors, More, Erasmus and other literary visits to La Pietra, the Uffizi, the figures as well as being Editor of the Longhi Institute, Happy Hour, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld parties and themed dinners at their Institutes from 1956 to 1976, own apartments. The many special continuing until his death as a end of year parties included this member of its Editorial and Advisory lovely picnic at Silvia Fiaschi’s Board, of which he was made family farm near San Gimignano. Chairman in 1991.

VILLA I TATTI VILLA I TATTI COMMUNITY 2005-2006

Fellows ALISON FRAZIER, Robert Lehman Fellow, STEFANIE W ALKER (2nd sem), Craig Hugh MONICA AZZOLINI, Ahmanson Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, History. Smyth Visiting Fellow, The Bard Graduate University of New South Wales, History. “Renaissance Humanists as Authors of Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, “Learned Medicine and Astrology at the vitae sanctorum.” Art History. “A Catalogue of the ‘Jewelry Sforza Court, 1450-1499.” ANDREA GÁLDY, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, Portraits’ by the Renaissance Painter Hans SANDOR BENE (1st sem), Andrew W. Institute of Historical Research, Mielich.” Mellon Research Fellow, Hungarian University of London, Art History. Academy of Sciences, Literature. “Two “Florence - a 16th-Century Centre of Readers in Renaissance Studies Mirrors for Princes by Andreas Antiquarian Studies.” JOHN GAGNÉ (2nd sem), Harvard Pannonius, Dedicated to Matthias SARA GALLETTI, Jean-François Malle University, History. Corvinus (1467) and Ercole d’Este (1471) Fellow, Eastern Mediterranean ADA PALMER (1st sem) Harvard University, 23 - Critical Edition.” University, Turkey, Art History. “Da History. DOROTHEA S. BURNS (2nd sem), Craig Firenze a Parigi: Influenze medicee sulla Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Weissman progettazione e l’uso degli spazi della vita Visiting Professors Center, Harvard University, Art History. privata e di corte nella Francia di Maria KAROL BERGER, Robert Lehman Visiting “The Invention of the Italian de’ Medici.” Professor, Stanford University, Renaissance Metal Point Drawing.” MARCO GENTILE, Francesco De Musicology. “The Transition from Time’s PHILIPPE CANGUILHEM, Florence J. Gould Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Cycle to Time’s Arrow and the Origins Fellow, Université de Toulouse - Le Milano, History. “Parte, fazione e ‘secta’ of Musical Modernity.” nel linguaggio del Quattrocento.” ANNA MARIA BUSSE BERGER, Robert ILDIKO FEHÉR GERICSNÉ (2nd sem), Lehman Visiting Professor, University of Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, California, Davis, Musicology. “Music Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Theory in the Middle Ages.” Budapest, Art History. “Moral Allegories JULIAN GARDNER, University of Warwick, of Virtues and Vices in Late Gothic Art History. “Giotto and his Publics.” Italian Painting.” CHRISTA GARDNER VON TEUFFEL, Vicky MIGUEL GOTOR, Lila Wallace - Reader’s University of Warwick, Art History. Avery & Mrs. Digest Fellow, Università di Torino, “High Altarpieces and Church Organs Mary History. “La vita e le opere di Bernardino c.1440-1600: A Forgotten Partnership?” Avery Ochino, uomo del Rinascimanto tra DAVID GENTILCORE (2nd sem), University l’Italia e l’ Europa (1487-1563).” of Leicester, History. “Reception of New DAVID LINES, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, World Plants as Medicines and Foodstuffs Mirail, Music. “Music and Patronage at University of Miami, History. in Renaissance Italy.” the Court of Cosimo I.” “Curriculum Controversies and MARC LAUREYS (1st sem), Universität JANIE COLE, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, The Reforms at the University of Bologna.” Bonn, Literature. “Edition and Study of Medici Archive Project, Florence, Music. MARIA AGATA PINCELLI, Francesco De Biondo Flavio’s Roma instaurata.” “Music, Poetry, and Court Culture in Dombrowski Fellow, Istituto Storico Seicento Florence: Michelangelo Italiano per il Medio Evo, Literature. The Senior Research Associates are the Buonarroti Il Giovane.” “Edizione e studio della Roma same as for 2004/2005. ALISON CORNISH, Andrew W. Mellon Triumphans di Biondo Flavio.” Fellow, University of Michigan, H. DARREL RUTKIN, Hanna Kiel Fellow Literature. “Vernacular Translation from (Stanford University), History. “Galileo, Brunetto Latini to Boccaccio.” Renaissance Astrology and the Scientific BRIAN CURRAN, Committee to Rescue Revolution: A Reappraisal.” Italian Art Fellow, Pennsylvania State LUKE SYSON (2nd sem), Craig Hugh Smyth University, Art History. “Past, Present, Visiting Fellow, National Gallery, and Place in Italian Renaissance Art.” London, Art History. “Renaissance Siena: STEFANO DALL’AGLIO, Francesco De Art for a City.” Dombrowski Fellow (Università degli LOUIS A. WALDMAN, Rush H. Kress Fellow, Studi di Roma, “La Sapienza”), History. University of Texas at Austin, Art “Tra Firenze e la Francia: religione, History. “Bandinelli and the Art of politica e cultura tra conformità e dissenso Drawing.” Matteo Duni, Sandra Benvenuti nell’Europa del rinascimento.” & Arianna

AUTUMN 2005 CRAIG HUGH SMYTH V ISITING FELLOWSHIPS

hanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon TFoundation, I Tatti is pleased to announce the establishment of the Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellowships. These fellowships, named after I Tatti’s third director, are intended for museum curators, librarians, full-time editors, and university and museum administrators who are engaged in Italian Renaissance studies and who hold demanding positions that permit little time for research. Applicants may include former I Tatti Appointees, including Mellon Research Fellows from Central Europe. The Smyth Visiting Fellowship carries an award of $4,000 per month. It cannot be held for less than two months Craig Hugh Smyth was Director of I Tatti from 1973 to 1985. We wish him many happy returns on his 90th 24 or more than three; part of the third month can be pro-rated. birthday in July! ~ Fellows will enjoy all the privileges of the Harvard Center, including use of the Biblioteca Berenson seven days a week and f you are planning to give a lecture or seminar in New Yo r k lunch with the I Tatti Appointees from Monday through Friday. ICity or the Boston/Cambridge area, would you please Smyth Visiting Fellows do not receive an office or study, but are let Graziella Macchetta and Amanda Smith in our invited to work in the Library itself. One of the goals of I Tatti Cambridge office know? An invitation to our Boston and is to establish an intellectual community in which a fruitful New York Friends to a lecture or special exhibition is interchange of ideas can take place. Fellows are thus expected a great way to keep I Tatti’s constituency interested to spend at least two or three days a week at the Villa. Full and growing. ([email protected] and application details can be found on our web site www.itatti.it [email protected])

The I Tatti newsletter is published once a year. Alexa M. Mason, editor, writer, design, and layout; Word Tech, printing and distribution. We thank the many unidentified individuals who have contributed photographs to this year’s edition. Former Fellows are indicated in the text with the initials “VIT” after their name followed by the year(s) of their appointment as Fellow, Visiting Scholar or Professor, or Research Associate.

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