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s we begin another academic year Mann, ed.), the completion of that Ahere at I Tatti, I have two exciting Letter From Florence manuscript has been unexpectedly and announcements to make concerning P unavoidably delayed, and it will now new ventures which I’m sure will be of not appear until the following year. the greatest interest to all Fellows, Those volumes scheduled to appear in whether current or past. Both the spring of 2001 are are unprecedented undertakings Boccaccio’s Famous Women for us, and both have required a (Virginia Brown, ed. considerable expenditure of [VIT’76]), the first volume of time and effort. Yet I’m per- Ficino’s Platonic Theology suaded that each will have a sig- (Michael Allen & James nificant, long-term usefulness, Hankins, eds.), and volume not only for our Fellows but for one of Bruni’s Florentine Renaissance scholarship gener- History (James Hankins, ed.). ally. Other volumes to follow soon The first is the I Tatti thereafter include Landino’s Renaissance Library, a publica- Camaldulensian Disputations tion venture scheduled to be (Jill Kraye, ed.), Raphael launched this coming spring Brandolini’s Republics and under the editorship of Kingdoms Compared (Shayne Professor James Hankins Mitchell, ed.), Poggio’s Letters (VIT’89,’93). Let me quote (Martin Davies, ed.), a collec- from his prospectus, which admirably As everyone teaching the tion of humanist educational treatises defines our aims: "The purpose of the Renaissance knows, a large number of edited by Craig Kallendorf, Cardano’s I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL) is to major works written in Latin or Greek Autobiography (Thomas Cerbu [VIT’96] make available to a broad readership the are hard to come by. Often the original & Anthony Grafton, eds.), Pontano’s major literary, philosophical, and schol- texts exist only in costly scholarly edi- Dialogues (Julia Gaisser, ed.), Cyriac of arly monuments of the Italian tions, and they, moreover, are usually Ancona’s later writings edited by Renaissance in an attractive and inex- out of print; hence, whether because of Edward Bodnar, Biondo’s Rome pensive format. Modeled on the Loeb expense or unavailability, these texts Restored (Nicholas Horsfall & Marc Classical Library, the ITRL will provide cannot readily be assigned. Those Laureys, eds.), Poliziano’s Sylvae reliable Latin or Greek texts together English translations that do exist are (Wendell Clausen [VIT’89] & Charles with accurate, readable English transla- often faulty and rarely are printed Fantazzi, eds.), Valla’s Dialogues (Letizia tions on the facing page… As in the alongside the original versions. Our Panizza, ed.), and the works of Pico case of the Loeb series, each text will be goal is to provide relatively inexpensive, della Mirandola edited by Michael Allen provided with a short introduction, a accurate editions and translations of and Brian Copenhaver. Our hope is to note on the text, a short bibliography, works central to Renaissance studies, so publish at least three volumes a year. an index of names, and a minimal that they can be assigned in courses at The Harvard University Press, scholarly apparatus. The audience several levels, thus assisting teaching as which is also responsible for the Loeb envisaged for the series includes under- well as scholarship. Library, has agreed to be our publisher, graduates, graduate students, profes- Although the initial volume of the and we’re singularly fortunate in having sional scholars across a wide variety of I Tatti Renaissance Library was to have Jim Hankins, a beloved disciple of Paul been Petrarch’s Secretum (Nicholas disciplines, and interested amateurs…." Continued on page 3

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Fellows Alessandra Malquori, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore, Lawrin D. Armstrong, Lila Wallace - Reader's Pisa, Art History. "Iconografia e fortuna delle Digest Fellow, Simon Fraser University, History. Vitae Patrum nella Firenze del Quattrocento." "A Humanist Lawyer in Early Renaissance Florence: Lorenzo d'Antonio Ridolfi." Maureen Miller, Robert Lehman Fellow, George Mason University, History. "The Renaissance David P. Bénéteau, Francesco De Dombrowski Renovation of Episcopal Palaces (c.1470- Fellow, Seton Hall University, Literature. "Lapo c.1590)." Corsini's Roman History." Stephen Milner, Hanna Kiel Fellow, University Luca Boschetto, Robert Lehman Fellow, Scuola of Bristol, Literature. "Pistoia's Artistic Normale Superiore, Pisa, History. "La corte della Patrimony 1450-1500." Mercanzia e la società fiorentina del Quattrocento." Mikolaj Olszewski, Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow (2nd sem), Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Thomas Brothers, Florence J. Gould Fellow, Literature. "Metatheology of Late Medieval Duke University, Musicology. "Music during Italian Thinkers." 2 the Lifetime of Josquin Desprez." f Béla Zsolt Szakacs, Andrew W. Mellon Research Stephen J. Campbell, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow (2nd sem), Pázmány Péter Katolikus Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Art History. Egyetem, Art History. "Renaissance Drawings "Mantegna, Titian, and the Este: Courtly Space on Santo Stefano Rotondo: an Interaction." and the Invention of Mythological Painting." Marco Villoresi, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Università Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow Claudio Giunta. Christopher S. Celenza, Andrew W. Mellon di Firenze, Literature. "Letteratura, devozione e Fellow, Michigan State University, History. "The immagini sacre in Toscana al tempo di Lorenzo il Fiore, Art History. "Edition and Database of the Pre-Socratic Heritage and the Search for Ancient Magnifico." Documentation of the Florentine Opera del Wisdom in Early Modern Europe." Duomo during the Cupola Period." Georgia M. Clarke, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, Guest Scholar Julian Kliemann, Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max- Courtauld Institute of Art, Art History. Didier Boisseul (1st sem), Université d’Avignon, Planck-Institut and University of Heidelberg, Art "Architecture and Urban Planning in 15th-cen- History. "Les visites princières thermales au XV History. "Temi imperiali nell'iconografia papale tury Bologna." siecle: aspects économiques, politiques, diploma- del Cinquecento." Claudio Giunta, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, tiques." Arnaldo Morelli, Conservatorio ‘O. Respighi,’ Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Literature. "La Latina, and Università della Calabria, Cosenza, poesia volgare in Toscana nel primo Visiting Professors Musicology. "L'organo in Italia nel Quattrocento." William E. Hood, Jr., Robert Lehman Visiting Rinascimento: funzione, prassi, repertorio." Pavel Kalina, Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow Professor, Oberlin College, Art History. "The Michael Rocke, Villa I Tatti, History. "Edition (1st sem), Fakulta Architektury Cvut, Art History. History of the Male Nude in Renaissance Art." and Translation of Italian Texts Related to "The Crucifixes of Giovanni Pisano and the Claude V. Palisca (2nd sem), Yale University Homoeroticism (14th-17th centuries)." Central Italian Group of Crucifixi dolorosi." (Emeritus), Musicology. "The Galilei Family of Massimiliano Rossi, Università di Lecce, Art Stanko Kokole, Rush H. Kress Fellow, The Musicians: Vincenzo, Galileo, Michelangelo, History. "Le genealogie ‘fantastiche’ dei Medici: Johns Hopkins University, Art History. "The Vincenzo di Michelangelo, Vincenzo di Galileo, politica letteraria e figurativa granducale tra History of the Formae Deorum Gentilium from Virginia, Alberto di Michelangelo, and Alberto di Cinque e Seicento." Petrarch to Lomazzo." Alberto." Silvana Seidel-Menchi, Università di Trento, Isabella Lazzarini, CRIA Fellow, Università di History. "1. Storia interna della Congregazione Pisa, History. "L'informazione politico-diplomat- Research Associates dell’Indice. 2. I processi matrimoniali degli ica nell'età della pace di Lodi. Raccolta, archivi ecclesiastici italiani." selezione, trasmissione." Fabio Bisogni, Università di Siena, Art History. 1) "The Diocese of Novara." 2) "The Marco Spallanzani, Università di Firenze, Restoration and Iconography of Leonardo’s Last History. "Hispano-Moresque Pottery in Supper." 3) "An exhibition on the Compagnia Renaissance Florence." Leicali in Siena." Lina Bolzoni, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Literature. "Prediche in volgare e uso delle immagini dalle origini al Savonarola." Eve Borsook, Villa I Tatti, Art History. "Medieval Mosaic Technology" and "Exhibition of Devotional Objects in Straw." Salvatore I. Camporeale, The Johns Hopkins University, History. "Per un studio sul Dialogo De libero arbitrio di Lorenzo Valla." Gino Corti (Emeritus), Villa I Tatti, Paleography and History. "Lorenzo de’ Medici, collezionista di antichità." Laura Corti, Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venezia, Art History. "Una mostra sull’ Ordine di Malta, Venezia." Allen Grieco, Villa I Tatti, History. "A Social Research Associate Salvatore Camporeale and Cultural History of Alimentary Habits in Renaissance Italy." and Mellon Fellow Chris Celenza Margaret Haines, Opera di Santa Maria del Robert Lehman Fellow Maureen Miller.

Villa I Tatti Letter from Florence logue. Like all electronic tools, it is ties to the international community of Continued from page 1 dynamic and will be continually scholars that we offer, for the benefit of Kristeller, as our General Editor. He updated. BERN contains medieval Renaissance studies everywhere, the has been untiring in his efforts to get and Renaissance resources by subject I Tatti Renaissance Library and the this series launched and in his insis- (Interdisciplinary; Art, Art History, & Berenson Electronic Research Network. tence on the highest scholarly and edi- Architecture; History; Literature; torial standards for it. His Music; Philosophy, Theology, & m distinguished editorial board is com- Religion; Science, Technology, & Walter Kaiser prised of Michael Allen, Brian Medicine) and provides links to Director Copenhaver, Albinia de la Mare, Harvard databases, WWW databases, August, 2000 Claudio Leonardi, Walther Ludwig, metasites, electronic journals (including Nicholas Mann, and Silvia Rizzo; the JSTOR and Project MUSE), electronic late, eminent Jozef Ijsewijn also served texts & images, people & organizations, and libraries & archives. If one is on this board until his recent death. 3 looking for a specific resource, one can s There is, as well, a considerably larger THE I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY Advisory Committee of leading go directly to "Databases A-Z." BERN also includes an electronic ref- Renaissance scholars, most of them EDITORIAL BOARD former Fellows, whose function is to erence collection and information on James Hankins, General Editor suggest texts for publication and possi- Internet search engines and Internet Michael J. B. Allen ble editors and to help determine the tutorials. Brian Copenhaver developing shape of the series. As you can easily see, this splendid Albinia de la Mare If this first new venture has been tool will facilitate research in a major Claudio Leonardi the product of many hands, the second way. Not surprisingly, right now the Walther Ludwig one I have to announce has been cre- largest portion of entries is anglophone, Nicholas Mann Silvia Rizzo ated single-handedly by a member of but additional entries for other nation- the Berenson Library staff. Although alities and languages are bound to ADVISORY COMMITTEE she has been here only a very short increase rapidly. As you use BERN Walter Kaiser, Chairman time, our new Reference Librarian, and explore its almost boundless capac- Robert Black Simone Schenirer, is already revered ities, please be sure to let us know if Virginia Brown by users of the library, for she has set you are aware of a resource we have Salvatore Camporeale Caroline Elam new standards of helpfulness, resource- not included; for, of course, we are Arthur Field fulness, and public service. To our eager to make it as comprehensive as we can. Only the other day, for exam- Anthony Grafton collective dismay, she is going to be Hanna Gray ple, while reviewing the contents of obliged, because of family reasons, to Ralph Hexter return to her native New Zealand this BERN, I suggested the inclusion of Jill Kraye autumn. I can assure you, she will be PERSEUS, and I’m sure many of you Francesco Lo Monaco much missed at I Tatti. She will, how- will have similar additions you will David Marsh ever, have left us the most superb part- wish to propose. For the moment, I John Monfasani ing gift. For she has created a urge you simply to experiment with John O’Malley comprehensive electronic guide for BERN, to discover what a phenome- David Quint Renaissance scholars, which all of us nally rich resource it is already. Lucia Gualdo Rosa will find invaluable. Bringing together Although I Tatti’s raison d’être is its Christine Smith from Harvard’s HOLLIS and from the fellowship program, towards which our Rita Sturlese Francesco Tateo Internet generally a wide variety of greatest efforts and resources are Mirko Tavoni directed, and although that must always medieval and Renaissance electronic J. B. Trapp resources, she has assembled them into be our top priority, it seems to me, as Carlo Vecce one network, where they can be it has to my predecessors, that an insti- Ronald Witt quickly and easily consulted. The tution of this eminence also has obliga- Jan Ziolkowski working title for this network is tions to Renaissance scholarship BERN (Berenson Electronic Resource generally. It was in recognition of those Network), and it can be accessed from obligations that Myron Gilmore started the Villa I Tatti homepage our publications program and Craig (http://www.vit.firenze.it/), by click- Smyth our biennial journal, I Tatti ing first on Biblioteca Berenson and Studies. More recently, the highly suc- then on BERN. cessful Florentine library consortium, BERN uses web technology and IRIS, was initiated by I Tatti. It is now also provides a link to the IRIS cata- in further acquittal of our responsibili-

Autumn 2000 THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSON And the IRIS Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence

http://www.iris.firenze.it of Michigan, worked for eight months more complicated and still has some bugs before having to return to America. The to be worked out. Yet here, too, the his has been an especially reward- project continues with Manuela upgraded version has some helpful new Ting year for the Biblioteca Michelloni, who holds a laurea in attributes. There are more search Berenson, both in terms of acquisitions Conservazione dei beni culturali from options, for example, and it is possible to and the on-line catalogue. In the fall the University of Udine and also has spe- reorganize and manipulate the results of we began a major endeavor to create an cialized library training. Both Caitlin searches in various ways; one can now on-line database of the library's remark- and Manuela have made fine progress, also save bibliographical records on disk able collection of auction catalogues. and thanks to their dedication and hard or e-mail them. The consortium hopes

For Mr. Berenson, sales catalogues con- work we shall finally be able to make f4 soon to implement other useful new stituted a basic working tool, both in his these unique resources fully accessible. functions, such as the display of holdings

activity as an art collector and consul- information for journals and multi-vol- tant to other collectors and dealers and ume works, and in general will be work- for his scholarship. The large number QR ing to make the web version as of catalogues he accumulated date from "user-friendly" as possible. the early 1800s on and range in subject Despite the two-month work inter- from Old Master paintings, drawings, ruption during the migration to and prints to European sculpture, Aleph500, the pace of acquisitions and ceramics, and decorative arts, from cataloging activity remained surprisingly antiquities, musical instruments, and high this year—indeed, this is probably a books and manuscripts to Islamic and record-breaking year for these aspects of Readers of the Newsletter who have Oriental art objects, textiles, and carpets. the library’s work. In part this is due to recently consulted the IRIS online cata- The collection includes many catalogues the useful new features of the Aleph500 logue will have found considerable that are either rare or unique. It is also program itself, but above all it is thanks growing steadily, currently counting changes in its appearance and function- to the flexibility, quick learning ability, some 15,000 items. Unfortunately, up ing. Introduced experimentally in and dedication of staff members Amanda to now the lack of an adequate inven- March, the new Aleph500 web version George, Kathy Bosi, Valerio Pacini, and tory or finding aid, even in card format, of the catalogue soon definitively Stefano Corsi, all of whom work inten- has severely hampered access to these replaced the older version. Placing this sively with the new program. important resources. new version online completed the long Orders placed for the main library Our current project aims to create an and complex process of "migrating" the increased from 1,265 titles last year to online catalogue of the entire collection bibliographic catalogue to the consor- 1,361 this year, while the Morrill Music which will provide multiple access tium’s upgraded systems software. In Library acquired another 255 mono- points to the materials—by auction mid-December all work on the cata- house, date and place of sale, title, logue stopped and the transfer of data graphs and scores plus several hundred owner(s) or provenance, and subject(s). began. Over the following weeks, sys- items on microfilm and CD recordings. Since the work began in late 1999 tems technicians conducted repeated tests In addition, 488 books, offprints, and roughly half of the collection has already to verify that all the data had successfully auction catalogues arrived as gifts or been cataloged, and at the present rate migrated. In January and February the through exchanges—for which we again the project will be completed in the consortium’s librarians received training offer our wholehearted thanks. coming year. Sometime in the fall of in the use of the new Windows-based Altogether, 2,771 new titles were 2000, this catalogue will be made avail- software, and then gradually, after a acquired, which almost certainly repre- able online through the IRIS public- more than two-month interruption, sents an all-time annual high for the access catalogue, in a separate database online acquisitions and cataloguing oper- Berenson library. The work of cata- called SAL (http://www.iris.firenze.it). ations fully resumed. loging these new items as well as previ- This project has been made possible Aleph500 provides new features that ous materials also sped along. thanks to a generous gift from Mr. and facilitate or speed up acquisitions and Altogether, considering books, new peri- Mrs. Treacy Beyer which has enabled us cataloguing procedures, and on the odicals, scores, and works on microfilm to employ two skilled assistant cata- whole we’re happy with the results. as well as sales catalogues, a total of 7,859 loguers on a temporary basis. Caitlin Users of the public-access catalogue items were added to the library catalogue Tillman, with an M.S. in Information have, unfortunately, been less than this year, an impressive accomplishment and Library Studies from the University enthusiastic, as this version is undeniably with no precedent here. The number of

Villa I Tatti actual volumes newly added to the Visiting shelves, including bound periodicals, Professor comes to nearly 3,000, also a single-year William record. The size of the library’s entire Hood. catalogued collection has now reached 118,374 volumes. Some of the more significant recent IRIS acquisitions in the main library include the Opera omnia of Nicholas of Cusa n May 12 the IRIS con- (Hamburg: F. Meiner, 1959-); the Osortium sponsored a con- Sämtliche Werke of Johannes Reuchlin ference called "IRIS e la (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann- cooperazione bibliotecaria al Holzboog, 1996-); the Opera omnia (ed. servizio degli studi umanistici" minor) of Iohannes Duns Scotus which brings together the marvelous (IRIS and cooperation among s5 (Alberobello: AGA, 1998-); Florent A. resources in these areas accumulated libraries in the service of Tremblay, Bibliotheca grammaticorum = mainly by Mr. Berenson and enhanced humanistic studies), held in the Bibliography of Grammatical Writings by later additions. After remodeling of beautifully restored 17th-cen- (Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1996-); the the Gioffredi house was completed, tury Magliabechi reading room 100-volume reprint edition of Scelta di some 6,000 books and periodicals on of the Uffizi library. The con- curiosità letterarie inedite o rare dal secolo XIII Islamic or Asian subjects were moved ference aimed in part to intro- al XIX (Bologna: Commissione per i from throughout the library and house duce IRIS to the academic and library communities and, more testi di lingua, 1968), and Paul Oskar into the collection's handsome new importantly, to discuss resource- Kristeller’s Iter Italicum on CD-ROM quarters. Comments have been very sharing and other forms of (Leiden: Brill, 1996). Five new subscrip- positive, and already the collection has cooperation as well as the expe- tions to scholarly journals were also attracted specialists in Oriental studies rience of IRIS and similar net- who have begun to explore its treasures. added: Accademia: Revue de la Société works in the context of In addition to providing better access to Marsile Ficin (1999-); Annual of Medieval developments in information Studies at the CEU (1995-), on exchange these unique resources, the library has technology and libraries gener- from the Department of Medieval gained a much-needed cataloging office, ally. Previous and current presi- Studies of the Central European while the reading room is doubling as a dents Walter Kaiser and Michele University; De strata francigena: Studi e space for staff meetings. Ciliberto spoke about the aims ricerche sulle vie di pellegrinaggio del medioevo Lastly, in March Simone Schenirer and potential of IRIS, and (1993-); Geographia Antiqua: Rivista di replaced Ilaria della Monica, on mater- numerous library professionals geografia storica del mondo antico e di storia nity leave till the autumn, as Reference from Italy and elsewhere, della geografia (1992-); and Museo Stibbert Librarian. Holding an M.A. in Italian including former Director of the – Firenze (1999-). from the University of Auckland and a Biblioteca Berenson Assunta We were also especially pleased, as Library Studies Certificate from Pisani, delivered more special- part of our on-going program to fill Wellington, Simone worked for thirteen ized papers. The conference lacunae in important journals, to have years at the Library of the University of succeeded in raising awareness acquired 128 volumes of back issues of Auckland, where she specialized in of IRIS’s activities, attracting the Archivio storico italiano, thereby com- Information Services. As Walter Kaiser potential new members, and pleting our run of this fundamental peri- has already written in his Letter from establishing or strengthening ties odical, and to have ordered 143 volumes Florence, Simone has made a special effort to other libraries throughout of the Giornale storico della letteratura ital- to improve the library’s information ser- Italy, laying the groundwork iana, due to arrive this fall, to complete vices, and in this connection she has perhaps for other collaborative our holdings of this journal. I would compiled an extremely useful guide to ventures in the future. like to add a special word of thanks to online resources of interest to Visiting Professor Bill Hood, who shared Renaissance scholars. The guide, which his expertise, along with his delightful for now we are calling BERN – Berenson company, in service on the Acquisitions Electronic Resources Network, is accessible Committee this year. through the I Tatti web site. As anticipated in last year's Newsletter, early in the year we formed m Michael Rocke the new Oriental and Islamic Collection, Nicky Mariano Librarian

Autumn 2000 RECENT AQUISITIONS X fsfsfsfsfsO} fsfsfsfsfsC BOOKS BY FORMER FELLOWS

mong the many recent additions to the Library, whether purchased by one of the endowed book funds, from donations given by the AFriends of the Biblioteca Berenson, or given directly, are the following recent publications by former Fellows. Please forgive us if, due to space limitations or an oversight, your volume is not listed. Alessandro Arcangeli (VIT’99). Play Stefano Corsi (staff) et al contributors. Silvio Leydi (VIT’97). Il Cinquecento. and Health in Medical Literature. Hilversum: Michelangelo: grafia e biografia di un genio. Milano: Nodo Libri, 1999. Verloren, 1999. Milano: Biblioteca di via Senato Edizioni, Silvio Leydi (VIT’97). Sub umbra imperialis Carmen Bambach (VIT’97). Drawing 2000. aquilae: immagini del potere e consenso politico nella and Painting in the Italian Renaissance 6 Laura Corti (VIT’85-’00) ed. Lungo il Milano di Carlo V. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, f Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300-1600. 1999. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. tragitto crociato della vita. Venezia: Marsilio Editoriale Generali, 2000. Thomas F. Mayer (VIT’93). A Reluctant Author: Cardinal Pole and his Manuscripts. Janet Cox-Rearick (VIT’62,’63, Philadelphia: American Philosophical ’76,’91). Giulio Romano, Master Designer: An Society, 1999. Exhibition of Drawings in Celebration of the Five John M. Mcmanamon (VIT’86). Hundredth Anniversary of his Birth. New York: Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder and Saint Jerome: An Hunter College CUNY, 1999. Edition and Translation of "Sermones pro Sancto Ilaria Della Monica (staff), Hieronymo." Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Riccardo Spinelli (VIT’94), Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. Massimiliano Rossi (VIT’93,’98-‘00) Naomi Miller (VIT’85). Mapping Cities. contributors. Bartolomeo Bimbi: un pittore di Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press; Boston, piante e animali alla corte dei Medici, Silvia MA: Boston University Art Gallery, 2000. Meloni Trkulja and Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Luca Molà (VIT’99). The Silk Industry of eds. Firenze: Edifir, 1998. Renaissance Venice. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2000. Former Fellows Joanna Woods-Marsden and Georges Didi-Huberman (VIT’88). Beverly Brown return to I Tatti for a lecture. Marina Montesano (VIT’99). "Supra Ouvrir Vénus: Nudité, rêve, cruauté. L'image acqua et supra ad vento". "Superstizioni," ouvrante. Paris: Gallimard, 1999. Maleficia e Incantamenta nei predicatori francescani James H. Beck (VIT’68, ’72,’83,’91,’93). Luciano Bellosi with Margaret osservanti (Italia, sec. XV). Roma: Istituto Three Worlds of Michelangelo. New Haines (VIT’76,’88-’00). Lo Scheggia. Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1999. York/London: W.W. Norton & Co, 1999. Firenze/Siena: Maschietto e Musolino, 1999. John O'malley (VIT’67,’68). Trent and Daniel E. Bornstein (VIT’90) ed. & All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early (VIT’86) trans. & ed., trans. Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: Gábor Hajnóczi Modern Era. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. The Chronicle and Necrology of Corpus L.B.Alberti A festészetrõl. Della pittura 1436, Press, 2000. Domini, 1395-1436. Chicago: Univ. of Fordította, a bevezetõ tanulmányt és a jegyezeteket Chicago Press, 2000. David M. Posner (VIT’95). The írta, Balassi Kiadó, 1997. Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Bruce Boucher (VIT’85). Italian John Henderson (VIT’84,’94). Pietà e car- Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Baroque Sculpture. London: Thames & ità nella Firenze del basso Medioevo. Firenze: Le Press, 1999. Hudson, 1998. Lettere, 1998. Marco Praloran (VIT’92). Tempo e Alison Brown (VIT’86,’91,’98). The azione nell’Orlando Furioso. Firenze: Leo S. Renaissance. London/New York: Paul Hills (VIT’90). Colore veneziano: pit- Longman, 1999. tura, marmo, mosaico e vetro dal 1200 al 1550. Olschki, 1999. Andrew Butterfield (VIT’94). Milano: Rizzoli, 1999. And Venetian Colour: Odile Redon (VIT’91,’94). Lo spazio di Masterpieces of Renaissance Sculpture: An Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass, 1250-1550. una città: Siena e la Toscana meridionale (secoli Exhibition of Sculpture from the Collection of New Haven/London: Yale Univ. Press, 1999 XIII-XIV). Siena: Nuova immagine Michael Hall, Esq. New York: Salander- editrice/Roma: Viella, 1999. O'Reilly Galleries, 2000. Megan Holmes (VIT’97). Fra Filippo Patricia Lee Rubin (VIT’87,’90,’93,’97) Lippi: The Carmelite Painter. New and Alison Wright (VIT’97). Renaissance Christopher Celenza (VIT’00). Haven/London: Yale Univ. Press, 1999. Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Florence: The Art of the 1470s. London: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's De curiae Peter Humfrey (VIT’88,’91). Giovanni National Gallery Publications, 1999. commodis. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Battista Moroni: Renaissance Portraitist. Fort Alfredo Stussi (VIT’84). Tra filologia e Press, 1999. Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 2000. storia: studi e testimonianze. Firenze: Olschki, 1999. Giovanni Ciappelli (VIT’94) and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (VIT’86). Patricia Lee Rubin Mikolaj Szymanski (VIT’85) critical edi- (VIT’87,’90,’93,’97) eds. Art, Memory, and L'ombre des ancêtres: Essai sur l'imaginaire médié- val de la parenté. Paris: Fayard, 2000. tion of Tommaso Aldobrandini’s Commentary Family in Renaissance Florence. New York: to Aristotle's Politics. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000. Isabella Lazzarini (VIT’00), ed. Formica, 1999. Samuel K. Cohn (VIT’89,’94). Creating Carteggio degli oratori mantovani alla corte sforzesca Sergio Tognetti (VIT’01). Il Banco the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, (1450-1500). Roma: Ministero per i beni e Cambini: affari e mercati di una compagnia mercan- 1348-1434. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. le attività culturali, Ufficio centrale per i ben tile-bancaria nella Firenze del XV secolo. Firenze: Press, 1999. archivistici, 1999. Olschki, 1999.

Villa I Tatti ensemble Acantus, formerly Sine Lusignan on her marriage to Louis of Nomine, which has recently recorded Savoy, the manuscript contains plain- a collection of simple polyphony for chant for Office and Mass, polyphonic the prestigious English label Gimmell. settings of the Mass Ordinary, motets Former Fellow Peter Urquhart and French songs. This color repro- (VIT’89) has sent several CDs of music duction, published in Lucca in the NEWS by Josquin, Busnois, Gombert and series Ars nova, was bought with funds FROM Ockeghem recorded by the Capella given by Melvin Seiden in honor of THE MORRILL Alamire under his direction. A F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill. MUSIC LIBRARY recording of Josquin’s secular composi- Other recent acquisitions, also tions was donated by Nicholas bought with funds given by Melvin Routley who directs the Sydney Seiden, include microfilms of 237 ast year the Morrill Music Library ensemble The Song Company. books of early printed music from the began a record library at Villa (Routley will be a Visiting Professor library of Christ Church, Oxford. The L 7 I Tatti with a donation from the here in 2000/2001.) Pedro collection includes a great many rare s International Foundation in honor of Memelsdorff, the director of Mala and often unique items, for the most F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill. The Punica, gave a recent recording of the part dating from the late 16th and early collection now holds some 370 CDs of complete motets of Johannes Ciconia, 17th centuries, and is an outstanding medieval, Renaissance, and early along with their other CDs of music addition to the substantial microfilm Baroque music, from plainchant and from the Ars nova period. The holdings of original sources of music by the earliest polyphony to the late London-based ensemble Orlando Italian Renaissance composers in the works of Monteverdi. The Music Consort sent their new record The Morrill Music Library. Library has welcomed gifts of CDs Saracen and the Dove, in which Gifts to the Music Library this year from performers who have made use they perform the repertoire heard at included the fifth edition of A History of the library’s holdings of scores, early Villa I Tatti on the occasion of their of Western Music, and the third edition printed music, and manuscripts in memorial concert for Nino Pirrotta in of the Norton Anthology of Western preparing their recordings. Recent October of 1998. It is hoped that Music, accompanied by the Norton donations include Marco da Gagliano’s scholars and performers alike will con- Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Missa in Asssumptione Beatae Mariae tinue to contribute to this collection. edited and donated by Visiting Virginis, and Adriano Banchieri’s Besides its importance for the study of Professor Claude Palisca. The Vespro per la Madonna, both recorded performance practice, the recordings Slovenian Academy of Sciences and by the ensemble L’Homme Armé; give pleasure to the whole of the Arts sent 23 scores from the series Giovanni Bassano’s Motetti, madrigali et I Tatti community. Monumenta artis musicae sloveniae, con- canzoni francese, recorded by Musica Recent acquisitions for the Music taining works by Slovenian composers Figurata; Carissimi’s Missa a tre voci, Library include a facsimile of the of the Renaissance and early Baroque. recorded by the Consortium Codex J.II.9 from the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria of Turin, a Carissimi, the Responsori per la m Settimana Santa by the Florentine com- major source of late medieval Kathryn Bosi poser Francesco Corteccia, recorded polyphony. Apparently brought from Music Librarian by the Cantori di San Lorenzo, and the royal court of Cyprus by Anne de a Baroque Keyboard Recital by Christopher Stembridge and Ella Sevskikh. The Florentine group Modo Antiquo, which has achieved This year’s musicologists, the distinction of being nominated Visiting Professor Claude twice for Grammy awards for their Palisca and Gould Fellow recordings of Corelli and Vivaldi, Tom Brothers. donated their most recent records, La musica dei Crociati and Carmina burana. Current interest in the music of women’s religious establishments is reflected in a recording donated by former music Fellow Alessandra Fiori (VIT’93) and member of the Cappella Artemisia: Rosa mistica: musiche nei monasteri femminili lombardi del ‘600. Alessandra Fiori also performs with the

Autumn 2000 Former Fellows Update NEWS FROM THE BERENSON FOTOTECA,

JANIS BELL (VIT’90) recently par- COLLECTION AND ARCHIVE ticipated in the Denison-Kenyon Mellon Program for enhanced am delighted to report a notable work, which have saved a number of learning through collaboration with Iincrease in the number of scholars images from certain loss. We hope to technology. This joint project from all over the world coming to use be able to continue this project between Kenyon College, where the resources of the Berenson Archive because many precious photographs Bell is Professor of Art History, and and Fototeca. These resources are are in need of repair. Denison University is the result of a becoming richer with each passing Conservation is, of course, of equal grant from the Andrew W. Mellon year. Indeed, we are very happy to importance to the Berenson Foundation to support the use of say that this year some 2,700 new Collection as a whole. Two small technology in the classroom. Bell photographs have been added to the tapestries have recently been restored. f8 and her colleague Adam Donaldson Berenson Fototeca. Of these, scholars The first, which is probably a Flemish have prepared an informational web and collectors gave 630, and the 16th-century piece showing the figure site on the use of digital images that remainder was purchased. of Fortune, has recovered its exagger- has links to useful sites on image Most of these new acquisitions, ated coloring and legibility. The sec- technology, database management, which concentrate on 13th- to 16th- ond, a beautiful border fragment, and storehouses of digitized images century works of art and fresco cycles probably from the end of the 16th that can be used for teaching and in central Italian museums, churches, century, was badly moth-eaten. In research. (http://enhanced-learn- and convents, were taken by the very addition to its beauty, it has particular ing.org/mellon/rsrc/visual/index.ht skilled photographer Roberto significance to the collection; ml) Bell has also started work on a Sigismondi of Rome. In addition, we Mr. Berenson used it to decorate the pilot project on Leonardo da have completed the documentation of back of his desk. Vinci's Treatise on Painting Italian painting from the 13th to the Scholars using the Berenson (http://www2.kenyon.edu/leonardo/). 16th century conserved in the Archive are discovering a wealth of Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, which we unedited material. In November LADISLAV DANIEL (VIT’89), has began last year. Recently, we started a 1999, I Tatti acquired a collection of recently been named the Director long-term project to acquire pho- letters written between 1951 and 1957 of the Collection of Old Masters at tographs of drawings from the by Bernard Berenson to Mally the National Gallery in Prague, a Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Dienemann, the widow of Max post he also held in 1992. In 1998 Uffizi. This complicated project has Dienemann, chief rabbi of Offenbach he became Professor of Art History already reaped rewards of great interest in Germany. Towards the end of his at Palacky University, Olomouc. to our Fellows. life, Berenson thought deeply about His work includes the exhibitions Conservation in the Fototeca his Jewish roots. This purchase com- Between the Eruption and the Plague: moves ahead each year. In addition to pletes the decade-long exchange of Painting in Naples from 1631 to 1656 substituting old folders with acid-free letters between these two intellectuals, (Prague), The Venetians: Painting of ones and separating the strictly photo- much of which concerns a friendly the 17th and 18th Centuries from graphic material from works on paper, debate about God and Christianity. Czech and Moravian Collections a number of badly damaged pho- m (Prague and Trieste). In 1999 he tographs have been sent for repair to Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi was made "Cavaliere Ufficiale two talented young restorers, Carla Agnes Mongan Curator of dell´Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Gambacorta and Pamela Picchetta the Fototeca Berenson Italiana" for his research and exten- (Fotocartarestauri). I am very pleased Curator of the Berenson Collection sive publications on 17th and 18th with the outstanding results of their and Archive century Italian art. He is now preparing two exhibitions: Ultimi fiori del Medioevo: dal gotico al Rinascimento in Moravia e nella Slesia, last-minute surprise for the Fototeca recently arrived in the form of a gift from Craig for the Palazzo Venezia in Rome in AHugh Smyth, former director of I Tatti (1973-1985), for which we are particularly 2000 and, in 2001, the inaugural grateful. This personal collection consists of an interesting group of photographs of exhibition for the restored mostly Italian 15th- and 16th-century drawings, paintings, and frescoes. The gift consists Wallenstein Palace - the Senate of of some 3,000 photographs and other images (including a few postcards, slides, and nega- the Czech Republic - named tives) which amply illustrate the wide interests of this scholar. These photographs, the I Fiorentini: L´arte dal ´500 al ´700 vast majority of which are identified, will be kept together as the "Smyth Collection" and dalle collezioni ceche. will greatly enrich the Fototeca.

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he American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with the generous Tassistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has announced a new program of support for the advancement of scholarly work and intellectual In Walter Kaiser’s Letter from growth for scholars in the humanities and related social sciences who have Florence, he states that "I Tatti’s rai- recently received tenure. These fellowships have been named for Frederick son d’être is its fellowship program." Burkhardt, president emeritus of ACLS. Nine research centers for advanced There is no question that at the study, of which I Tatti is one, have been chosen as residential centers for core of the fellowship program are Burkhardt Fellows. Eligible candidates must have received tenure within the the resources we are able to offer 9 last five years. Scholars wishing to apply for a Burkhardt Fellowship at I Tatti the Fellows through the Biblioteca s should follow the regular I Tatti fellowship guidelines (contact either the Berenson. This library has grown Florence or Cambridge office for the information sheet and application form – exponentially since Mr. Berenson addresses on the front of this newsletter). Applications will first be reviewed left some 50,000 volumes to by the I Tatti Advisory Committee who will make a nomination to ACLS for Harvard University, and like all confirmation. Awards will be announced in February. Further details can be good libraries, it needs to continue obtained directly from the American Council of Learned Societies, 288 East this growth, both by strengthening 45th Street, New York, NY 10017-3398, http://www.acls.org, Tel (212) 697- weak areas and by buying new 1505, Fax (212) 949-8058. publications. The Fellows come to I Tatti to do research in any aspect 8585858585858585858585858585 of the Italian Renaissance, whether it is the history of music, science, or economics, or the history of lit- erature, thought, art or architec- ture. The Biblioteca Berenson Former Fellows Update _ must provide for their needs. Over the next two or three years we shall be seeking a number of new JOHN MONFASANI (VIT’74,’83), M. MICHÈLE MULCHAHEY (VIT’99), book funds at the level of $100,000 Professor of History at SUNY, Professor of Theology and Medieval each, and we are also looking for Albany, is currently the Executive Studies, at Fordham University, was funding to fill in the lacunae in vari- Director of the Renaissance Society formally awarded the prestigious ous areas of the collection. The of America. In 1994 he published a Mediaevalium Studiorum Doctor Harvard Center particularly wishes volume of collected articles entitled (M.S.D.) - summa cum laude - to thank the trustees of the Language and Learning in Renaissance granted by the Pontifical Institute of Florence Gould Foundation Italy. A second collection, Byzantine Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, last who, in addition to their support Scholars in Renaissance Italy, was pub- year. Only twelve have ever been of the fellowship program and the lished in 1995. A third volume is awarded. After being invited to Scholars Court project, have very being planned for press. Monfasani stand for the degree by the Institute generously given us seed money Council, Mulchahey wrote "First the continues to work on his multi-vol- towards this new fundraising ven- Bow is Bent in Study . . ." Dominican ume study of the Plato-Aristotle con- ture. The Florence Gould Education Before 1350, which she troversy of the 15th century. He Foundation has not only estab- defended in 1996. The Institute projects the first volume will be lished one of these new book published the book in 1998. completed by the end of 2000. He funds, but they have also pledged Mulchahey finally received the $250,000 over the next five years has also recently completed an degree, her sixth, in formal convoca- Internet course on Western to help us purchase older material tion last October. She is currently in the areas where the Library’s Civilization, Part I, published by the working on a book on Jacopo holdings remain weak and to build Digital Learning Interactive, Passavanti and Santa Maria Novella, systematically a collection that Medford, MA. about Dominican life, learning, and thoroughly supports research in all art in Trecento Florence. fields and in all regions of Italy.

Autumn 2000 Lectures & Programs with support from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Conference Fund, 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

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A chronological listing follows of informal talks and public lectures held at I Tatti during the 1999/2000 academic year. Institutional affiliation is not given for members of I Tatti’s 1999/2000 academic community. f10 two-day seminar, "I processi Palace of Florence (1581-1584)." STEPHEN MILNER, "Issues in the matrimoniali degli archivi eccle- reconstruction of an artistic patrimony: A CHRISTOPHER CELENZA, siastici italiani," organized by Pistoia, 1450-1500." "Between Scylla and Charybdis: Research Associate SILVANA SEI- Diachronicity and Synchronicity in MARCO VILLORESI: "Un autore DEL-MENCHI. This was the fourth the Interpretation of Renaissance ritrovato: Leonardo di Francesco Benci in a biannual series partially sponsored (1445- dopo il 1523). by the University of Trent. Humanism." STEPHEN CAMPBELL, "Reading, LUCA BOSCHETTO, "Come funzion- NICHOLAS MANN, (Warburg Collecting, and the Renaissance ava la Mercanzia: Percorsi e strategie di Institute), "Petrarch: A Life of ricerca tra le carte processuali del ‘400." Letters." Studiolo." LAWRIN ARMSTRONG, "Usury and STANKO KOKOLE, "Forma Veneris NICHOLAS MANN, "Petrarch’s conscience: Angelo Corbinelli’s testa- Theory and Practice of Imitation." and Forma Martis: Reflections on ment of 1419." Conception and Perception of GERALDINE ALBERS (restorer), "Un Mythological Imagery in the Early ISABELLA LAZZARINI, "La prassi affresco ritrovato: Daniele da Volterra Renaissance." diplomatica italiana nell’età della Pace di e Pellegrino Tibaldi. Storia, restauro e Lodi: ipotesi per una comparazione." tecnica del distacco degli affreschi WILLIAM E. HOOD, JESSIE ANN OWENS (VIT’80, Brandeis rinascimentali." "Michelangelo’s Models: Crafting the University). "Lessons from the Sistine Ignudi." RONALD WITT (VIT’69, Duke Composer’s Workshop." University), "In the Footsteps of the alf day work seminar for current Ancients: The Origins of Italian appointees: Humanism from Lovato de Lovati to H Former Fellows Update _ GEORGIA CLARK, "Aspects of Leonardo Bruni, 1250-1420." Urbanism in 15th-century Bologna." RICHARD SHERR (VIT’83) has been MAUREEN MILLER, ALESSANDRA MALQUORI, "La named the Caroline L. Wall "Architecture, Representation, and Tebaide degli Uffizi: Tradizioni letter- Professor at Smith College. His Presence: Alessandro de’ Medici’s arie e figurative per l’interpretazione di recent publications include the final New Façade for the Archiepiscopal un tema iconografico." volumes of the 30-volume series The Sixteenth-Century Motet (New York: Garland, 1987-2000); Music and Geraldine Albers Musicians in Renaissance Rome and hugs Liliana Ciullini Other Courts, Variorum Collected after her lecture. Studies Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999); Papal Music and Musicians in Medieval and Renaissance Rome (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998) of which he was the editor, and arti- cles in The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (New York: Scribners 1999), edited by Paul F. Grendler (VIT’71,’72).

Villa I Tatti that evening a small dinner was held for Dr. Mann at I Tatti, where certain Fellows whose disciplinary interests matched up well with his were also present. The following day, Dr. Mann again gave generously of his time and offered an in-house seminar on the concept of imitatio in Petrarch, a notion on which he had touched in the larger lecture. He offered a metic- ulous examination of various impor- tant Petrarchan passages and generously invited group participation. How could one, as a Renaissance 11 thinker, reconcile the need to imitate s the ancients with the equally pressing concern of being an original thinker? Nicholas Mann before his lecture. How to maintain individuality while remaining true to the classical ideal? NICHOLAS MANN knowledge of Petrarch’s Bucolicum car- These sorts of questions were central, men, on which he is engaged in a implicitly or explicitly, in the thought On Thursday, 7 October 1999, lengthy study. The lecture was a com- of many Renaissance thinkers; to Dr. Nicholas Mann, director of the bination of wide-ranging erudition and examine them in the thought of Warburg Institute, London, visited synthesis with precise philological acu- Petrarch, the originator of many I Tatti to present the major autumn men. Dr. Mann set forth an intrigu- humanist trends, was especially impor- lecture, entitled "Petrarch: A Life of ingly nuanced interpretation of tant and illustrative of a set of impor- Letters." In what all agreed was a bril- Petrarch’s conception of imitation and tant dynamics which would continue liant and exciting lecture, Dr. Mann identity but also shared with the group throughout the Renaissance. spoke about Petrarch and his letters, the discovery of a hitherto ignored but offering a well-contextualized analysis important manuscript in the Bodleian Christopher S. Celenza of Petrarch’s Epistolario. On this topic Library. There was a magnificent Ahmanson Fellow he also brought to bear his specialized reception following the talk, and later

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VICTOR COELHO (VIT '98) is the working on a translation of Anton RONALD G. WITT (VIT’69), year 2000 recipient of the Noah Francesco Doni’s treatise, Disegno. She Professor of History at Duke Greenberg Award presented by the is also collaborating with FRANCESCO University, has recently published 'In American Musicological Society for a SBERLATI (VIT’96) on a commentary the Footsteps of the Ancients': The recording and CD-ROM of the to the 16th-century text, which Origins of Humanism from Lovato to music for the Medici wedding of Sberlati is editing. In November Bruni, Leiden: Brill. This monograph 1608. The recording will be made 1999, Talvacchia presented a paper, traces the beginnings of humanism in with the Complesso Barocco, "The Fragments of I modi in the poetry and its gradual penetration of directed by Alan Curtis, and will British Museum," at the symposium other Latin literary genres, and include an enhanced component that accompanying the Giulio Romano through stylistic analyses of texts, the will provide a history of the event, a Master Designer exhibition at Hunter extent to which imitation of the reconstruction of the sources, and an College, CUNY. JANET COX- ancients produced changes in cogni- analysis of the music and staging. REARICK (VIT’63,’76) was the orga- tion and visual perception. Last year, nizer and curator of this exhibition. Witt was Director of the Associated BETTE TALVACCHIA (VIT’96), who Talvacchia’s papers will be published Colleges of the Midwest program in in 1999/2000 was a Member of the later this year in a forthcoming volume Florence. In December he gave a Institute for Advanced Study, School of Quaderni di Palazzo Te, with an lecture at I Tatti on the subject of his of Historical Studies, Princeton, is introduction by Cox-Rearick. recent book.

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owards the end of March, the TRenaissance Society of America held its annual meeting in Florence. The papers and sessions covered not just the Italian Renaissance, but the period in Europe as a whole. Nonetheless, some 97 of the partici- pants, those who gave papers or orga- nized sessions, were former I Tatti f12 Fellows, speaking on various aspects of the Italian Renaissance. The culminat- ing event of the week was a cocktail party held in the gardens at I Tatti. Despite the gray skies, almost 500 people came to mingle on the ter- races under large, white marquees and in the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Geraldine Johnson Limonaia. Many former Fellows who John Najemy and Melissa Bulla had not returned in a number of years Former Fell were present, and it was a great plea- to I Tatti for the R sure to greet so many old friends again. The Harvard Center is very proud to announce that the three major prizes awarded by the RSA last year went to former I Tatti Fellows. Geraldine A. Johnson (VIT’99) won the William Nelson Prize for the Best Article of 1999 in Renaissance Quarterly

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JON R. SNYDER (VIT’96), Professor of KENNETH GOUWENS (VIT’98), who has At the RSA meeting in Florence, Literature at University of California, recently been promoted to Associate Gouwens organized three sessions on Santa Barbara, expects publication of his Professor of History at the University of "Authenticity and Dissimulation," and co- book, Dissimulation and the Culture of Connecticut, has been named President of organized (with Sheryl Reiss) nine sessions Secrecy in Early Modern Europe by the the New England Renaissance on Clement VII. University of California Press in spring Conference. His book, Remembering the 2001. Among other projects, he is con- Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack JOHN K. BRACKETT (VIT’90), currently tributing a chapter on "Aesthetics, of Rome (Brill's Studies in Intellectual on sabbatical from the Department of Literature and the Arts, 1550-1796" to History, #85) Leiden, Boston, & History at the University of Cincinnatti, the Short Oxford History of Italy (Oxford Cologne: Brill, 1998, was selected by the has three entries in the recently published Univ. Press). ACRL’s magazine Choice as an Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Scribner & "Outstanding Academic Book" of 1998. Sons, 1999) on rape, daily life, and an in florence K

for a piece on Donatello's high altar in the Basilica di Santo in Padua. Patrick Macey (VIT’88) won the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for Bonfire Songs: Savonarola’s Musical Legacy. (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998). Gene A. Brucker (VIT’65, ’80,’84,’87) was awarded the Paul Oskar Kristellar Lifetime Achievement Award. This award honors a lifetime s13 of uncompromising devotion to the highest standard of scholarship accom- panied by exceptional achievement in Renaissance studies. It is intended for Louisa Matthew and John Law a scholar near the end of his or her career, whose accomplishments call to mind the example of Paul Oskar ard Kristeller. The Award is designed to lows return honor a scholar for lifetime achieve- RSA cocktail party. ment, not for an individual work or works of scholarship. In addition, two former Fellows received RSA Research Grants last year: William Eamon (VIT’95) for "The New Asclepius: A Renaissance Surgeon's World" and David R. Marsh (VIT’78) for "Aesopic Revival Among Italian Humanists."

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overview of criminal justice in of crime in Florence during the 16th and Baroque, ed. B. Wisch and S. Munshower Renaissance Europe. In November 1998, 17th centuries. His next book project will [University Park, PA, 1990] and Art he presented a paper entitled "Africa and expand work on the encounter between Bulletin, 79 [1997]). He is currently writ- Africa(ns) in the Imagination of Africans and Italians and other Europeans ing a chapter on "La città alessiana: Genova Renaissance Italians" at a conference at in Italy and Africa. nel secondo Cinquecento," for a volume Miami University (Ohio). This has now on 16th-century Italian Renaissance archi- been published in the Acts of the confer- GEORGE L. GORSE (VIT’89) is Chair of tecture to be edited by Richard Tuttle and ence, Africa/Italia: Due continenti si avvici- the Art & Art History Department at Claudia Conforti for Electa. At the RSA nano (Fara Editore, 1999). At the RSA Pomona College. His fellowship year Conference in Florence, he gave a paper conference in March, Brackett spoke on yielded two major articles on 16th-century on Sebastiano del Piombo's Portrait of the changing image of the poor and the Genoa, (published in All the World's a Stage: Andrea Doria, one of many aspects of connection of poverty to the generation Art and Pageantry in the Renaissance and Andrea Doria of interest to Gorse. 23 I Tatti Renaissance Weekend 23

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crete Senesi to Asciano, a small medieval town with a tiny but rich Museo d’Arte Sacra, and then on to Monte Oliveto, founded in 1313, with its frescoes by Signorelli and Sodoma. After a deli- cious lunch at La Foce generously pro- vided (and cooked!) by Council member Benedetta Origo and a stroll f14 through the gardens designed by Cecil Pinsent, it was on to Pienza and the Renaissance church of San Biagio in Montepulciano. After five days in Florence we flew to London to continue our education first at the fascinating Roger Fry exhi- bition at the Courtauld Institute and later at the illuminating exhibition, Ildiko Butler, Walter Kaiser, Susan Braddock, and Sydney Shuman on the steps of Villa Le Volte Alte “Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s” at the National Gallery. We are ast October, a small group of friends Siena in beautiful countryside. deeply grateful to Patricia Rubin Lspent almost a week in the com- In Florence we were given privi- (VIT’87,’90,’93,’97) and Alison Wright pany of a handful of I Tatti former leged views of the exhibition (VIT’97), its curators, who explained Fellows learning about some of the "Giovinezza di Michelangelo" at the importance of the various exhibits Renaissance riches of interest to our Palazzo Vecchio by Kathleen Weil- and why they had chosen them, as well scholars. The group also had an oppor- Garris Brandt, the show’s curator, both as to Philippe Costamagna (VIT’99), tunity to meet the current Fellows, drawings and paintings at the Uffizi Caroline Elam (VIT’82), Everett Fahy both at lunch at the villa and at a dinner Gallery, the paintings in the Galleria (VIT’65,’66), and William Hood at the Castello di Vincigliata. In addi- Corsini, and the Pontormo frescoes at (VIT’85,’86,’90,’00) the other knowl- tion, they learned in more detail about the Certosa. edgeable guides who taught us so much the work these scholars do during their On another day, we took the wind- during the week. In addition, we fellowship year from current Fellows ing road through the extraordinary thank Contessa Pannocchieschi d’Elci, Maureen Miller and Claudio Giunta, Marchesa Bona Frescobaldi, Signora and former Fellows Philippe Mariella Pallavicino, and Marchese and Costamagna (VIT’99) and Marcello Marchesa Ginori Lisci for entertaining Fantoni (VIT’99) who spoke briefly in us to lunch and dinner in their elegant a more structured setting about their homes during our sojourn in Florence. research plans and accomplishments. A day in and near Siena provided an opportunity to visit the famous cathe- QR23QR23QR23QR23QR dral, the Piazza del Campo, and the Accademia Chigiana, as well as a pri- vate view of the magnificent Beccafumi Participants in the weekend were: frescoes in Palazzo Bindi Sergardi Lewis and Jill Bernard, Richard and Susan where Dr Niccolo Casini and his wife Braddock, Deborah Loeb Brice, Gilbert and Joan Coburn Casini (Radcliffe AB’70) Ildiko Butler, Sydney Shuman, David and graciously welcomed us. Two Julie Tobey, Philip Uzielli and Isabelle de Renaissance villas attributed to the Waldener, Rosemary Weaver, Alison architect Baldassare Peruzzi, Villa Le Weaver, Ezra and Cécile Zilkha. Volte Alte and Villa di Belcaro, attracted our attention after lunch. Michael Rocke, Caroline Elam, Both are located a short drive from and Everett Fahy discussing architecture

Villa I Tatti Council Notes

he Council sadly records the death making the Biblioteca Berenson the best Tof fellow member Jean-François research library in all fields relating to the Malle (see page 21). Though his failing Italian Renaissance was discussed. Ways health had prevented him from attending of reaching these goals were aired at many Council meetings in recent years, both meetings. his interest in the Harvard Center never Following the Council meeting, faltered. He was instrumental in intro- Walter Kaiser led the members to the ducing a number of friends to I Tatti, Casa Gioffredi, the renovation of which was exceedingly generous, and shall be is now complete, thanks to the steadfast sorely missed for his bonhomie and good generosity of the Council and other advice. He will long be remembered at benefactors. Its serene and luminous I Tatti where both a fellowship and a studies provide an ideal setting for schol- Council member Timothy Llewellyn, De Dombrowski s15 fund for scholarly programs and publica- Fellow David Bénéteau, and Elizabeth Llewellyn on arly work. Until the new Loggiato is tions bear his name. the steps of the Gilmore Limonaia. built, Fellows will have a study either in Elizabeth Peters, widow of the Casa Gioffredi or above the the late Council member Alton E. Fototeca. Peters, joined the Council in February. The day before, Council members Mrs. Peters, who is a graduate of Vassar were taken to two important local acad- College, is on the board of the Lincoln emic institutions to meet their directors Center Theater. She is the director of and to get a glimpse of some of the rich the Irving Berlin Music Company, and a resources available to I Tatti scholars in trustee of the Irving Berlin Charitable Florence. Dottoressa Rosalia Manno Fund and the Mrs Cheever Porter Tolu welcomed the I Tatti group to the Foundation. Archivio di Stato, where she had arranged for a number of Renaissance Last autumn, a small number of documents to be on view. These I Tatti Council members and other included notarial and tax records, letters, friends were taken through the exhibi- Hanna Kiel Fellow Stephen Milner. and religious and state documents. tion "Giulio Romano, Master Designer" Research Associate and Nicky Mariano by Janet Cox-Rearick (VIT’62,’63, Walter Kaiser reported on the fellowship Librarian Michael Rocke, Fellow ’76,’91), the curator of this drawings program, including the new Burckhardt Stephen Milner, and Research Associate exhibition at Hunter College, CUNY. Fellowship offered by the American Allen Grieco explained the importance The small size of the group provided an Council of Learned Societies (see page 9), of the pieces exhibited for private excellent opportunity to view these renovations, finances, and the Scholars' viewing. There followed a visit to the exquisite drawings closely. Council Court project, which is still waiting to Conservation and Restoration member Susan Braddock kindly secure a permit. He also outlined the Department of the Archivio di Stato, invited the group to her home for cock- three main areas where I Tatti remains where the group was treated to a fasci- tails following the tour. under-funded: the library, conservation nating look at the various techniques The annual I Tatti Council meeting, and preservation, and information tech- involved in the art of paper restoration. chaired by Deborah Loeb Brice, was nology. Funding for the library had also The Council then proceeded to Casa held in March at Villa I Tatti. Nine been the subject of a Council sub-com- Buonarroti, where Dottoressa Pina Council members were able to attend mittee meeting in February in New Ragionieri displayed rarely exhibited the meeting in the Big Library where York City. At both meetings the goal of drawings by Michelangelo. It was indeed a privilege for all present to be thethe villa villa i itatti tatti council council able to look so closely at these exquisite drawings. They are particularly relevant Anne H. Bass (as(as of ofJuly July 2000) 2000) Elizabeth Peters Lewis Bernard Frank E. Richardson to the current scholarship of Council . DeborahDeborah Loeb Loeb Brice, Brice, Chairman Chairman Jean A. Bonna Susan Mainwaring Roberts member and Visiting Professor William EdmundEdmund P. P.Pillsbury,* Pillsbury,* Susan Braddock Sydney R. Shuman Hood, who shared with the group his Founding Chairman Anne Coffin Founding Chairman Craig Hugh Smyth thoughts on Michelangelo’s understand- MelvinMelvin R. R. Seiden, Seiden, D. Ronald Daniel ChairmanChairman Emeritus Emeritus Daniel Steiner Richard Ekman ing of anatomy. Timothy Llewellyn Donald J. Sutherland Robert F. Erburu Barnabas McHenry William F. Thompson Gabriele Geier F. Gordon Morrill Rosemary F. Weaver Mary Weitzel Gibbons m Graziella Macchetta Benedetta Origo Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. William E. Hood, Jr. Joseph P. Pellegrino Development Associate Maurice Lazarus Walter Kaiser, Director Marilyn Perry Troland S. Link *Honorary

Autumn 2000 Major Contributors

Everyone connected with the Harvard Center at Villa I Tatti is deeply grateful to the 234 individuals and foundations who in 1999/2000 gave over $2,000,000 to the institution.

Your generosity has helped us plan for the future and take care of the current needs of the many scholars who use the library and other facilities at I Tatti. This extraordinary sum was made up of gifts large and small including the final payment ($714,000) of the testamentary bequest of Mrs Margit Minkin; $99,000 to various book funds and other library funds in addition to the $23,000 from the Friends of the Biblioteca Berenson and the $426,000 for the Andrew 16 W. Mellon Fund for Library Conservation and the Mellon Librarian; $333,000 for the General Fund and the Director’s f Discretionary Fund: $100,000 for the Geier Maintenance Fund; $76,000 for fellowship funds; and $315,000 for the Scholars Court project. z We particularly wish to thank the following:

Benefactors: $25,000 or more Patrons: $10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous Anonymous Mr. Victor K. Atkins Jr. The Anne H. Bass Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Butler Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John T. Beyer Council of American Overseas Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Braddock Research Centers The Deborah Loeb Brice Fund Mrs. Paul E. Geier The Frank A. Campini Foundation The Florence Gould Foundation Inc Mr. D. Ronald Daniel Mr. Frederick S. Koontz Dr. Mary Weitzel Gibbons The Samuel H. Kress Foundation The Intercultural Foundation The Robert Lehman Foundation Mr. & Mrs. M. D. Moross The Arthur L. Loeb Foundation Mr. Melvin R. Seiden The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mr. Philip A. Uzielli The Estate of Margit Minkin Mr. & Mrs. William M. Weaver Mr. & Mrs. Stanley S. Shuman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Steiner Contributing Members:$5,000 - $9,999 Mr. & Mrs. William F. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. David G. Booth I Tatti Benefactor Fred Koontz. Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Weissman Mrs. Ann W. Boyd Mr. Charles Brickbauer Mr. Thomas N. Gilmore Prof. Malcolm Campbell Dr. Richard M. Hunt Mr. Robert F. Erburu Prof. Rachel Jacoff Mrs. Cheever Porter Foundation Inc. Dr. Myron Laskin Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Lauder The Ripplewood Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Troland S. Link Mr. & Mrs. Peter G. Sachs Mr. & Mrs. A. Bruce Mainwaring Sustaining Members: $1,000 - $4,999 Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. & Ms. Delba Winthrop Mr. John Thurston Beaty Jr. Ms. Juliet H. Marillonnet M. & Mme. Jean Bonna The McCurdy Charitable Trusts Mr. & Mrs. Hubert Brenninkmeijer Mr. & Mrs. George D. O'Neill Mrs. Charlotte F. Brown Mr. Frank E. Richardson III Mr. Alexander C. Cortesi Mr. & Mrs. Anthony W. Roberts Prof. Frank A. D'Accone Mr. Robert L. Russell The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Schwalbe Dr. Caroline Elam Prof. & Mrs. Arthur Kaskel Solomon Mr. & Mrs. David Finn Mrs. Jasmin S. Trembley Mrs. Catherine B. Freedberg I Tatti’s architect, Charles Brickbauer. Ms. Elizabeth B. Pryor Mr. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ezra K. Zilkha Mr. John A. D. Gilmore

Villa I Tatti Gardens and Grounds

isitors to the garden usually do water via pipes from a spring almost Vnot see or even ask about what half a mile away. might well be called the infrastruc- Over the years the cast-iron pipes tures. This topic is hardly a glamorous have had to be replaced. More one, and yet a garden needs, for exam- recently it became necessary to do ple, access routes to bring in equip- something about leaks in the cistern ment and ways of ensuring a vast itself. A plastic lining was installed (the supply of water. One of the com- same kind as was used to keep the plaints most often voiced by the old humidity out of the underground gardeners who have since retired was parking lot at Santa Maria Novella), 17 that "con tutte queste scale l’architetto which has doubled the amount of s Pinsi (Pinsent) non pensava ai giar- water that could be stored. This dinieri." In fact, I Tatti and all the increased capacity has permitted us to other gardens designed by Cecil add a new loop to the watering system Pinsent are clearly labor intensive, at that runs parallel to the new road, thus least by present-day standards. Some allowing the gardeners to water the of these problems have been overcome newly planted trees in the English by using motorized wheelbarrows with meadow area (about 60 in the past 2 rubber treads that can negotiate the years). Despite the extra water avail- innumerable steps that separate the One of Head Gardener Margrit able, new plantings, lawns, borders, various levels of the garden. What was Freivogel’s beautiful arrangements. and, last but not least, the cutting gar- missing until recently was proper den require so much water that I Tatti the water mains of the past were never access into the garden that would invariably runs out before the end of very dependable, while today munici- allow for heavy equipment to bring in summer. fertilizers, earth for potting, trees to be pal water has become very expensive To solve this new water problem, planted, and, above all, the cherry and is not meant to be used for irriga- we are now exploring what other pickers that are used for the annual tion purposes. At Council member resources are available. Apart from pruning of the holm oaks. Such a road Benedetta Origo’s villa, La Foce, various small cisterns that were used now exists, a ribbon of gravel running another garden designed by Cecil for agricultural purposes, it turns out along the Mensola and into the ilex Pinsent, the cistern dominates the gar- that there are at least seven wells on grove. The low visual impact of the den, collecting water from a spring. I Tatti property - all of them in perfect road (the gravel was chosen from a At Georgetown University’s Villa le shape, even though most of them have quarry that produces a grayish color Balze, it is a marvel of engineering not been used for a very long time. compared to the rather bright red that built into the retaining wall and under The next step is to find out how much is more usual in this area) and its dis- the Villa itself, a real maze of smaller water can be drawn from them, a job creet appearance, which suggests no cisterns acting as filters for bigger ones that has to be done in September when more than a sprinkling of stone, belies that caught the water from the roofs the water table is at its lowest. Then, the fact that the road was built to and stored it underground. This rather hopefully, we will find enough water withstand a great deal of weight in an complicated and expensive solution to siphon off into the cistern. Water, area of the garden where all the rain- was due to the fact that Fiesole has no like carefully planned access roads, is water ultimately collects. Beneath the springs to speak of and therefore another infrastructure that does not surface is a two-foot layer of large Pinsent had to rely on rainwater, meet the eye but that ensures a contin- stones collected by the farmers and which is abundant in winter. Even the uously green garden all year round. removed from the fields over a period water for the household at Le Balze of several decades. came from this system, using sand and Even more important is the water gravel filters to purify the water. At m Allen J. Grieco needed for a garden. Pinsent knew Villa I Tatti, Pinsent built a large cis- Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant to how important this was and, in fact, all tern, the size of a two-story house, the Director for Scholarly Programs of his gardens have very large cisterns sunk into the ground. This cistern, and for Gardens and Grounds that ensure a proper supply when it is which, incidentally, was used as a heli- most needed. In rural areas this was copter landing pad for an aerial pho- essential, but even in an urban setting tographer some years ago, collects

Autumn 2000 with support from The Lila Wallace—Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund, the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Publications Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman, and the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Publication Fund.

Forthcoming: http://www.vit.firenze.it Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque 1. Studies on Machiavelli, edited by Myron P. Style, by Charles Dempsey, 2nd ed. Gilmore. Florence: Casa Editrice Fiesole: Cadmo, 2000. Sansoni, 1972. Medieval Mosaics: Light, Color, Materials, 2. Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore, edited by Eve Borsook, F. Gioffredi edited by Sergio Bertelli and Gloria Superbi and G. Pagliarulo. Cinisello Ramakus. Florence: La Nuova Italia Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2000. Editrice, 1978, 2 vols. 18 Giovanni Boccaccio. Famous Women, edited 3. Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of f by Virginia Brown. I Tatti Renaissance Baroque Style, by Charles Dempsey. Library. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Glückstadt: J.J. Augustin Verlag, 1977. Press. 4. Masaccio: The Documents, by James Beck, with the collaboration of Gino Corti. Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology, vol. 1, Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin edited by Michael Allen & James Publisher, 1978. Hankins. I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 5. Florence and Venice: Comparisons and Relations. Acts of two Conferences at Leonardo Bruni. Florentine History, vol. 1, Villa I Tatti in 1976 and 1977, organized edited by James Hankins. I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge: Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow Harvard Univ. Press. Alessandra Malquori. Orders for any volume in the Santa Maria del Fiore: The Cathedral and its Sculpture, edited by Margaret Haines. I Tatti series may be placed Fiesole: Cadmo. directly with the publisher or with Garfagnini. Florence: La Nuova Italia Published in the Villa I Tatti series: Casalini Libri SPA., 3 via Editrice, 1989, 2 vols. Benedetto da Maiano, 50014 12. On Artists and Art Historians: Selected Fiesole, Italy. Tel: (055) 599 941; Book Reviews of John Pope-Hennessy, edited I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, vol. Fax: (055) 598 895. by Walter Kaiser and Michael Mallon. 1. Florence: Villa I Tatti, , 1985. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1993. I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, vols. A brochure is available. 13. Opera. Carattere e ruolo delle fabbriche citta- 2-8. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1987, dine fino all’inizio dell’età moderna. Atti 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999. A della Tavola Rotonda, Villa I Tatti, complete listing of the essays in each vol- Firenze, 3 aprile 1991, a cura di M. ume can be found on I Tatti’s web site at by S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein, and C.H. Haines e L. Riccetti. Firenze: Leo S. Smyth. Florence: La Nuova Italia Olschki, 1996. Editrice, 1979-80, 2 vols. 14. The Triumph of Vulcan. Sculptor’s Tools, The editors of I Tatti Studies: Essays in 6. Neighbours and Neighbourhood in Porphyry and the Prince in Ducal Florence, by the Renaissance welcome submissions Renaissance Florence: the District of the Red Suzanne B. Butters. Florence: Leo S. from Renaissance scholars whether for- Lion in the Fifteenth Century, by D.V. and Olschki, 1995. F.W. Kent. Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Continued p.19 mer Fellows or not. Manuscripts should Augustin Publisher, 1982. be about 7,000 to 10,000 words long, 7. Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh and should be as accessible as possible in Smyth, edited by A. Morrogh, F. Superbi Editor-in-Chief style, with minimum use of technical Gioffredi, P. Morselli, E. Borsook. Walter Kaiser Florence: Giunti Barbera, 1985, 2 vols. terminology. The editors are eager to Editors encourage interdisciplinary approaches. 8. The Parte Guelfa, Brunelleschi and Donatello, by Diane Finiello Zervas. Locust Valley, Salvatore Camporeale Essays in languages other than English NY: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1988. Elizabeth Cropper or Italian are welcome. All publications 9. Tecnica e stile: esempi di pittura murale del Caroline Elam inquiries and requests for the style sheet Rinascimento italiano, a cura di E. Borsook F. W. K e n t should be addressed to: e F. Superbi Gioffredi. Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 1986, 2 vol. Jessie Ann Owens The Editors 10. Pirro Ligorio - Artist and Antiquarian, David Quint I Tatti Studies edited by Robert W. Gaston. Milan: Via di Vincigliata 26 Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Editorial Co-ordinator 50135 Florence, Italy 11. Florence and Milan: Comparisons and Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi Relations. Acts of two Conferences at Villa I Tatti in 1984 and 1986, organized Editorial Administrator by S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein, and C.H. Smyth, edited by C.H. Smyth and G. C. Nelda Ferace

Villa I Tatti Former Fellows Update _

NICHOLAS TERPSTRA (VIT’95), Associate Professor of VALERIA FINUCCI (VIT’95) is Associate Professor of Italian History at the University of Toronto, recently edited The in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities In 1998 she received a grant from the RSA for research into and Social Order in Early Modern Italy the tradition of the novella in the Italian Renaissance. In (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). 1999-2000 she received both an NEH fellowship and a Included among its contributors are Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for research into DANIEL BORNSTEIN (VIT’90) and the Italian Renaissance romance written by women. In LORENZO POLIZZOTTO (VIT’92) as 2000 she received a Trent Foundation/Duke University well as Terpstra himself. In addition Grant for research on 16th century castrati singers. Her arti- Terpstra introduced and edited "Civic cle "Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Child in Tasso's Self-Fashioning in Renaissance Gerusalemme Liberata" will soon appear in the forthcoming Bologna," a special issue of the Oxford volume of which she is co-editor, Generation and 19 periodical Renaissance Studies (vol. 13/4: 1999), featuring six Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in the Literature and History s articles, which included contributions by PAUL GRENDLER of Ancient and Early Modern Europe (Duke Univ. Press). (VIT’71), T. BARTON THURBER (VIT’96) and current Finucci edited and recently published Renaissance Fellow GEORGIA CLARKE. Terpstra’s fellowship year also Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso (Durham, NC, Duke Univ. yielded part of a monograph and several articles on a compari- Press, 1999). son of orphanages and conservatories in sixteenth century Florence and Bologna, looked at in terms of need, care and TIMOTHY VERDON (VIT’87), Chaplain of Florence cathe- their relation to local political and social contexts. dral, S. Maria del Fiore, has had the great honor of being made a member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. FRANCO FRANCESCHI (VIT’94) has recently been appointed Ricercatore in Storia Medievale at the University of Siena, Arezzo campus.

Publications continued from p.18 15. Aldus Manutius and Renaissance Culture. Essays in Memory of Franklin D. Murphy. Acts of an International Conference, staff directory Venice and Florence, 14-17 June 1994, edited by D.S. Zeidberg, with the assistance of Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi. Florence: Walter Kaiser, Director Leo S. Olschki, 1998. Published under the auspices of Villa I Tatti: Susan Arcamone, Docent of the Collection Angela Lees, Secretary The Bernard Berenson Collection of Oriental Art Susan Bates, Administrative Assistant; Graziella Macchetta, Development at Villa I Tatti, by Laurance P. Roberts, Secretary to the Director Associate, Cambridge Office with introductory essays by Sir Harold Kathryn Bosi, Music Librarian, Morrill Music Alexa M. Mason, Assistant Director for Acton, Walter Kaiser, John M. Library External Relations Rosenfield. New York: Hudson Hills Patrizia Carella, Receptionist; Secretary Press, 1991. Valerio Pacini, Catalogue Librarian Stefano Corsi, Reference Librarian and Assistant Verrocchio and Late Quattrocento Sculpture. Acts Giovanni Pagliarulo, Photograph Librarian; of two Conferences, 1988-89, edited by Cataloguer Docent Ilaria Della Monica, Reference Librarian and Steve Bule, Alan Darr, Fiorella Superbi Donatella Pieracci, Library Assistant Gioffredi. Florence: Licosa-Le Lettere, Assistant Cataloguer Michael Rocke, Nicky Mariano Librarian for 1992. Simone Schenirer, Reference Librarian the Biblioteca Berenson; Assistant to the Director The Letters Between Bernard Berenson and Charles Nelda Ferace, Assistant Director for Henry Coster, edited by Giles Constable in for Scholarly Programs Administration collaboration with Elizabeth H. Beatson Amanda Smith, I Tatti Coordinator, Cambridge and Luca Dainelli. Florence: Leo S. Barbara Flores, Administrative Assistant; Office Olschki, 1993. Budget Officer Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi, Agnes Mongan Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550. Function and Amanda George, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of the Fototeca Berenson; Curator of the Design, edited by Eve Borsook and Fiorella Librarian for Collection Development Superbi Gioffredi. Oxford: Clarendon Berenson Collection and Archive Press, 1994. Allen Grieco, Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant to the Director for Scholarly Programs and for Giorgio Superbi, Financial Administrator A Legacy of Excellence: The Story of Villa I Tatti, Gardens and Grounds Anna Terni, Reference Librarian (volunteer) by William Weaver, with photographs by David Finn and David Morowitz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

Autumn 2000 Newsbriefs

A memorial mass was celebrated in the I Tatti chapel in October on the 40th anniversary of the death of Bernard Berenson. Don Carlo Bazzi, parish priest of S. Martino a Mensola, and Don Timothy Verdon (VIT’87), chaplain of S. Maria del Fiore, assisted Monsignor Giuseppe Raspini in the mass. In his address, Monsignor Raspini spoke about f20 his friendship with Mr. Berenson and his attendance at Mr. Berenson’s final moments. The chapel has recently been beautifully restored in memory of Geremia and Rina Gioffredi.

In early October I Tatti held a 70th birthday party for Research Associate Eve Borsook. At this festive occasion, to which a large number of friends came from nearby and far afield, Alice Wohl Don Timothy Verdon, Don Carlo Bazzi, and Monsignor Giuseppe Raspini celebrate mass surprised Eve by presenting her with the in memory of Bernard Berenson in the newly restored chapel. first copy of a festschrift written in her becoming director of I Tatti in 1973. tion work to the foundations to elimi- honor, Mosaics of Friendship: Studies in RICHARD EKMAN, who joined the nate damp, new wiring, heating and Art and History for Eve Borsook, edited by I Tatti Council in 1995, was recently plumbing, and an elevator for handi- Ornella Francisci Osti (Florence: Centro named the new president of the Council capped access. In addition to the Di, 1999). of Independent Colleges. And we are library’s Oriental and Islamic Collection delighted to congratulate I Tatti Council housed in two of the rooms, the build- In November, CRAIG HUGH SMYTH member MARY W. GIBBONS on her ing now provides a magnificent new (VIT’74-’85) was honored by New recent marriage to John Landor. computer room and six tranquil studies. York University’s Institute of Fine Arts These were offered to Fellows who had where an endowed professorship has In January, the Casa Gioffredi was previously been sharing a study. When been established in his name. Smyth finally re-opened after a major renova- the Loggiato building is finally built, was director of the Institute before tion. This included extensive consolida- these studies will be available for Visiting Professors.

We are delighted to welcome BEAT- RICE GORI, who joined the kitchen staff in December, GENNARO GIUSTINO, our long-awaited handyman who arrived at the same time, GRA- ZIELLA MACCHETTA, who joined the Cambridge office as part-time Development Associate in January, CHETI BENVENUTI, who joined the house staff in February, and ALESSAN- DRO SUPERBI, the third generation of his family to work at I Tatti, who joined the financial administration in September 2000. I Tatti takes advantage of the services of a number of outside collaborators for long or short-term pro- Lehman Fellow Maureen Miller, Mellon Fellow Chris Celenza, and Brice Fellow Georgia Clarke. jects. New to this group are CAITLIN

Villa I Tatti TILLMAN who worked in the library as a cataloguer for five months, MANUELA 9 IN MEMORIAM 0 MICHELLONI, who has taken over her ~ ~ duties for a further six months, GIANNI

LILA TYNG, 100, the first wife L UIGI BRANDI, 75, died on of Henry Luce, Time maga- 28th April 2000. He first zine’s founder, and a leader of began working in the I Tatti New York’s social and philan- gardens in 1945, serving Mr. thropic circles, died on 31 Berenson for 14 years before March 1999. Tyng was a working for Harvard University member of the until his retirement in 1993. He and his late wife Ione, lived I Tatti Council in the early on the property in the 21 1980s. s Corbignano farmhouse until they both became infirm. V ITTORIO RASPINI, 68, During the 48 years he devoted died on 30 December 1999. to the gardens, Gigi saw them He joined the house staff in mature, deteriorate through 1965, retired in 1993, and, in lack of funding, and blossom addition to his long service to again after a generous gift from Alexa Mason and Former Fellow Chris the institute, will be remem- Lila Acheson Wallace secured Reynolds at the Academic Advisory Committee meeting in Cambridge last January. bered for his artistic talents as a their sound financial footing for "naïve" painter and a poet. the future. Brandi will be MARTILLI, who has joined Gianni Indeed, former Director Craig remembered for his hard work Trambusti in covering our computer Hugh Smyth helped organize and his cheerful disposition. needs, and SIMONE SCHENIRER, who two exhibitions of his paintings EONETTO TINTORI, 91, who came as Reference Librarian from the in Florence in the early 1980s. L died on 2 July 2000, was a University of Auckland Library while His works are to be found in a painter, sculptor, conservator, Ilaria Della Monica was on maternity number of private collections. teacher, and scholar. The son leave. Sadly for us, ANTONIO FAZZINI of a farmer, he was born in resigned in April to become a profes- EAN-FRANÇOIS MALLE, who J Prato in 1908 and trained as an sional actor following his success in died in February 2000, gradu- artist. He first came to interna- "Borges in Tango" by Giorgio ated from Harvard in 1950. He tional attention for his part in Albertazzi at the beginning of the year. was Chairman of the Board of saving the Camposanto murals the Banca Commerciale Italiana in Pisa at the end of WWII. Other new arrivals on the scene in Paris when he joined the He was a long-standing mem- include Nora who was born in March I Tatti Council in 1985 at the ber of Ugo Procacci’s legendary to Reference Librarian ILARIA DELLA suggestion of Mel Seiden. In restoration group in Florence, MONICA and her husband Stefano 1989 he established and became formed in the 1930s, and came Bozolo, and Dario, who was born in the first chairman of I Tatti’s to the rescue of works by July to ROSANNA PAPI and PAOLO International Council. This Masaccio, Giotto, Ghirlandaio, GASPARRI, both members of the I Tatti was later combined with the and Pontormo among others. staff. I Tatti Council in 1997, after Tintori was influential in the Jean-François’ health began to founding of the Conservation Center at New York A MANDA GEORGE, Andrew W. decline. He was instrumental University’s Institute of Fine Mellon Librarian for Collection in introducing a number of Arts in the early 1960s, and Development, exhibited her talents as a Europeans to I Tatti, was photographer at the Galleria Il Bisonte in with his wife Elena, himself exceedingly generous, and shall founded a school for mural March. Some 35 color images demon- be sorely missed. strated an extraordinary eye for color painting in Prato. He was an I Tatti Research Associate from and detail. The photographs were taken y in Italy and New England over the last 1975 to 1984. 10 years during which period she has 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 85 developed a remarkable artistic gift.

Autumn 2000 Lila Wallace—Reader’s Digest Special Grants

illa I Tatti grants of up to $5,000 Scholars, and former Fellows. LOUISA MATTHEW (VIT’95) to V per person, from a total of not Proposals, which should include a brief support The Art Market in Italy (15th- more than $25,000 per year, are avail- project description, a budget, and a 17th Centuries), a conference to be held able from the Lila Wallace - Reader's short list of relevent publications should in Florence in June 2000. be sent to the Director by 1st September each year. In the case of applications relating to the special costs of publica- tion (publication subvention, cost of illustrations, etc), the description should explain what financial difference a sub- f22 vention will make as well as the length and scope of the project; a letter from the publisher indicating that the manu- script has been accepted for publication should also be sent. Final notification will be sent to applicants within three months. Preference will be given to applicants who have not previously received such an award.

1999/2000 Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Publications Rush H. Kress Fellow Stanko Kokole. Subsidies Recipients: Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Fellow Lawrin Armstrong. VIRGINIA BROWN (VIT’76) towards Digest Publications Subsidy to former her preparation of vol. 9 of the BETTE TALVACCHIA (VIT’96, ’97) Appointees who apply to help subsidize Catalogus translationum et commentario- and FRANCESCO SBERLATI (VIT’96) the publication of a scholarly mono- rum. towards their edition of Doni’s Disegno: graph or article on the Italian WARREN KIRKENDALE (VIT’83) The Theory of the Paragone and the Renaissance, to help pay for pho- towards Emilio de’ Cavalieri, Roman Rhetoric of Practice in mid-16th Century tographs or other special costs of such a Gentleman. Italy. publication, to help prepare a manu- JERZY MIZIOLEK (VIT’95) towards T. BARTON THURBER (VIT’96) script for publication, to engage a Italian Renaissance Domestic Painting from towards Architecture and Reform in Post- research assistant, etc. the Count Lanckoronski Collection at the Tridentine Italy: From the Legacy of the In addition, Villa I Tatti grants of up Royal Castle, Cracow. Renaissance to the Counter Reformation to $10,000 per project, from a total of DEBORAH PARKER (VIT’93) not more than $25,000 per year, are towards Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as available from the Lila Wallace - Poet. The I Tatti newsletter is published Reader's Digest Special Project Grant LECH SZCZUCKI (VIT’78, ’85) once a year. Alexa M. Mason, editor to former Appointees who wish to ini- towards his research pertaining to vol- and writer; Harvard Printing & tiate, promote, or engage in some sort ume 7 of the Epistulae of Andreas Dudith Publications Services, designer. of interdisciplinary project in Italian as well as towards a translation of a Unless otherwise specified, Renaissance studies. Eligible projects monograph concerning Andreas photographs are by Susan Bates, would include conferences, publica- Dudith. Antonio Fazzini, Nelda Ferace, tions, courses, seminars, workshops, or SERGIO ZATTI (VIT’88) towards Amanda George, Walter Kaiser, lectures which are interdisciplinary in The Quest for Epic: from Ariosto to Tasso. Amanda Smith and Alexa M. Mason. character. Recipients of both grants are chosen 1999/2000 Lila Wallace – Former Fellows are indicated in this by a committee formed of three to five Reader’s Digest Special volume with the initials "VIT" after senior Renaissance scholars (plus the Project Grants Recipients: their name followed by the year(s) of their appointment as Fellow, Director acting as chairman) chosen DALE KENT (VIT’78, ’83) towards Visiting Scholar or Professor, or from among the I Tatti Research photographs for Cosimo de’Medici and Research Associate. Associates, Visiting Professors and the Florentine Renaissance.

Villa I Tatti I Tatti Community 1999-2000

Fellows GAUVIN A. BAILEY, Hannah Kiel Fellow, Clark University, Art History. "Early Jesuit Painting in Rome and Florence, 1540-1600: The Art of Catholic Reform."

STEFANO U. BALDASSARRI, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow, Georgetown University, Florence, Literature. "Retorica e politica in Giannozzo Manetti."

JILL BURKE, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow, Courtauld Institute, Art History. "The Politics of Imagery in Florence 1512-1530." 23 FRANCESCO FACCHIN, Jean François Malle s Fellow, Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Cesare Pollini," Musicology. "Iconografia musicale nei libri liturgici fiorentini: Rilievi per un catologo della miniatura con soggetto musicale."

MARGARET A. GALLUCCI, Ahmanson Fellow, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Literature. "The Poetics of Trials and the Construction of Subjectivity in Early Modern Emiliano Pernice, Chetti Benvenuti, Beppina Bongini, and Alessandro Focosi. Italy."

JULIA L. HAIRSTON, Francesco De Dombrowski MALGORZATA SZAFRANSKA, Andrew W. Fellow, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Mellon Research Fellow (1st sem), The Royal Academic Advisory Committee Literature. "Tullia d’Aragona, Woman of Castle, Warsaw, Art History. "Renaissance 2000/2001 Letters." Gardens in Italy and their Intellectual and Social Significance." WALTER KAISER, Chairman, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University PETER F. HOWARD, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Monash University, History. "Preaching and the SERGIO TOGNETTI, Ahmanson Fellow, JAMES HANKINS, Deputy Chairman, Renaissance City." Università di Perugia, History. "Drappi contro Department of History, Harvard University seta: Rapporti comerciali tra Firenze e il Mediterraneo occidentale nel primo ALISON BROWN, Department of History, MARCIN KALECINZKI, Andrew W. Mellon Rinascimento." Royal Holloway College Research Fellow (2nd sem), Gdansk University, Art History. "Corpus of 15th and 16th Century JANET COX-REARICK, Department of Art Italian Painting in Church Collections in NATASCIA TONELLI, Jean François Malle Fellow, History, Hunter College, CUNY Poland." Warburg Institute, Literature. "Le origini EVERETT FAHY, Metropolitan Museum of Quattrocentesche del romanzo epistolare." Art ROBERT MANIURA, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, FRANCO FIDO, Department of Romance Courtauld Institute, Art History. "The RONI WEINSTEIN, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, Languages & Literatures, Harvard University Miraculous Marian Wall Paintings of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, History. Renaissance Tuscany." "Sexuality and Body Comportment in Jewish- WILLIAM E. HOOD, Department of Art, Italian Communities during Early Modern Oberlin College Time." BRANKO MITROVIC, CRIA Fellow, UNITEC WILLIAM F. KENT, Department of History, Institute of Technology, Auckland, Art History. Visiting Professors Monash University "Problem in Form in Renaissance Architectural History." JAYNIE ANDERSON (2nd sem), University of VICTORIA KIRKHAM, Department of Melbourne, Art History. 1. "A book on Romance Languages, University of Giovanni Bellini for Phaidon Art and Ideas series." Pennsylvania GIUSEPPE PALMERO, Francesco De Dombrowski 2."An exhibition (curated jointly with Francesco Fellow, Université de Nice, History. "Oralità, Valcanover) on late Titian, from 1550-1578, and PATRICK MACEY, Eastman School of Music, scrittura e circolazione dei saperi nel his Venetian contemporaries." University of Rochester Rinascimento." PHILIPPE MOREL, Department of Art & MARGARET BENT, Robert Lehman Visiting Archeology, University of Paris I MONIKA A. SCHMITTER, Rush H. Kress Fellow, Professor (1st sem), All Souls College, Musicology. EDWARD MUIR, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Art History. "15th Century Music and Early Veneto "Marcantonio Michiel’s Notizia: Collecting Art Humanists." Northwestern University and History in Renaissance Venice." JESSIE ANN OWENS, Department of Music, Brandeis University KATHARINE PARK, Robert Lehman Visiting JAN STEJSKAL, Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow Professor (2nd sem), Harvard University, History. KATHARINE PARK, Department of the (2nd sem), University of Palacky, History. "Early History of Human Dissection in Italy, History of Science, Harvard University "Czech Exile Activities in Italy during the 1280-1550." Hussite Reformation (c. 1400-1450)." LINO PERTILE, Department of Romance Languages & Literature, Harvard University NICHOLAS ROUTLEY (1st sem), University of ANNE STONE, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Sydney, Musicology. "Editing with a View to CHRISTOPHER A. REYNOLDS, Department Queens College, CUNY, Musicology. "The Recording the Complete Secular Vocal Music of of Music, University of California, Davis Josquin des Prez." Poetics of Musical Time in Early 15th-century PATRICIA RUBIN, Courtauld Institute of Art Italy." The Research Associates are the same as for CHRISTINE SMITH, Graduate School of 1999/2000. Design, Harvard University

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