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Volume 31 E-mail: [email protected] / Web: itatti.harvard.edu    Tel: +39 055 603 251 / Fax: +39 055 603 383 Autumn 2011

t seems only yesterday that Anna Letter from Florence of implementing them. Following the Iand I arrived here, and yet so much indefatigable Lou Waldman (VIT’06), has happened since that day of Jonathan had big shoes to fill, but August 2010. Our transition from he learned quickly, he worked hard Eliot House at Harvard to Villa and achieved more than I can say I Tatti was made much smoother in this brief report. My heartfelt by the help of Joe and Françoise thanks to him for a truly magnificent Connors. We couldn’t have wished contribution in his new role. for more understanding, cooperative, It’s always difficult to balance and gracious predecessors. They allowing Appointees enough time thoroughly prepared us in advance to follow their own research while and, when the time came, they left offering them opportunities to I Tatti absolutely ready for us; when enjoy the rich culture of Italy, but we arrived the entire estate was in everyone seemed to appreciate splendid shape. We only had to step our visit to Rome in November in and carry on. Anna and I are with the unique chance we had to grateful to all our predecessors but visit the Pauline Chapel, guided by we owe a special debt of gratitude to Drew Gilpin Faust, Lino Pertile & Debby Brice Antonio Paolucci, the Director of Joe and Françoise for their eight years of in front of the new Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato. the Vatican Museums. In the event, we careful and inspired stewardship. also saw Fra Angelico’s Nicholas Chapel One of our first pleasures upon Costanza to Elisabetta Cunsolo (library) and later spent over an hour on our arriving at I Tatti was getting to know and Giacomo Di Domizio. own in the Sistine Chapel. The sight of the staff. We anticipated enjoying Our first “crop” of Fellows has twenty or so Fellows, somewhat tired working with them but we have been already come and gone - back to after eight hours in the Vatican, reviving overwhelmed by the warmth, generosity California, England, Australia, Calabria, and sighing with pleasure as they looked of spirit, and loyalty that we have Pennsylvania - wonderful Fellows all of up at the frescoes from various prone encountered everywhere – whether in them. Their enthusiasm and intellectual positions around the Chapel, will remain one of the offices tucked away at the top curiosity made a team of them from the one of our happiest memories of this of the Villa, the stacks of the Berenson first day they met. At lunch and tea, in the year. In the spring we had a wonderful Library, the always bustling kitchen, gardens, the Sassetta room or the Geier trip to Parma and to several charming, the building site of the Loggiato or in Granaio, they analyzed, discussed and little-known castles in the Parma region. the new greenhouses and vineyards. At exchanged ideas and projects, they shared Equally memorable was a trip to the the end of our first year, as we left for a discoveries, and made plans for common Melozzo exhibition in Forlì, and many trip back home to the US, we felt as if initiatives. It was always invigorating to privileged visits to Florentine museums we were saying goodbye to family. As see them in action, whether they were and exhibitions on days when they were in any family, there have been sorrows discussing Agnolo Bronzino in the closed to the public. as well as joys in the last year. We were Big Library, playing table-tennis in the After a rather cool and wet summer, all saddened by the loss of Lina Ciullini Myron and Sheila Gilmore Limonaia, September 2010 was dry and lovely, and Alfredo Papi, both of whom worked or soccer with the household staff. We though perhaps not warm and dry at I Tatti for many decades, going back provided the setting, they filled it with enough for the grapes. Nevertheless, to the time of Bernard Berenson. But their vitality and charm. In the planning we held our vendemmia towards the during the year there was great happiness and organizing of events, at the Villa end of the month. Fellows and Visiting at the birth of four lovely I Tatti babies: and further afield, Jonathan Nelson Professors took part in the annual event, Duccio to Carlo Fei (security) and (VIT’02), the new Assistant Director for competing with each other in enthusiasm Barbara Prioreschi, Elena to Cheti Academic Programs and Publications, if not in skill, and the grapes were soon Benvenuti (household) and Sergio provided essential help in both suggesting picked! At a blind tasting in the Gabriele Galeotti (security), Christian to Emiliano new ideas and finding appropriate ways Geier Granaio one winter evening, our (household) and Angela Pernice, and Continued on page 26

Cambridge Office: Villa I Tatti, Harvard University, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-5762 Tel: +1 617 496 8724 or +1 617 495 8042 / Fax: +1 617 495 8041 / Web: http://www.itatti.harvard.edu Pier Mattia Tommasino, Francesco VILLA I TATTI COMMUNITY 2010-2011 De Dombrowski Fellow, Scuola zzz Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato zzz Normale Superiore di Pisa, Literature. “Un martire domenicano tra Firenze e Fellows “Sanctified in Water, Sealed in Stone: Tunisi: Antonio Neyrot da Rivoli O.P. alter Kaiser’s dream of “a building in which all fifteen and greenhouse below are discreetly located to the side of Déborah Blocker, Florence Gould The Italian Baptistery, 1000-1500.” (c. 1426-1460).” WFellows could have well-appointed, comfortable, the new entrance to the Berenson gardens, at the foot of the Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Marcella Marongiu, Hanna Kiel luminous rooms in which to work, a building which would be monumental staircase. Literature. “Art, Scholarship and Politics Fellow, Casa Buonarroti, Firenze, Art Readers in Renaissance Studies near the library yet serenely removed from all the distracting Many people are to be thanked including Debby Brice, in the Accademia degli Alterati (Florence History. “Per una biografia di Tommaso Goretti Gonzalez (2nd sem), Harvard quotidian activity within the library and the villa” came true outgoing chairman of the I Tatti Council, and the Florence and Pisa ca. 1570-1620).” de' Cavalieri.” University, Literature. last June when the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato was finally Gould Foundation for whom the conference hall is named. A Ingrid Ciulisova (2nd sem), I Tatti Timothy McCall, Robert Lehman Eva Helfenstein (2nd sem), Harvard inaugurated. Though long in maturing, the result, designed number of people gave generously to name the new studies in Research Fellow, Slovak Academy of Fellow, Villanova University, Art History. University, Art History. by Baltimore architect Charles Brickbauer and Ziger/Snead, this building and in the Gioffredi House including Victor K. Sciences-Institute of Art History, Art "Brilliant Bodies: Men at Court in Early Nadia Marx (1st sem), Harvard really is a dream come true. The beautiful building across the Atkins, Jr., Suzanne and David Booth, Jean Bonna, Jim Cherry History. “Veit Stoss and Taste for Gothic Renaissance Italy." University, Art History. and the Billy Rose Foundation, Gabriele Geier, Walter and in Renaissance Florence.” Elizabeth Mellyn, Francesco De Cara Rachele (1st sem), Harvard Virgilia Klein, Fred Koontz, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Seth Coluzzi, Ahmanson Fellow, Dombrowski Fellow, University of New University, Art History. Mary Landor, Arthur Loeb, Guillaume Malle, Edna and 3 2 Brandeis University, Musicology. “Il Hampshire, History. “Madness, Medicine, Mandy Moross, Melvin R. Seiden, Bill and Julie Thompson, the d c pastor fido and the Italian Madrigal.” and the Law in Italy, 1350-1700.” Visiting Professors Dorothy Wagner Wallis Charitable Trust, Rosemary Weaver, Eva Del Soldato, Melville J. Kahn Simona Mercuri, Lila Wallace - Frances Andrews (2nd sem), Lila Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore di Reader's Digest Fellow, Università della Wallace - Reader's Digest Visiting Pisa, History. “Reinventing Platonism: Calabria, Literature. “Il Commento Professor, University of St. Andrews, Bessarion's In calumniatorem Platonis.” sopra una canzona d'amore di Giovanni History. “Religion and Public Life in Pico della Mirandola. Storia della Late Medieval Italy.” tradizione, edizione e analisi del testo.” Louise Bourdua (2nd sem) Lila Wallace Peta Motture (2nd sem), Craig Hugh - Reader's Digest Visiting Professor, Smyth Visiting Fellow, Victoria and University of Warwick, Art History. Albert Museum, Art History. “Bronze “Giotto's Legacy? Painting in Padua in and Bronzes: Making and Meaning.” the Long Fourteenth Century.” Daniela Parenti (2nd sem), Craig Simona Cohen (1st sem), Lila Wallace - Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Galleria Reader's Digest Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv dell'Accademia, Firenze, Art History. University, Art History. “The Iconography and Margaret and Price “Antonio Veneziano.” of Time in Renaissance Art.” new Pellegrino garden from the entrance to Zimmermann. We are Andrea Rizzi, Deborah Loeb Brice Diana Sorensen (1st sem), Harvard the Biblioteca Berenson is the culmination grateful, too, to Joseph P. Pellegrino Fellow, University of Melbourne, Visiting Professor, Harvard University, of much thought and research on the part and the Lila Acheson Wallace – Gerardo de Simone, Rush H. Kress History. “The Dynamics of Vernacular Literature. “Space, Mobility and of Charles Brickbauer whose design nods to Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund Fellow, Università di Pisa, Art History. Translation in Renaissance Italian Materiality in the Renaissance.” the work of Cecil Pinsent and Geoffrey Scott for the landscaping. The third phase “Painting and Patronage in Rome and Courts (1420s-1480s).” Marica Tacconi (2nd sem), Robert at I Tatti as well as “Vasari, for the system of the Scholars’ Court project, the Latium between Calixtus III and Paul II Janet Robson, Deborah Loeb Brice Lehman Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania of harmonic proportion, Philip Johnson, Fototeca building, remains to be (1455-1471).” Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London, State University, Musicology. “The my early mentor, for sheer perverse logic started, but we are deeply grateful to Giovanni Maria Fara, Hanna Kiel Art History. “Painted Narratives of Rhetoric of Echo in Late Renaissance and others from Raphael to Russell Page. the Ahmanson Foundation and Paul Fellow, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul St. Nicholas in Trecento Tuscany and Music.” Buildings such as the Villa Gamberaia, Villa & Harriet Weissman who are moving Rinascimento di Firenze, Art History. Umbria.” Blake Wilson (2nd sem), Lila Wallace Medici, and the Carmine served as points of us in the right direction. (A complete “Albrecht Dürer nelle fonti italiane - Reader's Digest Visiting Professor, reference.” list of donors to the Scholars Court Cara Rachele Dickinson College, Musicology. “The antiche: 1508-1686.” & Twelve spacious studies on the top floor Fund Margherita Fratarcangeli (2nd sem), Civic and Humanist Traditions of the with views over Poggio Gherardo lead off can be Goretti Florentine improvvisatori, ca. 1400-1520.” Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Gonzalez. the loggia, like monks’ cells off a cloister. found Bibliotheca Hertziana, Art History. On the lower level, three more have French on page “Cavalli e cavalieri nella trattatistica Senior Research Associates windows leading out to a little secret garden. 16.) italiana del XVI secolo.” Eve Borsook, Villa I Tatti, Art History. Also on the lower floor is the state-of-the- Elizabeth Horodowich, Andrew “History of Glass with Respect to art conference hall with perfect acoustics W. Mellon Fellow, New Mexico State Mosaic Making.” provided by the warm wooden walls. The University, History. “Armchair Travelers and Dóra Sallay (2nd sem), I Tatti Research Allen J. Grieco Villa I Tatti, History. magnificent staircase joining the two levels the Venetian Discovery of the New World.” Fellow, Szépmuvészeti Muzeum, Art “Renaissance Doctors and the is a mastery of light, balance, and views both Debby Brice & Charles Brickbauer; Nelda Ferace; Allen Grieco. Lisa Kaborycha, Jean-François Malle History. “The Florentine Renaissance Classification of Wines.” east and west. The Anne Pellegrino Garden and the small Fellow, University of California, Altarpieces in Context: Towards a Margaret Haines, Opera di Santa Giardino dei Nipotini have transformed the old car park and Also to be thanked are the Mayor of Fiesole, Dott. Fabio Berkeley, History. “Desire and Catalogue of the Szépmuvészeti Maria del Fiore Foundation, Art History. provide an oasis of calm and tranquility. Incatasciato, and his Corporation, the architects and engineers, Imagination in Renaissance Florentine Muzeum in Budapest.” “Studies in the Documentation on the Below the new Loggiato are to be found the handsome builders and craftsmen from the many companies who worked Zibaldoni.” Joan Thomas (2nd sem), Craig Hugh Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore.” new garden buildings mentioned in previous newsletters. The on the project as well as Nelda Ferace and Allen Grieco for Areli Marina, Committee to Rescue Smyth Visiting Fellow, Harvard Medical Michael J. Rocke, Villa I Tatti, History. innumerable problems of subsistence and drainage caused by overseeing the work. You can read the inauguration speeches Italian Art Fellow, University of Illinois, School, Literature. “Italian Renaissance “Edition and translation of Italian texts the slope of the land are now, happily, a thing of the past. The on our website at www.itatti.harvard.edu by clicking on Urbana-Champaign, Art History. Medical Humanism.” related to homoeroticism (14th-17th Loggiato crowns the incline and looks towards the Biblioteca I Tatti and then I Tatti at Fifty. centuries).” Berenson, while the attractive garden buildings, potting shed c

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 b THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSON a The Berenson Archive hhhhh

isibility and accessibility of library the data for both sets. Of course, the of the American Academy in Rome, see the library pages in our website at www.itatti.harvard.edu.) he Berenson Archive celebrated a very important Vand archival resources online library made available to users many and his wife Isabel, and the papers of I’ve put much emphasis here on locating and using the Tmilestone this year with the inclusion of the inventory are indispensable aids to scholarship brand-new items as well this year, some the late 19th-century poet and writer library’s resources on the Internet, but we also introduced of the Bernard and Mary Berenson Papers in Harvard’s in today’s networked environment of 2,850 titles in all, adding over 3,700 Eric Stenbock. See more on these and new procedures for handling physical items and their internal Online Archival Search Information System (OASIS) and advanced discovery and research tools. new volumes between monographs and upcoming additions in the article by circulation on the premises. A streamlined automated process HOLLIS, the Harvard online bibliographical catalog. The In this regard, I am delighted to report archivist Ilaria Della Monica (facing that is managed through the Aleph system has replaced the inventory contains the description of the papers produced by that this past year marked a watershed page). previous, unwieldy manual method for charging books out. Bernard and Mary during their life at I Tatti from 1900 to in the Biblioteca Berenson’s efforts to Some of the rare resources held Borrowing any item is now as easy as scanning a barcode into 1959 and includes not bring to the foreground some of its in the Berenson Library’s Photograph the database. Materials charged out are of course to remain, only personal and rich and important but hard-to-find Archive also gained a radically new as always, within the I Tatti buildings complex, in studies or at professional records but resources and to make them accessible profile online this year. In particular, library tables and carrels. One advantage of the new procedures also an extensive body 5 4 the ongoing cataloging and scanning is that anyone consulting the HOLLIS catalog can now see of correspondence d c project on “Homeless Paintings of the immediately whether an item is available or on loan and can and a wonderful Italian Renaissance,” or artworks with organize their work in the library accordingly. Anyone may series of photographs. no known repository, finally started to renew their own borrowed materials or place recall and hold The finding aid come to fruition on a large and visible requests for others on loan. Current appointees also have the enables researchers scale. During the year some 3,115 advantage of being able to view and control their accounts to learn more about works of Italian art from the 13th to online. This more systematic the contents of the the 16th centuries, plus close to 4,750 approach to circulation collection by making photographs representing them, were promotes transparency and a simple, intuitive catalogued in the OLIVIA database helps safeguard the privacy keyword search or by and displayed in Harvard Library’s of borrowers. It also provides browsing the entries. Clockwise from L:Simona Cohen; image catalog known as VIA (Visual better tools for managing In addition to Marcella Marongiu. Lisa Kaborycha & Janet Robson; Information Access). To date, with the the collection. It was always those for the Berenson's Liz Mellyn & Marica Tacconi. project at around the half-way mark, plain that the library was papers, which constitute the core of the Berenson Archive, text records can now be consulted for being used, for example, but further finding aids have been put online. These include the in new ways for the use of researchers, nearly 5,000 “homeless” artworks and it was hard to imagine that inventory of the papers of Laurance Roberts (1907-2002) – both onsite and online. over 8,200 related photographs. fully one in eight books in the art historian of far eastern Asia who directed the American To begin with, well over ten This project reached an especially the core research collection Academy in Rome from 1946 to 1959 and was the author of thousand new bibliographic records exciting landmark in June with the first would have been borrowed the catalog of The Berenson Collection of Oriental Art (Hudson with Berenson Library holdings data publication in VIA of a large quantity of or consulted in a single Hill Press, 1991) – and his wife Isabel Roberts (1911-2005); – the highest annual figure ever – related digital images. With this criti- year, as was the case in the a description of the papers of Eric Stenbock (1860-1895), were added to the Aleph database and cal mass of visual documentation linked academic year just past. The a writer friend of Mary Berenson, who died prematurely now appear in the HOLLIS and IRIS to the textual records, the potential of library’s chief denizens are, of Giovanna Benadusi & at age 35; and the inventory of the correspondence of the catalogs. This influx mostly involved serials. New titles include nearly 2,500 this enterprise as an aid to art histori- course, I Tatti’s current appointees, but it Michael Rocke. architectural historian Roberto Papini (1883-1957) with materials the library has owned for books and 17 new journals, and in the cal research finally began to be realized is encouraging to see the large number prominent Italian intellectuals of the day. some time but that were previously Music library another 150 performing in full. Each of the more than 3,000 of other scholars, 542 in all including 125 former Fellows and Soon we will also upload finding aids for all the remaining un-cataloged, in particular thousands editions, 115 works on microfilm, and “homeless” paintings or drawings by 417 other readers, who also used the library this year, for a Berenson Archival funds, including some of the visual material of works reproduced in two important 123 sound recordings. artists of the Florentine regional school total of over 2,300 entrances. kept in these collections, and the archive of the American sets of microforms. Library users can In addition to exposing previously is now represented by at least one Individuals and institutions continue to add bountifully Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA), which was founded now easily search and identify our “hidden” texts on microforms, new scanned image and often more, from a to the library’s collections with donations of books – 329 titles in 1966 to help rescue and restore the Italian cultural heritage holdings for the collection Italian Books initiatives also began to open up total of 4,669 photographs. Digital re- this past year, and 545 the previous year. In these financially damaged in the Florentine flood. I Tatti was one of the CRIA before 1601, nearly 2,900 titles on 689 access to the library’s important productions include both the recto with tight times, we are particularly grateful to all those who have headquarters. rolls of microfilm, and for the Cicognara special collections of manuscripts and the work of art and the verso with its helped the library grow through such gifts. Of special note, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Susan Library: Literary Sources in the History of photographs. The publication of elec- related textual documentation. Togeth- the library was the appreciative recipient of thirty-eight early and William Gould who last year spent time in the Fototeca Art and Kindred Subjects, a reproduction tronic finding aids, or inventories, in er with the amazing images of the Life of printed books from the estate of Giorgio Voli and Elizabeth cleaning and organizing the photographs documenting the on microfiches of over 4,600 texts Harvard’s OASIS catalog now makes Saint Francis fresco cycle in Assisi, pub- MacGillivray Voli. For their particular generosity I would Berensons' trips as well as some photos documenting the life published from 1500 to the early it possible for researchers anywhere in lished in VIA in the summer of 2010, also like to add an extra gesture of our gratitude to Helen at I Tatti from 1961 to today. Helpful assistance also came 19th century from the collection of the world to gain detailed knowledge these new cataloging and digital initia- Costantino Fioratti, Flavio Manetti, and Marco Spallanzani from Megan Cassidy, an intern from Syracuse University in Leopoldo Cicognara at the Biblioteca online of the contents of the extensive tives have begun to transform the ways (VIT’82-’03), each of whom donated several dozen books, and Florence, who started an inventory of the Berensons’ books, Vaticana. We appreciate the generosity papers of Bernard and Mary Berenson in which the remarkable resources of to Daniel Schwartz, who kindly contributed over 140 books, shelved in the villa, which contain dedications or annotations; of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and of other unique manuscript the Photograph Archive are presented mostly on medieval Jewish and Islamic thought and religion. and Anne-Marie Viola, a graduate of Information and Library and its president Max Marmor in collections held in the library’s historical and accessed. In doing so, they also pro- Sciences who assisted me with the implementation of some of making the bibliographic records for archive. Others for which finding aids vide stimulating new opportunities for these finding aids in Archivist Toolkit. the Cicognara Library available, and are are available in OASIS include the scholarly discovery and analysis. (For a Michael Rocke Nicky Mariano Librarian a Ilaria Della Monica grateful for the assistance of the Office papers of Laurance Roberts, former more information on these projects and Archivist of Information Systems in loading director of the Brooklyn Museum and how to find records and images online, Director of the Biblioteca Berenson

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 News from the Berenson Fototeca An Online Catalog of the Bernard Berenson Art Collection in Memory of Melvin R. Seiden  & Collection 

wo new major catalogs of the the 14th and 15th centuries. Several according to which the photo archive TBerenson Art Collection are modern drawings, a small group of is arranged and the cataloging work elvin R. Seiden (1930-2011) played a fundamental role in the development of the Harvard University Center at Villa I Tatti. As a being worked on simultaneously. Carl European sculptures, a few antique and has been organized. After Anchise Mfounding member of the I Tatti Council and its chairman from 1984 until 1989, he was an integral member and an untiring supporter of Strehlke (Philadelphia Museum of pre-Columbian art objects, and more Tempestini left the project, Elena Stolfi the I Tatti family. His expectations were always high, which inspired others to do that little bit extra, and his advice was always wise and helpful. Art) and Machtelt Israëls (VIT’05) are than 50 pieces of Asian art make up the began working on the Venetian School, Mel is sorely missed, but we find a measure of comfort in the knowledge that, in celebration of his 80th birthday last October, he was informed of preparing the scholarly catalog of the rest. Some 3,500 images of the 4,637 while Michele Lotti, who joined us our project to make an online catalog of the Berenson Art Collection in his honor. Donations in his memory will see this project to completion. European paintings and drawings with mostly black and white prints, including for six months, prepared the material the help of a number of Renaissance the backs of photographs that bear related to the Central, North Italian, scholars and conservators. The editors significant information but excluding and Sienese schools. We are deeply 7 6 igh-resolution color images of the approximately 280 The individual artworks will be accessed through Harvard’s d c are preparing it for publication in 2013. duplicates, have already been digitized grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon and and, when they have been cataloged, the Samuel H. Kress Foundations for Hworks of art in the Berenson Art Collection will be made VIA search screen and will eventually be connected as a vir- will be available for research purposes supporting this project, which we plan available on the Internet together with several thousand mainly tual Berenson Art Collection which will be accessible through through OLIVIA, the Harvard Library’s to conclude by next summer. black-and-white digital reproductions of historical photographs I Tatti’s own website. image cataloging system, and displayed in Council members Darcy and Treacy of these works held in the Berenson Fototeca. Each image will To date, new digital photographs have been taken for almost VIA, its public image catalog, as well as Beyer volunteered in the Fototeca be accompanied by catalog records documenting all relevant all the works of art. Some 2,600 of the more than 4,600 historical a “virtual” Berenson Collection directly again this year, assisting Eve Borsook information about the work of art and about the photographs photographs have been scanned for a total of 3,546 digital images through I Tatti’s new web site. This (VIT’82-11) in her tireless identification themselves. Links to documents existing in the Berenson (including the back of those photographs that bear handwritten documentation, which dates from the and organization of photographs. We Archive will also be included when known. The catalog will notes). Only four art works and their associated photographs for early 20th century to relatively recent greatly appreciate their help as well as indicate both Berenson’s original attributions as well as the most use in presentations have been catalogued to date: photographs taken by Antonio Quattrone, that of our interns: Flora Arcamone recent attributions as established in the latest literature. Images records the state of preservation of these (University of Florence) helped to artworks during their life at I Tatti, before archive ca. 2,800 photographs by of the art collection will include all of the paintings, sculptures, • Giotto, Entombment. Record ID: olvwork576587 and after restoration or surface cleaning. Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell art objects, scrolls, and manuscript illuminations, but excludes at • Lorenzetti, Standing Madonna. Record ID:olvwork576738 Some 32 of the 150 Italian paintings (1879-1974) which document archi- present furniture, carpets, textiles, and garden sculptures. • Domenico Veneziano, Madonna and Child. Record ID: are currently undergoing a light surface tectural monuments in the Near East, This online catalog and database will provide an innovative olvwork273528 cleaning to remove accumulated dust Egypt, and Constantinople. These and important auxiliary tool to the printed studies about the • Florentine School, Prophet. Record ID: olvwork576793 and dirt. The treatment, which is not vintage prints – their negatives are kept Berenson art collection or individual works of art it contains. invasive since the existing varnish is not in the Ashmolean Museum – were It will help disseminate awareness and knowledge about the The cost of the whole project is approximately $176,000. touched, is being carried out by Roberto acquired by Berenson in the 1920s. collection in its entirety to a much broader audience via the Most of this funding is in hand, but we still need $31,000. Please Bellucci from the Opificio delle Pietre Flora also worked on the inventory Internet. By incorporating all the essential historical and visual help us get this project online and honor the memory of Melvin Dure, under the supervision of Cecilia of the Fototeca’s rich collection of documentation, the database will also furnish extensive, hitherto R. Seiden by making a donation. Frosinini. New high-quality, color, 3,570 oversize photographs which she unpublished materials for study. Drew Faust & Charles Rosenberg in the digital images of all the artworks will be and library assistant Giordano Turchi Berenson Fototeca with Giovanni Pagliarulo, included in both the online and printed prepared for digitization. Tiziana Resta Elisabetta Cunsolo & Michael Rocke. catalogs. This photographic campaign (Centrica) is digitizing these and our by Centrica is due for completion in other photographs. Reshma Kalimi Long before then, however, we 2012 as is the cataloging of the artworks (Duke University), Elizabeth Lund will have an online catalog of new and their surrogate images, all of which (Syracuse University) and Henry Shull digital images as well as images of are photographic artworks in their own (undergraduate, Harvard University) the Fototeca’s prints of all the works right. worked on the inventory of illuminated of art amassed by Mary and Bernard Elisabetta Cunsolo, currently on manuscripts while our other Harvard Berenson to decorate their home at maternity leave, reported at our June intern, Sanam Nader-Esfahani I Tatti. This online catalog is being celebrations on the progress made (graduate student), diligently prepared dedicated to the memory of Council on our project to catalog and digitize the ground for future inventorying member Melvin R. Seiden (see facing the unique nucleus of photographs and digitization of the photographs page) in recognition of his unflagging of artworks whose current location in the Later Italian section. I extend enthusiasm for education in the arts and is unknown. This year, some 3,115 many thanks to all our volunteers and humanities and for his extraordinary records of Florentine paintings and interns who worked with dedication, generosity, and complements our other drawings and the 4,750 photographs enthusiasm and accuracy! projects to provide a broader access to representing them were cataloged by a Giovanni Pagliarulo the Fototeca collections through the Sanne Wellen and Andrea Staderini in Agnes Mongan Curator of the Internet. OLIVIA, the Harvard Library’s image Berenson Fototeca The majority of the 280 artworks, cataloging system. They have now Curator of the Berenson which range from the Neolithic Age moved to the Central Italian school, Art Collection to Picasso, are Italian paintings from another of the main regional sections

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 Conservatory of Moscow brought four talented young Russian musicians to Tuscany to gain experience on Music at historic keyboard instruments in early September. Under the guidance of their mentor Ella Sevskaya, students Darija I Tatti NEWS Borkovskaya, Anastasia Grishutina, FROM THE Julia Kuznetsova and Olga Pashchenko ‘Charivary,’ Music of Couperin, Marais, and ai palazzi. With exceptional dynamism worked on a fortepiano owned and Lully, performed by Ricercar Consort and virtuosity, the ensemble delivered a MORRILL MUSIC restored by the Laboratorio di restauro of Belgium. The title derives from the splendid musical cross section of early LIBRARY del fortepiano in Florence. At the end final movement of the final piece of 17th-century Venice, from street songs of inauguration week they gave a recital the program, Marais’s diverse Suite en and opera, to instrumental works da for our community on this historic Ré (1711), and refers to the disorderly, camera. instrument, made in Vienna by Johann “rough music” of contemporary France The program showcased lesser- n his Compendio della poesia Schantz ca. 1810-1815. It has a range that conjoins expressions of dissent and known, yet marvelous, works by tragicomedia (1601), Battista Guarini his year we have been delighted of six octaves, with an extension of FF- I mockery with the percussive beating of composer-poets Manelli and Ferrari, 9 8 (citing Polybius) professes “che tutti Tto add four titles to our collection f4, and five pedals for the following household items. Marais recreates this violin virtuoso Biagio Marini, and the d c of unique prints of early music. These gli Arcadi eran poeti, che il principale spirit not with disorder, but through elusive Giovanni Battista Fasolo, whose include a hitherto unknown work studio, il principale esercizio loro era a boisterous triple meter and jarring jocular Misticanza di vigna (1627) spurred by a Neapolitan composer Anello quel della musica…” syncopations. the vocalists to parade an assortment of Antignano, friar of the Carmelite order While it may not have been “il regional dialects and mannerisms up from Pomigliano d’Arco: his first book the first edition of Giovanni Battista principale studio” for most, music and down the limonaia’s stairway. More of four part madrigals, published in Oliphante’s Porta Aureum, a manual for was indeed resounding in the idyllic commonly heard works of Monteverdi Naples in 1610 by the firm of Gargano the use of canto fermo: one of many such hills surrounding I Tatti in 2010–11. gained unexpected vitality through and Nucci, of which we possess the treatises published in Naples in the early In true tragicomic fashion, however, the ensemble’s interpretations, even only surviving part book (Tenor). This 17th century that reflect the daily use things did not always proceed without prompting an encore of their captivating collection, dedicated to Don Francesco of the monodic repertoire in that place the meddling of certain deities, namely Lamento della ninfa (1638). Caetano d’Aragona, Duca di Lorenzano, and time. The Porta Aureum will be Mercury, who turned up in Paris for In the spring, I Tatti welcomed two includes settings of verses by Guarini, reprinted twice, with additions to each the transportation strikes, and Diana, guests for whom music truly was “il Tasso, and, above all, Marino, while some edition: ours is the only known copy of who descended on France to induce an principale esercizio”: the first Musicians of the anonymous texts can be found in the first edition, published by Carlino in in Residence, keyboardist Christopher settings by contemporary Neapolitan 1616; the second edition is lost; and the Stembridge and viola da gambist Friederike Heumann. Through their composers. We also purchased the third edition of 1641 has survived only L-R: Seth Coluzzi; Le Poème Harmonique. Bassus and Bassus ad organum part books in the library of the Conservatorio di presence, musical performance became of Antignano’s Sacrae cantiones quae Musica S. Cecilia in Rome. This treatise The movement provided duabus, tribus, quatuor, et quinque vocibus has been described by scholars as a door Katusha Davison, Ursula & Walter Cliff a rousing end to the concert, (Naples, Beltrano, 1620), of which to a world yet to be discovered. of the Florence Gould Foundation. only two other part books survive: the Perhaps the most exciting purchase and set the pace for the Cantus, in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska, of the year was a manuscript of 20 folios registers: una corda, bassoon, dampers, scramble to the reception that Krakow, and the Tenor, in the Accademia containing cantatas and strophic songs moderator and Janissary (“alla turca”). followed. However, it was Chigiana in Siena. Another unicum copied ca. 1650-1680. The only work Donatella Degiampietro, director of not Charivary that stole the is the Alto secondo choro part book of which can be identified is a cantata the Laboratorio, and her colleagues show, but Eduardo Egüez’s untimely childbirth. Yet, to the delight Francesco Petrobelli’s Psalmos breves by Marco Marazzoli, who worked for discussed the mechanism of this exquisite solo performance of three of all – and thanks largely to the divine octo vocibus (Venezia, Sala, 1684). This the Barberini family in Rome (also fortepiano, after a performance by the pieces by Lully, transcribed for acts of Kathryn Bosi – everything fell part book is lacking from the only a harpist, he incidentally owned the students of works contemporary with theorbo by Robert de Visèe. It into place for a harmonious year of other surviving source of these psalms famous gilded ‘Barberini harp’ painted the instrument by Pratsch, Beethoven, seemed to require some time music at I Tatti. by Petrobelli, now in the Archivio del by Lanfranco). The cantata Dalle latine Schubert and Dussek. We are for the Consort truly to find The events began with the Duomo of Assisi. Lastly, we purchased sponde on f. 43 is attributed to Marazzoli immensely grateful to the Laboratorio, its element in the wake of their Ricercar Consort. annual performance by students of in the manuscript Q 46 which has generously allowed our onerous travels through the strikes in the Moscow Conservatory in the Big in the Civico Museo students to use their instruments in all France. Egüez’s precise and beautifully a much greater part of daily life at Library on 10 September. The concert Bibliografico Musicale in six years of our collaboration with the executed readings pulled the remaining I Tatti, with Heumann’s moving recitals punctuated the end of orientation for Bologna; none of the other Conservatory of Moscow. Our thanks threads together, drawing the audience in the new Brice Loggiato and San new appointees, and featured brilliant contents has been identified, also go to the Museo degli Organi in deeply into Lully’s music, even while Martino, and Stembridge’s remarkable renderings on the fortepiano of but the manuscript is Massa Marittima, who this year also the theorbo struggled to reach the far performances on the 1523 organ in Beethoven, Pratsch, and Schubert, and almost certainly of Roman placed instruments at their disposal, and ends of the limonaia. Santissima Annunziata and on I Tatti’s an especially memorable performance origin, and may contain to Ella Sevskaya for her expert teaching The second event of Early Music harpsichord, including improvised of Dussek’s Sonata Op. 61, Elégie new sources for Marazzoli and devoted care of our students. at I Tatti capped the festivities for the variations on “Happy Birthday” in and his contemporaries. harmonique (1807). 50th Anniversary on 10 June. Despite honor of the director. The sixth year of our On 14 October, the Myron and a birth in France by the wife of one project with the State a Kathryn Bosi Sheila Gilmore Limonaia transformed of the performers a day earlier, all ten F. Gordon & Elizabeth Morrill from a ping-pong and lemon-tree shelter members of Le Poème Harmonique a Seth Coluzzi Le Poème Harmonique. Music Librarian into a densely packed concert hall for appeared to present Venezia: dalle calli Ahmanson Fellow

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 h Lectures & Programs h v v v v Thinking About Thought Worlds at I Tatti v v v v with support from the Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman. “What were Albrecht Dürer’s Cinque- Renaissance Readers,” held on 31 May society at large?” When we proposed cento Italian readers thinking about at Villa I Tatti. The title was inspired by to Jonathan Nelson and Lino Pertile when they read his treatises?” “How did a phrase from Andrew Pettegree's The to have an informal study day at I Tatti “The Fellows gave fascinating presentations of their Sex in the Kitchen Florentine members of the Accademia Book in the Renaissance (Yale Univ. Press, to explore these methodologies, they research during the year, and each session was followed by degli Alterati collaborate on an unusual 2010) in which the author follows the responded enthusiastically, putting at the interpretation of Aristotle’s Poetics?” fortunes of printing during its early Fellows’ disposal all the resources of the vigorous debate. We enjoyed a stimulating public lecture atricia Simons of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “How did Quattrocento readers view years throughout Europe. Closely Villa, including use of the brand new, from Professor Pat Simons of the University of Michigan Pdelivered the year’s first public lecture, entitled “Sex in the Europe’s crusading past and the Moslem examining the kinds of materials state-of-the-art Florence Gould Hall in (Sex in the Kitchen: Embodied Masculinity during Kitchen: Embodied Masculinity during the Renaissance,” to ‘other’?” people chose to read, Pettegree suggests the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato. the Renaissance), and House Talks by Carl Strehlke a crowded Berenson Reading Room early in Thanksgiving These are only a few of the that even humbler, widely-circulated The participants – Fellows, week of 2010. Appropriately, given the feast many in intriguing questions raised at the popular materials can reveal much former Fellows, and members of the (curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art) on Portraits of attendance would share a few days later, we were treated to a study day entitled “Thought Worlds of about the mentality of the reading broader community of Renaissance Bernard and Mary Berenson, Mario Casari (VIT ’09, smorgasbord of visual and verbal plays and puns surrounding public. He writes: "such books scholars – brought insights from a 11 10 Università di Roma La Sapienza) on Some Islamic the preparation and eating of food in early modern Europe. – almanacs and calendars, prayer variety of disciplines: history, art history, d c Simons investigated the ways that such metaphors would have books and pamphlets...offer the literature, and musicology. Speakers Works in the Berenson Collection, and Machtelt been interpreted by different classes of viewers and, further, most eloquent window into the were: Giovanni Fara, “In margine. Israëls (VIT ’05) on Sassetta’s Borgo San Sepolcro the ways that conceptualizations of the body were formed by, thought world of the sixteenth Albrecht Dürer e i suoi lettori italiani Altarpiece. In early May we held a Study Day on and in turn formed, sexual and somatic analogies primarily century's new generation of fra XVI e XVII secolo”; Déborah readers.” Blocker, “Observing the Alterati at Circulation in Early Modern Europe: Ideas, Objects, relating to bodily fluids as understood and experienced in the Galenic system of medicine. The rich visual material discussed In discussions and shop Work on Aristotle's Poetics in Magl. VII, and People, organized by Luca Molà (VIT ’99, History, by Simons included painted kitchen and eating scenes by talks it emerged that a number 1199: From Marginalia to ‘Thoughts’?”; Warwick) at the European University Institute and Allen Vincenzo Campi and others, prints, drinking vessels, and a of this year’s Fellows have shared Andrea Rizzi, “Circulation and interests in trying to delve more reception of William of Tyre's Chronicon Grieco at I Tatti. Another Study Day on Thought copper engraving plate full of phallic symbols and stand-ins. Simons explored sexualized, alimentary metaphors relating deeply into those “thought in Quattrocento Italy”; Blake Wilson, Worlds of Renaissance Readers, organized by our bodies to the preparation and enjoyment of food. She worlds” and similar questions "Dominion of the Ear: Memory and Fellow Lisa Kaborycha, was held at the end of May in the unearthed and explicated humorous word plays and visual wit about interpretive approaches Performance at Piazza San Martino toward unconventional manu- (Florence)"; Lisa Kaborycha, “‘Cultural new Florence Gould Hall at I Tatti. Finally, a symposium constituted not only through morphological equivalences but also through comparisons between sexual and culinary actions script and print sources. We Literacy’ in Quattrocento Florence: The on The Material Culture of the Italian Signori 1200- and movements: food and drink from ricotta to grouse to took the idea further, asking Pollini Family and Their Books”; and 1600, organized by our Fellow Areli Marina, was held in beer, utensils including knives and ladles, and the activities and one another questions such Gabriella Battista (independent scholar, the Gould Hall in the context of the 50th anniversary of motions of cooking and eating from cutting to carving, grating as “How can we make use of Florence), "Lo Zibaldone di Giovanni to stirring, chewing to vomiting. The lively and spirited readers’ interlineal comments Rucellai." Afterwards, Dale Kent the Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.” (Lino Pertile) question and answer period spilled over into the reception and marginalia and how much (VIT’78,’83,’07) provided her reflections in the new library, and this talk, moreover, was announced as can such readers’ interventions on the ideas raised throughout the day, Institutional affiliation is not given for members of I Tatti’s the last public lecture in that space before the opening of the reveal about the interior world bringing a thoughtful conclusion to our 2010/2011 academic community. Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato with its Florence Gould Hall. of an individual or beliefs in the Thought Worlds. Simons dedicated the lecture to her fellow Aussie Bill Kent in a Lisa Kaborycha the hope that he would have found much to laugh Jean-François Malle Fellow about and savor. a Timothy McCall Robert Lehman Fellow Bronzino - artist and poet Eva Helfenstein; o coincide with the Palazzo Strozzi in “terza rima” collected by the author by Bronzino, alternating the verse with Frances Andrews & Texhibition “Bronzino, Artist and in two manuscripts that can be viewed musical pieces for lute by Francesco Louise Bourdua. Poet at the Court of the Medici” today at Florence’s National Library. Canova from Milan, a composer of the (September 2010 – January 2011) a Tanturli was followed by Massimiliano 16th century, known as “The Divine” by one-day conference on Bronzino, the Rossi (VIT’93,’98-’03), author of the his contemporaries. The performance refined Florentine artist and pupil of essay “Bronzino: lingua, carne e pittura,” concluded with the reading of two Pontormo, was held in the magnificent published in the exhibition catalog. sonnets in memory of Jacopo Pontormo Big Library last 10 January. With detailed analysis, Rossi revealed the (the first one by Bronzino himself, the Giuliano Tanturli, Professor of “code” of the paradoxical eulogy that second by Laura Battiferri) accompanied Italian Renaissance Literature at the supports and corroborates the Bernesque by the music of the English composer University of Florence, opened the compositions, as well as some of the Gavin Bryars, commissioned by Villa proceedings with a paper on Bronzino’s artist’s most famous paintings, such as I Tatti in memory of Professor Craig Simona Mercuri & poetical works. Bronzino was not only the Allegory and the Portrait of the Dwarf Hugh Smyth and first performed at Villa Eva Del Soldato; one of the greatest painters of the 16th Morgante. Tatti on 16 October 2009. Joan Thomas; century, but also an excellent author Sandro Lombardi, an actor much Patricia Simons; a Simona Mercuri of verse (Petrarchan sonnets, canzoni, appreciated for his personal style of Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Fellow Timothy McCall; madrigals) and burlesque compositions reciting poetry, read a selection of poems

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Rome & Forli he city of Parma and several n extraordinary opportunity to painted half-length figures of Ancient (29 January-12 June 2011) to which this Tsurrounding sites were the focus about research library publications i tatti events community Avisit rooms in the Vatican not Philosophers and Fathers of the Church exceptional masterpiece was loaned. of the trip the Fellows took last April. normally open to the public was in the lunettes (1475-76) and by As one of the exhibition’s curators, I With the help of Marco Gentile (VIT’06), Tim McCall guided us with We are pleased to announce offered to the I Tatti community by Melozzo da Forlì who painted the most was delighted to lead my fellow Tattiani I Tatti’s new website Prof. Antonio Paolucci, Director of the representative fresco of the cycle. In a there last May. The first part of the precision and accuracy through the Vatican Museums on 12 November magnificent architectural setting the show was devoted to the reconstruction castles of Fontanellato, San Secondo and 2010. Our day started in the Pauline humanist Bartolomeo Platina, director of Melozzo’s 1938 exhibition. (With Torrechiara. Chapel – still used as the Pope’s private of the Library, kneels before Sixtus, Mussolini a native of Predappio, close We began with the frescoes of The home page gives a quick overview of I Tatti, while further information chapel – and ended in the Sistine Chapel pointing to a Latin epigraph which to Forlì, Melozzo had become an Fontanellato where images of voluptuous can easily be found on the many other pages offering details of conferences in after hours beata incarnation of the Romagnolo genius water nymphs reflect the original use of and concerts, fellowships and research, publications and collections, history solitude – a unique the small steam room commissioned by and the community. The new site boasts a greatly increased amount of 13 12 experience that left Paola Gonzaga. In about 1566, Anton easily accessible practical information, news and announcements about life d c us all in enchanted Francesco Doni underlined how the and study at the Villa, image galleries, and online fellowship applications contemplation. young Parmigianino himself chose that will make it a ‘go-to’ site for Tattiani and Renaissance scholars the Designed by to paint Ovid’s well-known story of world over. Antonio da Sangallo Diana transforming Actaeon into a stag The new site is a dynamic hub of activity, so please bookmark this site the Younger, the in revenge for having seen her bathing www.itatti.harvard.edu Pauline Chapel is nude. and return to it often. especially known Then, after a brief tour of the Castle for Michelangelo’s of San Secondo, we spent a long time last two frescoes – in the Camera Aurea of the Castle of z Former z The Conversion of Torrechiara, which celebrates the love Fellows’ Update St. Paul and The between the noble condottiero and Bianca Crucifixion of St. Pellegrini. The frescoes, traditionally Emily Zazulia (VIT’10, (VIT’70), Julian Gardner (VIT’06), Peter – where his though still controversially, attributed to University of Pennsylvania) received an Julian Kliemann (VIT’96,’88-’03), and powerful style reaches a dramatic climax. Elizabeth Horodowich (top); Bembo’s workshop, are painted in the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Riccardo Spinelli (VIT’94). The decoration of the chapel, recently Gerardo de Simone & Peggy Haines; sails and lunettes of the barrel-vaulted Fellowship Award for 2011–12 as well Sharon Strocchia (VIT’85, restored to its original splendor, was Jonathan Nelson. ceiling with complicated bas-relief as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ Emory University) was named a completed under Pope Gregory XIII architectural details picked out in gilded ACLS Early Career Fellowship Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for by the two Mannerist painters Federico under the Fascist regime.) Due to the and painted plaster, and the colorful Program Dissertation Completion Research in the Humanities at the Zuccari and Lorenzo Sabbatini. paucity of his surviving works, the 2011 walls tiled with golden quilting. Fellowship for the dissertation “Verbal University of Wisconsin-Madison for exhibition aimed to define the different Parma is no exception to the rule Canons and Notational Complexity in Spring 2011 where she was working contexts in which Melozzo worked: that every city possesses its own Fifteenth-Century Music.” on a new project concerning religious Padua, Urbino, and Rome. First rank “omphalos.” We spent most of the Karol Berger (VIT’06, Stanford women and healthcare in Renaissance works by contemporary artists from morning of the second day in this most University) is the recipient of the 2011 Italy. Her book, Nuns and Nunneries these locations such as Andrea Mantegna, important space, facing the cathedral Glarean Award for musical research, in Renaissance Florence (Baltimore: Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico and and baptistery. This time our competent presented by the Swiss Musicological Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2009), was Benozzo Gozzoli among many others, and passionate guide was Areli Marina, Society. awarded the 2010 Helen and Howard were included in the exhibition along assisted by Jonathan Nelson and Peggy Benjamin Brand (VIT’09, Marraro Prize by the American with splendid sculptures, illuminations Haines. Grand artistic personalities University of North Texas) received Catholic Historical Association for the and textiles. Finally, some paintings had captured our thoughts: Benedetto a 2011-12 Rome Prize from the best book in Italian history. The book by the artists who decorated the Antelami, naturally, in both monuments, American Academy in Rome for the received a publication subsidy from Sistine Chapel before Michelangelo Correggio and his imposing fresco of project “The Historiae Sanctorum of the Lila Acheson Wallace-Reader’s We were also privileged to visit – Perugino, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, the “Assumption of the Virgin,” and Medieval Rome.” Publications Grant. the original core of the Vatican Library, Signorelli, and Bartolomeo della Gatta last but not least, the two imposing Clare Robertson (VIT’93,’96) Lawrence Sullivan (VIT’97) which was established in a new addition – were also on display. By comparison, complexes of the wooden cathedral received the 2010 Salimbeni Prize became the new President and CEO by Nicholas V from his collection of Melozzo’s originality shone through, in choir and the sacristy of the Consorziali. for her book, The Invention of Annibale of the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Greek and Latin manuscripts. Sixtus praises the Pope as renovator Urbis. particular his audacious, unprecedented We concluded the excursion Carracci (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana MI in 2010. From 1990 to 2003 he IV enlarged and officially opened the Between these figures stand four of the use of perspective and foreshortening, among the branches and leaves of the Editoriale, 2008) which was supported was director of the Center for the Vatican Library in 1475. The rooms Pope’s nephews, two cardinals and two especially in the beautiful fragments of Camera di San Paolo, where the sixteen by a contribution from I Tatti’s Lila Study of World Religions at Harvard were embellished with frescoes: the laymen, in an overt manifesto of papal Angels and Apostles from the apse of unforgettable grisailles in the central Acheson Wallace – Reader’s Digest University and professor of world Bibliotheca Graeca shows a fictive nepotism. After it was detached in the the SS. Apostoli in Rome. lunettes, the first masterpiece of the Publications Grant. Past recipients religions at Harvard Divinity School. colonnade possibly painted by Andrea eighteenth century, the Platina fresco not-yet-thirty Correggio, so inspired include former I Tatti Fellows He then went on to the University del Castagno; the better-known frescoes was moved into the Vatican Pinacoteca, Parmigianino. Carmen Bambach (VIT’97,’09), of Notre Dame as professor of both in the adjacent Bibliotheca Latina are by where it remained until this year’s a Gerardo de Simone Rush H. Kress Fellow a Giovanni Maria Fara Miklos Boskovits (VIT’71-’73), Bruce theology and anthropology. Domenico and David Ghirlandaio who Melozzo exhibition in his native Forlì Hanna Kiel Fellow Boucher VIT’85), David Alan Brown

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 The Harvard Center at Fifty k the Inauguration of the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato “...By late May, after a long, dry and very warm period, as we were deep into organizing the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Center and the inauguration of the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato, torrential rains began. We were so busy with all the preparations that it took us a while to get worried. However, with tropical rains forecast just a week before our event, we began to fret. Heavy rain did come with thunder that shook the walls, but then, as you perhaps know by now, the fates smiled on I Tatti, the rain stopped, and we had three glorious days...” (Lino Pertile) hen Bernard Berenson died in 1959, he dreamed that his alma mater, Harvard inspirations that had guided him, while Joseph Connors spoke about the progress 15 14 WUniversity, would turn his home, I Tatti, into a center for learning and reflection. made during his directorship (2002-2010) and thanked all those whose hard work d c Since its first academic year in 1961-62, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance and support had finally brought the project to a close. Studies has welcomed almost one thousand scholars from the United States, Australia, The guests then moved up the new staircase to the Anne Pellegrino Garden for Italy, France, the United Kingdom and wherever the Italian Renaissance is studied. their first view of the Brice Loggiato. Lino Pertile thanked all those whose generosity They have come to do their own research on any aspect of the Italian Renaissance – made the building a possibility, in particular Debby Brice, after whom the building history, the history of art and architecture, music and literature. Forged by the often has been named. After Debby added thanks of her own and cut the ribbon, a band life-changing experience of I Tatti, they have formed an academic community that (Funk Off) appeared out of nowhere and began to play, and the marvelous garden stretches over much of the globe and has influenced generations of new scholars. party took off. The guests were able to visit the new addition to the I Tatti complex, In June 2011 we celebrated the Harvard Center’s first fifty years. Lino Pertile, mingle with old friends, and enjoy the beautiful evening. I Tatti’s seventh director, and his wife Anna Bensted, welcomed some three hundred The following day, Florence Gould Hall was filled to capacity for a half-day guests over the two days of celebrations, including the keynote speaker Don Randel, conference on “The Material Culture of the Italian Signori, 1200-1600." Organized President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, outgoing chairman of the I Tatti by Fellow Areli Marina, the conference explored how visual and material evidence Council Debby Brice, incoming chairman Susan Roberts, and dozens of former illuminates aspects of Italy’s secular and ecclesiastical lordship in ways that textual Fellows, Council members, well-wishers, and staff, all, as we call them, members of sources alone can not. The afternoon was devoted to short papers describing a the I Tatti family. number of publication and library projects currently going on at I Tatti: the project The celebrations started in the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Limonaia, named after in memory of Council member Melvin R. Seiden to produce an online catalog of I Tatti’s second director and his wife. In his welcome address Lino Pertile imagined the Berenson Art Collection; the scholarly print catalog of the European paintings Bernard Berenson walking up the cypress allée today and marveling at the changes in the collection currently being put together by Carl Strehlke and Machtelt Israëls that have taken place over the last half-century, as well as at the things that have (VIT’05); the project to digitize and catalog some 17,000 photographs of works of art remained constant. But while he acknowledged past successes he also spoke of the whose whereabouts are unknown; the creation of online finding-aids or inventories efforts we must make to ensure that there is a future for Renaissance studies. Don of manuscript collections held by the Berenson Library, chief among them the Randel spoke about the importance of the arts and humanities, how their stock has Bernard and Mary Berenson Papers; new directions in the Berenson Library; the fallen in government today, and how vital places such as I Tatti thus remain. (These I Tatti Renaissance Library at 50; and an online exhibition on the close ties between speeches can be read on our new website www.itatti.harvard.edu.) Harvard and Mary and Bernard Berenson, both of whom were students there in the The fiftieth anniversary coincided with the inauguration of the new Deborah 1880s. Loeb Brice Loggiato, a magnificent addition to the infrastructure at I Tatti. It provides The celebrations concluded with an extraordinary concert by "Le Poème fifteen beautiful studies with views over the Tuscan countryside, and a superb lecture Harmonique" whose program, entitled Venezia: dalle calli ai palazzi, provided a room, Florence Gould Hall. Designed by Baltimore architect Charles Brickbauer, this splendid musical cross-section of early 17th-century Venice, from street songs and handsome building was part of Walter Kaiser’s dream when he was Director of I Tatti opera, to instrumental works da camera. The resounding applause at the end of the (1988-2002). Unfortunately, Professor Kaiser was unable to join us, but Bill Hood evening was, of course, for the players and singers, but also for the Harvard Center at (VIT'85,'86,'90,'00) read his address. Charles Brickbauer spoke of his design and the I Tatti as it celebrates its first half-century, and sets out on its next.

Anticlockwise: Lino Pertile & Anna Bensted; Bill & Julie Thompson; Don Randel; Lino with James & Debby Brice; Joseph Connors; Bill Hood; Tony & Susan Roberts, & Fred Koontz; John Gilmore & Prudence Steiner; Graziella Macchetta, Daniel Schwartz & Alexa Mason; Diana Sorensen & Charlotte Armstrong; Debby cutting the ribbon; Charles Brickbauer.

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 Much To Be Thankful For 77THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE ITALIAN SIGNORI88

Tatti’s Thanksgiving is always a in the Biblioteca Francese. The gardeners who have served the Villa with diligence, Iwonderful affair that many ex-borsisti and farmers, resting from their outdoor care and good-natured enthusiasm for a 1200-1600 will remember with nostalgia, but duties for the day, joined the Appointees quarter of a century in the garden, in the Thanksgiving 2010 was a particularly and their families, and the library and house and at the front desk. special occasion. We were delighted that administrative staff for a decidedly Though the full Scholars’ Court was Harvard President, Drew Gilpin Faust, convivial lunch. The cooks, Giorgio not yet finished last November, we were n 10 June, the half-day symposium Adorned Male Bodies of Quattrocento Objects? The Presence and Role of Mostri and her husband, Professor Charles E. Pallini, Roberto Bruni, and Emiliano happy to be able to show both Debby O“The Material Culture of the Signori” showed how northern Italian in Italian Renaissance Courts,” examined Rosenberg, decided to travel to Florence Pernice, excelled themselves and Brice and President Faust the completed Italian Signori, 1200-1600” formally signori – such as Galeazzo Maria Sforza a controversial aspect of the material to join us for the Thanksgiving weekend. produced not only the usual turkey and Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato on an inaugurated the Deborah Loeb Brice and Pier Maria Rossi – constructed a culture of lordship: the prominence Adding to the sense of celebration, we trimmings, but also cinghiale (wild boar) afternoon of autumnal sunshine. As they Loggiato’s Florence Gould Hall. The canon of male beauty and authority within seigneurial households of persons were also delighted to welcome for the to give the occasion an authentic Tuscan approached the building Allen Grieco, conference explored how visual and that exploited the brilliance of armor with non-standard physiognomies and holiday I Tatti Council chairman, Debby flavor. Alessandro Ferace, with much with a bit of careful stage management, material evidence illuminate aspects of and clothing laden with gold, pearls, physical and developmental handicaps. Brice, and her husband James Brice. panache, carved his 40th I Tatti turkey. At ensured that the last tall shrubs and Italy’s secular and ecclesiastical lordship and jewels, as well as new fashions such Their role within courtly society was Everything looked resplendent the end of the feast, bringing greetings (unhealthy) trees visible through the 17 more complex than their restricted legal 16 for the occasion. The house staff, led from the whole Harvard community, central glass panel, fell to the ground in ways that textual sources alone cannot. as tight sleeves and calze, to assert a d c by Alessandro Focosi and Silvia Vestri, President Faust offered a toast – with revealing to our guests the wonderful What can the material culture of the new seigneurial masculinity. Then, Eva status indicates. The session’s papers had buffed and polished the villa and I Tatti wine of course - expressing her view to the hills beyond. signori – the objects and spaces they Helfenstein’s presentation on “Lorenzo expanded the concept of Renaissance library until everything that could, pleasure in the work of the Center and in Altogether, it was an I Tatti Thanks- used and how they used them – tell us de’ Medici’s Magnificent Cups” placed material culture by asking the audience sparkled or shone. Margrit Freivogel, the beauty of the Villa and its setting. giving in which we felt there was much about their values and beliefs? And in his collection of semi-precious hard- to consider the Renaissance afterlives of head gardener, outdid even her always That afternoon, it was a special to be thankful for. turn, how did man-made artifacts and stone vessels, many stunning floral displays. By lunchtime privilege to have President Faust environments shape the political, social, of them inscribed on Thursday, at least 60 or 70 Tattiani recognize three long-serving economic, and artistic institutions that with his name, were somehow squeezed into the dining staff members. I Tatti engenders made lordship possible? in the context of room at two long tables and at another enormous loyalty amongst its staff, loyalty that is recognized by Harvard with a gift to mark 25 years of long service. President Faust presented Harvard chairs to Gianluca Rossi, Beppina Bongini, and Patrizia Carella

Patrizia Carella, Lino Pertile, Beppina Bongini, Drew Gilpin Faust, Anna Bensted, Gianluca Rossi & the Harvard Chairs. pan-European medieval objects and the objectification We welcome Grazia Passaro & Sviatlana Kandratovich courtly practices to which courts subjected certain people. who joined the house staff in April 2011. of magnificent The speakers’ multiplicity of Tabula Gratulatoria ~ ~ ~ Scholars’ Court Project display. Though approaches and themes mirrored The symposium’s five papers they spanned three centuries, the first the diversity of I Tatti’s intellectual Ahmanson Foundation Amedeo De Vincentiis Masakata Kanazawa Branko Mitrovic Melvin R. Seiden were divided into two sessions. As its session’s papers illustrated the central role community; the panel comprised scholars Geraldine Albers Samuel Edgerton Susan B. Katzenberg Jerzy Miziolek H. Colin Slim organizer, I introduced the morning’s luxurious objects played in constructing at various career stages and trained in Anonymous Sabine Eiche Walter C. & Anthony Molho Randolph R. Starn Victor K. Atkins, Jr. Richard H. Ekman Virgilia P. Klein Philippe Morel Sharon Strocchia events and moderated the first panel; distinct lordly identities. three different academic disciplines Susannah F. Baxendale Everett Fahy Frederick S. Koontz Edna & Mandy Moross Marica Tacconi Peta Motture moderated the second. The second session’s papers and three countries. The chronological Jane F. Bestor Margery Ganz Samuel H. Kress Mauro Mussolin John A. Tedeschi Maureen C. Miller (VIT’00) opened the addressed very different aspects of interval addressed by the session – from Jean Bonna Gabriele Geier Foundation Jessie Ann Owens Karel Thein first session with a talk on “The Visual seigneurial material culture. Using the the thirteenth century into the early Booth Heritage Laura Giannetti Mary Gibbons Landor Joseph Pellegrino Family William F. & Culture of Papal Lordship: Architecture fourteenth-century sculpted tympanum seventeenth – was consonant with the Foundation, Inc. Creighton E. Gilbert Myron Laskin, Jr. Foundation Juliana W. Thompson Eve Borsook Florence Gould John E. Law Joseph P. Pellegrino Franklin Toker and Apparel” that emerged from new and early medieval treasury of the church I Tatti fellowship’s new, broader temporal Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, Inc. Ellen Leary Pellegrino-Realmuto Richard Turner research related to her forthcoming of San Giovanni in Monza as its central frame. What unified the conference’s Foundation Werner L. Gundersheimer Arthur L. Loeb Charitable Foundation, Mary Vaccaro book on clerical clothing. Maureen examples, my paper on “The Lombard papers was their sharp focus on lordship, Alison Brown Margaret Haines Foundation Inc. Timothy Verdon investigated how the thirteenth-century Revival of Matteo il Magno Visconti” cross-disciplinarity, and freshness of Beverly L. Brown James G. Harper Frances and John L. Loeb Frances B. Perry Dorothy Wagner-Wallis David A. Brown H. Wiley Hitchcock Family Fund David S. Peterson Charitable Trust popes used architecture and ecclesiastical demonstrated how Matteo, the most approach – each reached beyond Bunge Corporation Andrew Hopkins Patrick Macey Brenda Preyer Rosemary Weaver dress, particularly opus anglicanum obscure of the Visconti lords of Milan, standard tropes to examine lesser-known Foundation Peter F. Howard Guillaume Malle Guido Rebecchini Paul & Harriet Weissman vestments, to fashion a mode of lordship appropriated (and invented) Langobard subjects or well-known material from a Maurizio Campanelli Isabelle Hyman Thomas E. Martin Peter Riesenberg Ronald G. Witt that distinguished the popes’ authority history and artifacts to fashion a cultural new point of view. Samuel K. Cohn, II Gary Ianziti Sally A. Scully & Susan & Anthony Roberts Ziger/Snead Architects, from that of the communes and secular strategy that would justify his family’s Joseph J. Connors Machtelt Israëls David O. McNeil Clare Robertson LLP signori. Timothy McCall, the second right to rule the Lombard plain. Finally, Dario Covi Rachel Jacoff Pedro Memelsdorff Billy Rose Foundation, Margaret & a Areli Marina Janet Cox-Rearick Katherine Jansen Maureen C. Miller Inc. Price Zimmermann speaker, also analyzed costume and its Guido Guerzoni’s (VIT’04) paper, Alan Darr Pavel Kalina Nelson H. Minnich Jeffrey Ruda representations. His paper on “The entitled “Dubia animalia or Human CRIA Fellow

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 z Former z Fellows’ Update Musicians in a Council Notes “I speak with passionate conviction when I say that for scholars of Italian Renaissance art and culture, there is no more precious asset than the Harvard Center for Italian Christopher Reynolds Renaissance Studies born of the legacy of Bernard Berenson... The Council has proven (VIT’89,’97, University of California, Residence itself vital to the stewardship of the villa and its mission, and I know that, under your Davis) has been elected President of leadership and that of Prof. Lino Pertile, this will continue...” (Marilyn Perry) the American Musicological Society his is a new category of appointment designed to offer professional musicians for 2013 and 2014. Ttwo or three weeks of tranquility for study. The Musician in Residence lives on Giuliano Di Bacco (VIT’97) the property and joins the I Tatti community. It is hoped they will talk about their he I Tatti Council registered a number of the Frick Collection. Angela Weisl and technique and the formation of his has been appointed Director of the work with other Tattiani and give at least one informal lecture-recital. Tof changes this past year, with a new is Professor of English and Director of collection. We are grateful to Professor Center for the History of Music Our first Musician in chairman, new members, one retirement Graduate Studies at Seton Hall University, Riccardo Viale, Director of the Institute, Theory and Literature at the Jacobs Residence arrived in March: and, sadly, the tragic loss of a dear, devoted, specializing in Medieval Literature and and staff members Simonetta Magnani and School of Music, Indiana University, Christopher Stembridge, and founding member. Melvin R. Culture. She is a Trustee of the Robert Renata Rosati for their kind assistance. We where he will join two other Tattiani the British harpsichordist and Seiden, chairman from 1984 to 1989, was Lehman Foundation and the South Wind extend our thanks to Carl Strehlke, to the on the faculty: Massimo Ossi organist, who specializes in early an indefatigable supporter of the Harvard I Tatti friends who attended this event, and (VIT’92) and Giovanni Zanovello Italian keyboard music. He has Center. Mel’s great friendship will be to Council members Susan Roberts, Debby 19 18 d c (VIT’07). undertaken a new edition of sorely missed, but we find a measure of Brice, Virgie Klein and Treacy and Darcy Stefano Jossa (VIT’03) has Frescobaldi’s keyboard music comfort in the knowledge that a project Beyer for hosting the dinner that followed been promoted to Senior Lecturer for Bärenreiter Verlag (with two to digitize the catalog of the Berenson Art the lecture and reception. at Royal Holloway University of volumes published so far), and his Collection in his honor was announced at The Deborah Loeb London in July 2011. Citation, his eightieth birthday last October. Brice Loggiato was Intertextuality and Memory in the After seventeen years as chairman inaugurated in con- Middle Ages and Renaissance (Exeter: of the I Tatti Council, Deborah Loeb junction with I Tatti’s Univ. of Exeter Press, 2011) edited Brice handed her responsibilities over to 50th anniversary. (See by three former Fellows Yolanda Susan M. Roberts at the spring Council pages 14&15.) Visiting Plumley (VIT’03), Giuliano Di recording of Frescobaldi’s meeting. The Council is deeply grateful Alexa Mason, David & Julie Tobey; Council members con- Bacco (VIT’97) and Stefano Jossa twelve toccatas has to Debby for her leadership, loyalty, and Fred Koontz. cluded the June festivities contains many contributions by just been released. In extraordinary support. Susan, who first with a tour of the other former Fellows including Lina addition to a number joined I Tatti as New York Representative Foundation and the daughter of the late Vasari Corridor which Bolzoni (VIT’93-’03), Monica of informal recitals on when Craig Hugh Smyth established the Council member Edwin R. Weisl. connects the Uffizi to Calabritto (VIT’05), Alessandro I Tatti’s own beautiful I Tatti Council in 1979, expressed her On behalf of the Council, Virgilia Palazzo Pitti. Spectacular Daneloni (VIT’03), Jan Stejskal harpsichord donated by honor to be following in Debby’s footsteps. P. Klein welcomed Lino Pertile and views across the Arno River, a collection (VIT’01,’03), Karel Thein (VIT’03). Frederick Hammond Echoing the Council’s gratitude to Debby, Anna Bensted at a reception held at the of 17th and 18th century paintings and Giuseppe Gerbino (VIT’05, (VIT’71), Christopher who will remain on the Council, Susan Cosmopolitan Club in New York last self-portraits from Filippino Lippi to Marc Columbia University) was the 2010 gave an illuminating thanked all those who have guided and October. A delightful opportunity for the Chagall were made all the more enjoyable recipient of the Lewis Lockwood lecture-recital on the supported I Tatti through the years and Council members to get to know I Tatti’s by expert guides Gerardo de Simone Award, given by the American 1523 organ at SS. looked forward to working with them in new director and his wife continued with (VIT’11) and Jonathan Nelson (VIT’02), Musicological Society, for his Annunziata. the future. dinner, hosted by Virgie and Susan Roberts. Assistant Director for Academic Programs book, Music and the Myth of Arcadia In May, Friederike Heumann became Retiring this spring after almost 30 The Early Days of Connoisseurship and and Publications. in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: I Tatti’s second Musician in Residence. years on the Council, Marilyn Perry the Collection at Villa I Tatti was the May As we go to to press J.J. Pellegrino, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009). The Friederike plays the viola da gamba and (VIT’77) is devoting herself to a new lecture given by Carl Strehlke, Curator at CFO LeMaitre Vascular Inc., accepted Award honors a musicological book directs the ensemble Stylus Phantasticus, career as an artist. We are ever grateful for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, held at Lino Pertile’s invitation to follow in of exceptional merit published which specializes in music of the early her support and wise counsel from the the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. his father’s footsteps and join the I Tatti during the previous year by a scholar German baroque. While in residence, she dual perspectives of scholar and president Carl, editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Council. We are delighted to welcome in the early stages of his or her career. edited their recent recording of music by of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. catalog of the European paintings in the another second generation supporter and Anthony Molho (VIT’69,’72) Corelli and his German contemporaries, John Gilmore, David Tobey, Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection one with so many Italian connections. was awarded the Premio gave an informal talk and recital, as well as a Julie Tobey, and Angela Weisl joined the at I Tatti, spoke about Berenson’s work a Graziella Macchetta Internazionale Galileo Galilei dei concert in the Church of San Martino. Council this year. John Gilmore, son of on Lorenzo Lotto and its influence on Development Associate Rotary Club Italiani for his work in Myron Gilmore, I Tatti’s second director, Berenson’s understanding of art principles the field of Italian economic history has his own law practice and serves on in October 2010. Past recipients the Board of Directors of the Harvard THE 2011/12 VILLA I TATTI COUNCIL include former I Tatti Fellows Cambridge Scholarship Committee. An a b Susan M. Roberts, Howard Brown (VIT’64,’70), active and loyal Harvard alumnus, David Chairman ~ Lino Pertile, Director Sydney Freedberg (VIT’74,’81,’89), Tobey, is an Honorary Trustee of the Darcy Beyer John Gilmore Joseph P. Pellegrino, Jr. and David Herlihy (VIT’62). Metropolitan Museum of Art, serving Treacy Beyer William Hood Neil L. Rudenstine Jean A. Bonna Walter Kaiser Sylvia Scheuer Christopher Carlsmith Christopher on the Drawings Committee and the Debby Brice Virgilia Pancoast Klein Sydney R. Shuman (VIT’10) was made “socio Stembridge; Paper Conservation Department. He and James R. Cherry, Jr. Frederick S. Koontz William F. Thompson corrispondente della Classe di Scienze Blake Wilson; Julie generously support scholarships for Anne Coffin Mary Gibbons Landor David Tobey Morali e Storiche” for the Ateneo di Friederike four Harvard students. They are also on Robert F. Erburu Barnabas McHenry Julie Tobey Gabriele Geier Joseph P. Pellegrino Angela Weisl Scienze, Lettere ed Art di Bergamo Heumann. the Drawing Committee of the Morgan (f. 1642) in November 2010. Library and the Presidential Council ddddddddddddddd ccccccccccccccc

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 with support from the Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund, the Scholarly Programs Back issues of I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance are now available on JSTOR, the not- Publications and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener,Craig and Barbara Smyth, for-profit online digital archive. Users at institutions that participate in JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Publications Jean-François Malle, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, V Collection are now able to browse, search, download, and print the full-text PDF versions of all I Tatti Studies. and the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Publication Fund. past articles from the first year of publication in 1983 until the most recent by visiting www.jstor.org. The I Tatti Renaissance Library Essays in the Renaissance focuses on the major literary, his- Florence: Leo S. Olschki torical, philosophical, and scientific Executive Editor Further Information can be Found at www.itatti.harvard.edu/publications works of the Italian Renaissance Caroline Elam written in Latin. Each volume pro- Editors vides a reliable Latin text together with an accurate, readable English Alison Brown translation on facing pages, accom- Joseph Connors panied by an editor’s introduction, Elizabeth Cropper I Tatti Renaissance Library I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance notes on the text, brief bibliography, Iain Fenlon (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press): (Florence: Leo S. Olschki) and index. Lino Pertile Recent: In Press: David Quint 21 20 ITRL 45. Humanist Tragedies, translated by Gary R. Grund. Vol. 13 contains essays by Giancarla Periti (VIT’08) on female self-commemora- e f d c Associate Editor Humanist Tragedies offers a sampling of Latin drama from the Tre- and Quat- tion in frescoes by Jacopo Loschi, Peter Howard (VIT’01,’08) on painters and the Jonathan K. Nelson trocento. These five tragedies – Ecerinis, Achilleis, Progne, Hyempsal, and Fernandus visual art of preaching in the Sistine Chapel, Gene Brucker (VIT’65,’80,’84,’87)on I Tatti Studies in Italian servatus – were nourished by a potent amalgam of classical, medieval, and pre-hu- Machiavelli and the Tuscan Church, Benedetta Matucci on Benedetto da Rovezza- Renaissance History e f is one of the few series outside Italy manist sources. Humanist tragedy testifies to momentous changes in literary con- no’s San Giovanni Gualberto monument, and Nadja Aksamija on the literary culture to produce monographic studies on I Tatti Renaissance Library ventions during the Renaissance. of the villa in counter-reformation Bologna. Italian Renaissance history. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press ITRL 46. Giovanni Boccaccio, Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, vol. 1: Books I-V, ed. and General Editor tr. Jon Solomon. e f The goal of Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is to plunder ancient and James Hankins e f medieval literary sources to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman my- The Villa I Tatti Series: Associate Editors thology. This is volume 1 of a three-volume set of Boccaccio’s complete 15-book I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Shane Butler work. It contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in Recent: Renaissance Martin Davies a Christian world. Péter Farbaky (VIT’02) & Louis A. Waldman (VIT’06) eds., Italy and Hungary: Hu- Scholars, whether or not former Appointess, are strongly encour- Editorial Board ITRL 47. Bartolomeo Fonzio, Letters to Friends, ed. Alessandro Daneloni (VIT’03), manism and Art in the Early Renaissance. Acts of an International Conference, Florence, Villa Michael J.B. Allen aged to submit essays of 7,000- tr. Martin Davies. I Tatti, June 6-8, 2007 (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2011). 10,000 words on any aspect of the Brian Copenhaver The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio – a leading literary figure in Florence of the The twenty-one essays collected in this volume provide a window onto re- Italian Renaissance. Interdisciplinary Vincenzo Fera time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli – are a window into the world of Re- cent research on the development of humanism and art in the Hungary of Matthias approaches are particularly wel- Julia Haig Gaisser naissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes Corvinus and his successors. Richly illustrated with new photography, this book come. Authors could also address Claudio LeonardiX the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved eloquently documents and explores the unique role played by the Hungarian court the transmission and circulation of Walther Ludwig body of a Roman girl. in the cultural history of Renaissance Europe. ideas, objects, and people during the Renaissance, both into and beyond Nicholas Mann ITRL 48. Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Modern Poets, tr. John Grant. In Press: the Italian peninsula, or the histori- Silvia Rizzo Lilio Gregorio Giraldi authored many works on literary history, mythology, and Gerhard Wolf, & Joseph Connors (VIT’3-’10), with Louis A. Waldman (VIT’06) ography of the Italian Renaissance, antiquities. Among the most famous are his dialogues, modeled on Cicero’s Brutus, including the rebirth of interest in e f translated here into English for the first time. The work gives a panoramic view eds., Colors Between Two Worlds: The Florentine Codex of Bernardino de Sahagún (Florence: the Renaissance in later periods. of European poetry in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, concentrating Villa I Tatti, 2012) Most essays are in English or Italian. I Tatti Studies in above all on Italy. For half a century the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), Italian Renaissance History often described as the first anthropologist of the New World, worked with his indigenous colleagues at the Collegio Imperial at Tlateloco (now Mexico City) on Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press In Press: e f ITRL 49-50. Lorenzo Valla, Dialectical Disputations, tr. Brian Copenhaver and Lodi an encyclopedic compendium of the beliefs, rituals, language, arts and economy of General Editor Nauta (VIT’08). the vanishing culture of the Aztecs. This book examines the most richly illustrated The Villa I Tatti Series Edward Muir ITRL 51-52. Marsilio Ficino, Commentaries on Plato, vol. 2: Parmenides, in two parts, manuscript of this great ethnographic work, the Florentine Codex (Biblioteca includes the proceedings of interna- Board of Editors tional conferences and seminars held edited by Maude Vanhaelen (VIT’07). Medicea Laurenziana, Florence) through the issue of color. James Hankins at the Villa, as well as collections of Carol Lansing essays and monographs that result e f e f from research done during a fellow- John M. Najemy ship year. Katharine Park I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History The Bernard Berenson Lectures: (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press) e f Recent: e f In Press: Julian Gardner (VIT’06), Giotto and His Publics: Three Paradigms of Patronage (Cambridge, Inquiries should be addressed Gary Ianziti (VIT’82), Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2011). The Bernard Berenson through our website at Lectures Uses of the Past. This probing analysis of three of Giotto’s major works and the patrons who www.itatti.harvard.edu/ commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of originate in the talks given at I Tatti publications Leonardo Bruni is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian by senior scholars on the art, poli- of the early Renaissance. Gary Ianziti undertakes a systematic work-by-work inves- western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful tics, religion, science, philosophy, or tigation of the full range of Bruni’s output in history and biography, and assesses in bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between mercantile wealth and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. detail the impact of the Greek historians on humanist methods of historical writing. iconography of poverty.

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 Nuccio Ordine (VIT’87). Trois 1473) (Roma: Istituto Storico Italiano BOOKS BY FORMER FELLOWS couronnes pour un roi: la devise d'Henri III per il Medio Evo, 2008). et ses mystères (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, Dóra Sallay (VIT’11). Raffaele Bertinelli mong the many recent additions to the Library, whether purchased by one of the endowed book funds, from donations given 2011). és reneszánsz képtára: egy műgyűjtemény Aby the Friends of the Biblioteca Berenson, or given directly, are the following recent publications by former Fellows. Please Ivano Paccagnella (VIT’90). Tre útja rómától esztergomig (Esztergom: forgive us if, due to space limitations or an oversight, your volume is not listed. sonetti tra “Morato” e “Magagnò”: Kersesztény Múzeum, 2009). Giacomo Morello e Giovan Battista Marco Spallanzani (VIT’82-’03). g g g g g g g g Maganza (Padova: CLEUP, 2011). Metalli islamici a Firenze nel Rinascimento Katharine Park (VIT’01,’05). Secrets (Firenze: S.P.E.S., 2010). of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Andrea Baldinotti, Bruno Santi & Antonella Astorri (VIT’95). I L'assassino del duca: esilio e morte di (Firenze: Edizioni del Galluzzo per la Origins of Human Dissection (New York: Riccardo Spinelli (VIT’94) eds. Franzesi: da Figline alla corte di Francia Lorenzino de' Medici (Firenze: L. S. Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, 2005). Samantha Kelly (VIT’04) ed. Zone Books, 2006). Giovanni Martinelli, pittore di Montevarchi: (Figline Valdarno: Assessorato alla Olschki, 2011). Margherita Fratarcangeli (VIT’11). Bartolomeo Caracciolo, The Cronaca di Deborah Parker (VIT’93). Michelangelo maestro del Seicento fiorentino (Firenze: Cultura, 2010). Stefano Dall'Aglio (VIT’06). Il cardinal Tolomeo Gallio tra patrimonio Partenope: an Introduction to and Critical and the Art of Letter Writing (New York: Maschietto, 2011). Stefano Ugo Baldassarri (VIT’01). Savonarola and Savonarolism (Toronto: immobiliare e "collezionismo architettonico" Edition of the First Vernacular History of Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010). Franek Sznura (VIT’86) ed. Fiumi e Manettiana: la biografia anonima in Centre for Reformation and (Como: Società Storica Comense: Naples (c. 1350) (Leiden; Boston: Brill, Gabriele Pedullà (VIT’08) & Sergio laghi toscani fra passato e presente: pesca, terzine e altri documenti inediti su Renaissance Studies, 2010). 2001). 2011). Luzzatto, eds. Atlante della letteratura memorie, regole (Firenze: Aska, 2010). 23 22 Giannozzo Manetti (Roma: Roma nel Alessandro Daneloni (VIT’03) ed. Elena Fumagalli (VIT’96), italiana (Torino: G. Einaudi, 2010). Carlo Taviani (VIT’10) & Matthias d c Louis La Favia (VIT’80). Dante: Rinascimento, 2010). Bartolommeo Fonte. Letters to Friends Alessandro Nova & Massimiliano soteriologia e poesia (Par., VIII): giustizia Gabriele Pedullà (VIT’08) & Schnettger eds. Libertà e dominio: il Flaminia Bardati (VIT’05). La réception (Cambridge, MA; Harvard Univ. Press, Rossi (VIT’99,’98-‘03) eds. Firenze e amore (Ravenna: Provincia Bolognese Francesco Donadi eds. Dionysius of sistema politico genovese: le relazioni esterne de modèles cinquecenteschi dans la théorie et 2011). milleseicentoquaranta: arti, lettere, musica, dei Frati Minori Conventuali, Centro Halicarnassus. Le antichità romane (Torino: e il controllo del territorio (Roma: Viella, les arts français du XVIIe siècle (Genève: Eva Del Soldato (VIT’11). Simone scienza (Venezia: Marsilio, 2010). Dantesco Onlus, 2011). Einaudi, 2010). 2011). Droz, 2010). Porzio: un aristotelico tra natura e grazia Sean Gallagher (VIT’08). Johannes John E. Law (VIT’95,’07) & Bernadette Marco Pellegrini (VIT’98). Il papato Nicholas Terpstra (VIT’95,’09). Lost Maria Beltramini & Caroline Elam (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Regis (Turnhout: Brepols; Tours: Centre Paton, eds. Communes and Despots in nel Rinascimento (Bologna: Il Mulino, Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance (VIT’82,’05,) eds. Some Degree of 2010). d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Farnham, 2010). Florence (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Happiness: studi di storia del'architettura Daniela De Rosa (VIT’78). Il pontificato 2010). Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010). Maria Agata Pincelli (VIT’06) ed. Univ. Press, 2010). in onore di Howard Burns (Pisa: Edizioni di Vittore III: un riesame critico (Roma: David Gentilcore (VIT’06). Pomodoro: Pietro C. Marani (VIT’82) & Pina Flavio Biondo. Borsus (Roma: Istituto Sergio Tognetti (VIT’01) ed. Firenze e della Normale, 2010). Aracne, 2008). A History of the Tomato in Italy (New Ragionieri eds. La scuola del mondo: Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2009). Pisa dopo il 1406: la creazione di un nuovo Shane Butler (VIT’04). The Matter of Eric Dursteler (VIT’07). Renegade York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2010). Leonardo e Michelangelo: disegni a confronto Adriano Prosperi (VIT’81). Eresie spazio regionale: atti del convegno di studi, the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Women: Gender, Identity, and Boundaries Claudio Giunta (VIT’00) ed. Dante (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 2011). e devozioni: la religione italiana in età Firenze, 27-28 settembre 2008 (Firenze: Medieval Authors (Madison: University in the Early Modern Mediterranean Alighieri, 1265-1321. Opere (Milano: A. Gerry Milligan (VIT’08) & Jane Tylus moderna (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e L. S. Olschki, 2010). of Wisconsin Press, 2011). (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Mondadori, 2011). eds. The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Letteratura, 2010). Franklin Toker (VIT’73,’74). On Holy Christopher S. Celenza (VIT’00) ed. 2011). Claudio Giunta (VIT’00). Come si Modern Italy and Spain (Toronto: Centre Adriano Prosperi (VIT’81), director, Ground: Liturgy, Architecture and Urbanism Angelo Poliziano's Lamia: Text, Translation, diventa Michelangelo: il mercato dell'arte, la for Reformation and Renaissance with the collaboration of Vincenzo in the Cathedral and the Streets of Medieval and Introductory studies (Leiden: Boston: retorica, l'Italia (Roma: Donzelli, 2011). Studies, 2010). Lavenia and John Tedeschi (VIT’68). Florence (The Florence Duomo Project, Brill, 2010). Patrick Ramade, gen. ed. & Catherine Anthony Molho (VIT’69,’72) & Dizionario storico dell'Inquisizione (Pisa: v. 1; Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, Kathleen Christian (VIT’09) & Monbeig-Goguel (VIT’02), ed. L'œil et Franek Sznura (VIT’86) eds. Luca Scuola Normale Superiore, 2010). 2009). David J. Drogin, eds. Patronage and la passion: dessins italiens de la Renaissance Da Panzano, Brighe, affanni, volgimenti di Lionello Puppi (VIT’69) ed. Convegno Marvin Trachtenberg (VIT’75,’76). Italian Renaissance Sculpture (Farnham, dans les collections privées françaises (Paris: stato: le ricordanze quattrocentesche di Luca "La battaglia di Cadore" (2009: Pieve di Building-in-Time: From Giotto to Alberti Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010). Somogy; Caen: Musée des Beaux-Arts di Matteo di messer Luca dei Firidolfi da Cadore, Italy) La battaglia di Cadore, and Modern Oblivion (New Haven, CT: Kathleen Christian (VIT’09). Empire de Caen, 2011). Panzano (Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni 2 marzo 1508: atti della Giornata Yale Univ. Press, 2010). Without End: Antiquities Collections in Edward Goldberg (VIT’84). Jews and del Galluzzo, 2010). internazionale di studio, 26 settembre 2009 Timothy Verdon (VIT’87) ed. Gesù: il Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527 (New Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World John Monfasani (VIT’74,’83) ed. (Firenze: Alinari 24 ore, 2010). corpo, il volto nell'arte (Cinisello Balsamo: Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2010). of Benedetto Blanis (Toronto: Univ. of George Amiroutzes: The Philosopher and Guido Rebecchini (VIT’05). Un altro Silvana, 2010). Anthony Colantuono (VIT’03). Toronto Press, 2011). his Tractates (Leuven; Walpole, MA: Lorenzo: Ippolito de' Medici tra Firenze e Marco Villoresi (VIT’00). Versi per la Titian, Colonna, and the Renaissance Amanda Smith, Bruce Edelstein, Alberto Grohmann (VIT’79). Fiere e Peeters, 2011). Roma (1511-1535) (Venezia: Marsilio, Madonna delle Carceri di Prato: un poemetto Science of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons Molly Bourne & Deanna Shemek. mercati nell'Europa occidentale (Milano: Roberta Morosini (VIT’04) 2010). e quattro laudi (Prato: Società Pratese di of Desire (Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Mondadori, 2011). ed. Boccaccio geografo: un viaggio nel Lucio Riccetti (VIT’91) ed. 1909 tra Storia Patria, 2011). VT: Ashgate, 2010). William Eamon (VIT’95). The Professor Marcia B. Hall (VIT’72). The Sacred Mediterraneo tra le città, i giardini e-- il collezionismo e tutela: connoisseur, antiquari Elissa Weaver (VIT’89) ed. Antonia Michael Cole (VIT’07). Ambitious of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, "mondo" di Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze: e la ceramica medievale orvietana (Firenze: Pulci, Saints' Lives and Bible Stories for Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Renaissance Italy (Washington, DC: Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio (New M. Pagliai, 2010). Giunti, 2010). the Stage (Toronto: Iter Inc.: Centre for in Florence (Princeton NJ: Princeton National Geographic, 2010). Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2011). Anita Moskowitz (VIT’80). The Andrea Rizzi (VIT’11) ed. The Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Univ. Press, 2011). Nicholas A. Eckstein (VIT’99,’03,’07) Peter Humfrey (VIT’88,’91). Titian: Façade Reliefs of Orvieto Cathedral Historia Imperiale by Riccobaldo Ferrarese 2010). William J. Connell (VIT’93). Anti- & Nicholas Terpstra (VIT’95,’09). The Complete Paintings. (Ghent: Ludion; (London: Harvey Miller, 2009). translated by Matteo Maria Boiardo (1471- Hanan Yoran (VIT’99). Between Utopia Italianism: Essays on a Prejudice (New Sociability and its Discontents: Civil Society, New York: H.N. Abrams, 2007). John Najemy (VIT’70,’71,’75,’99) ed. and Dystopia: Erasmus, Thomas More, and York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 ). Social Capital, and their Alternatives in Peter Humfrey (VIT’88,’91). Titian The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli the Humanist Republic of Letters (Lanham, Alison Cornish (VIT’06). Vernacular Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (London; New York: Phaidon, 2007). (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge MD: Lexington Books, 2010). Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009). Machtelt Israëls (VIT’05) & Louis Univ. Press, 2010). Andrea Zorzi (VIT’97). Le signorie Literature (Cambridge, UK; New York: Carlo Falciani (VIT’99) & Antonio A. Waldman (VIT’06) eds. Renaissance Wlodzimierz Olszaniec (VIT’04) cittadine in Italia, secoli XIII-XV (Milan: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011). Natali eds. Bronzino: pittore e poeta alla Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors: Toward ed. and trans. Girolamo Savonarola, Mondadori, 2010). Philippe Costamagna (VIT’99). Un corte dei Medici (Firenze: Mandragora: a Festschrift (Florence: L.S. Olschki, Medytacje więzienne: komentarze Top: Holly Hurlburt, Gerry Milligan & capolavoro del Rinascimento: Pontormo, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, 2010). 2010). do psalmów 51 i 31 with intro by ritratto di gentiluomo (Milano: Carlo Orsi, Alessandra Fiori (VIT’93) ed. Hucbald Lisa Kaborycha (VIT’11). A Short Monique O’Connell at the Luigi Lazzerini (VIT’04) (Kęty: M. March 2010 RSA meeting; 2010). of Saint Amand, Musica; Epistola de History of Renaissance Italy (Upper Derewiecki, 2010). Stefano Dall'Aglio (VIT’06). harmonica institutione/Reginone di Prüm Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011). Andrea Rizzi.

Villa I Tatti Autumn 2011 Lila A. Wallace - Research opportunities IN MEMORIAM Reader’s Digest I Tatti records with sorrow the following deaths: Special Grant Recipients 2010/2011 limited number of Mellon Tatti encourages Harvard AVisiting Fellowships, for periods Iundergraduate and graduate students oy R. Neuberger, founding Smyth Library wing. His expectations of 56 after a year-long struggle with ranging from three to six months, to apply for intensive, full time Rmember of the I Tatti Council, were always high, which encouraged a brain tumor. Praloran graduated ormer I Tatti Appointees are eligible are available each academic year for internships. These internships are for died at 107 on 24 December 2010 in others to do that little bit extra, and his from the University of Padua in to apply for two kinds of grants to advanced research in any aspect of the a maximum of three months, and a New York City. Mr. Neuberger was advice was always worthwhile. See p. 7. history of the Italian language. After F both a stockbroker and a collector of a brief period in Udine, he moved to promote their scholarship. Italian Renaissance. This Fellowship minimum of 240 hours, during the The Lila Acheson Wallace - Reader’s contemporary art. He founded the ina Ciullini, elder sister of Liliana Lausanne where he was Professor of Digest Publications Grants provide is designed to reach out to Italian Fall, Spring, or Summer semesters. investment firm Neuberger & Berman Land Bruno, died on 5 May 2011 Comparative European Literatures and subsidies for scholarly books on the Renaissance scholars from areas that I Tatti provides lunch on work days. in 1939 with Robert B. Berman and at the age of 88 after a long illness. Languages. His publications include Italian Renaissance. These can be a have been under-represented at I Tatti Some funding may be available for continued to go to his office every day Lina lived almost her entire life on the “Maraviglioso artificio”: tecniche narrative e monograph by a single author or a pair until he was 99. Mr. Neuberger began I Tatti property, first in the Corbignano rappresentative nell’Orlando Innamorato especially those living and working housing and travel expenses. The I Tatti 25 of authors, or a collection of essays by in Asia, Latin America, the Iberian library, archives, photo archive, and art his art collection in the late 1930s, farmhouse where she was a tenant (Lucca: Pacini-Fazzi, 1990), Tempo e 24 autori varii. Books that grow directly d c Peninsula and the Mediterranean collection offer many rich opportunities and never sold a painting by a living farmer with her family and where she Azione nell’Orlando Furioso, (Firenze: out of research carried out at I Tatti are artist. His collection is now scattered rounded out the family income by Olschki, 1999); Il poema in ottava especially appropriate. basin (except Italy and France) and the for internships. among a number of museums including sewing, which she did most beautifully. (Roma: Carocci, 2003); and Le lingue del In addition, Special Project Islamic countries. the Neuberger Museum of Art at She continued to sew while serving as racconto. Studi su Boiardo e Ariosto (Roma: Grants are occasionally available Dóra Sallay; SUNY Purchase and the Metropolitan the gatekeeper when the family moved Bulzoni, 2009). Despite his illness, he to former Appointees who wish to Museum of Art. Mr. Neuberger was in 1966 to the lodge at the bottom of continued working to the last. Metro initiate, promote, or engage in an Harvard Interns at I Tatti: particularly supportive to then director the I Tatti garden. Later she also joined e ritmo nella poesia italiana (Tavarnuzze: interdisciplinary project in Italian Renaissance studies such as a conference Henry Shull & Sanam Craig Hugh Smyth during I Tatti’s the house staff. Lina was a quiet, wise SISMEL, Edizione del Galluzzo, 2011) or workshop. Nader-Esfahani; first endowment campaign in the late presence in the I Tatti family. For was published two days before he died. Further information can be 1970s as the Council and our donors many years it was she who, with a found on our web site at www.itatti. Giorgio Caravale & successfully met the generous challenge disembodied “Chi è?” at the gatehouse illiam Mostyn-Owen, Bernard harvard.edu under RESEARCH and Stefano Dall’Aglio. grant of $1.5 million offered by the citofono, admitted Fellows and visitors WBerenson’s collaborator and GRANTS. The application deadline is Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which to I Tatti who arrived on foot. Before research assistant in the 1950s, died 1 November each year. almost doubled I Tatti’s endowment. her retirement in 1996, she helped keep peacefully in London at the age of 81 He received the National Medal of Arts the I Tatti apartments in order and on 2 May 2011. Educated at Eton in 2007. prepare the lunches. And on clement and Magdalene College, Cambridge, Victoria Avery (VIT’05) towards the evenings she was to be found under Willy Mostyn-Owen was an art illustrations for Vulcan's Forge in Venus' elvin R. Seiden, I Tatti Council the gatehouse loggia with her brother, historian with a deep love of the Italian City: The Story of Bronze in Venice, 1350- Mmember, died of a brain sister and the neighbors, talking over the Renaissance. On the occasion of B.B.’s 1650 (published by the British Academy, hemorrhage on 14 January 2011. He events of the day. 90th birthday in 1955, he produced the distributed by Oxford University Press). was educated at Harvard University Bibliografia di Bernard Berenson, complete Claudia Bolgia (VIT’10) towards the (A.B. 1952, LL.B. 1955). After serving in lfredo Papi, retired I Tatti farmer, with translations of his writings. He publication of S. Maria in Aracoeli and the Navy, Mel turned to the investment Adied 5 August 2011 aged 85. He then edited a new English edition the Franciscans in Rome (c. 1250-1400) field at Loeb Rhoades & Co. after came to I Tatti in 1954 with his parents, of Berenson’s path-breaking study of (Ashgate Publishing Limited). which he founded Seiden & de Cuevas brothers, their wives and children – in Lorenzo Lotto and, with Luisa Vertova, Virginia Cox (VIT’97) towards the (1962-1986). After retiring from active all 14 people – and lived first in the helped Berenson on the 1957 edition of publication of The Prodigious Muse: work in the financial field, he devoted building now known as the Paul Geier Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy (Johns Hopkins University Press). Eva Del Soldato, Cara Rachele, Marcella Marongiu himself to art and philanthropy. From Library and then for several decades School. A friend of both Mr. Berenson Eric Dursteler (VIT’07) towards the & Giovanni Fara. the mid 1970s, Mel was an integral Alfredo and his wife Lina lived at the and Nicky, Willy lived for a long period publication of Renegade Women: Gender, member of the I Tatti family. He was a Podere al Mulino when it was still at the Villa, and played an active part in Identity and Boundaries in the Early founding member of the I Tatti Council a simple farmhouse. At the Podere, the social life here. In her Forty Years with iliana Ciullini in Seventh Heaven with three and its chairman from 1984 until 1989. Alfredo cultivated a garden of rare Berenson, Nicky wrote that Willy “was Modern Mediterranean (Johns Hopkins of this year’s newborns: Duccio, born 4 January University Press). L In this role he cajoled and coaxed other beauty where roses lived happily with a gay and vital presence in the house, Morten Hansen (VIT’07) towards the 2011 to Carlo Fei (security) & Barbara Prioreschi); members of the Council and numerous the vegetables. Among his many talents also touchingly tender and solicitous publication of In Michelangelo's Mirror: Christian, born 30 January 2011 to Angela & Emiliano friends to match his support. With his was the skill to cane chairs, which he with B.B. during the last difficult years.” Mannerism and Imitation as Argument Pernice (household); and Elena, born 10 April 2011 unflagging enthusiasm for education did with great dexterity. He will be After short spells at the Fogg Museum at (Penn State Press). to Cheti Benvenuti (household) & Sergio Galeotti in the arts and humanities and his remembered for his calm but playful Harvard and the Metropolitan Museum Deborah Howard (VIT’07) towards (security). Looking on are Angiolino Papi, Nelda extraordinary generosity, he established character. In the years that he worked in New York, he was hired by Christie's the publication of Talking Buildings any number of funds at I Tatti: in the for I Tatti, Alfredo helped shape the where he (Yale University Press). Ferace & Sergio Galeotti. Other babies born this year library in honor of people he admired, landscape here, especially after the stayed for Anne Leader (VIT’09) towards the include Costanza, born 6 August 2011 to Elisabetta for the preservation of the property and terrible winter of 1985 when the Papi almost publication of The Florentine Badia: Art Cunsolo (library) & Giacomo Di Domizio; Emma, art collection, the Berenson Fototeca, brothers cut down more than 2,000 30 years. and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery born 26 April 2011 to Andrea Mozzato (VIT’07) & and scholarly programs and publications. olive trees to allow the roots to spring (Indiana University Press). Anja Brug; and Victor, born 7 March 2011 to Anne Most recently, he was untiring in his forth anew. Willy and Denis Riboullault (VIT’09) towards & Denis Ribouillault (VIT’09). And wedding bells efforts to raise sufficient money to his son, the publication of Sacred Landscape. convert part of the library space at arco Praloran (VIT’92) died Orlando, Landscape as exegesis in Early Modern rang in January for Gerardo de Simone (VIT’11) & I Tatti into the Craig and Barbara 10 September 2011 at the age at I Tatti. Europe (Leo S. Olschki). Cristina Borgioli. Congratulations to them all! M

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2009 Chianti came out on top, much to The unusual snowfall that came soon the highest caliber. the delight of Andrea Laini, our chief after closed down Florence and left By late May, after a long, dry and VILLA I TATTI COMMUNITY 2011-2012 winemaker. We are now looking forward I Tatti in splendid, beautiful, crisp white very warm period, as we were deep to tasting our 2010 vintage, though I fear isolation. into organizing the celebrations for the Fellows it may not be as good as 2009. As spring came, we were enchanted 50th anniversary of the Center and the Ilaria Andreoli, Florence Gould “Archives: A New Comparative History Italian Art Fellow, Texas A&M University, The highlight of the fall was the by the early arrival of the anemones in inauguration of the Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, Institut National d'Histoire de with Special Reference to Florence and History. “The Reconstruction of the l'Art, Art History. “Florentinis ingeniis visit of Harvard President Drew Gilpin the English meadows, just as Walter Kaiser Loggiato, torrential rains began. We were Venice.” Ancients in Humanist Biographies of nihil ardui est: The Florentine Illustrated Faust and her husband Professor Charles had promised we would be. The reds, so busy with all the preparations that it Montserrat Ferrer Santanach Classical Philosophers.” Book (1490-1550).” (2nd Sem), Mellon Visiting Fellow, Luke Roman, Melville J. Kahn Rosenberg for Thanksgiving. It was purples and pinks that spread across the took us a while to get worried. However, Almudena Blasco Vallés (2nd Sem), Universitat de Girona, Fellow, Memorial University, President Faust’s first visit to I Tatti, and grounds in February were soon followed with tropical rains forecast just a week Mellon Visiting Fellow, Universitat Literature. “Humanist Literature. “Giovanni Pontano everyone in the Villa was excited about before our event, we began to fret. Heavy Autònoma de Barcelona, Art History. Manuscript Collec- and Classical Elegy.” having her in our midst. We were also rain did come with thunder that shook “The Signification of the Object in tions of orationes in 15th Luigi Silvano, Andrew W. fortunate that Debby and James Brice the walls, but then, as you perhaps know the Florentine Painting (Trecento- Century Italy.” Mellon Fellow, Institute for were able to join us for the Thanksgiving by now and will read more extensively Quattrocento).” Laura M. Giles (2nd Byzantine Studies, Austrian weekend. The weather was mixed, but all in other parts of the Newsletter, the fates Montserrat Cabré, Mellon Visiting Sem), Craig Hugh Academy of Sciences, 27 26 signs were that our guests were delighted smiled on I Tatti, the rain stopped, and Fellow, Universidad de Cantabria, Smyth Visiting Fellow, Literature. “In the Greek Class- d c with their visit. President Faust was able we had three glorious days. Everyone History. “Adorning the Female Body: Princeton University room: Learning Greek in Late to talk with Fellows and staff, take an who came commented on the combined Divergence and Accord in 15th Century Art Museum, Art Quattrocento Florence.” extensive tour of the Library, the art beauty and functionality of the Loggiato Women's Thinking on Women.” History. “Catalogue of Dario Tessicini, Deborah with its fifteen studies and the elegant Marta Cacho Casal, Ahmanson Italian Drawings in the Loeb Brice Fellow, Durham Gould Hall, set in the delightful new Fellow, The British Museum, Art Princeton University University, History. “Before by the many colored tulips Pellegrino Gardens. Our keynote History. “Artists and their Books.” Art Museum.” Galileo: Astronomy in Italy at and the perfumed, cascading speaker for the Marta Caroscio, Lila Wallace - Juan Luis González the End of the 16th Century.” Reader's Digest Fellow, (Museo García (1st Sem), Peta Motture. Francesco Zimei, Jean- wisteria. The glories of Pier Mattia Tommasino; occasion was Nacional de Cerámica y de las Artes Mellon Visiting Fellow, Universidad François Malle Fellow, Istituto Abruzzese the I Tatti gardens are many Déborah Blocker. Don Randel, and, as the year progressed, President of Suntuarias "González Martí”), History. Complutense de Madrid, Art History. di Storia Musicale, Musicology. “I we watched with increasing the Andrew “The Renaissance on the Table: The “Religious Art Theories between Italy laudari di Pacino di Bonaguida.” admiration the work of all W. Mellon and Spain (c.1580-1630).” those involved in making Foundation. Andrea Guidi, Andrew W. Mellon Harvard Graduate Visiting Fellows Fellow, Istituto di Studi Umanistici, that beauty possible while His speech on Wei Hu (2nd Sem), Literature. Firenze, History. “Gli eserciti di Firenze Jeremie Korta (1st sem), Literature. maintaining the integrity of the role of the dall’Ordinanza machiavelliana (1506) Craig Plunges (2nd Sem), Literature. the historic grounds. I’m humanities and alla caduta della Repubblica (1530).” afraid we lost two the arts today Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio (2nd Visiting Professors collection and gardens, and, accompanied old and tall cypress trees to the hit a chord of Sem), Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Maria Constantoudaki (2nd Sem), by Debby, step inside the just completed winds of early spring, but felt recognition with Fellow, University of Vermont, Art Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Visiting and very handsome Deborah Loeb Brice compensated in May when two all present and those reading History. “Diplomatic Gifts of Sculpture Professor, University of Athens, Art Loggiato. It was particularly wonderful lovely umbrella pines arrived to it on line. The next day in Early Modern Europe.” History. “The Art of the Cretan to have the President join the whole grace the new Scholars’ Court the fascinating conference Cecilia Hewlett, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Renaissance in its European Context.” I Tatti community for the Thanksgiving as it was taking shape under on Material Culture, Monash University, History. “Miracles, Christina Dyson, Andrea Rizzi, Oliver Rizzi, Anthony M. Cummings (1st sem), luncheon. She spoke warmly of the our eyes. organized by our Fellows, Gerardo de Simone, Nadia Marx, Markets & Militia: Peasants on the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor, strong and growing bond between the Spring also saw the arrival and the presentations on the & Giovanni Fara. Move in Renaissance Tuscany.” Lafayette College, Musicology. “An College and I Tatti. She also seemed to of some new musical visitors, innovative projects in the Shona Kelly Wray, Robert Lehman Intellectual Biography of Nino Pirrotta.” enjoy the taste of wild boar alongside the I Tatti’s first Musicians in Library, the Fototeca, and Material Culture of Eating in Florence.” Fellow, University of Missouri-Kansas Paschalis Kitromilides (2nd Sem), Tuscan turkey. However, what amused Residence. Christopher Stembridge, the art collection had the audiences Robert Colby (2nd Sem), Craig Hugh City, History. “Faculty Families of 14th Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Visiting her most, upon reading the labels on a harpsichordist and organist, and enthralled. To hear what is happening Smyth Visiting Fellow, Gund Gallery at Century Bologna.” Professor, University of Athens, History. several bottles that graced our tables, Friederike Heumann, a viola da gamba in the quiet corridors of Villa I Tatti Kenyon College, Art History. “Altamura Tommaso Mozzati, Hanna Kiel “Civic Humanism as a Transcultural was to learn that she, together with player, each stayed for about a month. – so many initiatives embracing and the Berenson Circle.” Fellow, Università di Perugia, Art European Phenomenon: The Greek “the Fellows of Harvard College,” is the They carried out their own musical both traditional scholarship and the Roisin Cossar, Deborah Loeb Brice History. “Il convento fiorentino fuori Contribution.” official producer of our delicious Chianti research but also delighted us all with extraordinary potential of the digital Fellow, University of Manitoba, Porta San Gallo dei frati Eremitani di Guido Ruggiero (2nd Sem), Robert – something which of course has been impromptu recitals in the Villa as well era – filled all of us, visitors and residents History. “Unsettling Histories: Clerical Sant’Agostino.” Lehman Visiting Professor, University Households and Ecclesiastical Archives common knowledge at Ponte a Mensola as marvelous formal performances - alike, with confidence about the present Mariko Muramatsu, University of Miami, History. “A New Social in Venice, 1300-1400.” of Tokyo, Literature. “La donna for a very long time! Christopher on the 16th century organ and excitement for the future of our and Cultural History of the Italian Maria Del Rio-Barredo (1st sem), angelica nella letteratura italiana Duo- Renaissance.” The annual Fettunta, the traditional of SS. Annunziata in Florence, and fifty-year old Center. Mellon Visiting Fellow, Universidad Quattrocentesca.” celebration of the new season’s olive oil, Friederike playing the viola da gamba There was much more of course Autónoma de Madrid, History. “The Christina Neilson, Rush H. Kress Research Associates was held in December under a cool but in the beautiful church of San Martino a in the year with plans being made for Influence of the Spanish Court in Fellow, Oberlin College, Art History. As for 2010-2011 plus: glorious blue-sky with staff and Fellows Mensola and in the Florence Gould Hall scholarly outreach, a new website and Renaissance Europe.” “Verrocchio's Factura: Making and Ingrid Baumgärtner, Universität relishing the taste of the olive oil on all in the Loggiato. These performances, stronger ties with our formidable team of Filippo De Vivo, Francesco De Meaning in an Italian Renaissance Kassel, History. “Text, Image and Space sorts of delicious foods grilled on a big together with I Tatti’s magnificent Early Council members. When I met with the Dombrowski Fellow, Birkbeck College, Workshop.” in Medieval Cartography (12th-16th outdoor fire by the Corbignano Farm. Music series, made for a musical year of Continued on back page. University of London, History. Ada Palmer, Committee to Rescue Centuries).”

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Council in May, a particularly important heartfelt appreciation for the previous change took place. After sixteen years of Directors of Villa I Tatti who have done sterling work as chairman, Debby Brice such magnificent work in building the passed the baton to Susan Roberts, and I Center into the flourishing academic am as filled with pleasure at the prospect institute that it now is. Anna and I are of working with Susan as I am with grateful in particular to Joe and Françoise gratitude for all the great things that Connors and to Walter Kaiser, whose Debby has achieved. It was a smooth and advice and support, not to mention happy transition. I could feel on the part friendship, have been simply invaluable of everyone present the readiness to help in this our first year. We missed Walter’s with our mission of supporting the study presence at the inauguration, but we were the Council, the staff, former Directors, of the Italian Renaissance in America and delighted that there were other times this Fellows and Visiting Professors past and Europe, while reaching out to develop year when his unmistakable, deep voice present, it is with much pleasure and it in the rest of the world. Our annual and warm laugh were heard around excitement that Anna and I begin our meeting felt like the wind in our sails. the terraces and along the corridors of second year at this extraordinary place. It is with much respect and gratitude Villa I Tatti.  Lino Pertile that I end my letter with a note of So with all these people at our side, Director

The I Tatti newsletter is published once a year. Alexa M. Mason, editor & writer; Susan Bates design, & layout; WordTech, printing & distribution. Photographs are by Areli Marina, Alessandro Superbi, Simonetta Pinto, Marica Tacconi, Gianni Trambusti or Alexa Mason, who apologizes to anyone whose photo she has used and whom she has not acknowledged. Former Fellows are indicated in the text with the initials “VIT” after their name followed by the year(s) of their appointment as Fellow, Visiting Scholar or Professor, or Research Associate. Many thanks to all who have contributed.