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Letter from Florence he I Tatti family seemed larger than the meeting in Florence. Directors and Tever this year, with fifteen Fellows, other representatives came from the six Visiting Professors, two Mellon Getty, Frick, Metropolitan Museum, Fellows, three Craig Hugh Smyth Fellows CASVA, Clark, Smithsonian, Wolfsonian, from the museum world, and two Dumbarton Oaks, American Academy in Harvard Readers in the Renaissance, for Rome, Huntington, Mellon Centers for a total of twenty-eight in all. This does British Art in both London and New not count returning Fellows who, this Haven, and Instituto de Investigaciones year more than ever, contributed to the Estéticas in Mexico City. On the agenda vitality of the community. With the were visits to the Pitti, to hear a history spring influx of returning Fellows lunches of the historic hang from the director, often became buffets spreading out over Serena Padovani, and to the National the garden terraces. The community also in the company of curator Alessandro Institute of Restoration, the so-called seems larger because more Fellows are Cecchi and Nicola MacGregor, who had Opificio delle Pietre Dure, to look at living on I Tatti property, with two new just restored the painting. Back at I Tatti recent work. Gerhard Wolf, director of apartments already restored (in addition there was a magic moment when we took the Kunsthistorisches Institut, spoke on to the four at San Martino) and a third in Berenson’s delicate, tragic fragment of a the challenge of setting new missions for the planning stages. The lunch table was Gentile Madonna off the wall and looked a venerable research institute with its as multilingual as ever, with pockets of at it lovingly in the sunlight. strong traditions. Our guests were French and German and the occasional Music cast its spell over the year, introduced to Roman Florentia over the whisper in Hungarian or Polish amidst beginning with the orientation concert amazing model of the ancient city in the the dominant English hubbub and Italian by Ella Sevskaya on a replica of a Museo di Firenze Com’Era, and there mormorio. Cristofori fortepiano, then later in the were visits to the Medici villas at Castello, Over the past few years the custom year with a recital by Giulia Nuti on the Artimino and Poggio a Caiano with lively has developed of a fall and a spring trip. harpsichord recently donated by and learned commentary from current In early October we visited Assisi, just Frederick Hammond (VIT’72). There Fellows Andrea Gáldy and Louis before the feast of St. Francis. Visiting were two superb concerts in the series Waldman. Our colleagues left with a Professor Julian Gardner, whose time at Early Music at I Tatti. Mala Punica, the sense of Florence as an international I Tatti was dedicated to completing a group directed by former Fellow Pedro center of research at the highest level. book on Giotto, lent his expert guidance Memelsdorff (VIT’04), performed music Early in the autumn the Curator of for a day in the lower church and a day in of c.1400 in the limoniaia, and Singer Pur, Chinese Art at Harvard University Art the upper church. The pink stone of the a vocal group from Germany, sang music Museums, Robert Mowry, stayed at city of St. Francis glowed beautifully in for the Virgin Mary by medieval, I Tatti for two weeks, the first beneficiary the golden autumn light and sunset over Renaissance and contemporary of a program formed together with that mystic valley of santi and santoni was composers in the church of San Martino, Thomas Lentz, Director of HUAM, to unforgettable. In the spring we went to with composers Joanne Metcalf and have Harvard curators get to know the the Marche for the great, once-in-a- Christopher Lyndon-Gee in attendance. I Tatti collections better and give us their lifetime exhibition on Gentile da Three years ago I Tatti joined the advice. A warm friendship, plus new Fabriano in his home town, the center Association of Research Institutes in Art insights into the Asian art, were some of paper making in the Middle Ages, with History (ARIAH). We have duly fruits of this visit. We look forward to side trips to Tolentino and Foligno. The attended annual meetings in Oaxaca and more. trip was preceded by a visit to Gentile’s Washington, but in October we hosted Continued on back page. Magi in the Uffizi on a closed Monday

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.it VILLA I TATTI COMMUNITY 2005-2006

Fellows “Renaissance Humanists as Authors of STEFANIE W ALKER (2nd sem), Craig Hugh MONICA AZZOLINI, Ahmanson Fellow, vitae sanctorium.” Smyth Visiting Fellow, The Bard Graduate University of New South Wales, History. ANDREA GÁLDY, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, Center for Studies in Decorative Arts, Art “Learned Medicine and Astrology at the Institute of Historical Research, History. “A Catalogue of the ‘Jewelry Sforza Court, 1450-1499.” University of London, Art History Portraits’ by the Renaissance Painter Hans SANDOR BENE (1st sem), Andrew W. “Florence – a 16th-Century Centre of Mielich.” Mellon Research Fellow, Hungarian Antiquarian Studies.” Academy of Sciences, Literature. “Two SARA GALLETTI, Jean François Malle Readers in Renaissance Studies Mirrors for Princes by Andreas Fellow, Eastern Mediterranean JOHN GAGNÉ (2nd sem), Harvard Pannonius, Dedicated to Matthias University, Art History. “Da Firenze a University, History. 2 Corvinus (1467) and Ercole d’Este (1471) Parigi: Influenze medicee sulla ADA PALMER (1st sem), Harvard University, – Critical Edition.” progettazione e l’uso degli spazi della vita History. DOROTHEA BURNS (2nd sem), Craig Hugh privata e di corte nella Francia di Maria Smyth Visiting Fellow, Weissman de’ Medici.” Visiting Professors Preservation Center, Harvard University, MARCO GENTILE, Francesco De KAROL BERGER, Robert Lehman Visiting Art History. “The Invention of the Italian Dombrowski Fellow, Università Statale di Professor, Stanford University, Renaissance Metal Point Drawing.” Milano, History. “Parte, fazione e ‘secta’ Musicology. “The Transition from Time’s PHILIPPE CANGUILHEM, Florence J. Gould nel linguaggio del Quattrocento.” Cycle to Time’s Arrow and the Origins Fellow, Université de Toulouse - Le ILDIKO FEHÉR GERICSNÉ (2nd sem), of Musical Modernity.” Mirail, Music. “Music and Patronage at Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, ANNA MARIA BUSSE BERGER, Robert the Court of Cosimo I.” Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Art Lehman Visiting Professor, University of JANIE COLE, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, History. “Moral Allegories of Virtues and California, Davis, Musicology. “Music The Medici Archive Project, Florence, Vices in Late Gothic Italian Painting.” Theory in the Middle Ages.” Music. “Music, Poetry, and Cultural MIGUEL GOTOR, Lila Wallace-Reader’s JULIAN GARDNER, University of Warwick, Brokerage in Early Modern Italy: Digest Fellow, Università di Torino, Art History. “Giotto and his Publics.” Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane.” History. “La vita e le opere di Bernardino CHRISTA GARDNER VON TEUFFEL, ALISON CORNISH, Andrew W. Mellon Ochino, uomo del Rinascimento tra University of Warwick, Art History. Fellow, University of Michigan, l’Italia e l’Europa (1487-1563).” “High Altarpieces and Church Organs Literature. “Vernacular Translation from DAVID LINES, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, c.1440-1600: A Forgotten Partnership?” Brunetto Latini to Boccaccio.” Warwick University, History. “Curriculum DAVID GENTILCORE (2nd sem), University BRIAN CURRAN, Committee to Rescue Controversies and Reforms at the University of Leicester, History. “Reception of New Italian Art Fellow, Pennsylvania State of Bologna.” World Plants as Medicines and Foodstuffs University, Art History. “Past, Present, and MARIA AGATA PINCELLI, Francesco De in Renaissance Italy.” Place in Italian Renaissance Art.” Dombrowski Fellow, Istituto Storico MARC LAUREYS (1st sem), Universität STEFANO DALL’AGLIO, Francesco De Italiano per il Medio Evo, Literature. Bonn, Literature, “Edition and Study of Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Roma, “Edizione e studio della Roma Biondo Flavio’s Roma instaurata.” “La Sapienza”, History. “Tra Firenze e Triumphans di Biondo Flavio.” la Francia: religione, politica e cultura tra H. DARREL RUTKIN, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Senior Research Associates conformità e dissenso nell’Europa del Stanford University, History. “Galileo, EVE BORSOOK, Villa I Tatti, Art History. rinascimento.” Renaissance Astrology and the Scientific “Medieval Mosaic Technology.” ALISON FRAZIER, Robert Lehman Fellow, Revolution: A Reappraisal.” ALLEN GRIECO, Villa I Tatti, History. “A University of Texas at Austin, History. LUKE SYSON, (2nd sem), Craig Hugh Social and Cultural History of Alimentary Smyth Visiting Fellow, Habits in Renaissance Italy.” National Gallery, London, Art MARGARET HAINES, Opera di Santa Maria History. “Renaissance Siena: del Fiore, Art History. “Online Digital Art for a City.” Edition of the Sources of the Archive of LOUIS A. WALDMAN, Rush H. Santa Maria del Fiore in the Cupola Kress Fellow, University of Period.” Texas at Austin, Art History. MICHAEL ROCKE, Villa I Tatti, History. “Bandinelli and the Art of “Edition and Translation of Italian Texts Drawing.” related to Homoeroticism (14th-17th centuries).”

Julian Gardner with the other Fellows and Visiting Professors in Assisi last September (© Waldman) F

VILLA I TATTI The Scholars’ Court Project

groundbreaking ceremony to garages have been demolished, revealing A celebrate the opening of the the beautiful valley beyond. This will be building site for the new Deborah Loeb the view from the studies in the new Brice Loggiato took place last October building; a view we hope will inspire (see the Extra Issue of the Autumn 2005 many generations of I Tatti Fellows to Giorgio Piazzini, Margrit Freivogel, Newsletter at http://www.itatti.it/ come. The old greenhouse and garden Claudio Tozzetti, Françoise Connors & images/ITatti_NL_2005_extra.pdf). All buildings below the garages have also Eve Borsook the Fiesole officials were present for the been demolished. The foundations of the ceremony, despite the fact that they did new garden structures and the retaining Fiesole, Provincia di Firenze, 3 not grant us the definitive permission to wall will be fortified with micro-piles and Soprintendenza) to construct an access it is hoped construction of these new road to the building site. But until that garden buildings will be completed by the comes through, the trucks and end of the fall so the plants can go back construction material will have to drive in and the gardeners will finally have their through I Tatti’s main gate. In the badly needed office space, changing Debby Brice meantime, we apologize for the noise and rooms, and storage space for equipment dons a hard hat disruption - but at last, work is underway! prior to laying and supplies. We are still awaiting the the foundation outcome of our request to the Nelda Ferace stone for the appropriate authorities (Comune di Assistant Director for Special Projects new Loggiato building (© Germogli) Mellon & the ITRL build until March 15, 2006. In their speeches, Joseph Connors and s mentioned in the Letter from Florence, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Deborah Loeb Brice both sang the praises Alast spring made an extraordinary grant to I Tatti of $1.2 million towards the of the many people who have been support, over a twenty-year period, of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. This series enthusiastically and patiently pushing this proposes by then to have in print 112 works, in one or more volumes (in both Latin project forward for so many years despite and English), by the most important authors who wrote in Latin during the Italian the discouraging delay in receiving the Renaissance, important works by otherwise minor authors, and representative samples relevant permits. Wearing a bright yellow of humanist writings on particular themes and in particular genres. Both interest hard hat, Debby Brice cemented the and principal from this grant will be used until such time as the series is able to foundation stone to initiate this building support itself. Since 2001 the ITRL has published an average of four volumes per project. There have been moments since year. The Mellon grant will increase this publication rate by 50% and allow James mid March when it has seemed that Hankins (VIT’89,’93,’07), the General Editor, to hire additional assistants, editorial opening a legally certified and safe expertise, and a professional indexer. building site is almost as complicated As has been widely acknowledged, the ITRL series answers a real need and is bureaucratically as obtaining the permit already doing much to keep alive interest in - and the study of - the Italian Renaissance to build. But since mid March, the old as the knowledge of Latin continues to fade in our culture. The March/April 2006 issue of the Harvard Magazine included a long article by Adam Kirsch on the series. And Anthony Grafton has written a major review of the series for the September 2006 issue of the New York Review of Books. In it, Professor Grafton points out how the series has already begun to “transform the study and teaching of Renaissance culture.” He notes that the ITRL stands out from other enterprises of its kind and that “The series as a whole has the unity and ambition that come from the energy, erudition, and vision of a single founder: James Hankins, professor of history at Harvard.” He continues, “Most exciting, the whole series is the collective product of an interdisciplinary and inter-generational group of scholars. … In these handsome, blue-jacketed volumes we confront the protagonists of one of old Europe’s most challenging literary and intellectual movements, speaking in their own voices, and given new life by young and old practitioners of the very crafts that their authors Joseph Connors & David Lines invented.”

AUTUMN 2006 THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSOn

ver the past decade or so the focus have grown in this period by fifty as a special project the retrospective OBerenson Library’s book and percent. Average yearly accessions have cataloguing of the library’s collection of periodical collections have undergone risen from roughly 1,250 titles between sales catalogues from 2000 to 2003, when unprecedented growth, sustained by 1988 and 1994, to 1,658 between 1995 she was then made assistant cataloguer, healthier funds for acquisitions that have and 2000, and to 2,170 between 2001 and has now become the Acquisitions permitted both the more comprehensive 2005, a seventy-four percent increase. Librarian, filling the position left vacant purchasing of current publications and Consequently the Library’s collections with the retirement of Amanda George the recovery of numerous important have become richer and denser virtually last year. She has stepped into her new older and out-of-print items. The extent across the board, and provide increasingly role with her characteristic 4 and characteristics of the notable better research support for the expansion of the Library’s research many Renaissance scholars resources have emerged clearly from a who frequent I Tatti. first-ever systematic analysis of the entire During the past year the catalogue that was carried out this past Library added a total of 3,240 year. In addition to a detailed volumes and offprints, “photograph” of the subject breakdown including 448 gifts, in of the Library’s holdings, this study addition to well over a provides a thorough overview of the hundred titles on microforms development of the collection since 1994, and several electronic when the catalogue was converted to resources on CD-ROMS. electronic format. In last year’s New subscriptions were Newsletter I reported on the recent begun to sixteen journals, improvements relating to scholarly bringing the total currently journals; here the focus will be mainly on received to 573. They include John Gagné books in traditional paper formats. the Annuarium historiae In the eleven-year period from July conciliorum; Archivum 1, 1995, to June 30, 2005, the number of historiae pontificiae; Aurora: the Journal professionalism, dedication, and monograph and serial titles held by the of the History of Art; Eidola: Inter- efficiency. All members of the permanent Library increased by nearly 21,000, from national Journal of Classical Art History; Library staff with academic specializations 64,425 to 85,226. Restricting the Franciscana: Bollettino della Società in disciplines related to the Renaissance perspective only to the core study Internazionale di Studi Francescani; are also now taking an active role in book collection that is actively growing, and Georges Bloch Jahrbuhc des selection in their respective fields of excluding those ample sections of Kunsthistorischen Instituts der interest. ILARIA DELLA MONICA is now Mr. Berenson’s original library that have Universität Zürich; the Annuario of the dividing her time between public service long been largely discontinued and stable, Istituto storico diocesano Siena; Notizie at the reference desk and managing a the parts of the Library most directly da Palazzo Albani rivista di storia e teoria number of the Library’s manuscript related to the Harvard Center’s research delle arti; Oriental Carpet and Textile collections as well as the institutional Studies; Quaderni del Centro di ricerca archive of I Tatti. ANGELA DRESSEN, a e di studio sul movimento dei promising young art historian and Disciplinati; Quaderns del Museu librarian with a recent Ph.D. in Italian Episcopal de Vic; Reforme, humanisme, Renaissance art history from the Renaissance; Sanctorum: Rivista University of Trier and a nearly dell’Associazione per lo studio della completed M.S. degree in Library and santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia; Storica; Information Science from Humboldt Studi di storia delle arti; and the University in Berlin, has been hired as Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für assistant cataloger and reference librarian. Rechtsgeschichte – Kanonistiche SCOTT PALMER, with a nearly completed Abteilung. Ph.D. in American literature from Tufts Various changes occurred in the University, began working as a part-time organization of responsibilities among the Library Assistant. And finally, we have library personnel, and several excellent engaged SILVIA MELLONI, an historian and newcomers have also joined the staff. archivist with a specialization in rare book Stefanie Walker MANUELA MICHELLONI, who carried out cataloging, to carry out a short-term

VILLA I TATTI project to enhance the bibliographical finally received new and records of the Library’s collection of some better insulated roofs. The 1,200 books printed from the fifteenth New Library will be century to 1801. entirely re-painted in A major improvement to the IRIS August, and more catalogue was made this year with the functional windows fitted completion of a complex and costly with ultraviolet glass to project, financed by the Ente Cassa di filter harmful UV rays will Risparmio di Firenze, to implement then be installed both there authority control for personal and and throughout the 5 corporate names and for subject headings neighboring 1950s annex. in bibliographic records. Authority The Geier Library was control establishes a single “authorized” completely re-wired to form of heading for names and subjects, upgrade the building’s data in our case following the Library of transmission capacity in Michael Rocke, Nerida Newbigin & Jonathan Nelson Congress’s authority files, and order to meet increasing automatically links related or variant demands on the local forms to the authorized heading. (A computer network. New and more 38) and later Director of the Brooklyn classic example is the painter Raphael: to powerful routers were also installed Museum (1938-43). There he met and the authorized form of his name are throughout the Library to improve access in 1937 married Isabel Spaulding (1911- linked nearly a dozen variantly spelled through our wireless network to the 2005), who took over his museum duties forms.) A search on the variant terms Internet. from 1943 to 1946 when he was serving allows one also to recover all records Finally, I’m very pleased to as a captain in army intelligence. After associated with the main, authority form. announce that the Berenson Library has the war, in 1946 Laurance was appointed Headings throughout the catalogue have received as a gift the extensive collection Director of the American Academy in now become much more uniform than Rome, retiring in 1960. He was the before, and searches produce better and author of, among other works, A more complete results. Dictionary of Japanese Artists: Painting, Though hardly visible when Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, Lacquer completed, much-needed maintenance (New York: Weatherhill, 1976), and The work and other improvements were Bernard Berenson Collection of Oriental carried out to some of the Library’s Art at Villa I Tatti (New York: Hudson buildings and facilities in the course of Hills Press, 1991). The papers include the the year, and will continue into the next. Roberts’ business and personal Both the Geier Library and the New correspondence, journals and travel Library, which have long suffered from diaries, materials relating to their years at water infiltration from leaky roofs, have the Brooklyn Museum and the American Allen Grieco & Academy, and photographs. The Roberts Miguel Gotor lived in Europe for many years and were in regular contact with many scholars, of papers of Laurance artists, musicians, writers, and leaders of P. and Isabel S. cultural institutions. This splendid Roberts from their donation will greatly enrich the Library’s heirs, Laurance’s great small but growing archival resources on nephew Nathaniel the cultural heritage of the twentieth Roberts and his wife century and on some of the more Laura Zung. A important figures associated with the widely admired Berensons and I Tatti. specialist in east Asian Michael Rocke art, Laurance (1907- Nicky Mariano Librarian 2002) was curator of the Oriental art Darrel Rutkin, Marco Gentile & Wlodzimierz Olszaniec department (1934- F

AUTUMN 2006 RECENT ACQUISITIONS

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

FRANCESCO BAUSI (VIT’94) ed. Angelo (VIT’71-’87,’88-‘03). Lorenzo de’ JOHN MONFASANI (VIT’74,’83) ed. Poliziano. Poesie. Torino: Unione Medici, Collector and Antiquarian. Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on his tipografico-editrice torinese, 2006. Cambridge, UK; Cambridge UP, 2004 Life and Scholarship. New York: Italica FABIO BISOGNI (VIT’73-03) & Chiara CHRISTA GARDNER VON TEUFFEL Press, 2006. 6 Calciolari eds. Affreschi novaresi del (VIT’94,’06). From Duccio’s Maestà to ROBERTA MOROSINI (VIT’04) ed. Marie de Trecento e del Quattrocento: arte, Raphael’s Transfiguration: Italian France. Favolei. Roma: Carrocci, 2006. devozione e società. Cinisello Balsamo: Altarpieces and their Settings. London: ANITA MOSKOWITZ (VIT’80). Nicola & Silvana, 2006. Pindar Press, 2005. Giovanni Pisano: The Pulpits: Pious DAVID A. BROWN (VIT’70) & Jane Van MARCO GENTILE (VIT’06) ed. Guelfi e Devotion, Pious Diversion. London: Nimmen. Raphael and the Beautiful ghibellini nell’Italia del Rinascimento. Harvey Miller, 2005. Banker: The Story of the Altoviti Portrait. Roma: Viella, 2005.. CAROLINE MURPHY (VIT’02). The Pope’s New Haven: Yale UP, 2005. CLAUDIO G IUNTA (VIT’00). Codici: saggi Daughter. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. GENE A. BRUCKER (VIT’65,’80,’84,’87). sulla poesia del medioevo. Bologna: Il NERIDA NEWBIGIN (VIT’84) ed. I Living on the Edge in Leonardo’s Mulino, 2005 prigioni di Plauto tradotti da l’Intronati Florence: Selected Essays. Berkeley: U of RICHARD A. GOLDTHWAITE (VIT’74). An di Siena. Torino, 2006. California Press, 2005. Entrepreneurial Silk Weaver in Renais- PATRICIA J. OSMOND (VIT’98). The Valla SHANE BUTLER (VIT’04) ed. and trans. sance Florence. Florence: Olschki, 2005. Commentary on Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae: Angelo Poliziano, Letters. Cambridge, ANDREW HOPKINS (VIT’04) & Maria Questions of Authenticity and Reception. MA: ITRL, Harvard UP, 2006. Wyke eds. Roman Bodies: Antiquity to Hildesheim; Zurich: Olms, 2005. WILLIAM CAFERRO (VIT’99). John Eighteenth Century. London: British JONATHAN B. RIESS (VIT’75). Luca Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in School in Rome, 2005. Signorelli: La Cappella San Brizio a Fourteenth-Century Italy. Baltimore: VICTORIA KIRKHAM (VIT’78,’89,’96) ed. Orvieto. Torino: Società Editrice Johns Hopkins UP, 2006. & trans. Laura Battiferri degli Ammannati. Internazionale, 1995. JOSEPH CONNORS (VIT’03-‘07). Alleanze Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle: An DAVID RUTHERFORD (VIT’90,’05). Early e inimicizie: l’urbanistica di Roma Anthology. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Renaissance Invective and the Controversies barocca. Roma: Laterza, 2005. CHRISTIANE KLAPISCH-ZÜBER (VIT’86,’02). of Antonio da Rho. Tempe: MRTS, 2005. DARIO A. COVI (VIT’65). Andrea del Retour à la cité: les magnats de Florence Günter Oestmann, H. DARREL RUTKIN Verrocchio: Life and Work. Florence: 1340-1440. Paris: Editions de l’EHESS, 2006. (VIT’06), and Kocku von Stuckrad eds. Olschki, 2005. Beate Czapla, MARC LAUREYS (VIT’06) Horoscopes and Public Spheres: Essays on STEFANO DALL’AGLIO (VIT’06). L’eremita & Karl August Neuhausen eds. Bonna the History of Astrology. Berlin: De e il sinodo: Paolo Giustiniani e l’offensiva solum felix: Bonn in der lateinischen Gruyter, 2005. medicea contro Girolamo Savonarola Literatur der Neuzeit. Köln: Rheinland- Dennis Looney and DEANNA SHEMEK (1516-1517). Firenze: Edizioni del Verlag, 2003. (VIT’02) eds. Phaeton’s Children: The Galluzzo, 2006. JOHN E. LAW (VIT’95,’07) & Lene Este Court and its Culture in Early MASSIMO DANZI (VIT’92). La biblioteca Østermark-Johansen eds. Victorian and Modern Ferrara. Tempe: MRTS, 2005. del Cardinal Pietro Bembo. Ginevra: Edwardian Responses to the Italian LECH SZCZUCKI (VIT’78,’85) ed. Faustus Droz, 2005. Renaissance. Aldershot:: Ashgate, 2005. Socinus and His Heritage. Kraków: CHARLES DEMPSEY (VIT’74). Annibale CLAUDIA LAZZARO (VIT’84) & Roger J. Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, 2005. Carracci: Palazzo Farnese. Torino: Società Crum eds. Donatello Among the FRANEK SZNURA (VIT’86) ed. Antica Editrice Internazionale, 1995. Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the possessione con belli costumi: due SABINE EICHE (VIT’83) ed. I gheribizzi Visual Culture of Fascist Italy. Ithaca: giornate di studio su Lapo da di Muzio Oddi. Urbino: Accademia Cornell UP, 2005. Castiglionchio il Vecchio (Firenze- Raffaello, 2005. LAURO MARTINES (VIT’63,’64,’65). Scourge Pontassieve, 3-4 ottobre 2003): con la SILVIA FIASCHI (VIT’05) ed. Francesco and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance nuova edizione dell’Epistola al figlio Filelfo. Satyrae. Roma: Edizioni di Storia Florence. London: J. Cape, 2006. Bernardo. Firenze: Aska, 2005. e Letteratura, 2005. BRANKO MITROVIÇ (VIT’01). Serene MARICA S. TACCONI (VIT’03). Cathedral RICCARDO FUBINI (VIT’65,’66-‘73). Greed of the Eye: Leon Battista Alberti and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Umanesimo e scolastica: saggio per una and the Philosophical Foundations of Renaissance Florence: The Service Books definizione. Spoleto: Centro italiano di Renaissance Architectural Theory. of Santa Maria del Fiore. Cambridge, studi sull’alto Medioevo, 2004. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005. UK; Cambridge UP, 2005. LAURIE S. FUSCO (VIT’83) & GINO CORTI Continued on next page.

VILLA I TATTI CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME! !

he annual meeting of the T Renaissance Society of America, this year held in San Francisco, provided an opportunity to travel from Italy to California. The RSA meeting was preceded by a lecture and reception hosted by Mrs. Betty B. Leonard at the Regency Club of Los 7 Angeles in March where Dale Kent (VIT’78,’83,’07), Professor of History at the Maurizio Campanelli, Silvia Fiaschi, Lorenzo Fabbri & Teseo University of California, Riverside, spoke on David McNeil & Bill Eamon “Patronage and Patriarchy in Medicean Florence.” Many friends of I Tatti and interested Harvard alumni came to the event, and we wish to thank in particular Susan Erburu Reardon, Suzanne Labiner and Nehama Jacobs for their help in organizing this event. At the RSA meeting in San Francisco, the Harvard Center was very well represented by the I Tatti-sponsored sessions and the many papers given by former and current Fellows. A delightful Paul Grendler & incoming Fellow reception was held on the Friday evening Monique O’Connell Janet Cox-Rearick & Carl Strehlke at the California Historical Society where well over 100 members of the I Tatti family got together. A fascinating exhibition of photographs taken by Jack London of the famous San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was on show at the CHS and we take this opportunity to thank Ira Kurlander and Italian General Consul Roberto Falaschi for helping us find such a congenial location.

Joan & Malcolm Campbell with Marsha Hall John Najemy, Caroline Elam & David Peterson

FRANCESCO TATEO (VIT’66). L’ozio TIMOTHY VERDON (VIT’87). segreto di Petrarca. Bari: Palomar, 2005. Michelangelo teologo: fede e creatività TIMOTHY W ILSON (VIT’84) ed. The battle of NICHOLAS TERPSTRA (VIT’95). Abandoned tra Rinascimento e Controriforma. Pavia. Oxford : Ashmolean Museum, 2003. Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Milano: Ancora, 2005. MICHAEL WYATT (VIT’05). Italian Care in Florence and Bologna. Baltimore: JOANNA W EINBERG (VIT’76) ed. Azariah Encounter with Tudor England: A Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. de’ Rossi’s Observations on the Syriac Cultural Politics of Translation. New Testament: A Critique of the Cambridge, UK; Cambridge UP, 2005. Vulgate by a Sixteenth-Century Jew. London: Warburg Institute, 2005.

AUTUMN 2006 News from the Berenson Fototeca, D Archive & Collection E

hile life in the Fototeca Berenson has enabled us to purchase photographs Wgoes on with the usual round of beyond our usual budget. Thanks go also acquisitions, conservation, labeling, filing, to Eve Borsook (VIT’81-’07), and Darcy and revision of photographic material, we and Treacy Beyer who have donated their have very much enjoyed working on a time and expertise in the Fototeca, as have series of some seventy X-rays of Italian two interns from Syracuse University in 13th to 16th century paintings this year. Florence, Kali Johnson and Alexandra 8 These images are of great interest because Ruhfel. Our heartfelt thanks go to them they reveal what is hidden beneath the all. painted surface and show the artist’s Among the material kept in the pentimenti. It is hard to date this material Berenson Archive, our particular Beppina Bongini, Beatrice Gori, Liviana which was assembled by Mr. Berenson attention this year has been devoted to Bartolozzi, Roberto Bruni, Rosanna Papi, over the years and which documents his 121 architectural drawings by students of Emiliano Pernice, Aureliana Angini, interest in technical issues as well as in Roberto Papini (1883-1957), Bernard Cheti Benvenuti & Alessandro Focosi stylistic analysis. The X-rays are Berenson’s friend, during his tenure at the particularly frail and, Faculty of Archi- paintings were removed from their frames being large, were tecture at the by Roberto Bellucci of the Opificio delle originally filed with University of Pietre Dure conservation laboratory, who the large format Florence in the contributed his expertise on the technical prints, which are 1940s, and 50 aspects of the paintings and their wooden stored separately and drawings by the panels. He is also carrying out a careful can only be consulted Hungarian sculptor examination of the state of conservation upon request. We Livia de Kuzmik of all the paintings in the collection, under therefore decided to (1898-1976), the direction of Cecilia Frosinini. duplicate this Roberto Papini’s The Oriental Collection also attracts precious material. wife, which are now many scholars, amongst whom we Prints, which are Luke Syson & Monica Azzolini being stored in acid mention Robert Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky being made from the free portfolios and Curator of Chinese Art, Arthur M. newly-obtained negatives, will be filed may be consulted upon request. Sackler Museum, who during his stay at under the proper attribution and thus Another item of special interest was I Tatti carefully examined the Chinese available to any user of the Fototeca. The a 19th-century leather-bound photograph scrolls, and Sumiyo Okumura, Turkish original X-rays will be kept in a album of portraits. The album, which and Islamic Art Historian from Istanbul, temperature controlled environment. belonged to Mary Berenson, contains 21 who studied the rare Mameluke rug. This year, we wish to single out albumen prints, aristotype and silver Among other Islamic treasures from the Alexandra Munroe, Robert Russell and gelatin prints, as well as one precious Berenson Collection, this rug was Bill Mandel whose particular generosity ferrotype. They represent various sitters included in a small but very successful till now not identified. After a very exhibition organized at I Tatti for the careful restoration it has regained all participants of the international its original beauty. symposium held at the Kunsthistorisches While preparing a forthcoming Institut last March on “Gift, Good, Theft. exhibition on Sienese painting at the Circulation and Reception of Islamic National Gallery in London, Luke objects in Italy and the Mediterranean Syson, Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting World, 1250-1500.” Fellow, has been looking closely at Fiorella Superbi two paintings in the Berenson Agnes Mongan Curator of the Fototeca Collection: the so-called Saint Filippo Berenson, Curator of the Berenson Benizzi by Matteo di Giovanni and Collection and Archive the panel by Francesco di Giorgio & Martini, whose subject is said to be Giovanni Pagliarulo either The Punishment of Psyche or Photograph Librarian Susan Bates & former I Tatti cook Lilia Sarti The Rape of Helen. The two

VILLA I TATTI NEWS of sacred music, but many of his madrigal FROM THE publications have been lost. The MORRILL MUSIC discovery of the Canto partbook of his Secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci LIBRARY … con un dialogo a sette nel fine, partially recovers one of these works. The volume, published by Angelo Gardano, includes he highlight of this year’s settings of currently popular texts by Ella Sevskaya performed a harpsichord 9 T acquisitions for the Music Library Guarini and Tasso, but also many concert for the community was the purchase of three partbooks of anonymous texts that may be by the early in the year music by Renaissance composers, the composer himself, since he was elected a four madrigal books, and indeed little of only surviving copies of works which can member of the Accademia degli Elevati the composer himself, except that he was be traced in sixteenth- and seventeeth- of Florence for his literary skills. It maestro di cappella in the Duomo of century music printers’ catalogues, but includes Cavaccio’s setting of D’un nuovo Malta in 1573-74. The newly found Alto have long been considered lost. Two of e verde lauro, published in the anthology partbook, dedicated to members of the the partbooks, both published in 1589, for the Mantuan singer Laura Peverara, Il D’Ansalone family, offers new data for come from the great Venetian music lauro verde, in 1583. Scala’s biography. The volume also printing firms of Gardano and Scotto. Little is known about the promises to be an important source of The third represents one of the last works Neapolitan composer Ascanio Meo (d information about the activities of its to be printed by the Roman musician and after 1608), except what can be deduced printer in the early 1560’s. The device printer Antonio Barrè, whose activities from his printed music. His Terzo libro on the title page is unique, while different as a printer lasted barely a decade (1555- de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: kinds of type are in evidence. Corrections Vincenti, 1601) and the Quinto libro … made in a contemporary hand (to clefs, a cinque (Naples: Carlino & Vitale, 1608), rests and note values) show that the were his only known publications until partbook has been used for performance. the discovery of the Canto partbook of Gifts to the Music Library this year his Secondo libro de madrigali a cinque included Musica in mostra: esposizione voci, published in Venice in 1589. Meo’s internazionale di musica (Bologna 1888) Secondo libro is of great interest for being (Bologna: Clueb, 2004), and Francesco one of the publications commissioned Landini (Palermo: L’Epos, 2004), both from music printers in Venice and by Alessandra Fiori (VIT’93); Cathedral elsewhere by the Neapolitan bookseller and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Scipione Riccio, “al segno del Giesù,” in th Renaissance Florence: The Service Books the last two decades of the 16 century. of Santa Maria del Fiore (Cambridge: Although Scotto’s name does not appear Dale Kent & Allen Grieco in Los Angeles Cambridge University Press, 2005) by on the print, the Secondo libro was Marica S. Tacconi (VIT’03); and clearly commissioned from the Venetian Ottaviano Petrucci: catalogue raisonne 1564). The partbooks were purchased firm for it carries one of their printer’s (New York: Oxford University Press, with the assistance of funds donated by marks. It can in fact be found on a book 2006), by Stanley Boorman (VIT’84). Melvin Seiden in honor of F. Gordon and list for the Scotto firm dated 1596. Elizabeth Morrill. Giulio Scala’s Quinto libro di Kathryn Bosi Giovanni Cavaccio (1556-1626), madrigali a quattro voci was printed by F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill who worked all his life in his native the Roman printer Antonio Barrè in Music Librarian Bergamo, has left a large number of books 1562. Nothing is known of Scala’s first

The I Tatti newsletter is published once a year. Alexa M. Mason, editor, writer, design, and layout; Word Tech, printing and distribution. Unless otherwise specified, photographs are by Susan Bates, Nelda Ferace, Gianni Trambusti, Gianni Martilli, Carlo Fei, Alexa M. Mason, Ada Palmer & Lou Waldman. 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.

AUTUMN 2006 Lectures & Programs with support from the Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman.

n addition to a number of public lectures, this year’s Fellows chose to present their work in progress at in-house Iworkshops. AGATA PINCELLI and ALISON FRAZIER joined forces to give “Two Views of Religion in the Renaissance.” DAVID LINES, MONICA A ZZOLINI and DARREL RUTKIN were joined by Marilyn Nicoud (Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole Française de Rome) and DAVID GENTILCORE in an afternoon on “Science in the Universities and at Court”; STEFANO DALL’AGLIO and MIGUEL GOTOR gave separate papers on the theme of “Eresia e santità nell’ordine domenicano del Cinquecento”, and PHILIPPE CANGUILHEM, JANIE COLE, ANDREA GÁLDY, LOU W ALDMAN, and SARA GALLETTI presented a mini convegno on “Medici Courts, commitenza, and Related Topics;” JANIE COLE spoke in June on “The Interrelationship 10 between Music and Poetry in Seicento Italy: Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane and the Notion of Poesia per Musica.” and MARCO GENTILE on “Che cos’é una fazione nel Quattrocento?”

A Flemish Antiquarian in Baroque Rome: Altars & Organs participants: Introduction : CHRISTA GARDNER VON Justus Rycquius and his Monograph of the TEUFFEL. SIBLE DE BLAAUW (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), “Organ and Ancient Capitol Altarpiece: The Liturgical and Spatial Framework.” ARNALDO MORELLI (VIT’95,’98-’03, n 13 December 2005, Marc the exact positioning of the monuments. Conservatorio Statale di Musica, O Laureys, Professor of Medieval It is remarkable, moreover, that the Ottorino Respighi), “L’organo del Latin and Neo-Latin Philology at the learned Fleming completely ignores all Rinascimento: Il suo ruolo, la sua University of Bonn, and current Visiting contemporary building activity as well as posizione, il suo pubblico.” DAVID BRYANT (Università Ca’ Professor at I Tatti, lectured on the treatise the architectural innovations and Foscari, Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio dedicated to the Roman capitol by the embellishments of which he must have Cini), E LENA QUARANTA (Università learned Flemish poet Justus Rycquius been aware during his years in Rome. Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) and FRANCESCO Marc Laureys emphasized that Rycquius’s (Joost de Ryck). Rycquius, who had TRENTINI (Università Ca’ Foscari, studied at the University of Douai, spent cultural approach was modeled on the Venezia), “Organs, Altars and the many years in Italy, in particular in Rome treatise about the capitol found in one of Practice of Church Polyphony.” where he became a member of the the chapters of Admiranda, sive de MASSIMO BISSON (Fondazione Scuola Accademia dei Lincei. Author of a magnitudine Romana (1598) by Giusto Studi Avanzati in Venezia), “Nel collection of poems entitled Praeludia Lipsio and how much the ideology of the tempio di Dio sì bene fabbricato: poetica and of the poem Apes Dianae Counter Reformation, which deeply funzioni e significato dell’organo a dedicated to Urban VIII, Rycquius owed permeated the intellectual environment Venezia tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento.” his fame above all to his De Capitolio he frequented, has influenced his work. JEANNE VAN WAADENOIJEN (Dutch romano, first published in 1617. The Agata Pincelli Institute for Art History, Florence), Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow treatise, which earned him honorary “L’Organo Rinascimentale: qualche citizenship of Rome, is the first osservazione sull’ iconografia delle monograph devoted to the ancient portelle.” capitol. Along the lines of the earlier MICHAEL ROHLMANN (Bibliotheca study on the Forum Romanum (1572) Hertziana), “Dipinti per l’organo e by François Pollet, Rycquius turns his l’altare maggiore nel Rinascimento: attention to the institutions, rites, and l’immagine e il suo contesto.” ceremonies that endowed the Discussants: IAIN FENLON (VIT’76, Capitoline hill with its exceptional King’s College, Cambridge), J ULIAN GARDNER, F RANCESCO FACCHIN political and religious significance and, (VIT’01, Conservatorio Statale di in contrast to his contemporary Musica Cesare Pollini), D AVID BRYANT antiquarians such as Bartolomeo (Venice), G ABRIELE GIACOMELLI Marliano, author of the Topographia (Florence), MACHTELT ISRAËLS antiquae Romae, leaves in the (VIT’05, Amsterdam), L UKE SYSON. background the problems relative to Cécile Evers, Joseph Connors & Marc Laureys

VILLA I TATTI Altars & Organs

he High Altarpiece and Church commented on the problems of using San TOrgan ca.1440-1600: A Forgotten Marco in Venice as a model in that its Partnership? was the hypothesis around musical practice as palatine chapel of the which an extremely stimulating and doge often differed – deliberately – from thought-provoking Giornata di Studio other churches in Venice. This formed was organized at I Tatti on 4 May 2006. an ideal prelude to the paper by Massimo The interrelationship – liturgical, artistic, Bisson, who shared the novel insights of and musical is a problem which has his detailed research on organs at Venice. Angela Dressen, Julian Gardner, fascinated me since I studied the high After lunch Jeanne van Waadenoijen, who Anna Maria Busse Berger & Christa Gardner von Teuffel altarpiece of San Pietro at Perugia and had produced the Italian section of the discovered that Pietro Perugino had also standard repertoire of De Beschilderde 11 There was a delightful coda to the been instrumental in the design and Orgelluiken in Europa investigated the Giornata when we all reassembled in the decoration of the wooden cassa or particular iconography of Italian organ graceful Renaissance surroundings of SS. cupboard-like container of the main shutters. A fascinating and moving aspect Annunziata where Jonathan Nelson organ of the ancient abbey. of her contribution was the use of the (VIT’02) spoke about the double-fronted After a warm welcome by the late 16th-century recommendations altarpiece created by Baccio d’Agnolo Director and a succinct introduction, the concerning the painting of organ shutters and painted by Filippino Lippi and day started with a very lucid discussion by Gian Paolo Lomazzo, who trained as Perugino, and most spectacularly of all, of the organ and the liturgy by Sible de a painter, became blind at the age of 34, Pier Paolo Donati (Florence), the Blaauw, who provided a clear set of and turned himself into an art critic. distinguished art historian, musicologist ground rules for the contributions which Following this, Michael Rohlmann and organist, played for us the church’s followed. The first musicological talk was provided a penetrating analysis of the organ, the second oldest to survive in Italy. by Arnaldo Morelli, who sketched the types of artistic unity which might exist His carefully chosen and enthrallingly role of the organ in church services between the organ ensemble and high executed programme included works by during the Quattro- and Cinquecento. altarpiece of a great church in the early Giacomo Fogliano, Marco Antonio Subsequently David Bryant reported on Cinquecento. Subsequently Iain Fenlon Cavazzoni and Claudio Maria Veggio. the important and at times astonishing gave a magisterial summary of what the This recreation in a Florentine church of results of an archival census in Florence speakers had said and offered some the interrelationship of a magnificent by a team of researchers which he pertinent observations on topics which High Renaissance altarpiece and music directed. Chiara, the daughter of the he felt had been left unsaid. He cautioned of the period performed on a distinguished organist, Nicolò Malvezzi, the audience about over-facile contemporary organ confirmed for us all was trained by her father to play the organ assumptions about the use of polyphony, that this was not only a significant apparently prior to her entering the the place for singing, the size of choirs problem but also a new topic in need of convent of San Girolamo delle Poverine and instrumental accompaniment. A very much further research. Ingesuate as novice, where she would lively, many-sided discussion involved obviously become Lena, the permanent current and former Fellows and Visiting Christa Gardner von Teuffel organist of her own nunnery. David also Professors as well as invited experts. Visiting Professor

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arol Berger, Visiting Professor from early Florentine and Mantuan operas, KStanford University, gave a Orpheus and Apollo, poet-musicians provocative and insightful lecture on 9 who represented the new poetic-musical February 2006 on L’Orfeo, or the anxiety genre of early opera and expressed of the moderns, where he explored the meditations on the dilemmas faced by idea that modernity was from the them in general and on the opportunities beginning overshadowed by self-doubt and perils of the new genre in particular. 12 and anxiety as to its validity and worth In this reading, early operas allegorized vis-à-vis the cultural achievements of the and dramatized their own birth, the ancients. This concept was reflected in the efforts of the early moderns to bring back Janie symbolism of the central figures of the ancient music, with its passionate-ethical Cole aims and its various means (dissonant, figurative, chromatic, and, above all, monodic), and their triumph of the prima over the seconda fear that this musical ‘rebirth’ prattica, it was only half-hearted since it or Renaissance, was affirmed the values of modern harmony somehow not viable. For only as a consolation prize for the early unlike ancient architecture, modern subject defeated in his quest for sculpture, and letters, ancient autonomy. Almost two centuries had to painting and music did not pass for the self-confidence of the leave enough traces to make moderns to grow sufficiently for them to any reconstruction project be able to imagine (in Mozart’s Die secure. While Monteverdi’s Zauberflöte) a successful quest for L’Orfeo was a vote of autonomy, an Orpheus who triumphs in confidence in musical life rather than in death. modernity, with its revised Paolo Gasparri, Gianluca Rossi, Claudio Bresci, ending representing the Janie Cole Marco Pompili & Alessandro Superbi Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow

FORMER FELLOWS UPDATE

PAULINE WATTS (VIT’82) has been DON HARRAN (VIT’04), Professor of appointed Interim Dean of Sarah ANTHONY M. CUMMINGS (VIT’90) has Musicology at the Hebrew University Lawrence College. A member of the recently become Provost, Dean of the of Jerusalem, has been elected as an European History Faculty for more than Faculty, and Professor of Music at Honorary Foreign Member of the twenty years, she is the author and editor Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. His American Academy of Arts and Sciences of books and articles on medieval and latest book, forthcoming from the (2006) and made a Cavaliere Renaissance intellectual and religious Royal Musical Association and Ashgate dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta’ history, and in cross-cultural contacts in Publishing, sheds new light on the Italiana. This latter honor, which was sixteenth-century Mexico. Her most manuscript known as Manuscript bestowed on 5 June 2006 in con- recent book is A Mirror for the Pope: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale junction with the festivities to mark the Mapping the Corpus Christi in the Centrale, Magliabechiana XIX, 164– 60th anniversary of the Italian Republic Galleria delle Carte Geografiche 167. The book reveals Florentine at a reception in the private residence (Florence: Olschki, 2005). musical taste during the crucial years of His Excellency Sandro De Bernardin, that witnessed the emergence of the Ambassador of Italy to Israel, was given MARIA MONICA DONATO (VIT ’90) was Italian madrigal. He has recently in recognition of Don Harran’s appointed Professore Ordinario at the completed a book manuscript, entitled distinguished contribution to Italian Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa as of The Lion King: Pope Leo X, The musical scholarship. the 2005/2006 academic year where she Renaissance Papacy, and Music. is teaching the history of medieval art.

VILLA I TATTI Remembering and Forgetting

Participants: n May 11, a number of American Introduction: The Memorial Archive, Oand European scholars met to read ANNA MARIA BUSSE BERGER; ALISON papers and engage in discussions on the CORNISH; MARIO CARPO (École “The Art of Memory: Between Archive d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette); LUKE and Invention from the Middle Ages to SYSON. the Late Renaissance: Literature, Visual Compositional Process and the Art of Arts, and Music.” The conference was Memory I, SUSAN FORSCHER W EISS (Johns conceived by the musicologist Anna Hopkins University), chair. 13 Maria Busse Berger and the art historian ALISON CORNISH, “Volgarizzamenti: To Remember and To Forget.” Massimiliano Rossi (VIT’93,’98-’03). Marilina Cirillo & Lina Bolzoni ANNA MARIA BUSSE BERGER, “Models for There were two central topics: the memorization of texts but, more Composition in the Fourteenth and memorial archive and how this archive Fifteenth Centuries.” importantly, for the composition of new was used in the compositional process. PHILIPPE CANGUILHEM, “The Hand as a works. We discovered that all four In the first part of the giornata we Tool for Musical Invention.” disciplines shared similar methods of MARIO CARPO, “The Proportional had short presentations on what a person composition often in unexpected ways. Precision in the System of the Orders in would memorize throughout their life in In addition, Lina Bolzoni gave a critical the Vitruvian Tradition, from Alberti to literature (Alison Cornish) music (Anna review of some recent studies on Vignola.” Maria Busse Berger), architecture (Mario memory, while Stephen Orgel provided Carpo), and art (Luke Syson). Not only Compositional Process and the Art of an anti-matter to every one else’s matter did we learn what were the basic texts, Memory II, BRIAN CURRAN, chair. by giving a talk about forgetting in Stefano Lorenzetti (Conservatorio di items, or images which would be Shakespeare. After a thoughtful summary Vicenza), “Alberi e luoghi di memoria committed to memory, but also how this nella trattatistica musicale by Joseph Connors and a lively discussion, material was memorized. There was cinquecentesca.” Philippe Canguilhem concluded the discussion of a variety of graphs (among LINA BOLZONI (VIT’97-‘03, Scuola conference with a moving reading of them, hands and trees), architectural Normale Superiore di Pisa), “Recenti Marcel Proust’s famous passage on studi sull’arte della memoria. Fra storia e drawings, multiplication tables and involuntary memory from À la recherche antropologia.” consonance tables in music, versified texts, MASSIMILIANO ROSSI (VIT’93,’98-’03, du temps perdu. and model books. Università di Lecce), “La ricerca del The day ended with a buffet dinner Then, the major part of the giornata metodo nei trattati d’arte del tardo at the Papiniana. The weather improved was devoted to the question of how the Cinquecento: imitazione, scomposizione just in time for everyone to enjoy the e ricomposizione di un canone dopo la memorial archive was used in the sunset. The highpoint was a concert of ‘maniera moderna.’” compositional process in literature STEPHEN ORGEL (Stanford University), pieces by Robert Schumann and (Cornish), music (Busse Berger, Philippe “Creative Oblivion.” Johannes Brahms by a cellist Canguilhem, Stefano Lorenzetti), and a pianist from the architecture (Carpo), and art Peabody Conservatory of (Massimiliano Rossi). In the last years it Music, the latter playing on has become increasingly clear that the art Hans and Marie von Bülow’s of memory is not only used for historic piano. The collected essays of the symposium are currently being edited and will be published as a volume in the I Tatti series.

Anna Maria Busse Berger Robert Lehman Visiting Professor

Anna Maria Busse Berger, Christa Gardner von Teuffel, Brian Curran Sandor Bene & Karol Berger

AUTUMN 2006 Rosso Fiorentino’s Dead Christ

osso Fiorentino’s Dead Christ, were re-opened by Dr. Antonio Natali, impetus for Rosso to sell the altarpiece Rpainted during the artist’s 1524-27 Director of the Department of he had begun for Cesi to Bishop sojourn in Rome, and now in the Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern Art Tornabuoni. Dr. Natali concluded by at the Galleria degli Uffizi, in a lecture contextualizing Rosso’s Dead Christ entitled Eucarestia di Rosso Fiorentino. within the complex of Cesi’s planned The lecture challenged the assertion, decoration for his chapel (which can be made by Rosso’s biographer Giorgio reconstructed, in part, through surviving Vasari, that Rosso had painted the Dead drawings by the architect Antonio da Christ for Leonardo Tornabuoni, Bishop Sangallo) and by reflecting on the ways of Borgo Sansepolcro, but there is in which the sacred signification of evidence that the picture did not leave Rosso’s panel would have been inflected 14 Rome during the artist’s lifetime. by the architectural, iconographic, and Dr. Natali hypothesized that the original liturgical setting of the Cesi chapel. patron of the Dead Christ was not Tornabuoni but rather Agnolo Cesi, the Louis Waldman patron who in 1524 commissioned Rosso Robert Lehman Fellow to decorate his chapel in Santa Maria della Antonio Natali Pace in Rome. Rosso completed two frescoed scenes of the Creation of Eve Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of and the Fall of Man on the façade of the the 16th-century painter’s most admired Cesi chapel but never furnished Cesi’s paintings - and one of his most enigmatic. “altarpiece in oil on panel” stipulated in towards the tomato wore off. The native On 23 February 2006, some of the the original contract. The collapse of the Aztec name tomatl was abandoned for problems surrounding Rosso’s altarpiece commission may have provided the the more descriptive pomodoro but, despite the pleasant name, from its early days the tomato was associated with other not-so popular Italian vegetables, such as the eggplant or aubergine (melanzana or mela insana), believed to be noxious to the head and create melancholic vapors. For this reason physicians routinely advised against its consumption. Yet, The Renaissance present-day Mexico and quickly made its evidence suggests that there were people way into Italy as a botanical specimen. Its Tomato, from in Italy who were eating tomatoes, and high water content, the proximity of the that these people grew in number over plant’s fruits to the ground, the toxic Curiosity to the 16th century, as did the tomato’s nature of some varieties, and its rather popularity. Wonder and exoticism were Condiment bland flavor, however, did not make it a the key ingredients that made it travel across Europe. Tomato seeds were sought n late May, Villa I Tatti celebrated the after by collectors and wealthy European Iarrival of summer with another patrons avid of novelties; botanists and memorable talk. Visiting Professor David physicians recorded them in their herbals; Gentilcore (Leicester University) later in the century artists started enlightened and entertained a large representing them as ornamentary items audience of studiosi on the Renaissance in their compositions. Professor tomato, tracing its origins in Europe from Gentilcore’s talk was enlivened by much its appearance at the Court of Cosimo interesting visual evidence and many de’ Medici in 1548 to its assimilation into amusing anecdotes and quotations that Italian cuisine a century later. Despite its recount how this strange specimen, now present popularity on Italian tables, in the so familiar to us, was assimilated and 16th century the tomato was seen very David Gentilcore appropriated by Italian and European much as an oddity. It was introduced into culture. favorite on Renaissance tables. It took a Europe after the Spanish conquest of Monica Azzolini long time before the initial ambivalence Ahmanson Fellow

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AUTUMN 2006 Medici Roundtable hosted by I Tatti

n 18 April five of the current Cole, who proposed a new model of royal architecture during Maria de’ O Fellows gave presentations of their cultural brokerage for exploring the Medici’s rule, proposing a new current research on Medici court culture, nature of Medici patronage of music and interpretative model for the relationship which were followed by lively discussion. theatrical spectacles, especially during the between ‘private’ and ‘public’ rooms and The afternoon started with a paper by regency and only period of female rule exploring its implications on the analysis Philippe Canguilhem on the surviving in the Medici principate. The paper by of the courtly display of art collections. musical sources by Corteccia and music Andrea Gáldy on Cardinal Giovanni de’ Janie Cole 16 production and consumption outside the Medici presented this Medici prince of Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow & confines of the Medici court. The theme the church and the blood as an important Andrea Gáldy of music at the early Seicento Medici figure who opened the Roman art Melville J. Kahn Fellow court was further developed by Janie market to his family and started his own collection of antiquities before his early death in 1562. Louis A. Waldman presented a critical re-examination of the corpus of drawings traditionally attributed to Giovanni Bandini, challenging the traditional char- acterization of the Florentine sculptor’s graphic oeuvre and proposing a revisionist catalogue built around an important group of new attributions. In the final contribution Sara Galletti presented the developments of court etiquette and the use of space in French Alina Payne with incoming Fellow Estelle Andrea Gáldy Lingo and Stuart Lingo

ALINA PAYNE (VIT’05), Professor of the FORMER FELLOWS UPDATE ALISON FRAZIER (VIT’06) received the History of Art and Architecture at Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize PDATE Harvard University, has received the U at last year’s RSA meeting in San 2006 Max Planck Research Award for Francisco for her book Possible Lives: outstanding work in art history. This BRONWEN W ILSON’S (VIT’04) book The Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy. annual award identifies scholars of World in Venice: Print, The City, and New York: Columbia U.P., 2005. The international repute whose work, Early Modern Identity (Toronto: Univ. purpose of the prize is to recognize according to the Max Planck Society, of Toronto Press, 2005) was recently significant accomplishments in has the capacity to “initiate, deepen, or awarded the 2006 Roland H. Bainton Renaissance Studies by members of the expand international cooperation.” Prize for Art History and Music offered RSA and to encourage Renaissance Alina Payne specializes in Early Modern by the Sixteenth Century Society and scholarship. art and architecture as well as Conference. The SCSC is a scholarly architecture from the mid-19th to the society interested in the early modern early 20th centuries and is considered a era (ca. 1450-ca. 1660). Wilson, who is leading theorist of Renaissance an assistant professor in the Department architecture. Her books include The of Art History and Communication Architectural Treatise in Italian Studies at McGill University, is currently Renaissance (Cambridge, MA: working on a book, Portraiture, Cambridge U.P., 1999) for which she Physiognomy, and Naturalism in won the 2000 Alice Davis Hitchcock Northern Italy: 1550-1620, which she Award from the Society of Architectural began during her fellowship year. Historians. Alison Frazier

VILLA I TATTI The Berenson Lectures in the Italian Renaissance

EDWARD MUIR (VIT’73) Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor of History at Northwestern University The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance

hese three lectures in March 2006, which included Galileo Galilei and was which open a new series of annual T led by the philosopher Cesare Cremonini, lectures by distinguished scholars and sustained a wide-ranging program of which will be published in book form, open and free inquiry. Cremonini has focused on the philosophical, literary, long been known as the arch-Aristotelian 17 scientific, and musical culture in Venice foe of Galileo’s science, the philosopher at the close of the 16th and the first half of who refused to look into Galileo’s the 17th century. The period coincided telescope because he said it would give with the expulsion of the Jesuits from the him a headache. But the two were, in dominions of the Venetian Republic. fact, best friends who carried on a debate Ed Muir before his lecture Censorship virtually ceased and about Aristotelianism in which they hid intellectuals could and did say almost their own identities and purposes by anything. Out of this fertile period came Tarabotti, now well known for her books putting on the guise of blind or masked an endless stream of pamphlets, tracts, on Paternal Tyranny and The Convent as men. The issue for both was the necessity books, and libretti. The result was a Hell. The second lecture tried to explain of open inquiry and opposition to Jesuit remarkable period of cultural creativity, why such an open discussion about pedagogical ideas, which privileged especially about the relationship between gender roles and sexuality was possible theology over philosophy and empirical free inquiry and orthodoxy, the status of in Venice at this time. research. religious skepticism and libertine morals, The execution of Pallavicino in In Venice the Accademia degli and the debate about gender roles and 1644 silenced the more outrageous Incogniti was founded by Cremonini’s the public functions of theater including members of the Incogniti, who soon students after his death. Its international grand opera. In many respects the culture turned to writing librettos for the new membership included a significant group wars of the late Renaissance seem Venetian craze of opera. The final phase of renegade religious, most notoriously strangely like the Enlightenment a of the culture wars pitted commercial the brilliant, anti-Jesuit, anti-Spanish, century early, and, in fact, the period opera, with its classical plots, women anti-Barberini polemicist, Ferrante established many of the fundamental singers on stage, and often racy plot lines Pallavicino. The Incogniti wrote on every elements associated with the French against the decorous model of Jesuit important issue of the day, and their Enlightenment. theater. While the Jesuits were in exile, leader, Gianfrancesco Loredan, served as In Padua from 1591 to 1631 a opera thrived as a commercial success and patron to the feminist nun, Arcangela faction of university faculty members, became the paramount contemporary art form. The libertine inclinations of the Incogniti imbued many of the plots of these operas written in the 1640s, especially Monteverdi’s masterpiece, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, one of the few works from this era that is regularly produced today. Branko By the 1660s with the return of the Mitroviç Jesuits and growing censorship in the sitting next to theaters, the culture wars were over in Jennifer Venice, but they left some lasting legacies: Snodgrass of the philosophical skepticism of Harvard Cremonini, the materialism of Galileo, University the libertine debate about gender roles Press. HUP of the Incogniti, and the pure musical will publish will publish theater of Venetian opera. the Berenson Lectures

AUTUMN 2006 IN MEMORIAM

I Tatti records with sorrow the following deaths:

ICHEL FRANÇOIS-PONCET died on laurea from the University of Pisa and AURIE FUSCO (VIT’83), a scholar of M10 February 2005 at the age of 70. her doctorate from the Scuola Normale LItalian Renaissance art, died on 18 He was a banking executive and Director Superiore. Between her first book on the December 2005. She received her BA General of Paribas. Under the Duomo of Grossetto and her last book Il from Wellesley College and her MA and chairmanship of Jean-François Malle, he fonte del Battistero di Pisa: cavalli, arieti PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New was a member of I Tatti’s International e grifi alle soglie di Nicola Pisano York University. Formerly Head of Council from 1989 to 1997. He received (Ospedaletto, Pisa: Pacini, 2002), she Scholarly Programs and Senior Lecturer 18 his MBA from Harvard Business School published on a variety of subjects at the J. Paul Getty Museum, she was a in 1958. including sculpture, frescoes, architecture, recipient of grants from the College Art gold, embroidery, enamels, and Association, the Fulbright-Hays DITH KIRSCH (VIT’74), who died miniatures. Foundation, I Tatti, and the Samuel H. Eon 14 April 2005, was Professor of Kress Foundation. Her latest book was IUSEPPINA BUCCI, widow of Gigi Art History at Colorado College, written with Gino Corti (VIT’71- Bucci and former caretaker of the which she joined in 1982. She received G ’87,’88-‘03): Lorenzo de’ Medici, Villa La Papiniana, died on 12 October her BA from Cornell University in Collector and Antiquarian. (Cambridge, 2005. Beppina and Gigi worked for 1953, her MFA from Princeton UK: Cambridge U.P., 2004). University in 1971, and her PhD from Esther Skinner Sperry when she lived at the Papiniana and subsequently for I Tatti. Princeton University in 1981 and was a ANIEL STEINER, I Tatti Council She was an excellent cook and Fellow at I Tatti in 1973/74. Her member, died 11 June 2006 at the welcoming caretaker and will be D books included Five Illuminated age of 72. He received his AB in 1954 remembered by the many guests who Manuscripts of Giangaleazzo Visconti and his LLB in 1958, both from Harvard. stayed there over the years. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State After practicing law in New York City U.P. for the CAA, 1991) and The and Washington D.C., he returned to Viscontis of Milan (Modena: Panini, DWIN L. WEISL, JR., I Tatti Council member, died on October 27, 2005 Harvard and became the university’s first 1990). Her best known book was The E General Counsel in 1970, receiving the Visconti Hours, which she co-edited at the age of 77. He received his LLB from Columbia University in 1956 and additional title of Vice President in 1982. with Millard Meiss (VIT’69), (New He retired from the University in 1992 York: George Braziller, 1972). went on to practice law in New York City and in Washington D.C. He was and joined the New England Conservatory in 1999, first as Acting AURY D. F ELD (VIT’84), retired passionate about late Medieval and early President and then as President one year reference librarian and historian, Renaissance art and met Mr. Berenson M later. His failing health had led Daniel to died 3 June 2005. Feld received his AB when he first came to Florence. Among announce his retirement from the NEC from the University of Chicago in 1948 his other positions, he was on the Board at the end of the last academic year, but and his MLS from Simmons College in of Directors of the Robert Lehman he was able to participate in the 1981. He joined Harvard University in Foundation, a trustee of the Samuel H. commencement exercises in May at 1955 and became Reference Librarian at Kress Foundation, and a past president of which he received an honorary doctorate. Littauer Library in 1977. For a time, he the International Foundation for Art Daniel Steiner was actively involved in was Byzantine Librarian at Dumbarton Research. Even before he joined the the life of I Tatti for many years, Oaks. He was a Visiting Scholar at I Tatti I Tatti Council as a founding member in judiciously advising all the directors from during the first semester of the 1983/84 1979, Ed Weisl had become intimately Craig Hugh Smyth onwards on academic year. His extensive publications, involved in I Tatti and generously numerous aspects of running the center. on military history and on early printing, supported, both personally and through He joined the I Tatti Council in 1989. include The Structure of Violence: the Robert Lehman Foundation, a He and his wife Prudence were frequent Armed Forces as Social Systems (Beverly number of aspects of the center, including visitors to Florence where they became Hills: Sage Publications, 1977). the restoration of the Sassetta panels and the establishment of a Robert Lehman beloved members of the I Tatti family. He will be sorely missed, but his memory will NNAROSA GARZELLI (VIT’75,’77-’79) Fellow and a Robert Lehman Visiting AProfessor of the History of Medieval Professor. He and his late wife Barbara be evoked every time a scholar opens a Art at the University of Pisa, died on 23 were regular visitors to Florence and had book purchased with the Prudence and September 2005. A historian of 14th- to many friends among the community Daniel Steiner Book Fund, generously 16th-century Tuscan art, she received her here. established by them in 1991.

VILLA I TATTI COUNCIL NOTES Macchetta reported on the March 2006 Los Angeles event where Dale Kent (VIT’78, ’83) gave a lecture entitled “Patronage and Patriarchy in Medicean e are deeply saddened by the loss Hammond, he divides his time between Florence.” The lecture focused on Wof longtime friends and Council their homes in London and Venice. His Cosimo de’ Medici’s definition of himself members, DANIEL STEINER, who died in responsibilities as director of the Henry as a patron as it arose from the various June, and EDWIN WEISL, who died last Moore Foundation in London have made conceptions and metaphors of patriarchy October (see page 18). A member since it increasingly difficult for him to attend of the time. Michael Rocke reported on 1989, Daniel deeply cared about I Tatti’s the Council meetings, normally held in the developments in the Biblioteca welfare. He was generous with his time, New York City. Likewise retired this year Berenson. That evening, VIRGILIA KLEIN his unfailing good counsel and invaluable is BENEDETTA ORIGO, whose family ties and her husband Walter graciously hosted 19 friendship over the span of four with I Tatti date back to her a fine reception at their home, where directorships. He and his wife Prudence grandmother, Lady Sybil Cutting. Also guests admired their art collection. gave to many parts of the Harvard Center initially a member of the I Tatti On the occasion of the Fra Angelico including the library where an endowed International Council, Benedetta has exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum Book Fund in their names will keep his supported I Tatti in a multitude of ways. of Art, WILLIAM E. HOOD gave a special memory alive. Her commitments in Rome and at La tour of what the New York Times called Foce, as well as her involvement with “the exhibition of a lifetime.” Council the festival Incontri in Terra di Siena, members turned students when he prevent her from dedicating herself to handed them specific assignments to I Tatti as much as she would like. Tim examine details of Fra Angelico’s and Benedetta have our deep gratitude paintings. They then orally presented for their support. We look forward to their findings to the group. Afterwards, their future visits. guests gathered for a luncheon graciously ROSEMARY WEAVER generously hosted by SUSAN BRADDOCK at her home. sponsored this year’s Council meeting Graziella Macchetta on 28 April in New York City. Development Associate Chairman DEBORAH LOEB BRICE gave recognition to retired Council Bill Hood, Virgilia Klein & Rosemary Weaver members Lewis Bernard, Richard at the I Tatti Council Meeting Ekman and Frank Richardson, and in New York City remembered the passing of Ed Weisl. Director JOSEPH CONNORS shared EDWIN L. WEISL was one of the I Tatti’s latest news including an increase original members of the I Tatti Council. in fellowship applications, the events of His passion was late Medieval and early the 2005/06 academic year, and the Renaissance Italian paintings and Harvard Magazine article “Rereading the architecture, as the extensive library in his Renaissance,” spotlighting the I Tatti apartment attested. He and his late wife Renaissance Library series. Alexa Mason Bob & Lois Erburu at Dale Kent’s Barbara were frequent visitors to I Tatti presented the budget and Graziella lecture in Los Angeles over many years and contributed to the restoration of the Sassetta in the I Tatti collection. Through his affiliation with THE 2006 VILLA I TATTI COUNCIL the Robert Lehman Foundation, Ed Deborah Loeb Brice, Chairman Weisl secured considerable support for Joseph Connors, Director the Harvard Center. Anne H. Bass Mary Weitzel Gibbons Marilyn Perry Regretfully, we report the Jean A. Bonna William E. Hood, Jr. Susan Mainwaring Roberts retirement of TIMOTHY LLEWELLYN, who Susan Braddock Walter Kaiser Neil L. Rudenstine initially joined the I Tatti International James R. Cherry, Jr. Virgilia Pancoast Klein Melvin R. Seiden Council and then, when it was dissolved Anne Coffin Frederick S. Koontz Sydney R. Shuman in 1997, became a member of the regular D. Ronald Daniel Troland S. Link Craig Hugh Smyth Council. With his wife Elizabeth, the Robert F. Erburu Barnabas McHenry William F. Thompson Gabriele Geier Joseph P. Pellegrino Rosemary F. Weaver daughter of Mason and Florence

AUTUMN 2006 Newsbriefs

t the end of July, GIORGIO SUPERBI demonstration in the Berenson study Aretired from I Tatti’s financial office. of various kinds of ancient recorders He came to work on I Tatti’s accounts in in his collection. He was accompanied January 1975, under the directorship of on the harpichord by CATHERINE Craig Hugh Smyth, when keeping the POULIGNY. They gave us a fascinating books was a far simpler matter than it is glimpse of Medieval and Renaissance Lila Arcamone, who is training to become a Florence guide, did an internship at I Tatti today. In June 2001, he cut back his hours wind instruments and the music written this past spring and summer, helping her to work just half a day. Now, after 31 years, 20 specially for them. mother, Susan Wilson Arcamone, conduct he has retired. His friends at I Tatti will the regular I Tatti tours. miss him enormously, but with Fiorella n June, an Academic Review Superbi in the Fototeca still and I Committee visited with Harvard’s Alessandro Superbi in the financial office, Associate Provost for Arts and Culture I TATTI STUDIES: we hope that we will see Giorgio on a and Director of Cultural Programs SEAN ESSAYS IN THE RENAISSANCE regular basis. BUFFINGTON. L INA BOLZONI (VIT’97-’03, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Executive Editor CAROLINE ELAM EDWARD MUIR (VIT’73, Northwestern Editors University), JESSIE A NNE OWENS (VIT’80, ALISON BROWN University of California, Davis), BARBARA JOSEPH CONNORS HAILOR IANA S (Yale University), D ELIZABETH CROPPER SORENSON (Harvard University), and IAIN FENLON MARIËT W ESTERMANN (Institute of Fine F. W. K ENT Arts, New York University) spent two DAVID QUINT days thoroughly reviewing the Harvard Editorial Co-ordinator Center’s programs. They toured the FIORELLA GIOFFREDI SUPERBI facilities, and met with current and Editorial Administrator Giorgio Superbi and Signe Olander former Fellows, members of the staff, and NELDA FERACE the Director. The visit was organized by aking his place on the third floor is Harvard as a routine review of one of its I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY: TSIGNE OLANDER who comes departments. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. originally from Denmark but who has General Editor been living in Italy for many years. She epresentatives from ARIAH met in JAMES HANKINS has most recently been working in RFlorence last October. I Tatti hosted Associate Editor MARTIN DAVIES educational travel in Switzerland and Italy the business meeting as well as an Editorial Board and brings a fluency in many languages exhibition of photographs of Giotto’s MICHAEL J. B. ALLEN and knowledge of accountancy to her Assisi frescoes and a reception at the Casa BRIAN COPENHAVER new position. We welcome Signe! Morrill on Costa San Giorgio where the VINCENZO FERA group enjoyed the splendid views over JULIA HAIG GAISSER n April, four trustees of the Florence J. Florence. Visits were also arranged to the CLAUDIO LEONARDI IGould Foundation visited. JOHN and Kunsthistorisches Institut, the Palazzo WALTHER LUDWIG MARY Y OUNG, and WALTER and URSULA Pitti, the restoration laboratory of the NICHOLAS MANN SILVIA RIZZO CLIFF spent a few days at I Tatti. In Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Castello and addition to meeting the academic Artimino. community here, they drove through the Crete Senese to Asciano and visited Council member BENEDETTA ORIGO’S We have lost touch with the following Fellows: beautiful home at La Foce. They also had CHRISTINE DAFFIS-FELICELLI LIONELLO PUPPI a fascinating tour of the restoration CATHERINE LOWE LOREDANA PUPPI laboratories of the Opificio delle Pietre NANCY WARD NEILSON JOHN WOODHOUSE Dure at the Fortezza da Basso. One MAURICE POIRIER afternoon, PHILIPPE CANGUILHEM, this If you know of their whereabouts, would you please let us know? year’s Florence Gould Fellow, gave a short

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AUTUMN 2006 Former FELLOWS Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest UPDATE Special Grants

INGRID D. ROWLAND (VIT’94), of the ormer I Tatti Appointees are eligible to apply for two kinds of grants to promote University of Notre Dame School of Ftheir scholarship. Architecture in Rome, has received The LILA WALLACE – READER’S DIGEST PUBLICATIONS GRANT provides subsidies honorable mention in the 2005 for scholarly books on the Italian Renaissance. These can be a monograph by a single competition for the Aldo and Jeanne author or a pair of authors, or a collection of essays by autori varii. Books that grow Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies for directly out of research carried out at I Tatti are especially appropriate. In addition, SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS are occasionally available to former her book The Scarith of Scornello: A Appointees who wish to initiate, promote, or engage in an interdiciplinary project in Tale of Renaissance Forgery (Chicago: Italian Renaissance studies such as a conference or workshop. U. of Chicago Press, 2004). This honor Recipients are chosen by a committee of senior Renaissance Scholars, plus the 22 is awarded biennially for an Director acting as chairman. The applicant’s covering letter should include a brief outstanding book by a member of the project description, a budget, and a short list of publications since the I Tatti Modern Language Association of appointment. The application deadline is 1 October each year. America in the field of Italian literature For publications grants, the book must already be accepted by a publisher, who should write a letter describing the planned publication and giving precise figures for or comparative literature involving the print run and cost. The publisher’s letter is quite important; cursory letters only a Italian. few lines long that merely affirm acceptance of a manuscript will not be considered. If a former Appointee has finished a manuscript but the relationship with the publisher is STEPHEN J. MILNER (VIT ’00) has been still tentative, he or she should wait until there appointed Professor and Chair of is a firm contract before applying. Italian Studies within the School of Grants can also be made for translating Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at books, though, since funds are limited, direct publication subsidies will take priority. the University of Manchester (UK). Publications grants can assume two His most recent edited volume At the forms. They can be made directly to the Margins: Minority Groups in publisher in order to insure a higher quality Premodern Italy, came out in 2005 as of publication or a lower list price. The volume 39 in the ‘Medieval Cultures’ publisher should explain exactly how this series published by the University of would happen in the letter. Grants can also Minnesota Press and contains essays by be made to an individual to reimburse expenses for photographs and reproduction a number of former I Tatti Fellows Ada Palmer & rights. It is also possible to split a grant, including Michael Rocke Sara Galletti (© Waldman) earmarking some for the publisher and the rest (VIT’91,’99-’07), Philip Gavitt for reimbursement of personal expenses. (VIT’91,’97), and Samuel K. Cohn Jr. Applications for the publication of first (VIT’89,’94). He is currently working books or collected essays may find $4,000 to $5,000 a good target figure, but for major, on a monograph entitled The Cultures expensive books that are the fruit of long years of research the subsidy can go as high as of the Italian Renaissance for Polity $8,000. Since repeated grants will be very rare, Appointees should wait until they are publishing a substantial book to apply. Press and has co-edited a volume due

out this year in the Palgrave Macmillan 2005/2006 LILA W ALLACE – READER’S DIGEST GRANT RECIPIENTS: ‘The New Middle Ages’ series entitled SERGIO BERTELLI (VIT’66,’67) towards the publication of Apollonio di Giovanni: un The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and cassone per le nozze Ridolfi. Distance in the Middle Ages. MOLLY BOURNE (VIT’04) towards the publication of The Cultural World of a Renaissance Warlord: the Patronage of Francesco II Gonzaga, Fourth Marquis of GUIDO REBECCHINI (VIT’05) last Mantua. October became an Assistant at the WILLIAM CAFERRO (VIT’99) towards the publication of John Hawkwood, An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. post-graduate institute, Scuola CAROLINE ELAM (VIT’82,’05) towards the publication of Roger Fry and Italian Art. Superiore di Studi Umanistici, of the SILVIA EVANGELISTI (VIT’04) towards the publication of Domestic and Institutional University of Siena where he will be Interiors in Early Modern Europe. teaching a course entitled “Retorica JOHN HENDERSON (VIT’84,’94) towards the publication of The Renaissance dell’immagine” next year. He is Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul. currently working on a book on MICHAEL J. ROCKE (VIT’91,’99-’07) towards the publication of Public Life and Ippolito de’ Medici. Private Conduct: Perspectives on Power, Identity, and Gender across the Early Modern World. Essays in Honor of Richard D. Trexler. DAVID R. WRIGHT (VIT’71) towards the publication of Reading Alberto on ROBERTO LEPORATTI (VIT’02) was Painting, 1435-1600. made Professeur Ordinaire at the University of Geneva last February.

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Fellows “Venice’s Maritime Empire: Conflict and Confraternities and Communities in GABOR ALMASI (2nd sem), Andrew W. Negotiation in the Renaissance.” 16th-Century Florence.” Mellon Research Fellow, Institute of VALENTINA PROSPERI, Andrew W. Mellon JAMES HANKINS (2nd sem), Lila Wallace - Habsburg History, Literature. “The Fellow, Università di Pisa, Literature. Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Humanist and his Dog: The Social and “The War of Troy from Antiquity to the Harvard University, History. Anthropological Aspects of Scholarly Renaissance.” “Repertorium Brunianum: A Guide to Dogkeeping in the Italian Renaissance.” HELENA SERAZIN (2nd sem), I Tatti the Writings of Leonardo Bruni, vol. 2.” JOSKO BELAMARIC (2nd sem), Craig Hugh Research Fellow, France Stele Institute DEBORAH HOWARD (2nd sem), Robert Smyth Visiting Fellow, Croatian Ministry of Art History, Slovenia, Art History. “The Lehman Visiting Professor, University of of Culture, Art History. “The Protagonist, Circle of Baldassare Peruzzi between Italy Cambridge, Art History. “Architecture the Project and the Iconographic and Central-East Europe: The Diffusion and Music in Renaissance Venice” and 23 Programme of the Chapel of the Blessed of the Inventions in Late Renaissance “State Building Projects in Late 16th John in Togir.” Military Architecture.” Century Venice.” GIORGIO CARAVALE, Lila Wallace- SAMO STEFANAC (2nd sem), I Tatti Research DANIEL JAVITCH (2nd sem), Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Fellow, (Università di Fellow, University of Ljubljana, Art Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, New Roma “La Sapienza”), History. “Dal History. “A Monograph on Niccolò di York University, Literature. “A Rinascimento fiorentino all’irenismo Giovanni Fiorentino, Architect and Collection of Essays on Ariosto’s Orlando europeo: Francesco Pucci e la ‘terza via’ Sculptor.” Furioso.” italiana alla Riforma.” ELEONORA STOPPINO, Ahmanson Fellow, DALE V. K ENT (1st sem), Lila Wallace - FEDERICA CICCOLELLA, Francesco De University of Illinois, Literature. “The Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Dombrowski Fellow, Texas A & M Travelers’ Library: Early Modern University of California, Riverside, University, Literature. “Greek Grammars, Exploration and Italian Popular Epic.” History. “Friendship, Love and Fidelity Schoolbooks, and Elementary Readings T. B ARTON THURBER, (1 st sem), Craig in Renaissance Florence.” in the Italian Renaissance.” Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Hood JOHN E. LAW, Lila Wallace - Reader’s MICHAEL COLE, Robert Lehman Fellow, Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Art Digest Visiting Professor, University of University of Pennsylvania, Art History. History. “Art, Architecture and Religious Wales, Swansea, History. “The Urban “The Art and Architecture of Conflict in Counter-Reformation Lordship – the signorie – of Early Giambologna and his Circle.” Bologna.” Renaissance Italy.” IPPOLITA DI MAJO, Hanna Kiel Fellow, ELENA VALERI, Jean-François Malle HENK VAN OS (1st sem), Lila Wallace - Università di Napoli “Suor Orsola Fellow, (Università di Roma “La Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Benincasa,” Art History. “Il mecenatismo Sapienza”), History. “Storia civile e storia University of Amsterdam, Art History. di Alfonso d’Avalos (1509-1546).” ecclesiastica: la rappresentazione dell’Italia “Reflections on 50 Years of Art History ERIC DURSTELER, Committee to Rescue nella storiografia del Rinascimento.” of Sienese Painting.” Italian Art Fellow, Brigham and Young MAUDE V ANHAELEN, Deborah Loeb Brice University, History. “The Experience of Fellow, University of Brussels, Literature. Research Associate Renegade Women as a Window into “Mysticism and Reason in Quattrocento INGRID BAUMGÄRTNER, History, Gender and Religious Identity in the Florence: Ficino’s and Pico’s Doctrines of Universität Kassel Early Modern Mediterranean.” Philosophical Raptus.” The Senior Research Associates are the MORTEN HANSEN, Hanna Kiel Fellow, MATTHEW VESTER, Florence J. Gould same as for 2005/2006. University of Copenhagen, Art History. Fellow, West Virginia University, History. “The Imitation of Michelangelo in “The Geography of Political Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy.” the Early Modern Alps.” WENDY HELLER, Frederick Burkhardt GIOVANNI ZANOVELLO, Francesco De Residential Fellow, Princeton University, Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Musicology. “Baroque Dramatic Music Padova, Musicology. “Investigation of and the Uses of Antiquity.” Music, Ritual, and Politics at Santissima ESTELLE LINGO, Rush H. Kress Fellow, Annunziata.” Michigan State University, Art History. “Sculptural Form and Reform: Francesco Readers in Renaissance Studies Mochi and the Edge of Tradition.” DAVID KIM (1st sem), Harvard University, ANDREA MOZZATO, Lila Wallace - Art History. Reader’s Digest Fellow, (Università Ca’ EVAN ANGUS MACCARTHY (2nd sem), Foscari di Venezia), History. “Storia della Harvard University, Musicology. ditta di Agostino Altucci, speziale e mercante tra Venezia, Firenze ed Arezzo Visiting Professors nella seconda metà del XV secolo. NICHOLAS ECKSTEIN (1st sem), Robert Aspetti sociali ed economici.” Lehman Visiting Professor, University of MONIQUE O’CONNELL, Melville J. Kahn Sydney, History. “Monograph on Fellow, Wake Forest University, History. Cultural History of the Brancacci Chapel: Pedro Memelsdorff and incoming musicologist Giovanni Zanovello

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In the course of the year the musicologists and art historians to discuss communities in these emerging members twentieth volume of the I Tatti the “forgotten partnership” between of the European Union. The road had Renaissance Library arrived, a tribute to altarpieces and organs. And Anna Maria already been smoothed by Morrill Music the vision of James Hankins, series ideator Busse Berger and Massimiliano Rossi Librarian Kathryn Bosi, with her many and editor. His achievement was (VIT’93,’98-’03) organized a memorable friendships and her microfilm collecting recognized by a grant of $1.2 million giornata di studio on the role of memory visits to eastern Europe, and by Edward from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in music, art, architecture and literature Muir who long ago saw the importance which will help ITRL reach its goal of of the late Middle Ages and the of Slovenia and especially Istria for a 125 volumes over the next twenty years. Renaissance. wider history of the Venetian Republic. Visiting Professors enlivened the A lecturer visits I Tatti only for a day, In March I visited a number of research year with their conversation and their but a new series, the Berenson Lectures institutes in Ljubljana and Koper and will wisdom. Karol Berger of Stanford, whose in the Italian Renaissance, allowed us the return to Ljubljana for a lecture next work at I Tatti extended to Mozart and company of Edward Muir (VIT’73) from October, thanks to the graciousness of Beethoven, explored concepts of time’s the department of history at Stanko Kokole (VIT’00) and Metoda 24 cycle and time’s arrow and the birth of Northwestern for several weeks in March. Kokole. And in the coming June I Tatti musical modernity, dwelling in particular His splendid lectures on “The Culture will hold a conference on contacts in the on Monteverdi’s Orfeo. Marc Laureys, Wars of the Late Renaissance” are worlds of art and humanism between professor of Neo-Latin studies at the described later in this Newsletter. Florence and Budapest, followed by travel University of Bonn, spoke on the image The Mellon Research Fellowships in Hungary, arranged on the initiative of of the ancient Capitol in the writings of administered by the Council of Overseas former Mellon Research Fellow Péter the Lincean, Justus Rycquius. David Research Institutes (CAORC) have Farbaky (VIT’02). Gentilcore, Reader in History at the brought scholars from Mitteleuropa to Once again the fireworks of San University of Leicester, spoke on the I Tatti since 1993/94. Next year, for the Giovanni are reminding me that another changing fortunes of that hardy first time, there will also be scholars from fruitful year at I Tatti, the fourth for immigrant from the New World, the Slovenia and Croatia. But I have also Françoise and me, is coming to a close. tomato. Christa Gardner organized a thought it important to seek out closer Joseph Connors stimulating exchange between contacts with the Renaissance Director

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