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his year’s “Letter from Florence” tural plans for this have long since been Tcomes, in fact, not from Florence Letter From Florence drawn, and a considerable part of the at all. Unexpectedly, I am writing it P money has been raised, yet until yester- from Manhattan, on a steamy August day we have been stymied by the morning in a room high over refractory Fiesolan bureau- the East River. As I look in cracy. It has been ten years the direction of Montauk, Italy now since we first applied for is an indiscernible speck on an permits to replace the indeterminable horizon, hid- unsightly row of shabby den by the curvature of the garages at the back of the earth. Yet uncannily, I Tatti parking lot with a handsome itself is very much present in new building, essentially the this room. I’ve been spending same size and in the same every morning in e-mail com- footprint, which will provide munication with members of an office for each Fellow and a the staff, working on acade- room for small lectures or mic, budgetary, and other seminars. What should have matters, and I’ve been confer- been a simple matter was ring regularly with Charles transformed into a Kafkaesque Brickbauer, our devoted archi- labyrinth by interminable tect, about current and future Walter Kaiser and Allen Grieco delays, tergiversations, equivo- building renovations. Former cations, and nit-picking, as if Fellows have written, phoned, the welfare of the denizens of or come by, and tomorrow I am to missed the annual June-time return of their community (to the economy of have lunch with one and dinner with former Fellows, our convegno on which I Tatti contributes millions of another, after having spent the morning Ariosto, Tasso, and Guarini (about dollars each year) were of little concern with I Tatti’s next Director. The fol- which many have written me with to the city fathers. However, I have just lowing day, I go off to spend the week- enthusiasm), and the summer supper all learned that we appear to have cleared end with Debby Brice, who heads the the members of the I Tatti staff and the final hurdle. At last! Given our past I Tatti Council; and next week Nelda their spouses have each year, which we experience, I’m chary about indulging and Sandro Ferace will be visiting me call la festa per noialtri. But I shall be back in unqualified optimism and, if only out here in New York. So I Tatti remains at the beginning of September, in time of deference to scaramanzia, I’m not pretty vividly present, even though I’m for the new Fellows and the vendemmia, inclined to say much more about any an ocean away; but of course, in our although I dare say it will all feel unusu- of this yet. Nevertheless, I’ll risk the electronic age communication, and ally autumnal, if not downright crepus- opinion that it does seem as though we even certain forms of closeness, are no cular, since the coming year is to be my may finally be able to begin this longer dependent on location. last at I Tatti. Labuntur anni! Any valetu- long-deferred project. I suspect it will Even so, I have been homesick for dinarian thoughts I possess I shall save take at least a year before the detailed the fields beside the Mensola and filled for next year’s letter, but there are sev- architectural drawings are approved and with those longings for the red roofs eral matters of more immediate impor- the necessary bureaucratic rituals per- and the olive trees that my old friend tance I’d like to tell you about. formed, but I hope that, with luck, Archie MacLeish once evoked in a First of all, there is the vexed subject we may be breaking ground for this of our projected loggiato. The architec- memorable poem. To my regret, I Continued on page 3

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Fellows JAN STEJSKAL, (2nd sem), Andrew W. Mellon EVE BORSOOK, Villa I Tatti, Art History. Research Fellow, University of Palacky, History. AUVIN . AILEY, Hannah Kiel Fellow, “Medieval Mosaic Technology” and “Letters of G A B “Czech Exile Activities in Italy during the Filippo Strozzi the Elder.” Clark University, Art History. “Early Jesuit Hussite Reformation (c. 1400-1450).” Painting in Rome and Florence, 1540-1600: The SALVATORE I. CAMPOREALE, The Johns Art of Catholic Reform.” ANNE STONE, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Queens College, CUNY, Musicology. “The Hopkins University, History. “Uno studio sul STEFANO U. BALDASSARRI, Francesco De Poetics of Musical Time in Early Fifteenth- Dei libero arbitro di Lorenzo Valla.” Dombrowski Fellow, Georgetown University, Century Italy.” Florence, Literature. “Retorica e politica in GINO CORTI (Emeritus), Villa I Tatti, Giannozzo Manetti.” MALGORZATA SZAFRANSKA, (1st sem), Paleography and History. “Lorenzo de’ Medici, Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Royal Castle in JILL BURKE, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow, Warsaw, Art History. “Renaissance Gardens in collezionista di antichità.” Courtauld Institute, Art History. “The Politics of Italy and their Intellectual and Social LAURA CORTI, Istituto Universitario di Imagery in Florence, 1512-1530.” Significance.” Architettura, Venezia, Art History. “Le genealo- FRANCESCO FACCHIN, Jean-François Malle SERGIO TOGNETTI, Ahmanson Fellow, gie degli scalpellini fiesolani.” f2 Fellow, Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Cesare Università di Perugia, History. “Drappi contro Pollini,” Musicology. “Iconografia musicale nei seta: Rapporti commerciali tra Firenze e il ALLEN GRIECO, Villa I Tatti, History. “A libri liturgici fiorentini: Rilievi per un catologo Mediterraneo occidentale nel primo Social and Cultural History of Alimentary Habits della miniatura con soggetto musicale.” Rinascimento.” in Renaissance Italy.” MARGARET A. GALLUCCI, Ahmanson Fellow, NATASCIA TONELLI, Jean-François Malle MARGARET HAINES, Opera di Santa Maria Italian Academy at Columbia University, Literature. Fellow, Warburg Institute, Literature. “Le origini del Fiore, Art History. “Edition and Database of quattrocentesche del romanzo epistolare.” “The Poetics of Trials and the Construction of the Documentation of the Florentine Opera del Subjectivity in Early Modern Italy.” RONI WEINSTEIN, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, Duomo during the Cupola Period.” JULIA L. HAIRSTON, Francesco De Dombrowski Hebrew University, Jerusalem, History. “Sexuality Fellow, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” and Body Comportment in Jewish-Italian JULIAN KLIEMANN, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Literature. “Tullia d’Aragona, Woman of Communities during Early Modern Time.” Art History. “Temi imperiali nell’iconografia papale del Cinquecentro.” Letters.” Visiting Professors PETER F. HOWARD, Andrew W. Mellon ARNALDO MORELLI, Conservatorio Statale JAYNIE ANDERSON (2nd sem), University of Fellow, Monash University, History. “Preaching di Musica ‘Ottorino Respighi,’ Latina, and and the Renaissance City.” Melbourne, Art History. “A book on Giovanni Bellini and an exhibition (curated jointly with Università della Calabria, Arcavacata, Cosenza, MARCIN KALECINZKI (2nd sem), Andrew W. Francesco Valcanover) on late Titian, from 1550- Musicology. “L’organo in Italia nel Mellon Research Fellow , Gdansk University, Art 1578, and his Venetian contemporaries.” Rinascimento: funzione, prassi, repertorio.” History. “Corpus of 15th and 16th Century ARGARET ENT (1st sem), Robert Lehman Italian Painting in Church Collections in M B MICHAEL ROCKE, Villa I Tatti, History. Visiting Professor, All Souls College, Musicology. Poland.” “Edition and Translation of Italian Texts Related “15th Century Music and Early Veneto ROBERT MANIURA, Deborah Loeb Brice Humanists.” to Homoeroticism (14th-17th centuries).” Fellow, Courtauld Institute, Art History. “The KATHARINE PARK (2nd sem), Robert Lehman MASSIMILIANO ROSSI, Università di Lecce, Miraculous Marian Wall Paintings of Visiting Professor, Harvard University, History. Art History. “Le genealogie ‘fantastiche’ dei Renaissance Tuscany.” “The Early History of Human Dissection in Medici: politica letteraria e figurativa granducale BRANKO MITROVIC, CRIA Fellow, Italy, 1280-1550.” tra Cinque e Seicento.” UNITEC Institute of Technology, Aukland, Art NICHOLAS ROUTLEY (1st sem), University ILVANA EIDEL- ENCHI, Università di History. “Problems in Form in Renaissance of Sydney, Musicology. “The Complete Secular S S M Architectural History.” Vocal Music of Josquin des Prez.” Trento, History. “Storia interna della GIUSEPPE PALMERO, Francesco De Congregazione dell’Indice “ e “I processi matri- Research Associates Dombrowski Fellow, Université de Nice - Sophia moniali degli archivi ecclesiastici italiani.” Antipolis, History. “Oralità, scrittura e circo- FABIO BISOGNI, Università di Siena, Art MARCO SPALLANZANI, Università di lazione dei saperi nel Rinascimento.” History. “Rifacimento della sezione iconografica Firenze, History. “Hispano-Moresque Pottery in della Biblioteca Sanctorum.” MONIKA A. SCHMITTER, Rush H. Kress Renaissance Florence.” Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Art History. LINA BOLZONI, Scuola Normale Superiore, “Marcantonio Michiel’s Notizia: Collecting Art Pisa, Literature. “Prediche in volgare e uso delle and History in Renaissance Venice.” immagini dalle origini al Savonarola.” Former Fellows Update

LAWRIN ARMSTRONG (VIT’00) has recently been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. He has also received a three-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant to ﬁnish the Fellows biographical study of the lay canon- Monika Schmitter, ist and statesman Lorenzo d’Antonio Stefano Baldassarri, Ridolﬁ (1362-1443) which he began Sergio Tognetti, and during his I Tatti fellowship. Giuseppe Palmero.

Villa I Tatti Letter from Florence Former Fellows Update Continued from page 1 splendid new building about the time F. W. KENT (VIT’78,’83,’87,’96, I leave and the new Director arrives ’97) was appointed Director of next summer. Monash University’s new center in Equally exciting is the news about Prato in 2000. The center will play a the I Tatti Renaissance Library, the key role in helping Monash forge launching of which I announced in last contacts with Italian and European year’s letter. In what Samuel Johnson academic institutions, and business might have termed the triumph of and political leaders. In addition to hope over experience (he was actually A smile from the Administration: providing a venue for academic speaking of second marriages!), we Susan Bates and Angela Lees. get-togethers or teaching young boldly decided to risk an initial printing Australians about Italy, Kent hopes run of 3,000 copies for the Boccaccio, speaker. The main event will take place the center will be of beneﬁt to the s3 2,750 for the Bruni, and 2,500 for the on Thursday, June 13, 2002, and Neil community of Prato as well. He sees Ficino. Before publication had even Rudenstine has graciously and generously it as a smaller-scale version of the dis- occurred, however, there were so many agreed to speak on that occasion. If you tinguished American and British advance orders for Ginny Brown’s edi- have seen Pointing Our Thoughts, his academies in Italy—a gateway to a tion of Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris impressive collection of presidential broad range of culture. The center that we had to increase its run by an speeches which has just been published, has already hosted various workshops additional 1,500 copies. Several weeks you will understand just why our sense of and art exhibitions as well as interna- ago, I received an urgent message from anticipation is so high. Neil and his wife tional conferences on a range of top- the Harvard University Press, inform- Angelica have long been devoted hon- ics including multiculturalism and ing me that the Boccaccio and the orary members of the I Tatti family, and economics. Kent has also recently Ficino were nearly sold out and more during his tenure at Harvard no one in taken over from Nicolai Rubinstein than half of the Bruni gone, and hence, Cambridge was more helpful to, or more as General Editor of the series they asked me to authorize a reprint of staunchly supportive of, I Tatti than he. devoted to the letters of Lorenzo 5,000 more copies of the Boccaccio My personal obligation to him is as incal- de’Medici, of which the eighth vol- and of 2,000 each for the Ficino and culable as that of Villa I Tatti itself. We’re ume, edited by Humfrey Butters, has the Bruni volumes. It is a success far hoping that as many of you as possible just been published (see below). beyond our wildest imaginings! will return to hear him next June. Finally, I’m sure you will all have (Though I must candidly admit to HUMFREY BUTTERS (VIT’72,’80) is wondering just who is buying all those received the good news that Professor Senior Lecturer in the Department of copies of the Theologica platonica.) Those Joseph Connors of Columbia History at Warwick University. His of you who have seen them will know University has agreed to become the edition of Lorenzo de’Medici, Lettere, what handsome volumes they are and next Director of Villa I Tatti when I VIII, (1484-1485), Firenze: Giunti- how useful they are going to be for retire a year from now. Joe, who is a Barbèra, 2001, was published under teaching and for scholarship. All highly distinguished architectural histo- the auspices of the Istituto Nazionale Tattiani owe an immense debt of grati- rian, who has been a notably successful di Studi sul Rinascimento in collabo- tude to Jim Hankins, whose efforts to and admired Director of the American ration with I Tatti, the Renaissance make all this possible have been prodi- Academy in Rome, and who has just Society of America, and the Warburg gious and indefatigable. This year, we received a prestigious award for his Institute. Previous volumes in the intend to publish volume 2 of the teaching, has long been a loyal friend of series have been edited by RIC- Theologica platonica, Leon Battista I Tatti. He and his charming wife CARDO FUBINI (VIT’65, ’66-73), Alberti’s Momus edited by Sarah Françoise know Italy intimately and will Nicolai Rubinstein, and MICHAEL Knight, Polydore Virgil’s De rerum bring great warmth and grace to the MALLETT (VIT’75). Butters began inventarum edited by Brian Copenhaver, directorship. We are singularly fortunate work on this volume during his fel- and a collection edited by Craig that he will henceforth devote his for- lowship year in 1979/80. Future vol- Kallendorf of humanist educational midable talents and his enlightened umes will be edited by LORENZ treatises by Pier Paolo Vergerio, scholarly vision to our beloved institu- BÖNINGER (VIT’95), MELISSA Leonardo Bruni, Aeneas Silvius tion, and I am personally grateful to BULLARD (VIT’81), Laura de Piccolomini, and Battista Guarino. him for having accepted President Angelis, LORENZO FABBRI At I Tatti, we have already begun to Rudenstine’s invitation. The future of (VIT’98), Renzo Ninci, MARCO think about a celebration of the Harvard I Tatti has never looked brighter! PELLEGRINI (VIT’98), and Center’s fortieth anniversary next June, PATRIZIA SALVADORI (VIT’95). and although plans are still somewhat m Walter Kaiser inchoate, we do at least have a date and a Director

Autumn 2001 ■ THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSON ■ And the IRIS Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence

http://www.iris.firenze.it ing archival finding aids for online dures involved in encoding or marking access. The workshop was led by three up archival and manuscript finding aids s Fiorella Superbi’s annual newslet- Harvard specialists from the Radcliffe for machine-readable processing follow- Ater reports attest, scholarly interest Institute for Advanced Study working ing recently developed international in the library’s archival collections of with I Tatti librarians Ilaria Della standards, the pre-requisite for making manuscripts continues to be lively, Monica, Giovanni Pagliarulo, and them widely available online. As we especially regarding Bernard and Mary myself. gradually create and encode finding aids Berenson’s extensive correspondence The workshop’s first half, on pro- for all of our deposits of manuscripts, (circa 35,000 letters) and other personal cessing materials and creating finding we hope to contribute them to the 4 papers. The Berenson archive is obvi- aids, was conducted by Jacalyn Blume, growing union catalogue of archival and f ously I Tatti’s most important deposit, now Photograph Cataloger at manuscript finding aids at Harvard but the library also preserves the papers, Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library but also University repositories known as manuscripts, and letters of another eight an archivist who has an intimate famil- OASIS (Online Archival Search individuals, mainly scholars, who have iarity with the Berenson papers. In 1994 Information System, located at bequeathed their personal archives, or Jacalyn worked for several months at http://oasis.harvard.edu), thereby pro- parts of them, to the Harvard University I Tatti re-organizing and classifying all viding world-wide access via the Center. Over the years we have of the materials in the Berenson archive Internet to the library’s unique archival received the papers of Giorgio (other than the correspondence, which resources. Castelfranco, Andrea Francalanci, already had a published inventory), and Since the workshop, Giovanni and Frederick Hartt, Giuseppe Marchini, compiling a detailed 125-page type- Ilaria have made good progress on orga- Emilio Marcucci, Roberto and Livia script inventory of this important col- nizing Frederic Hartt’s materials and Papini, and Valeria Piacentini. lection. For the workshop, after setting making the finding aid for that deposit. Considering the importance of these out and discussing general principles of Work on the others, including a com- unique resources, this year we initiated archival processing, she then guided us plete finding aid to the Berenson a long-term project aimed at making all through a hands-on experience working archive, will continue in a more con- our manuscript deposits better known with the small collection of papers left centrated way this coming year, since I and more accessible to scholars by creat- to I Tatti by art historian Frederick am happy to announce that Jacalyn ing adequate finding aids to these mate- Hartt. Susan von Salis, Archivist and Blume, whose husband Andrew is a rials and, eventually, by making them Information Systems Administrator at Fellow for 2001-02, has accepted a available for online consultation. the Schlesinger Library, and Kim part-time position while they are living In January we held a three-day Brookes, Director of Information in Florence to carry on with the workshop on organizing and inventory- Technology at the Radcliffe Institute, archival project. ing manuscript collections according to led the second half of the workshop. Under the management of assistant international standards, and on prepar- This was an introduction to the proce- cataloguer Stefano Corsi, now entirely responsible for the Library’s periodicals collection, much progress was made this year in our ongoing efforts both to reg- ister our entire periodical holdings in the online catalogue and to complete the runs of especially important journals to which the library has subscribed for some time, but is lacking anywhere from a few to dozens of volumes. This program for purchasing back issues of journals got the specific financial support it needed last autumn through a very generous gift of $150,000 from Deborah Loeb Brice, for which we are all exceedingly grateful. During the course of the year we not only received Former Fellows Sabine Eiche and David Quint use the Library’s online catalogue. the previously-announced 143 volumes of the Giornale storico della letteratura ital-

Villa I Tatti iana, but also acquired 50 volumes of one more to complete the series Former Fellows Update the Nuova rivista storica, 45 volumes of (Roma, Tipografia del Senato, 1943- ; the Mélanges de l’École française de Rome, volume 8 published by Leo S. Olschki, KATE LOWE (VIT’97) spent last 17 volumes of the Archivio storico lom- Florence). The library has begun a sub- year at the National Humanities bardo, and 13 volumes of Actum luce. scription to, and received the first fasci- Center in North Carolina continu- Some 23 additional journals that were cles of the extraordinary bibliographical ing her research on nuns’ chronicles missing only a few volumes were also project sponsored and published by the and convent culture in Renaissance completed. New subscriptions were Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Italy. She has now returned to begun this year to six periodicals, Medioevo Latino (SISMEL), the Goldsmiths College, University of mostly new but including a couple of Compendium auctorum Latinorum Medii London, where she is Reader in long-established journals: the six include Aevi (500-1500), eds. M. Lapidge, Early Modern history. She has Letteratura italiana antica (2000- ); Nexus G. C. Garfagnini, C. Leonardi recently edited Cultural Links between Network Journal : Architecture and (Tavarnuzze: SISMEL - Edizioni del Portugal and Italy in the Renaissance Mathematics (1999- ); Polittico (2000- ); Galluzzo, 2000- ). Finally, having long (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), 5 Quaderni lucchesi di studi sul Medioevo e been receiving both the Greek and the and is currently co-organizing a s sul Rinascimento (2000- ); Studi di Latin series of the Corpus christianorum conference with Tom Earle, the lessicografia italiana (1979- ); and Studi published by Brepols, we also ordered Professor of Portuguese Studies at umanistici piceni (1981- ). the series Continuatio mediaevalis and Oxford University. It is entitled A number of other single purchases purchased all the works that so far have “Black Africans in Renaissance during the past year also deserve special been published, amounting to some 180 Europe” and will take place at St mention. The art history section gained individual volumes. Peter’s College, Oxford from 2-4 several important new additions, Altogether, orders were placed this September 2001. including, to mention just a few, an year for 1,733 titles for the main library exquisite facsimile reproduction of Le and another 300 or so books and scores maioliche italiane della collezione for the Morrill Music Library; the total Pringsheim, in 3 large and beautifully of over 2,000 items is up considerably illustrated volumes (Ferrara, Belriguardo from past years. I would like to thank Arte, 1994; orig. ed. 1914); the rich all the members of the Acquisitions three-volume work by Giuseppe Committee, especially co-coordinator Toderi and Fiorenza Vannel, Le medaglie Amanda George, for their hard work as italiane del XVI secolo (Firenze: well as for their good cheer, and to Polistampa, 2000); the Giunti re-edition extend a particular word of gratitude to in three volumes of Leonardo da Vinci’s this year’s two wonderful “guest” mem- Who can identify these two former Codice Atlantico della Biblioteca bers, former Fellow Megan Holmes Fellows? Amazingly, two scholars Ambrosiana di Milano (Firenze: 2000; (VIT’97), who in the fall will be taking who shared a study above the orig. ed. 1975); and the four-volume La up a new position at the University of Fototeca during their fellowship year Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, the Michigan, and Visiting Professor in 1997/98 had met before, though most recent of the gorgeous, lavishly Katharine Park of Harvard University. neither of them remembered the illustrated works to have been published other. Both had gone to the same in the splendid series of Mirabilia Italiae m Michael Rocke elementary school in Bethesda, MD. by F. C. Panini (Modena: 2000). We Nicky Mariano Librarian What is even more amazing is that acquired a magnificent facsimile edition they are standing next to each other of one of the best-known herbals of the in the photograph commemorating early modern period, the Herbario nuovo their first communion. THOMAS by Castore Durante, originally pub- MARTIN (VIT’98), who won the lished in 1588 and reproduced in the 2000 Outstanding Teacher Award at 1717 Venice edition (Ivrea, Priuli & the University of Tulsa, is now a Verlucca Editori, 2000). The study of member of the college faculty at the medieval and early modern statutes will new Bard High School Early be facilitated by the purchase of the College in Brooklyn, New York. Catalogo della raccolta di statuti, consuetu- VICTOR COELHO (VIT’98) is dini, leggi, decreti, ordini e privilegi dei - Professor of Music at the University comuni, delle associazioni e degli enti locali of Calgary where he received the italiani, dal medioevo alla fine del secolo President’s Circle Award in XVIII of the Biblioteca del Senato della Research and Creative Activity Repubblica, with 8 volumes out and Excellence in March.

Autumn 2001 RECENT AQUISITIONS X fsfsfsfsfsO}fsfsfsfsfsC BOOKS BY FORMER FELLOWS

mong the many recent additions to the Library, whether purchased by one of the endowed book funds, from donations Agiven by the Friends of the Biblioteca Berenson, or given directly, are the following recent publications by former Fellows. Please forgive us if, due to space limitations or an oversight, your volume is not listed.

JAYNIE ANDERSON (VIT’01). I taccuini mano- WILLIAM J. CONNELL (VIT’93). La città dei Orders of Architecture. New York: Acanthus Press, scritti di Giovanni Morelli. [Ancona] Regione crucci: fazione e clientele in uno stato repubblicano del 1999. Marche: Centro beni culturali; Milano: F. Motta, ‘400. Firenze-Pistoia: Nuova Toscana Editrice - MARINA MONTESANO (VIT’99). Fantasima, 2000. Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia, 2000. fantasima che di notte vai: la cultura magica nelle nov- 6 ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI (VIT’99). WIETSE DE BOER (VIT’97). Conquest of the elle toscane del Trecento. Roma: Città Nuova, 2000. f Davide o Salomè? Il dibattito europeo sulla danza nella Soul: Confessions, Discipline, and Public Order in prima età moderna. Treviso: Fondazione Benetton Counter-Reformation Milan. Leiden: Brill, 2001. ANITA F. MOSKOWITZ (VIT’80). Italian Gothic Sculpture: c.1250 - c.1400. Cambridge: Studi Ricerche; Roma: Viella, 2000. EORGES IDI- UBERMAN (VIT’88). G D H Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001. GAUVIN A. BAILEY (VIT’01). Art on the Jesuit Devant le temps: histoire d’arte et anachronisme des Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773. images. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 2000. NERIDA NEWBIGIN (VIT’84). Castellano Toronto; Buffalo; London: Univ. of Toronto ROY ERIKSEN (VIT’94). The Building in the Castellani: La rappresentazione di San Venanzio. Press, 1999. Text: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton. University Camerino (Macerata): Univ. di Camerino, 2000. STEFANO U. BALDASSARRI (VIT’01) & Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2001. NUCCIO ORDINE (VIT’87). Le rendez-vous Arielle Saiber, eds., Images of Quattocento Florence: RICCARDO FUBINI (VIT’65,’66,’73). des savoirs: littérature, philosophie et diplomatie à la Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art. L’umanesimo italiano e i suoi storici: origini rinascimen- Renaissance. Paris: Klincksieck, 1999. New Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press, 2000. tali - critica moderna. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2001. DEBORAH PARKER (VIT’93). Bronzino: KAREN-EDIS BARZMAN (VIT’91). The RICHARD A. GOLDTHWAITE (VIT’74). Florentine Academy and the Early Modern State: The Renaissance Painter as Poet. Cambridge; New Villa Spelman of the Johns Hopkins University: An York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000. Discipline of Disegno. Cambridge: Cambridge Early History. Firenze: S.P.E.S., 2000. Univ. Press, 2000. ADRIANO PROSPERI (VIT’81). Il Concilio di DALE V. KENT (VIT’78, ’83). Cosimo de’ OBERT LACK (VIT’93). La Consolazione Trento e la controriforma. Trento: U.C.T, 1999. R B Medici and the Florentine Renaissance. New Haven; della filosofia nel medioevo e nel rinascimento italiano. London: Yale Univ. Press, 2000. PATRIZIA SALVADORI (VIT’95). Dominio e Tavernuzze (Firenze): SISMEL - Edizioni del patronato: Lorenzo dei Medici e la Toscana nel Galluzzo, 2000. WARREN KIRKENDALE (VIT’83). Emilio de’ Cavalieri “gentiluomo romano.” Florence: Leo S. Quattrocento. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e UCA OSCHETTO (VIT’00). Leon Battista L B Olschki, 2001. Letteratura, 2000. Alberti e Firenze: biografia, storia, letteratura. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2000. JULIAN KLIEMANN (VIT’86-01). Il bersaglio MARCO SANTAGATA (VIT’84). Amate e dell’arte: la Caccia di Diana di Domenichino nella amanti : figure della lirica amorosa fra Dante e Petrarca. BEVERLY LOUISE BROWN (VIT’83,’98) Galleria Borghese. Roma: Artemide, 2001. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1999. ed. The Genius of Rome, 1592-1623. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2001. GERT KREYTENBERG (VIT’88). Orcagna, SILVANA SEIDEL MENCHI (VIT’74,’75,94- Andrea di Cione: ein universeller Kunstler der Gotik in MARIA CRISTINA CABANI (VIT’91). La ’01) & Diego Quaglioni, eds. Coniugi nemici: la Florenz. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 2000. pianella di Scarpinello: Tassoni e la nascita del- separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo. l’eroicomico. Lucca: M. Pacini Fazzi, 1999. JOHN E. LAW (VIT’95). Venice and the Veneto Bologna: Il Mulino, 2000. in the Early Renaissance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. MALGORZATA SZAFRANSKA (VIT’01). KRISTIN LIPPINCOTT (VIT’88). The Story of Ogrod: forma-symbol-marzenie: 18 grudnia 1998-28 Time. London: Merrell Holberton, 2000. lutego 1999, Zamek Krolewski w Warszawi. HAYDEN B. J. MAGINNIS (VIT’73,’74). The Warszaw: Zamek Królewski, 1998. World of the Early Sienese Painter. University Park, FRANCESCO TATEO (VIT’66). Simmetrie PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2001. dantesche. Bari: Palomar, 2001. PIETRO C. MARANI (VIT’82). Leonardo: una carriera di pittore. Milano: F. Motta, 1999. NATASCIA TONELLI (VIT’01). Aspetti del sonetto contemporaneo. Pisa: ETS, 2000. LAURO MARTINES (VIT’63,’64,’65). Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian PAOLO TROVATO (VIT’88). Il testo della Vita Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. nuova e altra filologia dantesca. Roma: Salerno Press, 2001. Editrice, 2000. MARIA SERENA MAZZI (VIT’87,’88). MARCO VILLORESI (VIT’00). La letteratura Toscana bella: paesaggi, gente, amori nel Medioevo. cavalleresca: dai cicli medievali all’Ariosto. Roma: Torino: Paravia Scriptorium, 1999. Carocci, 2000. HONEY MECONI (VIT’87) ed. Fortuna desper- RONALD G. WITT (VIT’69). In the Footsteps ata: Thirty-Six Settings of an Italian Song. of the Ancients: the Origins of Humanism from Lovato Middleton: A-R Editions, 2001. to Bruni. Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, 2000. MAUREEN C. MILLER (VIT’00). The Bishop’s Palace: Architecture and Authority in HELLMUT WOHL (VIT’88,’92). The Aesthetics Amanda Smith, I Tatti Coordinator in Medieval Italy. Ithaca, NY; London: Cornell of Italian Renaissance Art: A Reconsideration of Style. Cambridge, visited Florence last November. Univ. Press, 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999. BRANKO MITROVIC (VIT’01) trans. & ed., SERGIO ZATTI (VIT’88). Il modo epico. Roma; Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola. Canon of the Five Bari: Laterza, 2000.

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ust as the academic year was donate his films to the Biblioteca Jcoming to a close, the Berenson, she stressed that “I Biblioteca Berenson became the know he would want the micro- recipient of a splendid gift which films to be used, and I think they is sure to strike a special chord for will be at I Tatti.” We think they many among I Tatti’s extended will be, too. community of friends and schol- The films will be catalogued ars, and will also significantly during the course of the coming enhance the Harvard Center’s year and added to the IRIS online 7 research resources. Pauline catalogue to provide full access to s Moffitt Watts (VIT’82), professor these important materials. What’s of history at Sarah Lawrence more, the new “Charles Trinkaus College and widow of the late Microfilm Collection” will, we Professor Charles Trinkaus, one hope, provide not only a strong of the foremost scholars of Italian foundation but also a catalyst for Renaissance humanism in the the building of a new and 20th century, has generously potentially rich collection of donated to the library Trinkaus’s microfilms of unpublished and extensive collection of microfilms early printed humanistic treatises of unpublished treatises and early at the Biblioteca Berenson. The printed books by Italian human- Acquisitions Committee has Pauline Moffitt Watts and Charles Trinkaus. ists. The collection is a genuine begun to discuss the feasibility of treasure for research on the cul- such a project, which holds excit- tural and intellectual history of the Ortensio Lando, Girolamo Muzio, ing promise. Indeed, we trust that period. The texts Trinkaus carefully Paolo Beni, Francesco Patrizi, Pauline Moffitt Watts’s important gift had filmed and preserved comprise the Francesco Piccolomini, and Francesco will serve as a stimulus to other former basic working tools of a lifetime of Vieri. Only a handful of these works Fellows to donate their own micro- study and writing that has had an enor- has been published in modern editions, films, especially of archival or unpub- mous influence on our understanding making these microfilm copies particu- lished materials on any and all subjects of Renaissance thought and culture. larly precious resources for scholars at that might facilitate the studies of Among the 154 microfilm reels I Tatti. scholars at I Tatti and might help us from libraries throughout Italy are rep- Charles Trinkaus was a Visiting create such a repository. Wherever such resented some 95 authors, most of them Scholar in 1981/82 and a regular visitor appeals and projects eventually lead, we Italians from the late 15th to the early to I Tatti both before and since then. are all extremely grateful to Pauline for 17th centuries, whose philosophical or In his books he acknowledged the wel- her generous donation, which will theological works are embodied in 75 come and kindness that he received at stand as an enduring tribute at I Tatti to books, mainly cinquecentine along with a the Villa, and as Pauline recently wrote the life and scholarship of Charles number of incunabula, and over 100 to me, “he loved Florence, its libraries, Trinkaus. manuscripts. They naturally include its art, and the natural and cultivated numerous texts by those 15th-century beauty of the gardens and environs of m Michael Rocke humanists to whom Trinkaus devoted I Tatti.” Explaining her decision to Nicky Mariano Librarian most of his published studies, such as Coluccio Salutati, Lorenzo Valla, - Former Fellows Update 0 Giannozzo Manetti, Poggio Bracciolini, Aurelio Brandolini, Marsilio Ficino, WILLIAM E. WALLACE (VIT’91) was recently appointed the Barbara Murphy Bartolomeo della Fonte, and others. He Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University, St. also possessed, however, films of abun- Louis, where he teaches Renaissance art and architecture between 1300 and dant writings by many less prominent 1700. In addition to more than forty articles, he is the author and editor of figures, especially 16th-century scholars three books — most recently, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, such as the cardinals Gasparo Contarini and Architecture (Southport, CT: H. Lauter Levin Associates, 1998). Wallace is and Gerolamo Seripando, Antonio currently writing a biography of Michelangelo. Brucioli, Giovan Antonio Delfini,

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ontinuing a tradition started here enrich the per- Cby Bernard Berenson himself, I am manent holdings pleased to announce that I Tatti has of the Fototeca recently launched a photographic cam- Berenson. paign at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Among recent Florence. Thanks to the support of arrivals are pho- Antonio Paolucci, Soprintendente delle tographs of Belle Arti, and of Franca Falletti and works belonging Angelo Tartuferi, Director and Assistant to galleries in f8 Director of the Accademia respectively, Dresden, photographer Antonio Quattrone has Würzburg, and started with the rooms devoted to the Lille and prints Duecento. Each work of art is being from museums photographed as a whole and in detail. in Vicenza and Already over 200 images have been Padova. After a taken. We hope that this campaign will break in produc- Fiorella Superbi, Alessandro Superbi, and Barbara Flores. be the ﬁrst of many such collaborative tion, we have projects. recently begun While these special campaigns press once more to on, regular acquisitions continue to acquire photographs of architectural Berenson Archive. Charles Brickbauer’s drawings from the Gabinetto Disegni & designs for the new Fototeca, which Former Fellows Update Stampe at the Ufﬁzi. And we are con- will eventually be built above the cur- tinuing to buy photographs by Roberto rent space, will hopefully allow for Sigismondi of works of art from the expansion to a limited extent, but in the VICTORIA KIRKHAM (VIT’78, Italian regions of Lazio and Le Marche. meantime, a number of boxes are thus ’89,’96), Professor of Romance The Fototeca has limited acquisition having to be held on closed shelves. Languages, University of Pennsyl- funds, so we are particularly grateful to This does not, of course, mean that vania, was the recipient of the third the many gifts which swell the numbers they are inaccessible. We are happy to Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione of photographs purchased through pho- fetch any material that is not immedi- Publication Award in December tographic campaigns or directly from ately at hand. 2000 for her book Fabulous museums, galleries, photographers, and Finally, the Berenson Archive con- Vernacular: Boccaccio’s Filocolo and the conservators. I would like to mention tinues to be well consulted by scholars Art of Medieval Fiction (Ann Arbor: generous donations of photographs of various disciplines. The Berenson Univ. of Michigan Press, 2001). from Ralph Leiberman (VIT’80, ‘81); correspondence itself is already invento- This prestigious prize is awarded by from Sotheby’s New York, thanks to ried. We are eager to make the remain- the Modern Language Association Christopher Apostle; from the Norton ing holdings even more accessible by for a manuscript in Italian Literary Simon Museum, thanks to Naomi organizing the material and creating Studies. The prize committee espe- Gorse; and from the National Gallery in finding aids. I am delighted to join cially noted, “The book is a tour de Prague, thanks to Olga Puymanova Michael Rocke (see page 4) in welcom- force, and most impressive is (VIT’94 ‘95). These gifts are just one ing Jacalyn Blume who will be working Kirkham’s wonderful prose style— more sign of the continuing interest to this end during the coming year. clear, rhetorically sophisticated, and shown to I Tatti by our scholars. entertaining.” Among the mem- Any library or collection that bers of the MLA selection commit- m Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi increases its holdings must sooner or tee is ELISSA WEAVER (VIT’89, Agnes Mongan Curator later face the vexing problem of shrink- University of Chicago). Kirkham of the Fototeca Berenson ing space. Our own progressive acquisi- has just completed a sabbatical year tions over the years have forced us to Curator of the Berenson at the Newberry Library as a confront this obstacle and to move Collection and Archive Rockefeller Fellow where she was some of the lesser-consulted sections to working on the marriage of Laura another location. Luckily, there is cur- Battiferra and Bartolomeo rently a little space available in the cli- _) Ammannati. mate-controlled facility storing the

Villa I Tatti sequences for local saints such as the the 12th century. The manuscript con- patron saints of Piacenza, Giustina and tains a remarkable collection of mono- Antoninus. The manuscript is lavishly phonic and polyphonic liturgical music, illustrated with fine miniatures of the covering most of the forms which were months, signs of the zodiac, the eight popular from the 11th to the early 14th NEWS modes, musical instruments, and, in the centuries: tropes, organa, motets, con- troper-sequentiary, scenes from the lives duit and conductus of the most varied FROM of the saints and the New Testament, kind. Amongst the many pieces unique THE MORRILL together with a great variety of illumi- to the manuscript are four planctus or MUSIC LIBRARY nated initials. Almost contemporary with the for- laments commemorating members of mer, being compiled in France around the ruling family and an abbess of the his year the Morrill Music Library 1140, the Book of Saint James, or the nunnery. The Las Huelgas Codex is one purchased a number of facsimiles of Codex Calixtinus, has been in the cathe- of the few manuscripts of its time to be T 9 early music manuscripts with funds dral of Santiago de Compostela since still at its place of origin. s given by Melvin Seiden, Frank 1173. It contains sermons, liturgical The CD collection established two D’Accone and Masakata Kanasawa offices, and Masses in honor of Saint years ago in honor of F. Gordon and (VIT’71). Among them were three out- James of Compostela, accounts of his Elizabeth Morrill now contains 425 standing medieval sources: miracles and Translation, and a pilgrim’s recordings, which are in the process of Written in Piacenza for the liturgy of guide to the route to Santiago. Most of being catalogued by Manuela the cathedral in the second quarter of its music comprises plainchant for the Michelloni, assistant cataloguer for the the 12th century, the Liber Magistri or Vigil and Feast of Saint James and for Biblioteca Berenson. Recent gifts Liber Officiorum of Piacenza Cathedral his Translation from Jerusalem to contains the entire repertory of chants Galicia. The 20 polyphonic pieces, include: 1 for Mass as well as for the Hours of the almost all for two voices, and in discant Hélas Avril: the Chansons of Matteo da Divine Ofﬁce of the liturgical year. This or ‘organal’ style, are amongst the earli- Perugia. Mala punica, directed by unusual combination of both repertories est such pieces to have been written Pedro Memelsdorff. Erato, 2000. of chant in a single manuscript makes down, preceding by a generation the 1 Antonius de Civitate: un musicista friu- the Liber Magistri unique as the oldest first Notre Dame school of sacred lano tra Ars nova ed Ars subtilior. extant liturgical Totum with notation, polyphony led by Leoninus. Insieme DRAMSAM; Accademia moreover intended for the use of a The Codex Las Huelgas was copied Jaufré Rudel. NOA, 1997. Donated cathedral rather than a monastic order. almost a century later at the Cistercian by Giuseppe Palmero (VIT’01) Besides the repertory of chants and litur- nunnery of Las Huelgas, founded in the 1 Josquin Desprez: Motets. Orlando gical calendar, the manuscript contains Burgos region towards the end of the Consort. Archiv, 2000. writings on alchemy, astronomy, arith- 12th century by King Alfonso III of 1 Music at All Souls, Oxford: the metic, agriculture and medicine, as well Castille and his wife Eleanor. It is Lancastrians to the Tudors. The as tonaries, treatises on music theory and thought to have been written for the illustrations of musical instruments. It is liturgy of the nunnery, which enjoyed Cardinall’s Musick, directed by particularly interesting for its troper- close relations with the royal court and Andrew Carwood. GAU, 2000. sequentiary which contains samples of may have been to some extent exempt Donated by Margaret Bent (VIT’01) the entire medieval repertory of these from the reforms of monastic singing 1 Carnevale veneziano: The Comic Faces genres, including unique tropes and attempted by the Cistercian Orders in of Giovanni Croce. I Fagiolini, directed by Robert Hollingworth. Chandos, 2001. 1 Salamone Rossi: Primo libro di madrigali a 4 voci; arie a voce sola dal Primo libro dei madrigali a 5 voci. Ut Musica Poësis Ensemble, directed Stefano Bozolo. Tactus, 2001. 1 Consonanze stravagante: musica napoletana per organo, cembalo o cembalo cromatico. Christopher Stembridge. Ars musici, 1997.

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The Challenger A number of informal talks and public lectures ple, to purchase research materials of were held during the 2000-2001 academic rocket was launched in June 2001. year. In early September, the Archivio APresident Neil L. Rudenstine varying kinds and formats, to help di Stato, in collaboration with the Istituto launched it when he wrote to the many finance special cataloguing or digital Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento and scholars who had held an appointment at projects, to support the Library’s I Tatti, held a two-day conference, I Tatti since 1988 and to the numerous technological requirements, or for the “I Medici in rete: ricerca e progettualità friends of the Harvard Center and of preservation and management of these scientifica a proposito dell’archivio Walter Kaiser personally announcing a collections. The Kaiser Fund will, in Mediceo avanti il Principato.” A chronological listing of the talks and venture to honor Walter Kaiser’s direc- effect, be restricted to expenses related to lectures held at I Tatti follows. torship at I Tatti. The rocket took off in the Library, Fototeca, and Archive, but Institutional affiliation is not given for members Cambridge in June 2001 and will land in within those areas it will be unrestricted. of I Tatti’s 2000-01 academic community. 10 Florence in June 2002. Its trajectory will A number of people have given gen- f be tracked at I Tatti’s 40th anniversary erously, both financially and of their MARGARET BENT, “Music and the celebrations on June 13th. In the meantime and energies, to help launch this Early Veneto Humanists.” time, I wish only to say that its goal is to rocket and to bring it to a safe and happy BRUCE BOUCHER (VIT’85, fly a million miles above the surface of landing next June. While Walter knows University College, London), “Jacob the earth. about the fund, he does not yet know Burckhardt and the ‘Renaissance’ North The rocket’s payload is an endow- the details. I will thus not reveal any of the Alps.” ment fund which has been established to names or any numbers at this point. A ARNALDO MORELLI, “Una partico- honor Walter Kaiser and to recognize his full list will be disclosed in the next lare tipologia del ritratto di musicista nel outstanding contributions to I Tatti and newsletter. So how do I thank those of Cinquecento.” his commitment to the Biblioteca you who have set this rocket on its Berenson in particular. Walter Kaiser extraordinary course? As you read this, I CLAUDIA VILLA (Università di became Director of Villa I Tatti in 1988. hope you will recognize how much you Bergamo), “Pictura loquens: leggere le immagini.” In his letter, Neil Rudenstine briefly have helped and how grateful all of us at touched on the improvements that have I Tatti are. I look forward to seeing you KATHARINE PARK, “Female taken place at I Tatti since then. He all in Florence next June. Sanctity and the Origins of Human pointed out how its finances, academic For those of you who still wish to Dissection: The ‘Autopsy’ of Clare of program, publications programs, and contribute, please make your check Montefalco.” physical structure are all on much more payable to Harvard University/Villa Roundtable: “Farmaci e terapie nel tardo solid ground. In more detail, he spoke I Tatti and send it, with a note explain- Medioevo e nel primo Rinascimento. about the library, which has been coming you would like it credited to the Theoria e practica.” KATHARINE puterized and completely reorganized, PARK, Chairman; CHIARA and which is, of course, the heart and Walter Kaiser Fund for the Biblioteca Berenson, to I Tatti in Florence or to the CRISCIANI (Università di Pavia), soul of the institution. “Alchimia, medicina e magia tra Tre e In keeping with Walter’s philosophy, I Tatti office in Cambridge. Both addresses are to be found on the front of Quattrocento”; MICHELA PEREIRA the Walter Kaiser Fund for the (Università di Siena), “Dall’elixir alla quin- Biblioteca Berenson will be used how- this newsletter. Thank you. m tessenza: la trasformazione dell’alchimia ever the Library’s changing needs might Alexa Mason nella prima metà del XIV secolo”; suggest. It might be utilized, for exam- Assistant Director for External Relations GIUSEPPE PALMERO, “Pratica e cultura terapeutica nei libri-biblioteca del primo Rinascimento: la circolazione dei saperi tra i non addetti.” CHRISTOPHER STEMBRIDGE (independent scholar), “Tasti Spezzati: the raison d’etre of the Cembalo Cromatico and its Music” JULIA HAIRSTON, “Salome or Sabine? Tullia d’Aragona, the Female Body, Early Modern Men, and the Cultivation of Ambiguity.” International conference: “L’Arme e gli Michael Rotondi, Meg Gallucci, Roni Weinstein, Dorit Lerer, amori: Ariosto, Tasso, and Guarini in Jill Burke, Gauvin Bailey, Peta Gillyatt Renaissance Florence.” A complete list of © Michael J. Rotondi participants is to be found on page 12.

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On several occasions this year, the Fellows held informal discussion groups in the Gabriele Geier Granaio on a number of subjects of interest to the group. The seminars took the form of brief presenta- tions by one of the members followed by lively discussion. Among other subjects, the topics discussed ranged from philology and editing texts to the cultural context of singing and vocal technique in illu- Robert Lehman Visiting Professor Meg Bent minated manuscripts, from reading the text of a painting and decoding its iconographical images to 11 stylistic peculiarities and content in 15th-century biographies. s In addition, some of the Fellows gave more formal papers and a number of senior scholars were invited to present their work to the local academic community as described below. been the study of an important music manuscript copied in the 1420s-30s in ARNALDO MORELLI Verona, and Portrait of Francesco del Liuto - the Veneto, and its cultural context. Morelli returned to previous interpreta- This manuscript was the point of depar- rnaldo Morelli (VIT’95,’97-’01) is tions and showed the commonality of ture for her lecture entitled “Music and Aprofessor of the history of music in several attributes and symbolic elements the Early Veneto Humanists.” Through the State Music Conservatory “Ottorino that constitute signs of recognition painstaking codicological and philologi- Respighi” in Latina and of the beyond those of simply identifying the cal detective work, summarized in the University of Calabria. Co-founder and people themselves. There is the clothing lecture, she has shown how the manu- member of the advisory board of the worn by the individual. But in addition, script’s scribe added, changed, dis- journal Recercare, he has focussed his the printed book and the flute, easily carded, and edited the works in this research primarily on Renaissance and associated with the muse Euterpe, sym- manuscript over a period of more than Baroque music. In particular, he has ded- bol of the composer’s inspiration, are ten years, his tastes representing in icated himself to the history of the signs of the new status attained by com- microcosm the changing musical tastes Roman oratory of the Filippini between poser-musicians and, perhaps also, the of his era. Her ultimate goal, though, 1575 and 1705 — see his monograph Il distribution offered by the printed page. was a larger historiographical one: to tempio armonico, in the “Analecta And this new figure, exhibited in portrait counter the long-held scholarly view Musicologica” series — to its diffusion form, is embodied in the new profession- that after the musically rich Italian and commissions as well as its musical alism of the master of the chapel: teacher Trecento, the rise of humanism in the patronage. In addition to a monograph and composer, overturning the old idea 15th century led to the demise of the on the Baroque composer Bernardo of music by upsetting the hierarchy practice of polyphony in Italy. Pasquini, Morelli is working on a between theory and practice and allow- Humanists, the argument went, consid- research project on the organ and its rela- ing music to be fully integrated into the ered polyphony to be a “contrived, tion to the liturgy, sacred architecture, humanistic culture. unnatural form of musical expression,” and musical practice, of which the first m Francesco Facchin part of the scholastic culture that they results have appeared in various journals, Jean-François Malle Fellow were anxious to leave behind. In the including I Tatti Studies. He has recently lecture, Bent pointed out myriad con- published on the relationships between MARGARET BENT nections between a group of humanists the traditions of written and unwritten argaret Bent, Fellow of All Souls’ in the Veneto and the manuscript and music for keyboard instruments in the MCollege, Oxford, is widely pub- its repertory, arguing that far from modern age. lished in areas ranging from the early despising polyphony, humanists such as In his lecture of 16th November, 14th-century French motet to the the Bishop of Vicenza, Pietro Emiliani, “Una particolare tipologia del ritratto di operas of Verdi. She is also one of the and Cardinal Francesco Zabarella were musicista nel Cinquecento,” Morelli preeminent music scholars of early active patrons of polyphonic music. A approached the problem of the portrait Quattrocento Italy: she has published a number of works in the manuscript in a musicological setting, underlining series of extremely influential articles on praise them and others in their circle, the typological analogies recurring in the music-philological issues, on counter- and Bent suggested possible humanistic context of the Veronese-Lombard cul- point, and on rhythmic notation, and contexts for other works, including ture around the middle of the 16th cen- she edited the complete works of those by the young Guillaume Du Fay. tury. In the portraits examined - Portrait Johannes Ciconia. m Anne Stone of Oste da Reggio, A Choir Master from One of her long-term projects has Andrew W. Mellon Fellow

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hat role did the masterpieces of the Wthree “crowns” of Renaissance Ferrara — Ariosto’s romance Orlando furioso, Tasso’s epic Gerusalemme liberata, and Guarini’s Pastor Fido — play in the culture and, more speciﬁcally, the cultural politics of Medicean Florence in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? This was the question posed by I Tatti’s conference, “L’Arme e gli amori: Ariosto, Tasso, and Guarini in Late Renaissance Iain Fenlon Florence,” held in the Gilmore Limonaia of the Villa on June 27-29. The conference was held in conjunction with an 12 f exhibition at the Galleria Palatina in the Marta Privitera and Ilaria Della Monica Pitti Palace, and brought together scholars in history, literature, art history, theater history, and history of music. Their papers and conversations revealed the unexpectedly large and diverse place that the reception of these Ferrarese writers held in the construction of a Grand Ducal culture in Florence. The discussions of the conference returned frequently to the terms set forth by Massimiliano Rossi, one of its Salvatore Camporeale, Gary Ianziti, prime organizers, to consider questions and Sergio Zatti about the relationship between art and power. Many speakers addressed the different cultural forms, institutions, and sym- bolism through which the Medici Grand Dukes, a newfound dynasty without noble lineage, created legitimacy for their reign over Tuscany and aspired to the absolutist James Haar style of the French and Hapsburg mon- archs. Bizarre Etruscan genealogies; pre- tensions, through the order of Saint Stephen, to revive the Crusader tradition (hence the importance of Tasso’s poem); displays of Counter-Reform piety, including a special cult of the True Cross — the Medici attempted to vest themselves with a time-honored and sacral sovereignty. Marcello Fantoni, Franco Angiolini, and Roberto Bizzocchi explored the various symbolic languages — classical antiquarian, chivalric, courtly, and theological — through which the Medici asserted their nobility and rulership. (Bizzocchi observed, however, that Cosimo I at least could take pride in having made himself a Duke rather than having been born one!) Phillippe Morel noted that the sorceress ﬁgures of Ariosto and Tasso’s poems became, in their Florentine versions, inspired prophetesses of Medici greatness; taking a different tack, Françoise Decroisettes, argued how in the late Medici entertainment, the Armida of Ferdinando Saracinelli (1637), Tasso’s sorceress Armida possesses a theatrical fascination and power that is not contained when she is supposedly overcome by the orthodox values — sponsored by the Grand Ducal audience — of religion and marital love. Anna Maria Testaverde described the ear-

DYNASTY, COURT, AND CITY GENRE AND GENEALOGY Chair: Cristina Acidini (Soprintendente Opiﬁcio delle Cinque e Seicento.” Chair: Walter E. Stephens (VIT’88, Johns Hopkins Pietre Dure) James Haar (VIT’66, University of North Carolina at University) Franco Angiolini (Università di Pisa), “Cultura e pratiche Chapel Hill), “From ‘Cantimbanco’ to Court: the Roberto Bizzocchi (VIT’90, Università di Pisa), cavalleresche nella Firenze di Cristina di Lorena.” Musical Fortunes of Ariosto, Tasso and Guarini in “Genealogie incredibili e vivere civile tra Firenze e Jean Boutier (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Florentine Society.” Ferrara.” Sociales), “La noblesse florentine au moment de la Anthony Colantuono (University of Maryland), “Ariosto Philippe Morel (VIT’92,’93,’99, Université de Paris I), querelle du Tasse et de l’Arioste (1570-1600 environ).” and Florentine Art c. 1532-1650.” “La figura della maga dall’ Orlando Furioso all’arte Suzanne B. Butters (VIT’88,’99, University of Françoise Graziani (Université de Paris VIII), “Diversità ﬁorentina tra Cinque e Seicento.” Manchester), “Land, Women and War: Identities della favola pastorale, dalla tragicommedia alla favola in Portrayed at Ferdinando de’ Medici’s Artimino.” Anna Maria Testaverde (Università di Firenze), musica.” Marcello Fantoni (VIT’99, Georgetown University at “‘Trattino i cavalier d’armi e d’amore’: epica spettacolare Kelley Harness (University of Minnesota), “E qui lasciando Villa Le Balze), “Il simbolismo del potere mediceo fra ed etica dinastica alla corte medicea nel secolo XVII.” i balli, feroci omai trattate armi, e cavalli: the ‘balletto a

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lier festival of 1586 in which the figure of Tasso, at that time still imprisoned in Ferrara, was represented on stage alongside his hero Rinaldo. Musical settings of the three poets’ works were discussed by James Haar, Iain Fenlon, and Stefano La Via; in a penetrating analysis with musical illustrations, Kelley Harness demonstrated how in a balletto a cavallo at a Medici festival of 1628, the heroes of Ariosto and the Suzy Butters insignia on their arms could be reshuffled to spell out new, contemporary political messages about the Thirty Years’ War. The literary debates over the works of 13 Marcello Fantoni and Allen Grieco Ariosto, Tasso, and Guarini in the late six- s teenth century were addressed by Michel Plaisance and Françoise Graziani; Henk van Veen and David Quint discussed respectively how Gabriele Chiabrera and Francesco Bracciolini composed epic poems that sought to respond to these debates and to the requirements of dynastic encomium. Matteo Residori presented an elegant paper on Bracciolini’s parody of Massimiliano Rossi Tasso in his mock-epic, Lo scherno degli dei, while Sergio Zatti offered a survey of the broad production of heroic poetry, its quality ranging from bad to execrable, written in the wake of the Gerusalemme liberata. Sounding a note that ran through the conference, Zatti noted the political and religious pressures that deformed liter- Elena Fumagalli ary culture in Counter-Reform Italy. The role of Ariosto’s poem in the Florentine visual arts was described by Anthony Colantuono, while four papers by Suzanne Butters, Elena Fumagalli, Ilaria Della Monica, and Riccardo Spinelli discussed the decora- tion of late Renaissance Medici and other villas. Butters explored the relationship between the gallery of female portraits and battle scenes — loves and arms — that were displayed at Artimino; Fumagalli and Spinelli examined 17th-century fresco cycles, some stud- ied for the first time, illustrating scenes from the Furioso and Liberata. While the heat of late June took its toll on the number of late afternoon participants, this excellently organized conference was well attended. Participants spoke across disciplinary boundaries to one another in the best tradition of the Harvard Center. Discussions following the papers were lively and informed as were scholarly conversations that continued at the lunch, coffee, and tea breaks generously provided by the I Tatti staff. The conference concluded on Saturday morning with a private visit to the exhibition at the Pitti, where participants and interested members of the audience were guided through its rooms by its curators, Rossi, Fumagalli, and Spinelli. mDavid Quint (VIT ’79,’87)Yale University

WAR AND PEACE cavallo’ in Florence.” Chair: Adriano Prosperi (VIT’81, Università di Pisa) Tancredi e Clorinda.” Henk Van Veen (University of Groningen), “Gabriello Françoise Decroisettes (Université de Paris VIII), Riccardo Spinelli (VIT’94, Università di Firenze), “La Chiabrera, the Medicis and Florence.” “L’Armida di Ferdinando Saracinelli (1637). La vittoria diffusione dei temi letterari moderni nella committenza e dello ‘spettacolo totale’.” Michel Plaisance (Université de Paris III), “I dibattiti nel collezionismo di casa Medici.” intorno ai poemi dell’Ariosto e del Tasso nelle accademie Ilaria Della Monica (Villa I Tatti), “Una ‘fabula patetica e Sergio Zatti (VIT’88, Università di Pisa), “Epigonismo morata’: Il Pastor Fido di Battista Guarini e Firenze.” ﬁorentine.” tassiano nella Firenze granducale.” David Quint (VIT’79,’87, Yale University), “The Iain Fenlon (VIT’76, King’s College, Cambridge), Dynastic Plot in La Croce Racquistata of Francesco “Vanished Performances, or Aminta Delivered.” Bracciolini.” Elena Fumagalli (VIT’96, Università di Napoli), “Ovidio, Ariosto e Tasso in casa del cardinale Carlo de’ Medici.” Matteo Residori (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), “La prima ricezione ﬁorentina della Gerusalemme Liberata e la Stefano La Via (VIT’92, Università di Pavia), “Dal Tasso sperimentazione epica di Francesco Bracciolini.” a Monteverdi: una lettura aristotelica del Combattimento di

Autumn 2001 DRUGS AND THERAPIES

n May 18, 2001, I Tatti hosted a therapeutic substance, the elixir or quin- multi-layered world of medical theory Ocolloquium, “Drugs and Therapies tessence, a universal remedy based on and practice, where traditional therapies in the Late Middle Ages and Early distillation and capable of both curing were supplemented by magical, religious, Renaissance: Theory and Practice.” illness and prolonging life. The third and alchemical remedies whose princi- Organized by Giuseppe Palmero of the speaker, Giuseppe Palmero, expanded ples of operation had little or nothing in University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, a the discussion still further, focusing on common with treatment based on the current Fellow, and chaired by the therapeutic culture of literate laymen four humors. They revealed the exis- Katharine Park of Harvard University, as contained in their private manuscript tence in the 14th and 15th centuries of a Visiting Professor at I Tatti, the collo- compilations of remedies and recipes. wide range of individuals and groups quium stressed traditions of therapeutic As a group, the papers described a with a specialized knowledge of healing, writing from outside the institutional from witches to pharmacists to physi- 14 environment of the university—a topic cians, each with its characteristic episte- f relatively understudied by historians of mologies, sources, and bodies of medieval and Renaissance medicine, knowledge. As the speakers emphasized, who tend to emphasize formal academic these bodies of knowledge did not medical traditions. Chiara Crisciani, of remain isolated from one another, but the University of Pavia, and Michela interacted in ways that brought alchemi- Pereira, of the University of Siena, both cal ideas into contact with medical ones, focused on learned Latin alchemical for example, oral traditions of healing texts. Crisciani analyzed the epistemo- into contact with the work of the liter- logical ideas contained in these texts, ate, and amateur compilers into contact arguing that they show a striking com- with the whole spectrum of available mitment to sense experience and manual therapeutic strategies, from folkloric to operation as sources of knowledge, in professional. contrast to academic medicine and nat- Katy Park, Michela Pereira, m ural philosophy, while Pereira traced the and Chiara Crisciani. Katharine Park emergence in the same texts of a new Robert Lehman Visiting Professor

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n May 24 the organist and harpsi- lished in Naples and Palermo in the musical event of exceptional interest. Ochord player Christopher early 17th century. Christopher Stembridge teaches Stembridge gave a lecture-recital at Villa Christopher Stembridge outlined the organ and harpsichord in Brescia and I Tatti on the cembalo cromatico or history and development of the cembalo holds annual international courses on chromatic harpsichord. This instrument, cromatico and its repertoire, illustrating historic keyboard instruments in Arezzo, with 19 keys to the octave, was his lecture with the performance of his Valvasone, and Cortona, as well as mas- designed to make it possible to accom- own intabulations of vocal works by terclasses in the USA, Canada, and pany singers and instruments in any key Luzzaschi and Gesualdo, as well as Europe. Besides his distinguished career at any pitch without compromising the works composed for the instrument by as keyboard player and lecturer, he has perfect major thirds of mean-tone tun- Ascanio Mayone, Giovanni Maria published scholarly articles on Italian ing, since it contained separate keys for Trabaci, and Gioanpietro del Buono. keyboard instruments of the 16th and all sharps and flats. It was relatively Stembridge’s mastery of his instrument, early 17th centuries and their repertoire, common in Italy from the late 16th which is a reconstruction, by Denzil and has edited the keyboard works of century until the 1640’s, although no Wraight, of an Italian chromatic harpsi- Macque, Mayone, and Frescobaldi. original instruments survive today. Like chord following contemporary docu- From amongst his numerous recordings, its more sophisticated relative the arci- mentation, was acclaimed by an the CD Consonanze stravagante: musica cembalo, with 31 divisions to the appreciative audience, who enjoyed the napoletana per organo, cembalo e octave, the cembalo cromatico was used clarity and wit of his presentation. A cembalo cromatico was listed Premio inter- both to accompany singers in chromatic lively discussion covering topics ranging nazionale del disco Antonio Vivaldi in pieces (such as the madrigals of Carlo from the development of equal tem- 1997. Gesualdo), and in a solo capacity, as is perament to the chromatic harp owned m Kathryn Bosi demonstrated by compositions pub- by painter Domenichino concluded a Music Librarian

Autumn 2001 Villa I Tatti BRUCE BOUCHER IN MEMORIAM I Tatti records with sorrow the following deaths: n Wednesday, 25 October 2000, The lecture generated lively debate OProfessor Bruce Boucher (VIT’85, among the Fellows about the role of F. GORDON MORRILL, who University College, London) presented a historical concepts for categorizations in died on 26 October 2000, graduated lecture entitled “Jacob Burckhardt and Art History. Problems of contemporary from Harvard in 1932 and received the ‘Renaissance’ North of the Alps.” art historical methodology largely derive his M.Arch in 1937. Gordon and his The lecture was derived from Professor from the approach formulated by the wife Elizabeth, who met and mar- Boucher’s work on Burkhardt’s unpub- great historians of the 19th century (or ried while undergraduates at lished lectures and presented important later reactions to it), and the study of Harvard and Radcliffe, came to new insights in the development of the views of 19th-century scholars always Florence before the Second World concept of Renaissance through provides important insights into the War. Here they met Bernard Burkhardt’s career. way art historians understand their Berenson who encouraged Gordon Despite many alternative views of the discipline today. to pursue a career as an architect and 15 Renaissance, Burkhardt’s vision still has a s m Branko Mitrovic painter. In gratitude for their friend- great influence on general assumptions CRIA Fellow ship with Mr. Berenson, they estab- about European history, and especially art lished the Gordon and Elizabeth history of the 15th and 16th Morrill Music Library at I Tatti in centuries. While Burkhardt 1968, considered the finest collec- believed that the concept of the tion on Italian Renaissance musicol- Renaissance was geographically ogy in Italy. Gordon Morrill even bound to the Italian peninsula, designed the library itself. Later, one is tempted to ask about his Gordon became a founding member opinion regarding the of the I Tatti Council. His faithful Renaissance outside Italy. In a allegiance and lavish generosity to guidebook written early in his I Tatti have been of unequaled career, Burkhardt remarked that importance to everyone connected “the so-called Renaissance in with the Harvard Center. He also the north is nothing more than served as president of American the gradual spreading of fantastic Schools Abroad Inc. He is survived decorative elements, something by his wife, Elizabeth (Hunter) ‘34. innate to the Germanic peoples Brice Fellow Robert Maniura and They have been an intimate and but which had lain fast bound CRIA Fellow Branko Mitrovic. beloved part of the I Tatti family for by the strict forms of gothic over ﬁve decades, and Gordon will art.” While he highly praised the Van be sorely missed. Eycks in his writings from the same Former Fellows Update period, he did not fail to notice that their C LAUDE V. PALISCA (VIT works were still tied to the Church and ALFREDO STUSSI (VIT’84), ’00) died 11 January 2001 at the age lacked secular elements which were Professor of the History of the of 79 as a result of complications widespread in contemporary Italian art. In Italian Language at the Scuola from a stroke. He was Henry L. and later years, partly reacting against the Normale Superiore, Pisa, was Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus Kulturkampf of the 1870s, Burkhardt awarded the 2000 Premio of Music at Yale University and would carefully list aspects of German Internazionale Feltrinelli per la served from 1970-1972 as president 15th- and 16th-century art which were Filologia e la Linguistica by the of the American Musicological still not at the level of contemporary Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Society. His books Baroque Music, Italian art. His writings from that period The Norton Anthology of Western tend to be increasingly critical of Dürer’s LUCA BOSCHETTO (VIT’00) Music, and his revision of Grout’s work. Although Dürer had imagination will be one of the 42 Fellows at History of Western Music guided sev- in abundance, he never made great pow- the National Humanities Center, eral generations of students, and his erful statements; his sense of the beautiful North Carolina, in 2001/2002. definitive study Humanism in Italian “must not be compared with Leonardo, Continuing the research he began Renaissance Musical Thought crowned Michelangelo, and Raphael, nor even during his fellowship at I Tatti, a lifetime of scholarship on this with the Venetians.” It is interesting that Boschetto will be working on topic. Palisca had been researching what Burkhardt ultimately found wanting “Economy, Politics and Law in the Galilei family of musicians when in Northern art of the 15th and 16th cen- Renaissance Florence: The Court he came to I Tatti as a Visiting turies - and his main criterion - was not of the Mercanzia, 1394-1577.” Professor in 2000. painting or sculpture, but architecture.

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We are delighted once again to thank the many individuals and foundations who gave over $1,500,000 to the Harvard Center at Villa I Tatti this past year. In addition, countless friends have given books, offprints, and other gifts in kind. It is impossible to list them all, but we thank each of you wholeheartedly.

The Friends of the Biblioteca Berenson generously gave some $38,500 in 2000/2001. Almost $340,000 was received in unrestricted gifts from members of the Association for Villa I Tatti who, since 1981, have been helping us to meet our operating budget. The Florence Gould Foundation and Deborah Loeb Brice have, in particular, been extraordinar- ily generous towards the library’s needs. Over $97,500 was received towards the Scholars Court; $93,700 towards the 16 fellowship program; and gifts totaling $60,000 were given to establish two endowment funds to beneﬁt the Fototeca. f $17,500 was given in memory of Ann Willetts Boyd, a great friend to the library who died this past year; and a generous but as yet unanounced sum was received before the end of June 2000 for the Walter Kaiser Fund for the Biblioteca Berenson. z We particularly wish to thank the following:

Benefactors: $25,000 or more Contributing Members: $5,000 - $9,999 Sustaining Members: $1,000 - $4,999 Mr. Victor Atkins Anonymous Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Bass Mr. & Mrs. David G. Booth Ms. Charlotte P. Armstrong Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation Mr. William Boyd Jr. Mr. John Thurston Beaty Jr. Frank A. Campini Foundation Mr. Charles Brickbauer Mr. & Mrs. Hubert Brenninkmeijer Mrs. Charlotte F. Brown Judith L. Chiara Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. James R. Houghton Mr. Alexander C. Cortesi Friends of the Biblioteca Berenson Mr. David Kaiser Mrs. Margit Minkin Prof. Frank A. D’Accone Mrs. Paul E. Geier Mrs. Mary Beth Daniel Florence Gould Foundation Inc. Mrs. Elizabeth Peters The Ripplewood Foundation, Inc. Ms. Priscilla Endicott Helen Hotze Haas Foundation Mrs. Catherine B. Freedberg Mr. & Mrs. Peter G. Sachs Mr. Frederick S. Koontz Mr. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David M. Tobey Samuel H. Kress Foundation Mr. John A. D. Gilmore Mr. Maurice Lazarus Mr. Thomas N. Gilmore Arthur L. Loeb Foundation Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Conrad Kenneth Harper Mr. Melvin R. Seiden Prof. Walter J. Kaiser Mr. & Mrs. Stanley S. Shuman Miss Sheila La Farge Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Lauder Mr. & Mrs. William F. Thompson Mr. Troland S. Link Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Weissman Mr. Caleb Loring Jr. Patrons: $10,000 - $24,999 Mr. & Mrs. A. Bruce Mainwaring Ms. Juliet H. Marillonnet Ahmanson Foundation The McCurdy Charitable Trust Anne H. Bass Foundation Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Braddock Mr. & Mrs. George O’Neill Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Butler Jr. Ms. Frances B. Perry Mr. James R. Cherry Jr. Mr. John D. Rhoads Council of American Overseas Mr. & Mrs. Anthony W. Roberts Research Centers Mr. Robert L. Russell Ms. Pippa Scott Mr. D. Ronald Daniel Smithsonian Institute Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Erburu Prof. & Mrs. Arthur Kaskel Solomon Dr. Mary Weitzel Gibbons Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Sutherland Billy Rose Foundation Walker Foundation Mrs. Jasmin S. Trembley Mr. & Mrs. Edwin L. Weisl Jr. Mr. Philip A. Uzielli Ms. Sally Zeckhauser Mr. Lee Walcott Mellon Fellow Peter Howard Mr. & Mrs. Ezra K. Zilkha and Jane Drakard.

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Villa I Tatti Council Notes

he Council sadly records the death Tof fellow, and founding, Council member F. GORDON MORRILL (see page 15). For well over fifty years his interest in I Tatti was of pivotal importance. With his wife Elizabeth, he founded the Morrill Music Library at Villa I Tatti in 1968. All who have ben- efited from his outstanding generosity will always remember him both through the library that bears his name and his warm friendship. s17 In June, VIRGILIA PANCOAST KLEIN accepted an invitation by At Gennaro’s cooking class: Franco Facchin, Roni Weinstein, Dorit Lerer, Susan Arcamone, Chairman DEBORAH LOEB BRICE to Gennaro Napolitano, Graziella Macchetta, Patrizia Della Vecchia, and Anne Stone. join the Council. Mrs. Klein, a graduate City as a Work of Art” to an audience reprinted by Harvard University Press. of Sarah Lawrence College, is a board of some 120 former Fellows and friends In the afternoon, Council members member at IFAR, the International of the Harvard Center who continued reconvened at the Fogg Art Museum Foundation for Art Research, and lec- to discuss the ceremonial routes for a visit to the Renaissance Venice tures on the subject of art forgery at through the city over the ensuing exhibition. Curator Stephan Wolo- institutions such as the Metropolitan aperitivi. hojian introduced the complex Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine The annual I Tatti Council meeting, exchange of ideas represented in the 30 Arts in Boston and the University of chaired by DEBORAH LOEB BRICE, or so works of art by Venetian masters Wisconsin, to name but a few. She has took place in April at the Harvard such as Titian, Vivarini, Bellini, contributed authentication articles for Faculty Club in Cambridge. Thirteen Carpaccio, and Crivelli on display, IFAR Reports and articles to Art and Council members were present to hear which reﬂect a city where cultures from Auction. Her art forgery expertise has led reports from Walter Kaiser, Alexa to many radio and television interviews. Mason, Barbara Flores, and James the East met those from across the Alps. She is a member of the Collection Hankins (VIT’89,’93). Hankins, who in Thanks to infrared reflectography, the Committee at the Fogg Museum at addition to being Deputy Chairman of underdrawing of a new acquisition, a Harvard University. Her husband, I Tatti’s Academic Advisory Committee sacra conversazione — the core of the Walter C. Klein, is Chairman emeritus (the group of senior scholars who selects exhibition — has been examined and of the Bungee Corporation, a member the Fellows each year) is General Editor shows the artist’s pentimenti. of Harvard’s Executive Committee on of the I Tatti Renaissance Library (see The day concluded at Houghton University Resources (COUR), and a page 22), spoke of the enthusiastic Library where James Hankins had orga- long-time art collector and connoisseur. reception given the series. As proof of nized an exhibition to illustrate the Last October, the Council hosted a this enthusiasm, of the three volumes close relationship between Neo-Latin lecture and reception in New York that have come out thus far, two of literature and the vernacular literature City. Caroline Elam (VIT’82), Editor of them, Boccaccio’s Famous Women and of the 14th to 17th centuries. Beautiful the Burlington Magazine, spoke on Ficino’s Platonic Theology, sold out in volumes and illustrations from “The “Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Florence: The less than three months and are being Lost Continent: Neo-Latin Literature and the Rise of Modern European thethe villa villa i itatti tatti council council Literatures” provided a perfect back- Anne H. Bass (as(as of ofJuly July 2001) 2000) Frank E. Richardson drop for a reception hosted by I Tatti to Lewis Bernard Susan Mainwaring Roberts . DeborahDeborah Loeb Loeb Brice, Brice, Chairman Chairman celebrate the publication of the first Jean A. Bonna Sydney R. Shuman EdmundEdmund P. P.Pillsbury,* Pillsbury,* Susan Braddock Craig Hugh Smyth three volumes of the I Tatti Renaissance Founding Chairman Anne Coffin Founding Chairman Daniel Steiner Library. Many of I Tatti’s friends from MelvinMelvin R. R. Seiden, Seiden, D. Ronald Daniel ChairmanChairman Emeritus Emeritus Donald J. Sutherland the New England and New York area Richard Ekman Troland S. Link William F. Thompson Robert F. Erburu gathered to celebrate this impressive Timothy Llewellyn Rosemary F. Weaver Gabriele Geier Barnabas McHenry Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. undertaking. Mary Weitzel Gibbons Benedetta Origo William E. Hood, Jr. Walter Kaiser, Director Joseph P. Pellegrino Virgilia Pancoast Klein m Graziella Macchetta Marilyn Perry *Honorary Maurice Lazarus Development Associate

Autumn 2001 Newsbriefs

As I Tatti approaches it’s 40th anniver- MARCO POMPILI, well known to sary, it seemed an appropriate moment many Fellows as the driver who took to take stock of the extraordinary body over the pulmino lunch run after of work produced by the scholars who Osvaldo Tangocci died, has recently have passed through the gates on the via been promoted to Administrative di Vincigliata. PETA GILLYAT, wife of Assistant. Unhappily for the Fellows, he Fellow Gauvin Bailey, compiled a bibli- no longer drives the bus. Instead, he is ography of all books authored or edited responsible for implementing the strin- by all the Villa I Tatti Appointees since gent work, health, and safely regulations 1961. Some 550 scholars have published (Law 626) and assisting Allen Grieco. f18 approximately 2,800 books in addition Marco Pompili. to the scores of articles and essays which The Library is grateful to PETER are not included in the bibliography. To NELSON, who enthusiastically worked access this list, please go to as an intern for several months this year. I Tatti witnessed two weddings, a birth (http://www.vit.firenze.it/bibliogra- Peter had taken a year off from his and a baptism this year. Congratulations phy_of_books_index.htm). undergraduate studies and has now to Fellow RONI WEINSTEIN who transferred from Oberlin College to married Dorit Lerer and to Fellow JILL This year Villa I Tatti administered a Harvard where he will continue his clas- BURKE who married David Rosenthal. grant given by the Samuel H. Kress sics major. Both weddings were held in the sump- Foundation in favor of the Croatian tuous Sala Rossa at Palazzo Vecchio. Ministry of Culture’s recently estab- W e were sad to lose SIMONE The whole I Tatti community was lished laboratory for conservation and SHENIRER, who left the Library’s invited to help celebrate these two restoration of paper at the Villa Stay, Reference Desk to return to her native happy ocasions and we wish the couples Dubrovnik. The grant funded the New Zealand last September, PAOLO every joy. And in May, Fellow acquisition of equipment for the labora- FORNI who stepped down from the ROBERT MANIURA and his wife tory and workshops held by English tractor in January to work more directly Marion became parents for the second paper conservators Stephen and Pamela in his ﬁeld of interest as an enologist at a time when Catherine’s brother, Allen which were attended by conserva- local vineyard, and GENNARO Theodore, was born. Theodore, already tors from all over Croatia. The project NAPOLITANO, who put down his a resident of San Martino, was later bap- was managed by I Tatti’s Music kitchen knives and saucepans in June. tized in the parish church. Librarian KATHRYN BOSI, who has We are delighted, however, to welcome been collaborating with restoration pro- PAOLO CRESCI and ANDREA LAINI W e are happy to announce the jects in Croatia since 1992. to the farm staff and ROBERTO following other births to members of BRUNI to the kitchen staff. the I Tatti community: Carina, to VIC- BARBARA FLORES was promoted to Assistant Director for Finance in April. Barbara joined the I Tatti staff in 1989 and has been managing the I Tatti budget for the last 11 years. She approaches her work with painstaking attention to detail, to the point that she is used as a gauge by several members of the Harvard budget office and ADAPT implementation staff. They know they can rely on her judgement for a sound and reasoned reaction to new budgetary implementations. I Tatti, too, can rely on Barbara who now oversees an operating budget of close to $5,000,000 in addition to capital projects and the workmen involved in the various reno- Research Associates Peggy Haines and Lina Bolzoni. vations on the property.

Villa I Tatti TOR (VIT’98) and Brita COELHO; Kevin, to I Tatti’s handyman, GEN- Harvard Connections NARO GIUSTINO and his wife Grazia; and Arthur to WIETSE (VIT’97) and ith about 4,000 miles of the government, and international experi- Renée DE BOER, all of whom were WAtlantic Ocean and European ence as well as deep interests in schol- born in March. landmass separating Cambridge, Mass., arly pursuits ranging well beyond the and Florence, Italy, it is sometimes dif- law.” Both Harpers were regularly In November, FIORELLA SUPERBI, ficult to remember that I Tatti is indeed observed browsing the Library’s hold- Agnes Mongan Curator of the Fototeca one of the Harvard departments. ings — and appearing to have a good Berenson and Curator of the Berenson Walter Kaiser has worked hard over the time doing so. Collection, represented I Tatti at the last decade or more to raise I Tatti’s Later on that month, it was the turn 550th anniversary of the foundation of profile at the University. A permanent of Harvard’s President-elect, Lawrence the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini and office was opened at Harvard in 1991 Summers, who was in Florence for just its most recent restorations. The occa- and later, as finances have got a little one day. He found time, however, to 19 sion, organized by the Fondazione Cassa easier, several members of I Tatti’s staff meet the Fellows and other members of s di Risparmio di Rimini and the Diocese have begun to make regular trips to the I Tatti community at lunch, after of Rimini in collaboration with the Cambridge to work closely with their which he visited the library, collection, Comune and Provincia di Rimini, also colleagues there and consolidate rela- and grounds. This was one of his first celebrated the 50th anniversary of its tionships fostered through email and visits to any Harvard department as his rededication after its post-war restora- telephone. In addition, a growing appointment to the university’s presi- tion. In response to Bernard Berenson’s number of people from the Harvard dency had only very recently been suggestion, Samuel H. Kress and his community have visited I Tatti over the announced. Dr. Summers, who is an foundation were largely responsible for years, including a number of economist and former Secretary of the covering the costs of that restoration. Renaissance scholars who have spent Treasury of the United States, appeared time as Visiting Professors here and very interested in the research being administrators who have helped forge pursued by the I Tatti Fellows and closer ties in fields ranging from eager to learn more about the humani- Former Fellows Update finances to library science, from devel- ties in general and the Italian opment to human resources. Renaissance in particular. JOHN LAW (VIT’95) is about to This past spring, Walter Kaiser was And in April, Provost Harvey enter his second term as editor of delighted to welcome the first of three Fineberg and his wife, Mary Wilson, a Renaissance Studies. Published by the prominent Harvard guests to visit dur- doctor specializing in tropical diseases, Society for Renaissance Studies and ing the year. Conrad Harper joined the spent a week as I Tatti guests in the the Oxford Univ. Press, Renaissance seven-member Harvard Corporation in Villino. For the Finebergs, too, this Studies is regarded by that press as July 2000. He and his wife Marsha paid was their first visit to the Harvard one of its most successful humanities their first visit to I Tatti early the fol- Center where the delights of the journals. As editor, Law remains lowing March during which it became Biblioteca Berenson caught their imagi- very much aware that the contacts apparent that Harvard President Neil L. nation and the weekday lunch table, he made at I Tatti, both during his Rudenstine had accurately sketched which they attended daily, gave them visiting professorship and since, have Harper upon his appointment to the an excellent opportunity to meet the been of immense benefit to the Corporation as “an outstanding lawyer members of the I Tatti community and journal. Members of the I Tatti and a devoted humanist with significant learn about the Center at first hand. community have given editorial support, are on the advisory board, have guest-edited special numbers, have contributed articles and reviews, have drawn his attention to likely contributors, and have tracked down elusive photographic materials and ‘permissions.’ The input has been extremely valuable, and the editorial board of Studies is eager that it should continue. In 2000, Law also published a collection of his Lehman Visiting essays, Venice and the Veneto in the Professor Katy Park Early Renaissance in the Variorum and Harvard President-elect Collected Studies series. Lawrence Summers.

Autumn 2001 Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Special Grants

Giovanni Pisano, the Dominicans, and the Origin of the Crucifixi dolorosi and Color faciei: Court Aesthetics, Franciscan Theology, and Sculptor’s Pride in the Tombstone of Margaret of Brabant by Giovanni Pisano. JULIAN KLIEMANN (VIT’87-’01) towards Il bersaglio dell’arte: La Caccia di Diana di Domenichino nella Galleria f20 Borghese. ALESSANDRA MALQUORI (VIT ’00) towards Alla riscoperta delle antichità cristiane. Per uno studio dell’iconografia della Tebaide nella Firenze del Quattrocento. NAOMI MILLER (VIT’85) towards Mapping the City in the Renaissance. Walter Stephens, Giuliano Di Bacco and Fellow Julia Hairston. MARINA MONTESANO (VIT’99) towards La caduta degli idoli. illa I Tatti grants of up to $8,000 which should include a brief project 2000/2001 Lila Wallace - description, a budget, and a short list of Vper person, from a total of not Reader’s Digest Special more than $40,000 per year, are avail- relevant publications, should be sent to able from the Lila Wallace - Reader’s the Director by 1st September each Project Grants Recipients: Digest Publications Subsidy to former year. In the case of applications relating GIULIANO DI BACCO (VIT’97) Appointees who apply to help subsidize to the special costs of publication (pub- towards his series of summer workshops the publication of a scholarly mono- lication subvention, cost of illustrations, entitled La polifonia d’arte nella storia e graph or article on the Italian etc), in addition to giving the length nella cultura del tardo medioevo italiano. Renaissance, to help pay for pho- and scope of the project the description tographs or other special costs of such a should explain what financial difference VICTOR COELHO (VIT’98) publication, to help prepare a manu- a subvention will make. A letter from towards his recording and CD-ROM script for publication, to engage a the publisher indicating that the manu- production of The 1608 Florentine research assistant, etc. script has been accepted for publication ‘Intermedi’: Music for the Wedding of In addition, Villa I Tatti grants of up should also be sent. Final notification Cosimo II Medici and Maria Maddalena to $16,000 per project, from a total of will be sent to applicants within three of Austria. not more than $40,000 per year, are months. Preference will be given to available from the Lila Wallace - applicants who have not previously Reader’s Digest Special Project Grant received such an award. JANE SATKOWSKI, a former mem- to former Appointees who wish to ini- 2000/2001 Lila Wallace - tiate, promote, or engage in some sort ber of the I Tatti staff who is now a Reader’s Digest Publications curatorial researcher at the of interdisciplinary project in Italian Subsidies Recipients: Renaissance studies. Eligible projects Minneapolis Institute of Arts, would include conferences, publica- JAN CHLIBEC (VIT’88, ‘97) recently published Duccio di tions, courses, seminars, workshops, or towards Italian Renaissance Sculpture in Buoninsegna: the Documents and Early lectures which are interdisciplinary in Czech State and Private Collections. Sources, Athens, GA: Georgia character. WIETSE DE BOER (VIT’99) Museum of Art, Univ. of Georgia, Recipients of both grants will be towards The Conquest of the Soul, 2000. The volume deals with the chosen by a committee formed of three Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in history and historiography of the to five senior Renaissance scholars (plus Counter-Reformation Milan. founding father of early Sienese painting and is edited and intro- the Director acting as chairman) chosen CLAUDIO GIUNTA (VIT’00) from among the I Tatti Research towards Versi a un destinatario. Saggio duced by HAYDEN MAGINNIS (VIT’73,’74). Associates, Visiting Professors and sulla poesia italiana del Medioevo. Scholars, and former Fellows. Proposals, PAVEL KALINA (VIT’00) towards

Villa I Tatti 1 Gardens and Grounds 2

very year when the time comes to be other visitors. After some extracurric- Ewrite a note for the newsletter the ular studies, outside expertise, and first impulse is to brag about the many exploratory trips around the garden things accomplished during the year even (where subterranean water tunnels dating though it is undeniably rather dry fare for from the 19th century were discovered), the reader. Then more interesting details it was agreed that the most likely candi- come to mind that are not necessarily dates are badgers and porcupine, both of very important but rather constitute some which have been seen on various occa- of the more amusing or intricate prob- sions. lems that have to be dealt with. To make a long story short, it turned s21 Gardens are mostly about flora but out that both badgers and porcupine are Head Gardener, Margrit Freivogel sometimes the fauna obtrudes in a variety protected in the wild and permission had to be obtained from a special branch of of unexpected ways. The most obvious cal pattern of the Italian garden, where the police force in order to capture the examples are, of course, those related to one might tremble should they start to the various insects and other pests that undesired guests. Clever, numbered traps, graze on the slow-growing boxwood. supplied by the polizia provinciale (ex need to be kept at bay. Luckily the gar- On the whole they have as yet done no den was not attacked by the locusts that polizia venatoria), were set in good loca- damage and therefore the gardeners and tions at what appeared to be the front appeared in Italy in large numbers in the the deer have been alternating in the gar- and back doors of a large system of spring, nor are the dreaded otiorhynchus den, living together peacefully. underground apartments. At this point, laying eggs in the leaves of the boxwood A little more disquieting is the pres- however, a second battle front opened: of the giardino all’italiana any longer, ence of wild boar, which seem to perco- an internal one. Petitions starting flying which onslaught would have changed late down towards the garden from the about my ears from outraged staff con- the face of the garden for evermore. We higher reaches of Via di Vincigliata and cerned about the animals’ fate. The VIT have even grown used to dealing with the wooded areas towards the Mugello. Animal Rights activists were finally the Metcalfa, which has invaded northern Apparently boar are even more shy than calmed down when they found out that and central Italy and covers plants with its deer since they have only been spotted the captured animals would be relocated unpleasant stickiness. once in the garden (a mother with five by the police to the Park of Villa What is undoubtedly more interest- piglets). Yet in rainy periods their tracks Demidoff, hardly a step down in life. ing to hear about, however, is the four- can be distinctly seen in the muddy areas In a month and a half we have caught footed fauna that has kept us alert this and once in a great while they feed on a six large porcupines and no badgers. The year, and that has been unusually large in flower or two in the cutting garden. On holes in the lawn continue to be made size and variety if not in numbers. the whole, however, the boar have been and the battle of wits goes on. Deer have taken to roaming in the very respectful of the plants and can English meadow area, especially in the hardly be termed a problem, so they too m Allen J. Grieco early morning hours, making it look have been tolerated. Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant to the more like the park of a stately English For some years, however, there have Director for Scholarly Programs and for home. I am glad to report that they have been other guests whose chief offense has Gardens and Grounds not been attracted by the strict geometri- been digging holes in the carefully tended and manicured lawns. The drier the weather, the more ruts appear, turn- ing the work of the gardeners into a lunar landscape that has to be repaired every morning before the Villa awakes at 9 o’clock. Clearly the well-watered lawns are much easier to dig than the parched fields around us. Finally we decided to reinforce all the fences around the garden and block the holes that had been dug below them. Once all of this was done it soon became obvious that blame for the Former farmer Olivo Papi helping out damage could not be attributed to the Paolo Gasparri and Leonardi Rossi with the vendemmia deer or to the boar and that there had to of the garden and farm staff

Autumn 2001 with support from The Lila Wallace—Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund, the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Publications Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman, and the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Publication Fund.

hile I Tatti is justifiably proud of on page 3, led to their being reprinted price is modest and they will be found Wall its publications, we have already. We are particularly proud of in bookshops everywhere. never before been able to bask in the this success and delighted that glowing Forthcoming titles in the I Tatti glory of reprints of our scholarly publi- reviews of the series have appeared series include the Acts of three interna- cations. I Tatti’s first book was pub- in the New York Times, La Repubblica, tional conferences: “Santa Maria del lished in 1972, since when eight The Harvard Gazette, and the Harvard Fiore: The Cathedral and its Sculpture,” volumes of our biennial journal, I Tatti Magazine. held at I Tatti in June 1997 (being Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, 16 Some twenty more volumes of edited by Margaret Haines monographs or volumes of conference important Renaissance texts composed [VIT’76,’88-’01]); “The Italian f22 papers, and three volumes in our new in Latin or Greek between the 14th and Renaissance in the 20th Century,” held series, the I Tatti Renaissance Library, 17th centuries with parallel English at I Tatti in June 1999 (being edited by have been published. In addition, translations on the facing page are cur- Allen Grieco [VIT’91,’98-’01]) and I Tatti has been closely associated with rently in preparation for the ITRL Fiorella Gioffredi Suberbi); and the publication of a further five vol- series. More are on the way. Amongst “L’Arme e gli amori: Ariosto, Tasso, umes. This last year a new edition of the next volumes are Francesco Guarini in Late Renaissance Florence,” one of our own first volumes (Annibale Petrarch’s Secret, edited by Nicholas held at I Tatti this past June. In addi- Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque Mann; Cristoforo Landino’s tion, the ninth volume of I Tatti Studies: Style, by Charles Dempsey, 2nd ed. Camaldulensian Disputations, edited by Essays in Renaissance is due to be pub- Fiesole: Cadmo, 2000) was published Jill Kraye, Raphael Lippi Brandolini’s lished in 2002. Among others, it will and the extraordinary success of the first Republics and Kingdoms Compared, edited contain essays by Lorenz Böninger three volumes in the I Tatti Renaissance by Shayne Mitchell, and Humanist (VIT’95), Alison Brown (VIT’86,’91, Library (ITRL) series, has, as Walter Educational Treatises edited by Craig ’98), and Alessandra Malquori Kaiser boasts in his Letter from Florence Kallendorf. At $29.95 per volume, the (VIT’00).

I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY: Orders for any volume in the I Tatti series Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. may be placed directly with the publisher or with Casalini Libri SPA., General Editor James Hankins 3 via Benedetto da Maiano, 50014 Fiesole, Italy. Tel: (055) 599 941; Fax: (055) 598 895. Editorial Board A brochure is available. Michael J. B. Allen Brian Copenhaver Albinia de la Mare Former Fellows Update _ Claudio Leonardi Walther Ludwig Nicholas Mann IAIN FENLON (VIT’76), Reader in Historical Musicology, University of Silvia Rizzo Cambridge, who was a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1998/1999, will be taking up a similar post this fall at the Scuola di ITRL 1. Giovanni Boccaccio. Paleograﬁa Musicale in Cremona. His Giaches de Wert: Letters and Documents, Famous Women, trans. & ed. by Klincksieck, 1999, combines a newly-discovered trove of autograph letters Virginia Brown. 2001. from the town archive of Novellara with those previously known by this important composer, prefaced by a discursive essay. This rare collection illus- ITRL 2. Marsilio Ficino. Platonic trates not only de Wert’s musical talents, but the person behind the scores. Theology, vol. 1, trans. by Michael Fenlon, who is currently writing a book about music, ceremony, and identity Allen & ed. by James Hankins. 2001. in Renaissance Venice, has recently received a three-year grant from the Leverhume Trust for a research project looking into the transmission of ITRL 3. Leonardo Bruni. History of music between Italy, Flanders, and Spain. A book of essays on the social his- the Florentine People, vol. 1, trans. & tory of the Italian Renaissance will be published soon by Oxford Univ. Press. ed. by James Hankins. 2001.

Villa I Tatti Published in the Villa I Tatti series:

1. Studies on Machiavelli, edited by Myron P. Gilmore. Florence: Casa Editrice Sansoni, I TATTI STUDIES: ESSAYS IN 1972. THE RENAISSANCE, 2. Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore, edited by Sergio Bertelli and Gloria Ramakus. Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1978, 2 vols. Vol. 1. Florence: Villa I Tatti, 1985. 3. Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque Style, by Charles Dempsey. Glückstadt: J.J. Vols. 2-8. Florence: Leo S. Augustin Verlag, 1977. Olschki, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1994, 4. Masaccio: The Documents, by James Beck, with the collaboration of Gino Corti. Locust 1995, 1998, 1999. Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1978. A complete listing of the essays in 5. Florence and Venice: Comparisons and Relations. Acts of two Conferences at Villa I Tatti in each volume can be found on 1976 and 1977, organized by S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein, and C.H. Smyth. Florence: La I Tatti’s web site at: Nuova Italia Editrice, 1979-80, 2 vols. http://www.vit.ﬁrenze.it. 6. Neighbours and Neighbourhood in Renaissance Florence: the District of the Red Lion in the 23 Fifteenth Century, by D.V. and F.W. Kent. Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin Publisher, s 1982. Editor-in-Chief Walter Kaiser 7. Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, edited by A. Morrogh, F. Superbi Gioffredi, P. Morselli, E. Borsook. Florence: Giunti Barbera, 1985, 2 vols. Editors 8. The Parte Guelfa, Brunelleschi and Donatello, by Diane Finiello Zervas. Locust Valley, NY: Salvatore Camporeale J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1988. Elizabeth Cropper Caroline Elam 9. Tecnica e stile: esempi di pittura murale del Rinascimento italiano, a cura di E. Borsook e F. F.W. Kent Superbi Gioffredi. Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 1986, 2 vol. Jessie Ann Owens 10. Pirro Ligorio - Artist and Antiquarian, edited by Robert W. Gaston. Milan: Silvana David Quint Editoriale, 1988. Editorial Co-ordinator 11. Florence and Milan: Comparisons and Relations. Acts of two Conferences at Villa I Tatti in Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi 1984 and 1986, organized by S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein, and C.H. Smyth, edited by C.H. Smyth and G. C. Garfagnini. Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1989, 2 vols. Editorial Administrator 12. On Artists and Art Historians: Selected Book Reviews of John Pope-Hennessy, edited by Nelda Ferace Walter Kaiser and Michael Mallon. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1993. The editors of I Tatti Studies: Essays in the 13. Opera. Carattere e ruolo delle fabbriche cittadine fino all’inizio dell’età moderna. Atti della Renaissance welcome submissions from Tavola Rotonda, Villa I Tatti, Firenze, 3 aprile 1991, a cura di M. Haines e L. Riccetti. Renaissance scholars whether former Fellows Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1996. or not. Manuscripts should be about 7,000 to 10,000 words long, and should be as accessi- 14. The Triumph of Vulcan. Sculptor’s Tools, Porphyry and the Prince in Ducal Florence, by ble as possible in style, with minimum use of Suzanne B. Butters. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1995. technical terminology. The editors are eager to encourage interdisciplinary approaches. 15. Aldus Manutius and Renaissance Culture. Essays in Memory of Franklin D. Murphy. Acts of Essays in languages other than English or an International Conference, Venice and Florence, 14-17 June 1994, edited by D.S. Italian are welcome. All publications inquiries Zeidberg, with the assistance of Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, and requests for the style sheet should be 1998. addressed to: 16. Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque Style, by Charles Dempsey, 2nd ed. Fiesole: The Editors Cadmo, 2000. I Tatti Studies Via di Vincigliata 26 17. Medieval Mosaics: Light, Color, Materials, edited by Eve Borsook, F. Gioffredi Superbi and 50135 Florence, Italy G. Pagliarulo. Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2000. Published under the auspices of Villa I Tatti:

The Bernard Berenson Collection of Oriental Art at Villa I Tatti, by Laurance P. Roberts, with introductory essays by Sir Harold Acton, Walter Kaiser, John M. Rosenﬁeld. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1991. Verrocchio and Late Quattrocento Sculpture. Acts of two Conferences, 1988-89, edited by Steve Bule, Alan Darr, Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi. Florence: Licosa-Le Lettere, 1992. The Letters Between Bernard Berenson and Charles Henry Coster, edited by Giles Constable in collaboration with Elizabeth H. Beatson and Luca Dainelli. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1993. Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550. Function and Design, edited by Eve Borsook and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Ahmanson Fellow Meg Gallucci A Legacy of Excellence: The Story of Villa I Tatti, by William Weaver, with photographs by and Kress Fellow Monika Schmitter. David Finn and David Morowitz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

Autumn 2001 staff directory Academic Advisory Committee 2000/2001 Walter Kaiser, Director WALTER KAISER, Chairman, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Susan Arcamone, Docent of the Alexa M. Mason, Assistant JAMES HANKINS, Deputy Chairman, Dept. of History, Harvard University Collection Director for External Relations ALISON BROWN, Dept. of History, Royal Holloway College Susan Bates, Administrative Manuela Michelloni, Assistant Assistant; Secretary to the Director Cataloguer VICTOR COELHO, Dept. of Music, University of Calgary Kathryn Bosi, Music Librarian, Valerio Pacini, Catalogue JOSEPH CONNORS, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Morrill Music Library Librarian JANET COX-REARICK, Dept. of Art History, Hunter College, CUNY Patrizia Carella, Receptionist; Giovanni Pagliarulo, Photo- CAROLINE ELAM, Burlington Magazine Secretary graph Librarian; Docent FRANCO FIDO, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University Stefano Corsi, Reference Librarian Donatella Pieracci, Library WILLIAM E. HOOD, Dept. of Art, Oberlin College Assistant and Assistant Cataloguer F. W. KENT, Dept. of History, Monash University Ilaria Della Monica, Reference Marco Pompili, Administrative VICTORIA KIRKHAM, Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania Assistant Librarian and Assistant Cataloguer PATRICK MACEY, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester Michael Rocke, Nicky Mariano Nelda Ferace, Assistant Director 24 Librarian for the Biblioteca Berenson; PHILIPPE MOREL, Dept. of Art & Archeology, University of Paris I for Administration f Assistant to the Director for EDWARD MUIR, Dept. of History, Northwestern University Barbara Flores, Assistant Scholarly Programs JESSIE ANN OWENS, Dept. of Music, Brandeis University Director for Finance Amanda Smith, I Tatti Coordinator, KATHARINE PARK, Dept. of the History of Science, Harvard University Amanda George, Andrew W. Cambridge Office LINO PERTILE, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literature, Harvard University Mellon Librarian for Collection Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi, CHRISTINE SMITH, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Development Agnes Mongan Curator of the Allen Grieco, Lila Acheson Fototeca Berenson; Curator of the Wallace Assistant to the Director for Berenson Collection and Archive The I Tatti newsletter is published once a year. Alexa M. Mason, editor and writer; Scholarly Programs and for Alessandro Superbi, Assistant Harvard Printing & Publications Services, designer. Unless otherwise specified, pho- Gardens and Grounds Financial Administrator tographs are by Susan Bates, Nelda Ferace, Amanda George, Walter Kaiser, Amanda Smith, and Alexa M. Mason. Angela Lees, Administrative Giorgio Superbi, Financial Assistant Administrator Former Fellows are indicated in this volume with the initials “VIT” after their name, Graziella Macchetta, Develop- Anna Terni, Reference Librarian followed by the year(s) of their appointment as Fellow, Visiting Scholar, Visiting ment Associate, Cambridge Office (volunteer) Professor, or Research Associate.

I Tatti Community 2001-2002 Fellows KATHERINE J. GILL, Francesco De Dombrowski Continuous Expectation: Isabella d’Este’s Epistolary Fellow, Boston College, History. “The Expansion Dominion.” KURT BARSTOW, Ahmanson Fellow, J. Paul of Women’s Monasticism in late Medieval Italy.” Getty Museum, Art History. “Art in the Age of Guest Scholar Mantegna.” CAROLYN JAMES, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, Monash University, History. “Politics and Marital GÉRALDINE ALBERS, Florence Gould Visiting ANDREW C. BLUME, Rush H. Kress Fellow, Strategies in the Correspondence of Isabella Scholar, Art History. “Histoir de la dépose des pein- Harvard University, Art History. “Sixtus IV and his d’Este.” tures murales en Italie. Mémoire des lieux, voyage Palace chapel: the Sistine Chapel in the 15th des oeuvres.” Century.” A. LAWRENCE JENKENS, CRIA Fellow, University of New Orleans, Art History. Visiting Professors CAMMY BROTHERS, Hanna Kiel Fellow, “Florentine Artists in Naples and the Formation of University of Virginia, Art History. “Memory and a Neapolitan Court Style, 1450-1500. ARTHUR FIELD, University of Indiana, History. Invention in Michelangelo’s Architectural PETER LAUTNER (2nd sem), Andrew W. Mellon “Francesco Filelfo’s School of Anti-Medici Drawings.” Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Rhetoric in Florence, 1429-1434.” ARILINA IRILLO ALZARANO, Jean- M C F History. “The Influence of Simplicius and CATHERINE GOGUEL (1st sem), Robert François Malle Fellow, Liceo Scientifico Statale Philoponus on Zabarella’s Commentary on Lehman Visiting Professor, Musée du Louvre, Art “Plinio Seniore”, Rome, Literature. “Metodi e tec- Aristotle’s De Anima.” History. “Tuscan Drawings in the Louvre niche del tradurre nei volgarizzamenti trecenteschi ROBERTO LEPORATTI, Lila Wallace - Reader’s Collections, from Renaissance to Baroque.” Pisani.” Digest Fellow, Independent Scholar, Literature. “Gender Iconography: The Woman Spinning with SUZANNE G. CUSICK, Frederick Burckhardt “Ricerche sulla figura e l’opera di Girolamo the Distaff.” Residential Fellow, University of Virginia, Benivieni (1452-1542).” PAUL HILLS (2nd sem), Robert Lehman Visiting Musicology. “The Seicento Musician Francesca CHRISTIAN R. MOEVS, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, University College London, Art History. Caccini: Gender, Power, Vocality.” Fellow, Notre Dame University, Literature. “Curtain and Veil in Renaissance Art.” ANDREW DELL’ANTONIO, Andrew W. “Landino’s Dante: The Spiritual-Philosophical ANEZ ÖFLER (2nd sem), University of Mellon Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, Interpretation of the Comedy in the Renaissance.” J H Ljubljana, Art History. “History of the Montefeltro Musicology. “Changing Models of Listening CAROLINE P. MURPHY, Melville J. Kahn Palace in Urbino (1376-1508).” Practice in Italy, 1580-1630.” Fellow, University of California, Riverside, Art BRUCE L. EDELSTEIN, Jean-François Malle History. “Artistic Patronage of Felice della Rovere CHRISTIANE KLAPISCH-ZUBER, Ecole des Fellow, New York University in Florence, Orsini, daughter of Julius II.” Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, History. “The Florentine “Magnates” at the End of the 14th “Eleonora di Toledo and the Early History of the JONATHAN NELSON, Robert Lehman Fellow, Century.” Boboli Gardens.” Syracuse University in Florence, Art History. “The PETER FARBAKY (2nd sem), Andrew W. Mellon Definition, Analysis, and Reception of OLGA PUYMANOVA (1st sem), National Research Fellow, Eötvös Lorànd University, Art Michelangelo’s Female Nudes.” Gallery in Prague, Art History. “Italian Gothic and History. “Florentine Connections of Early DEANNA M. SHEMEK, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Renaissance Paintings in the Czech Republic.” Renaissance Art in Hungary.” University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature. “In The Research Associates are the same as for 2000/2001.

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