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an Giovanni, with its bells and fi re- Letter from Florence in May, when he introduced his talk in Sworks, fi nds me on the Berenson Hungarian, made headlines there. With bench in the garden, thinking over an- Robert Gaston he has helped to shape other rich year at I Tatti. Six mother a long-term research project on the ba- tongues were represented in the com- silica of San Lorenzo, involving contri- munity in addition to three dialects of butions from over thirty authors, which English. The topics Fellows and Visiting will bear fruit in a symposium next Professors worked on were as varied spring and a monograph in the typically as ever: on music in everyday life and interdisciplinary style of I Tatti in 2011. music in the princely chapel, on sketch- The Fellows’ trips in fall and spring books and on refl ections, on convents have by now become a pleasant tradi- and on queens, on Machiavelli, Valla, and tion, helping create community. Thanks Bembo. They explored the fi ner side of to the hospitality of Maureen and James Renaissance life, represented by the re- Joseph & Françoise Connors. Banker (VIT’93) we enjoyed the morn- vival of antiquity and the humanist villa, the Sephardic diaspora by Patrizia Bovi ing mists of an Indian summer in Borgo and the harder realities of the age, such as and Begona Olavide in the Big Library, San Sepolcro, birthplace of Piero della heresy, rage, magnate strife, and warfare. a moving tribute to Stefano Corsi by the Francesca. The mayor and civic mu- Visiting Professors included Sean Duo Moreno-Capelli, and two concerts seum rolled out the red carpet while Gallagher from Harvard, who off ered in the series Early Music at I Tatti. The members of the Sassetta project orga- us a magical moment in front of some English group I Fagiolini sang spirited nized by Machtelt Israëls (VIT’05) ex- of the most valuable chansonniers of Monteverdi madrigals and Accordone plained the genesis of the great Sassetta the Quattrocento in the Biblioteca brought to life the tarantella from altarpiece that left Borgo San Sepolcro Nazionale. Peter Howard from Monash southern Italy. The Florentine public in the mid-nineteenth century, with University and Robert Gaston from fi lled the Myron and Sheila Gilmore three panels winding up at I Tatti. Louis La Trobe reminded us that Australian Limonaia to overfl owing for these dar- Waldman and Eve Borsook (VIT’82- Renaissance scholarship, like Australian ing and innovative programs, organized ’08) accompanied the Fellows after- wine, is now a prized vintage. Peter with such fi nesse by musicologist turned ward to Piero’s fresco cycle in Arezzo, refl ected on sermons and on the stu- impresario Kathryn Bosi. while I speeded to Rome to attend the dia of Quattrocento Florence, Robert In September Louis Waldman centenary of Laurance Roberts, direc- on Ligorio and his vast manuscript (VIT’06) took up the new position of tor of the American Academy in Rome output, especially the writings on wa- Assistant Director for Programs with from 1946 to 1960. Laurance and ter. Paul Barolsky of Virginia helped élan. On leave from the University of Isabel Roberts had been great friends of us think through the infl uence of Ovid Texas at Austin, Lou organized a year- Berenson, and now, thanks to the gen- on Renaissance and Baroque art, while long program of shop talks for Fellows erosity of Nat Roberts and Laura Zung, Edward English and Carol Lansing of and Visiting Professors. In many infor- I Tatti has become the repository of Santa Barbara studied the magnates mal conversations and organized site their papers, an archive of incalculable of Florence, Siena and Lazio, making visits over the year he shared his for- value for the American cultural pres- us like them less but fear them more. midable knowledge of the archives and ence in postwar Italy. Lodi Nauta of Groningen refl ected on art of Renaissance Florence. He also In the spring we accompanied the Lorenzo Valla and his critique of scho- delivered papers at two of our symposia Fellows to Parma to strain our necks lasticism, while in lighter moments, like and threw himself into the publication looking at the cupolas of Correggio. Adam in Paradise, he named the many of their acts. His plenary lecture at the Louis Waldman, working with two species of birds that sing in our Arcadia. grand week-long symposium on the age Correggio experts among the Fellows, It was an intensely musical year, of Matthias Corvinus held in Budapest Giancarla Periti and Maddalena Spagnolo, with an opening concert of songs from Continued on back page.

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Fellows Art History. “Art and Ornamented Annalisa Andreoni, Francesco De Spaces in Italian Renaissance Convents.” Dombrowski Fellow, Università IULM, Dainora PociŪtĖ (2nd sem), Andrew Milano, Literature. “Benedetto Varchi W. Mellon Research Fellow, Vilnius lettore di Dante e Petrarca all’Accademia University, History. “Bernardino Fiorentina.” Ochino from Siena and the Early Jérémie Barthas, Florence J. Gould Protestantism in East Europe.” Fellow, Columbia University, History. Maddalena Spagnolo, Hanna Kiel Fel- “Machiavelli, Public Debt and National low, Università di Siena – Italian Acad- Susan Bates & Liliana Ciullini. Armies; History and Fortune.” emy (NY), Art History. “Irony and Wit Guido Beltramini (2nd sem), Craig in Art Criticism 16th to 17th Century.” University, Musicology. “Musical Poet- Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Centro Peter Stacey, Deborah Loeb Brice Fel- ics in the Fifteenth Century.” Internazionale di Studi di Architettura low, University of California, Los An- Robert W. Gaston (1st sem), Lila 2 Andrea Palladio, Art History. “Palladio.” geles, History. “Renaissance Rage: The Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting ~~ Diane Bodart, Ahmanson Fellow, Uni- Place of Seneca’s De ira in Renaissance Professor, La Trobe University, Art His- versité de Poitiers, Art History. “Refl ec- Thought.” tory. “Pirro Ligorio’s Encyclopaedic tions in Italian Renaissance Painting, as Martin Stefanik (1st sem), Andrew W. Antiquarianism.” Emblem of Pictorial Conception.” Mellon Research Fellow, Institute of Peter Francis Howard (1st sem), Lila Vincenzo Borghetti, Lila Wallace - History of the Slovak Academy of Sci- Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Pro- Reader’s Digest Fellow, University of ences, History. “Precious Metals from fessor, Monash University, History. “The Verona, Musicology. “Music for the Slovakia in the Context of the Rela- Studia of Fifteenth-Century Florence as Prince: Chapels in Italian Renaissance tions between the Republic of Florence Communities of Learning.” Courts.” and Kingdom of Hungary in the XIV- Carol Lansing (2nd sem), Robert Valeria Cafà, Hanna Kiel Fellow, The XV Centuries.” Lehman Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, History. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art His- Christina Strunck, Rush H. Kress th tory. “Il valore della copia nel Rinasci- Fellow, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, “Noble Romans: Elite Culture in 13 - mento: il cosiddetto taccuino senese di Art History. “Christine of Lorraine as a Century Lazio.” Baldassarre Peruzzi.” Mediator between France and Tuscany.” Lodi Nauta (2nd sem), Lila Wallace Flora Dennis, Deborah Loeb Brice Dominique Thiebaut (1st sem), Craig - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Fellow, University of Sussex, Musicolo- Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Musée University of Groningen, History. gy. “Music, Sound and Domestic Space du Louvre, Art History. “Préparation “Lorenzo Valla and the Humanist in Italy, 1450-1620.” du catalogue de l’exposition Mantegna Critique of Scholasticism.” Holly Hurlburt, Committee to Res- (Louvre, automne 2008).” Research Associate cue Italian Art Fellow, Southern Illinois Stephan Wolohojian, Craig Hugh Ingrid Baumgärtner, Universität Kas- University, Carbondale, History. “Ca- Smyth Visiting Fellow, Harvard Univer- sel, History. “Cartography and Travel terina Corner: Women and Gender in sity, Art History. “The Making and Fac- Reports in the Late Middle Ages.” the Venetian Empire, 1300-1600.” ture of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes.” Mark Jurdjevic, Melville J. Kahn Fel- Director’s Research Fellow low, University of Ottawa, History. Readers in Renaissance Studies Ippolita Di Majo, Università di Napoli “Machiavelli’s Political Thought.” Marisa Bass (2nd sem), Harvard Uni- “Suor Orsola Benincasa,” Art History. Cynthia Klestinec, Andrew W. Mellon versity, Art History. Fellow, Miami University, Ohio, His- Leslie Ann Geddes (1st sem), Princeton Senior Research Associates tory. “Renaissance Surgery, Medical University, Art History. Eve Borsook, Villa I Tatti, Art History. Humanism, and Pain.” Edward H. Wouk (1st sem), Harvard “History of Glass with Respect to Mo- Jozef Matula (2nd sem), Andrew W. University, Art History. saic Making” and “An Exhibition of Mellon Research Fellow, Palacky Uni- Convent Art in Paper and Stucco.” versity, History. “Averroes’ Importance Visiting Professors Allen J. Grieco, Villa I Tatti, History. for the Soul-Body Problem in Late Paul Barolsky (2nd sem), Lila Wallace - “A Brief History of Wine and Wine- Paduan Aristotelianism.” Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Uni- making in Italy.” Gerry Milligan, Robert Lehman Fel- versity of Virginia, Art History. “Ovid’s Margaret Haines, Opera di Santa Ma- low, College of Staten Island – CUNY, Metamorphoses and the Modern Con- ria del Fiore, Art History. “The Years Literature. “Gender and Warfare in Ital- cept of the Artist.” of the Cupola: Online Edition of the ian Renaissance Literature.” Edward D. English (2nd sem), Lila Documentation of Florence Cathedral Gabriele Pedullà, Francesco De Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Pro- in the Early 15th Century.” Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Tera- fessor, University of California, Santa Michael J Rocke, Villa I Tatti, History. mo, Literature. “Il pensiero politico di Barbara, History. “Magnates, the Politics, “Edition and Translation of Italian Texts Francesco Patrizi da Siena.” and the Culture of Siena, 1240-1420.” related to homoeroticism (14th-17th Giancarla Periti, Jean-François Malle Sean Gallagher (1st sem), Robert centuries).” Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lehman Visiting Professor, Harvard

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 2 99/26/08/26/08 1:45:121:45:12 PMPM Th e Scholars’ Court Project ~ ~ ~ Th e Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato

y the time this issue is in print, been chosen to carry Bthe platform for the foundation on the work initiated of the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato by the faithful Restauri will be fi nished and the supporting Edili, headed by Giorgio walls on their way up. The new build- Piazzini who, with his ing will have 15 studies for Fellows as men, has restored, main- well as the Florence Gould Hall for tained and built for lectures and conferences that will hold I Tatti since the early just short of 100 people. Studies in the 1960s. Giorgio and his Casa Gioff redi will house short-term son, Claudio, feel they Fellows and Visiting Professors. After are too small a company 3 all the long-term planning, the numer- (four masons and one ~~ ous frustrating bureaucratic hurdles, apprentice) to deal with the arduous consolidation of the site such a large project and

their sites in order to familiarize himself with the quality of their work. Samples of acoustic panelling, parquet fl ooring, terracotta tiles, window fi ttings, lamps, armchairs, light switches, elevator inte- riors, stairway railings, and innumerable other elements for the building have been gathered. Mr. Brickbauer will be back soon to check on work in progress. We had hoped that the site prepa- ration would have been complete by the end of last April but incessant rain for two long periods and the endless process of obtaining permits from vari- ous authorities to remove the excavated earth slowed progress. Nonetheless prefer to work on I Tatti’s numerous the construction company believes the smaller projects and the regular main- building will have a roof and exter- tenance. The new company, S.I.R.E. nal walls by the time the construction (Società Italiana Restauri Edili), a large permit runs out in mid-March 2009 fi rm, has done excellent work for New and that the building will be ready York University’s Villa La Pietra here in for occupancy by December 2009. Florence, for Georgetown University’s Villa Le Balze in Fiesole, and for many ~ Nelda Ferace Italian companies and museums. They Assistant Director for are now collaborating with the other Special Projects contractors working on the project. Our architect, Charles Brickbauer of Ziger/Snead in Baltimore, came Knee deep in mud. for two weeks in May and travelled to the quarry near Piancaldoli in the and adjacent areas, and despite long Appenines at the northern end of periods of heavy rain this past winter Tuscany to choose pietra serena, to Varna, and spring, we are now fi nally build- near Bolzano, to select wood for the ing the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato roof, and to discuss details of design. He and no longer just preparing to do so. also met with the architects and survey- An excellent construction fi rm has ors of S.I.R.E. and visited a number of Jozef Matula & Nelda Ferace.

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n last year’s Newsletter I outlined honor our ongoing commitment to Ithree big projects that were then just the Florentine consortium, records pro- beginning: preparations to integrate the duced by Biblioteca Berenson staff in library’s operations and holdings into the Harvard system are now being ex- the Harvard University Library system, ported back to IRIS to keep our hold- the new photograph cataloguing pro- ings current in the local catalogue as ject, and planning for renovations to the well. 1950s wing of the library. During the As is normal with big projects of past year we continued to work intense- this nature, a number of issues emerged ly on all three initiatives, so this year’s that require special attention to resolve. column is mainly a progress report. Over the past year the library staff has Former Librarian Anna Terni. The Biblioteca Berenson’s transi- completed much of this post-conversion reporting, now take place more effi - 4 tion into its role as a new, full member “clean-up” work, and more remains to ciently and quickly through Aleph and ~~ of the world’s largest academic library be done steadily over time. All things related Harvard systems. has gone smoothly, and overall the re- considered, however, the transition has As for the photograph cataloguing sults are very positive. The extensive been highly satisfactory, and the staff project, sketched by Valentina Branchini preparation that went into this project has risen admirably to the challenge of in last year’s Newsletter, this has evolved throughout the spring and summer learning new procedures and to work- into a three-pronged approach to pro- of 2007 culminated with the conver- ing daily in the context of a major vide better access to the resources of sion, upload, and display in HOLLIS, world-class academic library. the Berenson Fototeca and to improve Harvard Library’s public catalogue, of The integration into the University administrative and intellectual control the 106,000+ records of the Berenson Library has produced many benefi ts for over the collection. First, an overview Library’s holdings just as the library the librarians’ work, which translate into of the entire collection is steadily taking re-opened to the public in September. better services and accessibility to the shape through a systematic survey and From that moment HOLLIS became I Tatti academic community and other inventory. Housed in a local database, the library’s default catalogue, and all li- scholars who use the Berenson Library. this folder-level fi nding aid will furnish brary operations henceforth have been Newly arrived acquisitions, for example, researchers with a general guide to the carried out directly in Harvard’s inte- are now being processed more rapidly location of materials in the fototeca and grated library system (Aleph). and effi ciently – our pre-conversion will provide the staff with a tool for col- After some expected initial disori- cataloguing backlog has shrunk to a few lection management. Carried out now entation, I Tatti’s community and other weeks – so that books received now get by student interns, the work has focused library users have taken the switch to on the shelves and into scholars’ hands so far on the Italian schools of paint- HOLLIS in stride. They increasingly more quickly. We’ve also revamped the ing and drawing, the collection’s core. appreciate the advanced search and dis- way we manage our journals and serial To date about 115,000 photographs in covery features of this sophisticated re- subscriptions, resulting in more eff ec- these sections have been inventoried search tool, which gives access to a vast tive access to these resources for readers. (of an estimated 150,000), representing array of electronic resources and now New serials librarian Scott Palmer and works by nearly 800 artists. We expect to additional information or full-text cataloguer Angela Dressen have already to complete the survey of the Italian versions of books furnished through completely updated the complex bibli- schools by year’s end. Our thanks to Google Book Search. Meanwhile, to ographic, order, holdings, and items re- this year’s interns: Kate Vanderpool, cords for the library’s 600 Mollie Quelle, and Maia Peck from currently received jour- Syracuse University in Florence and nals, and are now hard at Jeremy Beutler, Martine Phelan- work on doing the same Roberts, and DaKishia Reid from New for the large number of York University’s Villa La Pietra. serial titles the library no Second, to provide visibility and longer receives. Other information about the photo collection behind-the-scenes tasks broadly via the internet, we are supply- as well, such as ordering ing collection-level records for display materials, invoicing, and in HOLLIS for the artists represented Mark Jurdjevic, Robert in the Italian schools (and eventually Gaston, Holly Hurlburt, for artists in other schools, or coherent Vincenzo Borghetti, Leslie groups of photos such as collections re- Geddes & Jérémie Barthas. ceived from art historians or restorers).

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 4 99/26/08/26/08 10:24:5310:24:53 AMAM These records give a summary descrip- begin digitizing the “homeless” photo- tion of our holdings for each artist and graphs as well. Craig and furnish several access points in addition The last big undertaking is the to the artist’s name. For example, the renovation of the 1950s section of the Barbara Smyth record for Giotto informs users that we library originally known as the “New own 6,744 prints of his works, identi- Annex.” When complete, the new wing Library - Half fi es the foremost photographers, draws will happily be dedicated to the late attention to the important group of Director Craig Hugh Smyth (VIT’73- Way There! photos of San Francesco shot before 85) and his wife Barbara. Throughout the 1997 Assisi earthquake, and provides the year, extensive planning, frequent s Michael Rocke points out, work headings for other key locations or sub- discussions with library staff , and many Aon the renovation of the library jects represented, such as the Scrovegni meetings with the architects, Francesco wing is going ahead. Fundraising for chapel in Padua and the Peruzzi and Garofalo and Sharon Miura, and with this project is also moving along. As we go to press almost exactly $500,000 has Bardi chapels in Florence. So far we numerous engineers and other special- been raised towards our million dol- ists have gone into shaping the complex lar goal. We are particularly grateful to 5 project. Melvin R. Seiden, Susan M. Roberts, and ~~ The plan envisions a thorough William E. Hood, co-chairs of the cam- overhaul of the building from fl oor to paign, for their hard work and personal roof. Improvements include an eleva- generosity. In addition, we would like tor and new stairway to facilitate move- to thank the many friends and former ment between fl oors, the installation of Fellows who have contributed towards a new heating and air system for full cli- this fund in varying degrees, in particu- mate control, new windows for better lar, Gabriele Geier, Deborah Loeb Brice, natural lighting, eight well-lighted read- The Ahmanson Foundation, Robert F. Erburu, The Eugene V. and Clare E. er’s carrels, and more effi cient shelving Thaw Charitable Trust, the Billy Rose for oversize books. Current shelf space Foundation and James Cherry, Jr., Janine will generally double. Fuller descrip- Luke, Mary Gibbons Landor, the Strong tions of the project, along with images, DeCuevas Foundation, Bugs Baer, the can be found on the Library page of Goldman Sachs Foundation, Neil L. the I Tatti website (www.itatti.it), where Rudenstine, Frederick S. Koontz, and we will also post updates periodically. Michael Gellert. We very much hope Robert Gaston. Construction work, somewhat delayed to inaugurate the Craig and Barbara have completed over 150 records for with respect to our initial projections, is Smyth Library in the fall of 2009 and artists of the Florentine School (of the now scheduled to begin in September look forward to seeing you then! 259 total). 2008. To contribute to the Third, the cataloguing project fi - Meanwhile, in order to keep the Craig and Barbara Smyth Library, nanced by the Andrew W. Mellon library open and functioning and to please get in touch with Foundation provides detailed item-level ensure that all books will be available Graziella Macchetta at records for the celebrated Berensonian to scholars while the building work is [email protected] category of “homeless” artworks, those going on, in spring 2008 parts of the or +1 617 495 8042 with no currently known location, Geier Library were handsomely re- or and for each photograph that repre- outfi tted to accommodate some 20,000 Alexa Mason at sents them. Technical diffi culties with volumes as well as the library’s reference [email protected] OLIVIA, Harvard’s image cataloguing services which will be displaced during or +39 055 603 251 system, slowed progress on this project the year-long renovation. The heavy for some time, though it is now mov- construction going on in the heart of ing ahead steadily. While the quantity the library will no doubt be an incon- of records produced is growing but venience, hopefully not too disruptive still small, much important conceptual of normal scholarly pursuits, and not and preparatory work has been accom- too prolonged. By this time next year plished and the pace of cataloguing has the Biblioteca Berenson should have picked up considerably now that the a beautiful and functional new library system has recently become fully func- space – the Craig and Barbara Smyth tional. In early autumn the records cre- Library. ated by then will be released in VIA, the online public catalogue. We hope to ~ Michael Rocke secure funding in the coming year to Nicky Mariano Librarian

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 5 99/26/08/26/08 10:24:5810:24:58 AMAM BOOKS BY FORMER FELLOWS mong the many recent additions to the Library, whether purchased by one of the endowed book funds, from donations given A 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. J J J J J J J J

Annalisa Andreoni (VIT’08). Omero italico: favole antiche e Giorgio Caravale (VIT’07). Sulle tracce dell’eresia: Ambrogio identità nazionale tra Vico e Cuoco (Roma: Jouvence, 2003). Catarino Politi (1484-1553) (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2007). Antonino De Francesco & Annalisa Andreoni (VIT’08) eds. Clizia Carminati (VIT’04) & Valentina Nider eds. Narrazione Vincenzo Cuoco. Platone in Italia: traduzione dal greco (Roma: e storia tra Italia e Spagna nel Seicento (Trento: Univ. di Trento, Bari: Laterza, 2006). 2007). Flaminia Bardati (VIT’05) & Anna Rosellini eds. Arte e ar- Giovanni Ciappelli (VIT’94). Un santo alla battaglia di Anghiari: 6 chitettura: le cornici della storia (Milano: Mondadori, 2007). la “vita” e il culto di Andrea Corsini nella Firenze del Rinascimento ~~ Jérémie Barthas (VIT’08) ed. Della tirannia: Machiavelli (Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007). con Bartolo: atti della giornata di studi, Firenze, 19 ottobre 2002 Janie Cole (VIT’06). A Muse of Music in Early Baroque Florence: (Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 2007). The Poetry of Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (Florence: L.S. Francesco Bausi (VIT’94). Petrarca antimoderno: studi sulle in- Olschki, 2007). vettive e sulle polemiche petrarchesche (Firenze: F. Cesati, 2008). Virginia Cox (VIT’97) & John O. Ward eds. The Rhetoric of James H. Beck (VIT’68,’72,’83,’91,’93). From Duccio to Raphael: Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition Connoisseurship in Crisis (Florence: European Press Academic (Leiden: Boston: Brill, 2006). Publishing, 2006). Brian A. Curran (VIT’06). The Egyptian Renaissance: The Guido Beltramini (VIT’08). Palladio privato (Venezia: Marsilio, Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy (Chicago: Univ. of 2008). Chicago Press, 2007). Karol Berger (VIT’06). Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow: An Essay Alessandro Daneloni (VIT’03) ed. Bartholomaei Fontii on the Origins of Musical Modernity (Berkeley: Univ. of California Epistolarum libri (Messina: Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Press, 2007). Umanistici, 2008).

Gabriele Pedullà & Patricia Gaborik. Christina Strunck & Dominique Thiebaut. Jozef Matula & Martin Stefanik.

Robert Black (VIT’93). Education and Society in Florentine Charles Davis (VIT’81-’86) ed. I grandi bronzi del Battistero: Tuscany (Leiden: Boston: Brill, 2007). l’arte di Vincenzo Danti, discepolo di Michelangelo (Firenze: Giunti: Lorenz Böninger (VIT’95). Die deutsche Einwanderung nach Firenze Musei, 2008). Florenz im Spätmittelalter (Leiden: Boston: Brill, 2006). Marc Deramaix (VIT’91) & Ginette Vagenheim (VIT’91) eds. Vincenzo Borghetti (VIT’08) & Riccardo Pecci. Il bacio della L’Italie et la France dans l’Europe latine du XIVe au XVIIe siècle: in- Sfi nge: D’Annunzio, Pizzetti e “Fedra” (Torino: EDT; Ortona: fl uence, émulation, traduction. (Mont-Saint-Aignan: Publications Istituto Nazionale Toscano, 1998). des Univs. de Rouen et du Havre, 2006). Miklós Boskovits (VIT’71,’72,’73) ed. Maestri senesi e toscani Georges Didi-Huberman (VIT’88). Ex voto (Milano: R. nel Lindenau-Museum di Altenburg (Siena: Protagon, 2008). Cortina, 2007). Thea Burns (VIT’06). The Invention of Pastel Painting (London: Georges Didi-Huberman (VIT’88). L’immagine insepolta: Aby Archetype, 2007). Warburg, la memoria dei fantasmi e la storia dell’arte (Torino: Bollati Valeria Cafà (VIT’08). Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne di Boringhieri, 2006). Baldassarre Peruzzi: storia di una famiglia romana e del suo palaz- Georges Didi-Huberman (VIT’88). Storia dell’arte e anacronis- zo in Rione Parione (Venezia: Marsilio: CISA Andrea Palladio, mo delle immagini (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2007). 2007). John Donnelly (VIT’70) ed & trans. Jesuit Writings of the Early

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 6 99/26/08/26/08 10:25:0110:25:01 AMAM Modern Period, 1540-1640 (Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., Carol Lansing (VIT’95,’08). Passion and Order: Restraint of 2006). Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Nicholas A. Eckstein (VIT’99,’03,’07) ed. The Brancacci Chapel: Press, 2008). Form, Function and Setting (Florence: L. S. Olschki, 2007). Estelle Lingo (VIT’07). François Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal Péter Farbaky (VIT’02) ed. Matthias Corvinus, The King: (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2007). Tradition and Renewal in the Hungarian Royal Francesco Lo Monaco (VIT’92), Luca Court, 1458-1490 (Budapest: Budapest Carlo Rossi & Niccolò Scaff ai eds. “Liber,” History Museum, 2008). “fragmenta,” “libellus” prima e dopo Petrarca: Roberto Fedi (VIT’90). I poeti preferiscono in ricordo di D’Arco Silvio Avalle (Firenze: le bionde: chiome d’oro e letteratura (Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006). Le Cáriti, 2007). Stephen J. Milner (VIT’00) ed. At the Iain Fenlon (VIT’76). The Ceremonial City: Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, Venice (New Haven: London: Yale Univ. 2005). Press, 2007). Branko Mitrovic (VIT’01) & Stephen R. 7 Silvia Fiaschi (VIT’05) ed. Saint Wassell eds. Andrea Palladio: Villa Cornaro in ~~ Athanasius, Athanasii Alexandrini opuscula Piombino Dese (New York: Acanthus, 2006). / Omnibono Leoniceno interprete (Impruneta: Philippe Morel (VIT’82,’93,’99). Mélissa: SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006). Edward English & Carol Lansing. magie, astres et démons dans l’art italien de la Valeria Finucci (VIT’95). Petrarca: canoni, Renaissance (Paris: Hazan, 2008). esemplarità (Roma: Bulzoni, 2006). Roberta Morosini (VIT’04) & Cristina Perissinotto eds. Riccardo Francovich (VIT’73). Poggio Imperiale a Poggibonsi: Mediterranoesis: voci dal Medioevo e dal Rinascimento mediterraneo il territorio, lo scavo, il parco (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 2007). (Roma: Salerno, 2007). Chiara Frugoni (VIT’83) & Francesca Manzari. Immagini Jonathan K. Nelson (VIT’02). Leonardo e la reinvenzione di San Francesco in uno Speculum humanae salvationis del Trecento: della fi gura femminile: Leda, Lisa e Maria (Firenze: Giunti; Vinci: Roma, Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana Comune di Vinci, 2007). 55.K.2 (Padova: Editrici Francescane, 2006). Robert S. Nelson (VIT’04) & Kristen M. Collins eds. Holy Chiara Frugoni (VIT’83). Una solitudine abitata: Chiara d’Assisi Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai (Los Angeles: J. Paul (Roma: Laterza, 2006). Getty Museum, 2006). Mina Gregori (VIT’64,’65) ed. Fasto di corte: la decorazione mu- Robert S. Nelson (VIT’04). Later Byzantine Painting: Art, rale nelle residenze dei Medici e dei Lorena (Firenze: Edifi r, 2005- Agency, and Appreciation (Aldershot; Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2007). Variorum, 2007). Mina Gregori (VIT’64,’65) & Giovanni Romano eds. La col- Fabrizio Nevola (VIT’05). Siena: Constructing the Renaissance lezione di Roberto Longhi dal Duecento a Caravaggio a Morandi City (New Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press, 2007). (Savigliano: L’Artistica, 2007). Jessie Ann Owens (VIT’80). “Noyses, Sounds, and Sweet Aires”: James Hankins (VIT’89,’93,’07). The Cambridge Companion Music in Early Modern England (Washington, D.C.: Folger to Renaissance Philosophy (Cambridge: New York: Cambridge Shakespeare Library, 2006). Univ. Press, 2007). Lorenzo Polizzotto (VIT’92) & Catherine Kovesi (VIT’09) James Hankins (VIT’89,’93,’07) & Ada Palmer (VIT’06). The eds. Memorie di casa Valori (Firenze: Nerbini, 2007). Recovery of Ancient Philosophy in the Renaissance: A Brief Guide Adriano Prosperi (VIT’81), Pierangelo Schiera & Gabriella (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2008). Zarri eds. Chiesa cattolica e mondo moderno: scritti in onore di Paolo Rab Hatfield (VIT’65,’66,’71). Finding Leonardo: The Case for Prodi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007). Recovering the Battle of Anghiari (Prato: B’ Gruppo, 2007). Adriano Prosperi (VIT’81). Dare l’anima: storia di un infantici- Janez Höfler (VIT’87,’02). Il Palazzo ducale di Urbino sotto i dio (Torino: G. Einaudi, 2005). Montefeltro (1376-1508): nuove ricerche sulla storia dell’edifi cio Adriano Prosperi (VIT’81) ed. Misericordie: conversioni sotto il e delle sue decorazioni interne (Urbino: Accademia Raff aello, patibolo tra Medioevo ed età moderna (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006). 2007). Holly S. Hurlburt (VIT’08). The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200- Olga Pujmanová (VIT’94,’95,’02). Italian Painting c. 1330- 1500: Wife and Icon (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). 1550 (Prague: National Gallery in Prague, 2008). Warren Kirkendale (VIT’83). Music and Meaning: Studies in Lionello Puppi (VIT’69) ed. Tiziano: l’ultimo atto (Milano: Music History and the Neighbouring Disciplines (Florence: L. S. Skira, 2007). Olschki, 2007). David Quint (VIT’79,’87). Cervantes’s Novel of Modern Times: Andrew Ladis (VIT’86,’98). Victims & Villains in Vasari’s Lives A New Reading of Don Quijote (Princeton: Princeton Univ. (Chapel Hill: Univ. of N. Carolina Press, 2008). Press, 2003). Daniela Lamberini (VIT’86). Il Sanmarino: Giovan Battista Guido Rebecchini (VIT’05). Le ville dei Medici da Firenze a Belluzzi, architetto militare e trattatista del Cinquecento (Firenze: Roma (Roma: Istituto Poligrafi co e Zecca dello Stato, 2008). L.S. Olschki, 2007). Lucio Riccetti (VIT’91). Opera, piazza, cantiere: quattro saggi Daniela Lamberini (VIT’86), ed. L’eredità di John Ruskin nella sul Duomo di Orvieto (Foligno: Edicit, 2007). cultura italiana del Novecento (Firenze: Nardini, 2006). Patricia Lee Rubin (VIT’87,’90,’93,’97,’05). Portraits by the

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 7 99/30/08/30/08 9:30:249:30:24 AMAM Artist as a Young Man: Parmigianino ca. 1524 (Groningen: The Gerson Lectures Foundation, 2007). a FORMER FELLOWS’ a Patricia Lee Rubin (VIT’87,’90,’93,’97,’05). Images and UPDATE Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2007). Robert Henke (VIT’96) and Eric Nicholson (VIT’95) Guido Ruggiero (VIT’91). Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self, and have co-edited a volume of essays entitled Transnational Society in the Italian Renaissance (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Exchange in Early Modern Theater, published this summer Press, 2007). (2008) by Ashgate Press. Henke and Nicholson also have Silvana Seidel-Menchi (VIT’74,’75,’94-’03) & Diego essays in the book, which represents recent work by the Quaglioni eds. I tribunali del matrimonio, secoli XV-XVIII “Theater Without Borders” international team of scholars. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006). Henke has also been awarded a full professorship in Drama Helena Seražin (VIT’07). Arhitekt Giorgio Massari (1687- and Comparative Literature at Washington University, St. 1766): sakralna arhitektura na Goriskem, v Furlaniji, Istri in Louis, while Nicholson continues to teach theater courses Dalmaciji (Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2007). and direct plays for Syracuse University in Florence. 8 ~~

Paul Barolsky. Gerry Milligan & Cynthia Klestinec. Vincenzo Borghetti & Holly Hurlburt.

Salvatore Settis (VIT’85) & Walter Cupperi eds. ll Palazzo Andrew C. Blume (VIT’02) became Rector of Saint Schifanoia a Ferrara (Modena: F. C. Panini, 2007). Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church in New York City in Peter Stacey (VIT’08). Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance the fall of 2007. Ordained in 2005, Blume served in par- Prince (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007). ishes in Cambridge, Weston, and Framingham, MA, as well Martin Štefánik (VIT’08). Obchodná vojna král’a Žigmunda as the Church of the Advent in Boston before returning to proti Benátkam: stredoveký boj o trhy medzi uhorsko-nemeckým his native New York with his wife Jacalyn, their son William, král’om a Republikou svätého Marka (Bratislava: Slovenská Akad. and their golden retriever. Vied, Historický Ústav 2004). Christina Strunck (VIT’08) ed. Rom: Meisterwerke der Baukunst von der Antike bis heute: Festgabe für Elisabeth Kieven (Petersberg: M. Imhof, 2007). Luke Syson (VIT’06) et al. Renaissance Siena: Art for a City (London: National Gallery; Dist. by Yale Univ. Press, 2007). Bette Talvacchia (VIT’96,’97,’03,’04). Raphael (London: New York: Phaidon, 2007). Richard C. Trexler (VIT69,’70). Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2003). Louis A. Waldman (VIT’06). Parigi/Firenze: novità per il pittore fi orentino Bartolomeo Ghetti (Fucecchio: Erba d’Arno, 2008). J. Allan Hobson & Helmut Wohl (VIT’88,’92). Dagli angeli ai neuroni: l’arte e la nuova scienza dei sogni (Fidenza: Mattioli 1885, 2007). Jan M. Ziolkowski (VIT’93,’98). Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2007). Jan M. Ziolkowski (VIT’93,’98)& Michael C.J. Putnam eds. The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years Maddalena Spagnolo, Diane Bodart, Gabriele Pedullà, Annalisa Andreoni & Valeria Cafà. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2008). Villa I Tatti

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iorella Gioff redi Superbi, Agnes and its contents, tracing in- FMongan Curator of the Fototeca terwoven strands between the Berenson, Curator of the Berenson archive and the fototeca and Collection and Archive, retired this sum- illuminating the history of the mer, several months short of her seven- collection with great deftness. ty-fi fth birthday on November 28, 2008. Her tour of the house at the Her entire life was spent in the service beginning of every academic of Villa I Tatti. Her father, Geremia year was a marvel of learning, Gioff redi, was Bernard Berenson’s estate with subtle disquisitions on 9 manager, the man responsible for mov- the history of the attributions With Marco Spallanzani. ~~ ing the paintings to safekeeping during of every painting. It took me in Florentine society and so surefooted the war and for acquiring the land as years of furious note-taking to begin to was her sense of whom to approach for far as Ponte a Mensola to keep urban remember it. the solution to any given problem. I development at bay. Fiorella was born Equally elegant in both English found her always to be the essence of in Casa Gioff redi on the property and and Italian, Fiorella was at the center tact, with a fi ne-tuned sense of what of I Tatti’s publications for many years, was right and fi tting. always as editor, but often as the con- Fiorella and her husband Giorgio ceiver and organizer of a project as well. remain great travelers, and there are still Our catalogue lists eight books edited some places in what Bernard Berenson by Fiorella, four of them jointly with called the oikoumene that they have not her friend of many years, Eve Borsook. yet seen. In her spare time she intends But her infl uence can also be sensed to return to an old passion, Chinese cal- in countless publications by former ligraphy, and in the fall she will become Fellows and by anyone who has carried a grandmother as well. out research in the Fototeca. It has been an enormous privilege In dress, in speech, and in human for Françoise and me to work with relationships Fiorella exudes grace. She Fiorella, to learn from her, to count is also a master diplomat. I liked to re- on her good counsel and to share her fer to her as my ministro degli aff ari es- friendship. With Machtelt Israels. teri, so wide was her acquaintanceship ~ Joseph Connors as a girl knew both Bernard and Mary Director Berenson. Like no one else, she saw their softer and gentler sides. a FORMER FELLOWS’ U PDATE a Fiorella took a liberal arts degree Victor Coelho (VIT’98,’05), professor for an I Tatti-sponsored evening at the at the University of Florence, with a of musicology in the College of Fine Harvard Club in Boston last January fi nal dissertation on the relationships Arts, Boston University, was appointed (see page 21). between the East and West in the 11th Associate Provost of Undergraduate century, but imbibed the history of Education last year. While Coelho’s Stefano Jossa (VIT’03) has been ap- painting from her teenage years in the studies focus primarily on 16th- and pointed Lecturer of Italian at Royal shadow of Berenson and the experts 17th-century Italian music, his research Holloway College, University of gathered around his library. When she in African-American music and rock London. There he will be continu- began work under Nicky Mariano the history have landed him appearances ing work on the Italian Renaissance fototeca was still in the cabinets under the on Fox Network, CBC (Canada), PBS, literary culture and on the Italian bookshelves of the Big Library and of and MTV. As a professional lutenist, he national identity expressed through the 1950s annex. She followed it into its has performed extensively throughout literature, using the collections of present location when Myron Gilmore North America and Europe, and his the British Library and the Warburg installed it in the former garage, with recordings appear on the Stradivarius Institute. Most recently he has ed- shelving and fi ttings designed by the and Toccata Classics labels. With so- ited Giancarlo Mazzacurati’s L’albero architect Ferdinando Poggi. Over the prano Brenna Wells, he performed se- dell’Eden. Dante tra mito e storia (Roma: years Fiorella developed an unparalleled lections from the Bottegari Lute Book Salerno Editrice, 2007). knowledge of the history of the house

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 9 99/26/08/26/08 10:25:2010:25:20 AMAM he last thorough review of the News from the Berenson Fototeca, Tphysical state of the Berenson Collection was undertaken by Mary Lou White (VIT’77) and Barbara H. Beardsley from the Art Conservation D Archive & Collection E Laboratory of Raymond, NH (un- der the supervision of Harvard’s ernard Berenson collected photo- Rocke’s text on page 5. Fogg Museum) in 1975/76, although Bgraphs of works of art throughout The Berenson Archive is another Leonetto Tintori (VIT’76-’84) and his life. His attention to detail, care treasure trove where discoveries await Alfi o del Serra had been overseeing the collection ever since. A thorough for the collection, and interest in new the intrepid scholar. Among those who review of the state of preservation, material was legendary. The Berenson pored over letters and diaries in the therefore, seemed very much in or- Fototeca continues his work by con- last year were Stanley Mazaroff , who der and the long-standing collabora- tinually updating and maintaining this unearthed correspondence between tion between I Tatti and the Opifi cio rich collection. Our body of photo- Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson delle Pietre Dure has proven of mutual 10 graphic material became even richer which threw light on his research into benefi t. Close scrutiny of the collec- ~~ this past year with the acquisition of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, tion revealed that the fi rst painting some 3,500 photographs belonging to and Francesca Guarducci who has been in need of immediate attention was Mario Di Giampaolo, a well-known art learning about Giorgio Castelfranco’s the Madonna and Child attributed by historian who specialized in Northern work on De Chirico and the artistic Berenson to Jacopo Bellini. Under raking light the painting showed sev- ambiente of the Italian Novecento by eral blisters in vertical lines following reading the Castelfranco material. Ilaria the grain of the wood which were of Della Monica continues her tireless relatively recent origin. The paint- work of cataloguing the extraordinary ing had been inserted in an antique- legacy of Laurance and Isabel Roberts. style frame which had been nailed She hopes to have a fi nding aid available and glued over the edges of the panel, by the end of 2008. thus impeding the natural movement Regular conservation work of the of the wood. The progressive dam- Gerry Milligan, Ed Wouk & Leslie Geddes. collection included the reframing of age created by this situation had been four Piranesi etchings, the mounting in exacerbated by stresses due to sudden changes in temperature and humid- Italian painting and drawing of the Perspex boxes of three small frescoes on ity. The conservative intervention we Cinquecento, and who sadly died in tile by René Piot (samples for the fresco have undertaken includes freeing the July. In addition, we bought black and cycle planned for the Big Library), the panel from the frame, fi xing the blis- white photographs taken by Antonio restoration of two stone beasts from ters, and a careful cleaning of the sur- Quattrone which show the various Costa Rica (now in the Paul E. Geier face, which has not only restored some phases of the recent restoration of two Library), and the completion of the res- original areas of painting, but above all important Florentine fresco cycles: toration of the Madonna and Child at- has provided a new reading of the im- Benozzo Gozzoli’s in the Palazzo Medici tributed by Berenson to Jacopo Bellini age today: we have recovered the trans- Riccardi; and those by Taddeo Gaddi in which will soon be back on the wall of parency of the Virgin’s veil and can see the Baroncelli Chapel in Santa Croce. the French Library (see box). A number the iridescence of the yellow lining and These latter were acquired thanks to the deep blue of her mantle, as well as of objects in the Berenson Collection the drapery behind the fi gures, deco- the generous support of Council mem- which are not normally on display in- rated in yellow to simulate gold bro- bers Treacy and Darcy Beyer. Beyond clude some extraordinary Persian man- cade. In particular, the many diff erent these planned purchases, extraordinary uscripts, which have been mentioned in color tonalities of the fl esh, above all gifts include photographic material col- these pages before, and some precious in the face, and hair remind one of a lected by Doris Carl (VIT’95) during rugs. Digital images of the Persian min- bronze cast. Specifi c details, such as the the research for her fundamental mono- iatures have recently been made which string tied to the goldfi nch, are now graph on Benedetto da Maiano, and the are now available to scholars upon much more visible, and the colored last consignment of material from the request. veining of the marble conservator, Andrea Rothe, which we of the balustrade can now clearly identify mentioned in these pages last year. His ~ Fiorella Superbi it as Botticino marble, donation now totals some 1,500 items Agnes Mongan Curator of the typical of the quarries – an invaluable resource for scholars Fototeca Berenson, Curator of the around Brescia. working on paintings that were restored Berenson Collection and Archive ~ Cecilia Frosinini & in the last decades of the 20th century. & ~ Roberto Bellucci Progress on the fototeca catalogu- ~ Giovanni Pagliarulo Opifi cio delle ing project can be found in Michael Andrew W. Mellon Librarian Roberto Bellucci. Pietre Dure

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1010 99/26/08/26/08 10:25:2510:25:25 AMAM Kerstin Schwarz, to an apprecia- tive audience of art lovers. I Tatti has a three-year project with the Conservatory of Moscow which en- ables young musicians to gain expe- NEWS rience performing on historic key- board instruments in Tuscany. We FROM THE are grateful to Ella Sevskaya, Kerstin MORRILL MUSIC Schwarz, Tony Chinnery, the Museo LIBRARY degli Strumenti Musicali and the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori for their kind collaboration. Library acquisitions included he year began with a concert for Patrizia Bovi & Begona Olavide. the new appointees, staff , and fam- a facsimile of the so-called Cancionero T Vivezze di fl ora e primavera, cantate recitate ilies, held in the Big Library. Patrizia de Juana la Loca: the manuscript 11 e concertate con cinque voci nello spinetto, o Bovi (founding member of the Italian Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, IV.90. ~~ chitarrone Opera XLIV (Venetia, 1622) early music ensemble Micrologus), and This tiny Burgundian chansonnier was composed for a festivity staged by Begona Olavide (founder and director of created around 1511 contains French the Accademia dei Floridi at the Convent Mudéjar, an ensemble specializing in early chansons, Flemish songs, and Latin of San Michele in Bosco near Bologna Spanish music and the Arab-Andalusian song-motets by leading Netherlandish in 1621. The libretto of the Piacevole rap- oral tradition) joined forces to pres- composers of the time. Miniatures of presentazione fatta in Arezzo dalli Signori ent a concert of women’s songs from delightful dramatic scenes, emblema, Accademici Trascurati per le feste di maggio the Iberian peninsula. Accompanying fruit, fl owers and insects in the style of l’anno 1604 (Firenze, 1604) contains a themselves on the harp, psaltery and the Ghent-Bruges school of book illu- Canzonetta cantata dal coro de Trascurati, as percussion instruments, these two ex- mination are on almost every page. The well as solo song texts and Ottave cantate traordinary musicians enchanted their Superius partbook reproduced in this th da Bacco, for which, however, the music public with a repertoire ranging from facsimile still has its early 16 -century has not yet been identifi ed. cantigas d’amigo by the 13th-century leather binding, the work of Lodovicus In June, Candace Feldt, Head Music troubadour Martin Codax, to the mu- Bloc, a master book- Cataloguer at the Loeb Music Library, sic of the Spanish Sepharditic Jews pre- binder active in came from Harvard to help us learn the served in the communities established Bruges 1484-1529, procedures of cataloguing music books in Balkan and North African countries who bound numer- and scores in HOLLIS. Candace came after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. ous books for Philip to Harvard in 2001, after 16 years as In the same week, students from the Good, Duke of Music Cataloguer at Tufts University. the Moscow State Conservatory repre- Burgundy. The rep- She holds a Master’s degree in Music, sented Villa I Tatti in a concert se- ertoire, unusually Frank D’Accone. and a Master’s in Library Science from ries at the Galleria dell’Accademia. small size, and extensive Indiana University. We are grateful for Nadezda Sosland, Daria Borkovskaya, use of decoration in this exquisite man- her kind and continuing assistance. Olga Paschenko and Alexandra uscript suggests that its owner was con- Nepomnyaschaya performed on a nected with the Hapsburg-Burgundian ~ Kathryn Bosi copy of the “Barberini” harpsichord court. The facsimile, accompanied by F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill by Andrea Di Maio, and a copy of the a musicological commentary by Honey Music Librarian 1726 Leipzig Cristofori fortepiano by Meconi (VIT’87), was purchased with funds donated by Melvin R. Seiden, Frank D’Accone and William Prizer (VIT’78). Continuing our project of ac- quiring literary works ancillary to music, we acquired two original edi- tions of libretti relating to festivities in Italian academies. These unique volumes include texts to be sung and instructions for musical per- formance. Flora idillio del Cavaliero Roberto Poggiolini (Bologna, 1621) Moscow students Nadezda, Olga, Alexandra & shows that part of Banchieri’s collection Daria at the Galleria dell’Accademia. Flora Dennis.

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1111 99/26/08/26/08 10:25:3210:25:32 AMAM O Lectures & Programs O with support from the Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman.

Institutional affi liation is not given for members of I Tatti’s 2007/2008 academic community.

his year’s off ering of scholarly programs has been one of the most active and varied in I Tatti’s history. Just to give some idea Tof the variety: In early September, I Tatti joined forces with the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in London to present the fi rst conference on the artistic relations between Florence in the time of the Medici Popes and the England of Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII. A week later, a group of three dozen museum curators and conservators arrived at I Tatti for a symposium on the Sienese 15th-century painter Sassetta, whom Bernard Berenson brought to the world’s attention in a series of groundbreak- ing articles in 1903. In June, I Tatti co-sponsored with the Kunsthistorisches Institut a conference on the Codex Sahagún in the Biblioteca Laurenziana. There were three public concerts this year in addition to the one given during orientation (Patrizia 12 Bovi and Begona Olavide: Donne ispaniche. Il regno, la memoria, l’esilio. Concerto di musica tradizionale sefardita). Site visits ~~ this year included trips to Sansepolcro and Città di Castello; the Michelangelo exhibition at Casa Buonarroti, guided by Mauro Mussolin (VIT’03) and Silvia Catitti; San Girolamo sulla Costa and San Giorgio sulla Costa, led by Louis Waldman, Robert Gaston, and Diana Hiller (La Trobe University); the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale to examine Renaissance Chansonnier manuscripts, led by Sean Gallagher; Castello di Vincigliata, led by Francesca Baldry (New York University) and Louis Waldman; the Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore, led by Peggy Haines; Santa Felicita and Palazzo Capponi alle Rovinate, led by Louis Waldman and Niccolò Capponi (Archivio Capponi); the Francesco Furini exhibition at the Palazzo Vecchio; the exhibition on Guido Reni and his fol- lowers at the Uffi zi, led by Babette Bohn (Texas Christian University) and Marzia Faietti (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Uffi zi); the Fondazione Roberto Longhi; and Parma, led by Louis Waldman, Giancarla Periti (VIT’08), Davide Gasparotto (Soprintendenza di Parma e Piacenza), Carlo Mambriani (Università di Parma), Carolyn Smith (VIT’92), and Alessandra Talignani.

Lodi Nauta. Dainora Pociūté. Diane Bodart. Once or twice a week during the year, Visiting Professors and Fel- Paul Barolsky: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the History of Art. lows presented their work in progress at in-house workshops: Edward D. English: Magnates and a Civil Society: Siena, 1240- Peter Howard: Preaching Magnifi cence in Early Renaissance 1420. Florence. Lodi Nauta: Lorenzo Valla and the Philosophical Signifi cance of Robert Gaston: Should Ligorio’s Work be Published: And Quattrocento Humanism. Other Painful Methodological Questions Regarding Renaissance Gabriele Pedullà: Classicismo e politica. La disputa tra Bracciolini Antiquarianism. e Guarino su Scipione e Cesare. Holly Hurlburt: To Leave a Rich Realm: Caterina Cornaro in Diane Bodart: Rifl essi e bagliori nella pittura italiana del Retirement (1489-1510). Rinascimento. Allen Grieco: Fowl Play: Food and Cultural Meaning. Gerry Milligan: The Praise of Women and Manly Militarism in Mark Jurdjevic: Was Machiavelli’s Republican Thought Roman? the Cinquecento. Vincenzo Borghetti: Sacred Polyphony and Princely Identity. Cynthia Klestinec: Renaissance Bodies. Flora Dennis: Delighting the Ears and Pleasing the Eye: Music, Valeria Cafà: On the Circulation of Drawings in the 16th Century: Images and Objects in the Domestic Sphere. Let’s Start with the S.IV.7 Sketchbook. Sean Gallagher: Florentine Chansonniers of the Later Fifteenth Maddalena Spagnolo: Beyond Art Criticism: Literary Mockery Century. and Political Dissent in 16th-Century Florence. Annalisa Andreoni: Benedetto Varchi lettore di Dante e Petrarca Peter Stacey: Renaissance Rage. all’Accademia Fiorentina. Jérémie Barthas: Machiavelli, The Prince, chapter 16: La liberalità Carol Lansing: Noble Romans: Court Culture in 13th-Century e il Monte. Lazio.

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1212 99/26/08/26/08 10:25:4110:25:41 AMAM A chronological listing follows of public lectures, concerts, and conferences Lila Acheson Wallace ~ Reader’s Digest held at I Tatti during the 2007/2008 academic year. Special Grants

Conference: “Henrici-Medici: Ar- ormer I Tatti Appointees are eligible to apply for two kinds of grants to promote their tistic Links between the Early Tudor scholarship. Courts and Medicean Florence,” co- F LILA ACHESON WALLACE - READER’S DIGEST PUBLICATIONS GRANTS provide sub- sponsored with the Paul Mellon Centre, London. sidies for scholarly books on the Italian Renaissance. These can be a monograph by a single Concert in memory of Stefano author or a pair of authors, or a collection of essays by autori vari. Books that grow directly Corsi performed by Hector Moreno out of research carried out at I Tatti are especially appropriate. and Norberto Capelli, music by Franz In addition, SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS are occasionally available to former Appointees Schubert, Franz Liszt, Astor Piazzolla who wish to initiate, promote, or engage in an interdisciplinary project in Italian Renaissance and Samuel Barber. studies such as a conference or workshop. Early Music at I Tatti XI: I Fagio- Recipients are chosen by a committee of senior Renaissance scholars, plus the Director lini directed by Robert Hollingworth: acting as chairman. The applicant’s covering letter should include a brief project description, a “Flaming Heart,” madrigali, scherzi and budget, and a short list of publications since the I Tatti appointment. The application deadline 13 balli by Claudio Monteverdi. is 1 November each year. Margaret Haines: “Myth and ~~ Management in the Construction of For publications grants, the book must already be accepted by a publisher, who should Brunelleschi’s Cupola.” write a letter describing the planned publication and giving precise fi gures for the print run and Anthony Molho (VIT’69,’72, cost. The publisher’s letter is quite important; cursory letters only a few lines long that merely European University Institute): “Hans affi rm acceptance of a manuscript will not be considered. If a former Appointee has fi nished a Baron’s Crisis.” manuscript but the relationship with the publisher is still tentative, he or she should wait until Louise Rice (New York Univer- there is a fi rm contract before applying. sity): “Cardinal Rapaccioli and the Tur- Grants can also be made for translating books, though since funds are limited, direct pub- nip-Sellers of Rome: A Political Satire lication subsidies will take priority. on the War of Castro (1641-44).” Publications grants can assume two forms. They can be made directly to the publisher in Carl Strehlke (Philadelphia Mu- order to ensure a higher quality of publication or a lower list price. The publisher should ex- seum of Art): “Slavery and the Early Renaissance Art World.” plain exactly how this would happen in the letter. Grants can also be made to an individual to Charles Dempsey (VIT’74, The reimburse expenses for photographs and reproduction rights. It is also possible to split a grant, Johns Hopkins University): “The earmarking some for the publisher and the rest for reimbursement of personal expenses. Berenson Lectures: Renaissance and Applications for the publication of fi rst books or collected essays may fi nd $4,000 to Renovatio: The Importance of Vernacular $5,000 a good target fi gure, but for major, expensive books that are the fruit of long years of Culture in Earlier Renaissance Art.” research the subsidy can go as high as $8,000. Since repeated grants will be very rare, Ap- Early Music at I Tatti XII: Accor- pointees should wait until they are publishing a substantial book to apply. done, directed by Guido Morini, with Marco Beasley & Pino De Vittorio: 2007/2008 LILA ACHESON WALLACE - READER’S DIGEST GRANT RECIPIENTS: “Via Toledo.” Conference: “Colors Between Two Worlds: The Codice Fiorentino of STEFANO U. BALDASSARRI (VIT’01) towards the publication of Giannozzo Manetti: Bernardino da Sahagún,” co-sponsored Atti del convegno. (Casa Editrice Le Lettere) with the Kunsthistorisches Institut. CLIZIA CARMINATI (VIT’04) towards the publication of Giovan Battista Marino tra inquisizione e censura. (Casa Editrice Antenore S.r.l.) JOHN E. LAW (VIT’95,’07) towards the pub- lication of Communes and Despots (Ashgate Publishing) STUART LINGO (VIT’04) towards the publi- cation of Federico Barocci. Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting. (Yale Univ. Press) CLARE ROBERTSON (VIT’93,’96) towards the cost of photographs and reproduction rights in connection with her volume The Invention of Annibale Carracci. (Bibliotheca Hertziana and Silvana Editoriale) NICHOLAS TERPSTRA (VIT’95,’09) towards The Renaissance in the Streets, Schools and Stud- ies: Essays in Honour of Paul F. Grendler. (The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) Roni Weinstein (VIT’01) towards the trans- lation from Hebrew to English and the publi- cation of Tiferet Bachurim (The Glory of Youth). On the visit to the Capponi Library with Niccolò Capponi, seventh from left. (Brill Editing House)

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1313 99/26/08/26/08 10:25:4910:25:49 AMAM Hans Baron’s “Crisis” H The Years of the Cupola I n March, Anthony Molho (VIT’69, argaret Haines (VIT’76,’88-’08, Op- I’72, European University Institute) Mera di Santa Maria del Fiore) delivered discussed the calamities that befell the a public lecture on “Myth and Management in distinguished historian of humanism, the Construction of Brunelleschi’s Cupola” in Hans Baron, during the mid-twentieth February, which focused on the relationship be- century and their impact on his famous tween masterful engineering and its inventor in book, The Crisis of the Early Italian Re- creating a successful outcome. While still under naissance. Molho focused on the rise of construction, the dome and its architect gained Nazism and Baron’s consequent per- widespread admiration, including that of Leon sonal crisis – his sudden homelessness, Battista Alberti (De pictura, 1436). The structure peregrinations in search of employ- of the dome was massive and, contrary to the ment, and cultural reinvention as an traditional Gothic way of building vaults, it was 14 American. Molho began with a fi tting made without recourse to a wooden support- ~~ Baronian chronological puzzle: in a let- ing frame (céntina). Haines provided stimulat- ter referring to the 1955 edition of The ing new insights based on the documentation Crisis, Baron stated that the manuscript concerning this extraordinary construc- tion. The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore during the “Years of the Cupola” (1417- Peggy Haines & Thekla Clarke. 1436) produced over 20,000 offi cial acts, about 5,000 of which are now easily and freely accessible through an online database. Through a close analysis of both this archival evidence and the quality and building materials of the cupola within the political context of the period, Haines has managed to verify – and often to correct – some of the most famous passages of the traditional histori- ography. A couple of examples suffi ce. For instance, we have always been told that a number of the workmen were foreigners, mostly coming from Lombardy. According to the documentation, however, Haines pointed out that only a few operai were not from the Florentine dominion. Another, even more intriguing case concerns Brunelleschi’s biographer, Antonio di Tuccio Manetti, and his way of using administrative documents to stress the proverbial rivalry between his “hero” and the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti. According to Manetti, Ghiberti’s expenses relating to preparing his competition wood model for the cupola David Quint, Tony Molho & Michael Rocke. were nearly six times those of Brunelleschi for his successful model. As the documentation reveals, how- was the product of ten years’ labor – ever, this account is incomplete and its interpretation a puzzling remark, given Baron’s early partisan. Manetti had not taken into account a number publications on Bruni in the late 1920s. of Brunelleschi’s other payments for his cupola model. Molho’s analysis drew on a number of Once more, we see the importance of a thorough inves- unpublished letters from German ar- tigation of the whole documentation, and not merely chives that poignantly revealed the ex- a selection. tent of Baron’s alienation and demoral- ~ Valeria Cafà ization following the loss of his German Hannah Kiel Fellow post in 1933. Molho concluded that although the scholarly foundation of Baron to appreciate the political dimen- counted for the style and substance of The Crisis dated back several decades, its sion of Florentine humanism and hence Baron’s fi nal argument in The Crisis, essential and positive argument about to interpret Bruni’s civic humanism as particularly its elision of Florentine so- the birth of secular civic humanism as a a specifi c reaction to Milanese cial, economic, and po- response to tyrannical aggression dated aggression. Baron developed litical inequality at the only to the mid-1940s. From 1942 for- a post-emigration optimism controversial heart of ward, Baron began to resolve his own in the power of fundamentally the debates to which it crisis by reinventing his scholarship in unforeseen events to transform gave rise. an American context, leading to the re- the darkest of outcomes into velatory conviction that experiencing moments of enlightened vision. ~ Mark Jurdjevic “crisis” involved heightened perspicac- For Molho, it was precisely that Melville J. Kahn Fellow ity and vision. Nazi persecution led post-war optimism that ac-

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1414 99/26/08/26/08 10:25:5010:25:50 AMAM Colors Between Two Worlds: The Codice Fiorentino of Bernardino de Sahagún

he Historia general de las cosas de TNueva España was written in 1576- 78, amidst plague and desolation, in the College of Santa Cruz established by the Franciscans in Tlatelolco, Mexico. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, “the father of anthropology in the New World,” but 15 also a dedicated missionary, after a life- ~~ time spent learning the language and in- vestigating ancient practices and beliefs, formed a scriptorium where trilingual Aztec scribes wrote the 1,200 pages of Magaloni allowed discrimination be- Lunch in the garden during the Codice confer- text in Nahuatl and Spanish, punctuated tween indigenous and imported colors. ence with Clara Bargellini, third from left. by 2,000 colored drawings. Culture-coded color became a theme of of Philip II, the codex made its way to The conference was held jointly the conference, both in the new world Madrid, where it was bound, and then with the Kunsthistorisches Institut and the old. Two papers drew parallels found a safe haven in Rome, in the li- in Florence under the direction of with the pigment trade in the Venice of brary of Cardinal Ferdinando de’ Medici, Gerhard Wolf, working with Clara Titian and Tintoretto. Feather painting, collector of exotic plants, precious Bargellini and Diana Magaloni of the subject of a long chapter in the co- stones and feather paintings such as the the Universidad Nacional Autónoma dex, allowed native artists to bridge the codex describes. Lia Markey showed de México, and Alessandra Russo of gaps between nature and artifi ce, pro- how Ferdinando took the codex with Columbia University. It drew scholars fane and sacred. Codicological analy- him to Florence after he became Grand from Mexico, Argentina, Germany, the sis off ered insights into the genesis of Duke, and allowed it to be consulted for United States and Italy. Non-invasive the book, its scribes and its illustrators. the ceiling frescoes of the armeria of the scientifi c analysis of the pigments car- Several papers studied parallel uses of Uffi zi in 1588. Otherwise it was kept ried out in the course of the past year colors in the Andes, both in textiles and secret. Even today it is very seldom by Professor Piero Baglioni of the in the three surviving illustrated manu- shown. Hence the excitement of the Department of Physical Chemistry of scripts from vice-regal Peru. visit to the Laurentian Library on the the Università di Firenze and by Diana Avoiding the impoundment orders fi nal morning of the conference, when the three massive volumes of the codex could be examined close up by scholars uke Syson (VIT’06), curator of from the land where it was made. L15th-century Italian painting at the Renaissance Siena National Gallery in London, gave a spir- ~ Joseph Connors ited lecture at the end of October for Director I Tatti’s UK friends and former Fellows. Syson spoke enthusiastically about the exhibition, Renaissance Siena: Art for a City, for which he was responsible at the National Gallery. The magnifi cent exhibition off ered an opportunity to see a num- ber of Sienese paintings, sculptures, drawings, manuscripts, and ceramics from the later 15th and early 16th centuries, works by artists who are much less well known, especially outside Italy, than those of the Trecento, including Francesco di Giorgio and Domenico Beccafumi, alongside many of their contemporaries. Council mem- bers Treacy and Darcy Beyer and Sylvia Scheuer were among the 60 or so guests, who also included former Council member Tim Llewellyn and his wife Elizabeth Hammond Llewellyn. The lecture was held in the magnifi cent setting of Somerset House, thanks to an introduction by Deborah Swallow, Director of the Courtauld Janet Cox-Rearick, Lou Waldman & Institute of Art. Daniela Lamberini.

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1515 99/26/08/26/08 10:25:5710:25:57 AMAM Early Music I Fagiolini’s innovative dra- matization of Monteverdi’s Fourth Book, The Full at I Tatti Monteverdi. For the twelfth con- cert, ‘Via Toledo,’ we were whisked to the south of Italy by the lively ensemble Accordone. Consisting of tarantelle, love songs, la- wo contrasting concerts contin- ments and dances, the rep- Tued the ‘Early Music at I Tatti’ ertory they performed had series this year. In October 2007, the been transmitted orally Accordone relaxing in Nicky’s Room before their 16 renowned English group I Fagiolini through generations and reverberated lively performance set the audience’s toes tapping. ~~ (so-named to mock the ‘wholefood’ with Greek, Arabic and Spanish infl u- reputation of early music in the 1980s) ences. The infectious enthusiasm and gave the eleventh concert in the series. theatrical performance of the two sing- a FORMER a Entitled ‘Flaming Heart,’ the program ers, Marco Beasley (co-founder of the FELLOWS’ U PDATE ensemble) and Pino De Vittorio, enliv- ened the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Giovanna Benadusi (VIT’05), Limonaia. From the mesmerising Associate Professor of History at the repetitious intensity of the tarantelle, to University of South Florida, received the eerie, ethereal atmosphere created a fellowship from the American by harmonics played on the theorbo, Council of Learned Societies or the surprising, expressive range of (ACLS) for the 2007-08 academic the virtuoso tambourine solo, the in- year to complete her book Visions strumentalists, led by Guido Morini of the Social Order: Women’s Last Wills, (Accordone’s other co-founder), played Notaries, and the State in Baroque with exuberance. Singers and instru- Tuscany, the project she started during mentalists united to perform the rous- her fellowship year. ing, unaccompanied Canto dei Sanfedisti, I Fagiolini returned to I Tatti. the song of the royalist soldiers fi ghting Paul Grendler (VIT’71,’72), pro- against the French republican occupa- fessor emeritus of history at the brought together madrigals by Claudio tion of Naples in 1799. The enthusi- University of Toronto, was presented Monteverdi (1547-1643) from his astic clamour of the audience brought with a festschrift in his honor at last Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Books (1603, forth a series of spirited encores. year’s RSA conference in Chicago. 1614 and 1638), together with pieces The Renaissance in the Streets, Schools, from L’Orfeo (1607) and both books of ~ Flora Dennis and Studies: Essays in Honour of Scherzi musicali (1607 and 1632). This Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow Paul F. Grendler, edited by Konrad selection emphasized the expressive Eisenbichler and Nicholas Terpstra powers of music, which with ‘sweet ac- (Toronto: Centre for Reformation cents can calm every troubled heart, / and Renaissance Studies, 2008) brings and now with noble anger, now with together essays on the intellectual, love, can infl ame the coldest minds,’ as cultural and social history of the La Musica in the Prologue from L’Orfeo period. Former Fellows among sang early on in the concert. Directed the contributors are Ronald G. by Robert Hollingworth, I Fagiolini Witt (VIT’69,’05), John O’Malley conducted us through this range of (VIT’67,’68) and Nicholas Terpstra emotional extremities, from the viva- (VIT’95,’09), the last of whom will cious Zefi ro torna, with its brief fi nal be a Visiting Professor at I Tatti this lament, through to the bleak (but sub- fall. The volume was published with lime) agony of Hor che’l ciel e la terra, the aid of one of I Tatti’s Lila Wallace with its fl ashes of impotent rage. This Nicholas Terpstra, John O’Malley, - Reader’s Digest Grants. concert was so emotionally intense, it Konrad Eisenbichler, Paul Grendler, Tom Deutscher, inspired the Fellows to rush off to watch James Farge, Ron Witt & Paul Murphy.

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1616 99/26/08/26/08 10:26:0110:26:01 AMAM The Berenson Lectures in the Italian Renaissance

Charles Dempsey (VIT’74) Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, the Johns Hopkins University Renaissance and Renovatio: The Importance of Vernacular Culture in Earlier Renaissance Art.

1. French Courtly Culture and the Art of Simone Martini (May 22) 2. Classical and Vernacular Cultures in the Paintings of Botticelli (May 27) 3. Vernacular Religious Drama and the Florentine Sibyls (May 29)

harles Dempsey is Professor from the 1430s, and a series of prints CEmeritus of the history of art at the by Baldini, engraved in 1471-75 with Johns Hopkins University. A Princeton verses after poems by Feo Belcari. At Ph.D. of 1963, he taught at Bryn Mawr the end Professor Dempsey returned to 17 College from 1965 to 1980, and then the larger meaning of Lorenzo’s renova- ~~ from 1980 to 2008, at the Johns Hop- tio of Florentine culture, one in which kins University. He was an I Tatti Fel- Latin and vernacular sources were both low in 1973-74, and frequently served present and where classical myth was as Director of the former Hopkins cen- brought to life by being represented in ter in Florence, the Villa Spelman. the dress of popular festivals and sacre Professor Dempsey took up themes rappresentazioni. fi rst explored with such brilliance by Often full to overfl owing, the lec- Aby Warburg and Erwin Panosfky, in tures showed a profound grasp both of particular the perennial question of the classical learning and vernacular poetry, classical vs. the vernacular element in but at the same time a close reading Florentine and Sienese art of the Re- of great artists such as Botticelli, all of naissance. He began with an analysis of which evoked an enthusiastic response Simone Martini’s Maestà in the Palazzo Charles Dempsey & Elizabeth Cropper. from the demanding Florentine public. Pubblico in Siena, showing how the In the spring of 2009 Julian Gardner Ages through the Quattrocento, ex- Virgin was transformed by the courtly will give the Berenson Lectures on ploring literary sources and visual rep- culture that Simone encountered in Giotto, and in 2010 Caroline Elam will resentations. Key moments were the Angevin Naples and later in Avignon. give them on the image of Florence. cycle of twelve sibyls in the palace of He went on to explore the theme of ~ Joseph Connors Cardinal Giordano Orsini in Rome the ideal beloved in courtly poetry and Director painting, including Petrarch’s Laura. In the second lecture Professor a FORMER FELLOWS’ U PDATE a Dempsey turned to an author he has been reading closely for most of his ca- reer, Poliziano, the scholar and poet best Daniel M. Bornstein (VIT’90) was Christopher S. Celenza (VIT’00), equipped to provide inspiration for Bot- appointed Stella K. Darrow Professor professor in the Department of ticelli’s Birth of Venus and Primavera. He of Catholic Studies at Washington German and Romance Languages showed how a deep knowledge of clas- University is St. Louis last fall. at Johns Hopkins University, won a sical sources in Botticelli vies with inspi- Bornstein, a historian of religion in Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. ration from Florentine springtime festi- late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, A historian and Latinist who stud- vals, where “classical myths are dressed has authored or edited three books ies European intellectual history, in vernacular pulchritude.” There was with a fourth in process, in addition Celenza will use his fellowship to fascinating material on Florentine dress to numerous articles, book chapters, examine humanism, language, and and fashion and on satires of the cos- conference papers, and invited lectures. philosophy from Petrarch (1304-74) metic mask needed to create the beau- He has translated numerous medieval to Angelo Poliziano (1454-94). He tiful Florentine lady. We are seeing in texts and is currently editing a vol- hopes to illuminate a period he refers Botticelli’s Simonetta Vespucci less the ume on Medieval Christianity for a to as “Italy’s long 15th century” that dead girl than the perfected mask of seven-volume project called A People’s is usually missing from the history of Florentine ideal beauty. History of Christianity, to be published Western philosophy. He is also work- The third lecture dwelt on the fi g- in 2008. ing on three volumes for the I Tatti ure of the sibyl from the late Middle Renaissance Library series.

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1717 99/26/08/26/08 10:26:1010:26:10 AMAM important part of Borrassà’s shop, so Slavery and much so that Borrassà was quick to track Concert for him down each time he escaped. At one the Early point, after a Franciscan friar tried to Stefano Corsi help Lluc fl ee, Borrassà turned to keep- ing him locked up at night. Strehlke n September 2007, I Tatti and the Renaissance argued that Lluc must have played a key role in the artist’s work- ICasa Buonarroti jointly organized a Art World shop, helping to complete concert in memory of Stefano Corsi, clas- the large retable at Vic, in sical scholar and librarian, who died sud- northern Catalonia, and denly on 21 April 2007 from pleural can- n May 15, 2008, that he is even mentioned cer (see last year’s newsletter). A member OCarl Strehlke, from in documents as an artist in of the library staff since 1997, Stefano’s the Philadelphia Museum his own right. knowledge of antiquity and the Renais- of Art, gave the fi nal pre- Illustrating the com- sance was invaluable to the Biblioteca 18 sentation of this spring’s ~~ plexity of the relationship, Berenson. He also had close scholarly I Tatti lecture series. His Strehlke described how connections with the Casa Buonarroti talk, “Slavery and the Early Borrassà had liberated Lluc’s Renaissance Art World,” daughter but how, after his where he held a Fellowship in 1993- examined the presence death, his own daughter 97 and collaborated on many of their of slaves in 13th- and 14th- Carl Strehlke. tried to keep her father’s exhibitions. century workshops in Spain workshop alive through the Pina Ragionieri, Director of the and Italy. During the course of this lec- services of his former slave. Lluc seems Casa Buonarroti, and Joseph Connors, ture, it became clear that the phenom- to have worked from pre-established Director of I Tatti, spoke about Stefano’s enon was certainly more widespread models and cartoons and possessed a scholarly activities and the role he played than one imagines – the Venetian paint- model book, or “mostres d’art,” which at the two institutions to a large gather- er Jacobello del Fiore had slaves, and allowed him faithfully to produce paint- ing of family, friends and colleagues in Strehkle reminded us that, at one time, ings in his master’s style. The value of the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Limona- such model books can be seen by the amount of which it was assessed when ia, before introducing the musicians, the Lluc used it to settle a debt nine years internationally acclaimed pianists Hec- after his master’s death. tor Moreno and Norberto Capelli, both Strehkle’s subtle analysis of his sub- of whom were friends of Stefano. Born ject raised deeper questions of workshop in Argentina, Moreno and Capelli had practice in Renaissance Italy, inviting his careers as soloists before uniting their audience to consider early-Renaissance common interests in music for two pia- artists more as what he termed “chief- nos and for four hands. They are uni- coordinators,” who established a master versally appreciated for their perfect syn- scheme and style, but then managed a chronization and impeccable technique, range of assistants, free or not, who ex- Rachel Jacoff & Stephan Wolohojian. ecuted their schemes which were often which allows them to explore a wide and there were some 80 slaves working at codifi ed in model books and cartoons. varied repertoire. On this occasion they the Villa d’Este in Tivoli. But Strehlke’s ~ Stephan Wolohojian performed a brilliant program of piano eloquent talk also made it clear that Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow music for four hands by Schubert, Liszt, the very nature of an artist’s workshop, Piazzolla and Barber. where a master’s hand and formal ideas We are profoundly grateful to the are “slavishly” copied and emulated, Duo Moreno-Capelli for their perfor- stands against our general notions of ar- mance; to Antonio Fazzini for his in- tistic freedom and innovation. After a general introduction, the valuable collaboration in the production lecture focused on Barcelona and, in of the concert; and to those of Stefano’s particular on the case of Lluís Borassà, friends and colleagues who contributed a well-documented artist who, in 1392, to the memorial concert program, which purchased a 17-year-old slave named is available on our website. Lluc from a carpenter. In later docu- ~ Kathryn Bosi ments, Lluc was assessed as an impor- Morrill Music Librarian tant fi nancial asset, and he became an Hector Moreno & Norberto Capelli.

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1818 99/26/08/26/08 10:26:1210:26:12 AMAM Cardinal Rapaccioli and a FORMER FELLOWS’ U PDATE a Rab Hatfield (VIT’65, mer Fellows Molly Bourne the Turnip-Sellers of ’66,’71) was the motive be- (VIT’04), Barbara Deimling Rome hind the third volume in (VIT’09), Jonathan K. Nel- the Villa Rossa Series this son (VIT’02), and Margery A. year. Italian Art, Society, and Ganz (VIT’85). Politics: A Festschrift in Hon- or of Rab Hatfi eld Presented by his Students in Occasion of Carlo Ginzburg (VIT’67), his Seventieth Birthday, ed- professor of European cultural ited by Barbara Deimling, history at the Scuola Normale Jonathan K. Nelson, and Rab Hatfi eld caught Superiore di Pisa since 2006, Gary M. Radke (Florence: by surprise, with received a 2008 Humboldt Syracuse University in Flor- Jonathan Nelson on Research Award. The awards, 19 ence, 2007) was presented the right. granted by the Alexander von ~~ to him on 13 December Humboldt Foundation to for- 2007 at the Galleria dell’Accademia, eign scholars with internationally rec- Florence. The collection of essays on ognized academic qualifi cations, are n March, Louise Rice, Associate Italian art and architecture from the intended as a lifelong tribute to the IProfessor of Art History at New York early Renaissance to the 19th cen- past academic accomplishments of University, gave a paper which focused tury includes contributions by for- award winners. on a satirical pen and ink drawing by the Florentine artist Baccio del Bianco (1604-1657), now at the Pierpont and his servant coming back from the family, which was decorated with these Morgan Library in New York. The war and meeting, among others, the vegetables. One could almost conclude drawing represents Cardinal Rapaccioli painter Francesco Furini and a man of that he was asking to be made fun of: (1595-1657) riding on a donkey and the church. The three drawings show his name, coupled with the turnips so being chased out of Castro by the tur- Baccio’s interest in comical style and prominently displayed nip sellers of Rome. Rice discussed it demonstrate that there was a market on his coat of arms, al- within the framework of the battle of in the mid-17th century for similar most begs for a satirical Pitigliano, 1643, in which Baccio him- satirical compositions. Although the depiction of the cardi- self was involved as an expert in fortifi - ultimate destination of such draw- nal under a rain of root cations. She also compared it to other ings is not clear, Rice convincingly vegetables. drawings by Baccio, in particular, one analysed the iconography of the now in Haarlem and another in Oxford. New York foglio in its historical and ~ Maddalena Spagnolo The fi rst of these represents a group of cultural context. In particular, she Hannah Kiel Fellow lawyers in a room decorated with paint- drew attention to Rapaccioli’s ca- ings that mock the bad taste for paintings reer and to his work on behalf of the typical of the lawyers. The second foglio Barberini during the war of Castro be- (recently discussed in the exhibition tween the Farnese and the Barberini on Francesco Furini, Florence 2008) families. In discussing the historical shows a platoon of beggars who meet sources, Rice brought to light an amus- each other in a street. They are Baccio ing point. According to some sources, Cardinal Rapaccioli had been captured by Florentine troops during the war. In fact, Rice discovered that he was safely located in his palace next to Castro and he did not participate in the confl ict at all. Finally, Rice took a close look at this satirical drawing and explained many details through their historical or iconographic references. In particu- lar, the turnips that are thrown at the fl eeing Cardinal can be read as an allu- The Sassetta group enjoying lunch in the garden. Joseph Connors & Pina Ragionieri. sion to the coat of arms of Rapaccioli’s

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 1919 99/26/08/26/08 10:26:1910:26:19 AMAM ewsbriefs Derek C. Bok and his wife Dr. Sissela Bok. This was President Bok’s fi rst visit to I Tatti since he inaugurated the Paul N E. Geier Library in 1985. Professors Diana Sorensen, James E. Hankins, and Lino Pertile all came in June for ach year we are delighted to wel- a Planning Committee meeting, along come a number of visitors from E with Jane Tylus (New York University) Harvard. Among the Harvard fac- and Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi (Director Orlando & Willy Mostyn-Owen. ulty and staff who were on holiday of the Bargello). We were also glad to plaque “Nicky Mariano / Napoli 13 in Italy and stopped by to see I Tatti welcome several Harvard alumni in- XII 1887 / Firenze 3 VI 1968 / In were Tamara Rogers, Vice President cluding Brandon Bradkin, President Memoriam 3 VI 2008” in the chapel. A of the Harvard Club of the United number of old friends – including Willy Kingdom. Mostyn-Owen and his son Orlando, Alvar Gonzáles-Palacios, Françoise and 20 Marco Chiarini, Alta Macadam and ~~ Francesco Colacicchi, Helmut and Alice Wohl, Fortunato Pratesi, Liliana Ciullini, Sabrina Anrep, and Vaslav Markevic – COMING SOON: returned for the occasion and joined I Tatti Studies on JSTOR the Fellows and Visiting Professors for a buff et lunch on the terrace wenty-seven years after its inception, I Tatti afterwards. T Studies: Essays in the Renaissance is making its debut on the World Wide Web. JSTOR, a nonprofi t n April, I Tatti hosted foundation based in New York, has recently agreed to a reception for some Tamara & Tony Rogers I make the journal available to its huge online subscriber 120 former Fellows and with Alexa Mason. base. The fi rst ten volumes will appear on JSTOR in about a year’s friends in attendance at the annual meeting of for Alumni Aff airs and time, and each subsequent issue will become available online a year the Renaissance Society Development and her after its publication in print form. Readers with access to a of America in Chicago. husband Tony, Alan Simons JSTOR account will be able to read, download, or print ar- The reception was held at from the Capital Projects ticles at the touch of a button. Plans are also being devel- the Charnley-Persky House, team, Jane Knuttunen from oped to make I Tatti Studies accessible to members of headquarters of the Society of the Fine Arts Library, Professor the I Tatti community without access to a JSTOR Architectural Historians, which and Mrs. John Picker, Professor subscription, via the I Tatti website: was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Homi Bhabha, and Dr. Jacqueline www.itatti.it and Louis Sullivan in 1891/92. Bhabha. More formal visits in- cluded Candace Feldt, from the Loeb he next generation of Renaissance Music Library (see page 11), Jennifer scholars includes Medea, born 22 Snodgrass from Harvard Univ. Press, T wo special masses were celebrated November 2007 to Lorenzo Fabbri and Jorge Dominguez, Vice Provost for in the little chapel on the property. (VIT’98) and Maia Gahtan (VIT’98) International Aff airs. In June, Adams T Bernard Berenson’s death on 6 October and Gabriel, born on 6 November 2007 University Professor Christoph Wolff 1959 was remembered on Friday 5 to Janie Cole (VIT’06) and Lorenzo October, and a mass to commemorate Grassi. the 40th anniversary of Nicky Mariano’s death was held on 3 June 2008. Nicky Mariano was Bernard Berenson’s com- panion for 40 years and one of the people who had most to do with the smooth transition from private house to research institute when Harvard took Barbara & Christoph Wolff . over. Don Carlo Bazzi, the parish priest from the local church of San Martino a Mensola, was the celebrant in both and his wife Barbara were guests in the cases. After the mass, Joseph Connors villa for a few days. They were soon fol- Paul Barolsky, Michael Rocke, Ruth Barolsky, and Fiorella Superbi unveiled a simple lowed by University President Emeritus Alice & Helmut Wohl.

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he Villa I Tatti Council was de- to mesmerize the audience. Tlighted to sponsor a number of We are grateful, too, to Giff ord events in the United States this year. In Combs who hosted a dinner for January, more than 60 people attended I Tatti in New York in January at the an I Tatti evening at the Harvard Club Knickerbocker Club, which provided of Boston. Victor Coelho (VIT’98,’05, an opportunity for Joseph Connors to Boston University) and soprano Brenna spend time with Council members and Wells performed selections from the other friends, both old and new. Bottegari Lute Book (a Florentine The Villa I Tatti Council meeting, source of the mid-1570s) and provided attended by thirteen members, took Graziella Macchetta & Amanda Smith a commentary on the history of this place in April at the Links Club in from the Cambridge Offi ce. manuscript. The evening introduced New York City, thanks to the generous 21 the Harvard Center to a new constitu- sponsorship of Council member emeri- At the Council meeting, Deborah ~~ ency, and conversations over the din- tus, Ron Daniel. Chairman Deborah Brice regretfully accepted the resigna- ner that followed the concert revolved Loeb Brice was delighted to welcome tion of four long-serving members: around Renaissance studies at I Tatti, Treacy and Darcy Beyer and Sylvia Anne Bass and Fritz Link, both of Italian music of the 16th century, and Scheuer to their fi rst meeting. Joseph whom joined in 1990; Susan Braddock, the role of our Fellows in their teaching Connors thanked the Council for their a member since 1997; and Guillaume institutes around the world. continual support and reported on the Malle, son of the late Jean-François 2007/08 academic year, the scholarly Malle, a founding member of the programs, and the adverse eff ect Council. For the friendship, generos- of the weakening dollar on I Tatti’s ity, and positive impact these members budget. As it becomes increasingly have had on I Tatti through the years we costly for scholars to conduct re- are continually grateful. We anticipate search abroad, Professor Connors welcoming them at future I Tatti events expressed concern that the fi eld and, when their travels bring them back of Renaissance studies may suf- to Italy, we hope they will return to fer. The main commitment in I Tatti, where the reddest of carpets will the future, he said, is I Tatti’s ob- welcome them. ligation to safeguard transatlantic ~ Graziella Macchetta scholarship during these diffi cult Development Associate economic times. Michael Rocke, Nicky Mariano Librarian, brought the Council up to date on events Judy D’Ombrain, Ronnie Laskin, in the Biblioteca Berenson, includ- Peter Howard & Robert Gaston. ing the renovation of the Library Annex in honor of Craig Hugh and Barbara L. Over 100 people convened in April Smyth. Council members Melvin R. at the French Consulate in New York Seiden, Susan Mainwaring Roberts, City to hear Keith Christiansen’s lec- and William E. Hood, Jr., are co-chair- ture: Et in Arcadia Ego: Poussin’s Vision ing the campaign to raise the necessary of Nature. To the Honorable François funds and have been working very hard Delattre, Consul General of France, goes all year. Edward English & Jane Tylus with our gratitude for co-sponsoring this fas- Lino Pertile behind. cinating lecture, which was followed by THE 2008 VILLA I TATTI COUNCIL a reception. Keith Christiansen, Jayne Wrightsman Curator of European D E Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum Deborah Loeb Brice, Chairman of Art, underscored Poussin’s knowl- Joseph Connors, Director edge of light and shadows and the painter’s focus on things refl ected in Darcy Beyer Mary Weitzel Gibbons Susan M. Roberts William E. Hood, Jr. the water, elements that paved the way Treacy Beyer Neil L. Rudenstine Jean A. Bonna Walter Kaiser Sylvia Scheuer to the Impressionists. Poussin’s passion James R. Cherry, Jr. Virgilia Pancoast Klein Melvin R. Seiden for fl ora and landscapes is infused with Anne Coffi n Frederick S. Koontz Sydney R. Shuman a love of perspective, classical poise, and Robert F. Erburu Barnabas McHenry William F. Thompson architectural-like precision, all of which Gabriele Geier Joseph P. Pellegrino Rosemary F. Weaver were used to great eff ect by the lecturer Marilyn Perry

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onrad Oberhuber (VIT’66), di- Palladian Villas (Plus a Few Instructively fellowship he took up a teaching posi- Krector emeritus of the Graphische Impossible Ones) (Cambridge, MA: MIT tion at the University of Georgia, where Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, died on Press, 1992), co-written with Richard he remained, apart from one year as 12 September 2007 of brain cancer. Freedman, Hersey developed computer the Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Born in Linz, Austria, in 1935, he re- programs to research the geometry un- Art History at University of Memphis ceived his Ph.D. from the University derlying Palladian architecture. Hersey in 1995/96. He returned to I Tatti as of Vienna in 1959. He worked at the spent most of his adult life at Yale where Visiting Professor for the second se- Albertina and at the National Gallery he earned three degrees: an M.F.A. from mester of the 1997/98 academic year of Art, Washington, D.C. before go- the School of Drama in 1954, and an to work on Giotto’s “O”: Narrative, ing to Harvard as curator of drawings M.A. and Ph.D. in history of art in 1961 Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the and professor of fi ne arts from 1975 to and 1964. After a brief stint teaching at Arena Chapel (published posthumous- 24 1987. From there he returned to the Bucknell University he returned to Yale ly by Penn State Univ. Press in 2008). ~~ Albertina as its director until his re- as an instructor in 1963 and became a Ladis was a specialist in early Italian tirement in 2000. Oberhuber was an full professor in 1974. He served twice Renaissance painting. His numerous I Tatti Fellow in 1965/1966 when he as director of graduate studies. He was books, lectures, reviews and articles worked on the ninth and fi nal volume an I Tatti Fellow in 1972 working on include The Brancacci Chapel, Florence of the corpus of Raphael drawings be- “The Fortuna ‘Critica’ of Leonardo’s (New York, NY: George Braziller, 1993), gun by Oscar Fischel in 1913 (Raphaels Last Supper.” In 1975, he became edi- which won the University of Georgia’s Zeichnungen, volume IX, [Berlin: Gebr. tor of Yale Publications in the History Creative Research Medal, and Studies in Mann., 1972]). Indeed, he was best of Art. A frequently invited lecturer in Italian Art (London: Pindar Press, 2001). known as an authority on the drawings Italy, his honors included a Fulbright Victims and Villains in Vasari’s “Lives” of Raphael, and published extensively Scholarship and Morse Fellowship. (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina on the artist, but his expertise extended Press, 2008) was also published posthu- beyond the Italian Renaissance. Trained ndrew Ladis (VIT’86,’98), mously. Ladis was general editor, or co- as a curator in one of Europe’s greatest AFranklin Professor of Art History editor, of six volumes and series and the public collections, Oberhuber brought at the University of Georgia, died on recipient of several international awards to his teaching and museum positions 2 December 2007 after a long battle and appointments; he was a presidential extraordinary knowledge of the Italian with cancer. Born in 1949, he moved appointee to the Council of the National Renaissance, French 17th-century art as a child to the U.S. from Greece. He Endowment for the Humanities. (Poussin, The Early Years in Rome: The received his B.A. (History, 1970), M.A. Origins of French Classicism [New York: (1974) and Ph.D. (1978) from the . Wiley Hitchcock (VIT’76,’91) Hudson Hills Press; Fort Worth: Kimbell University of Virginia. His Ph.D. dis- HDistinguished Professor Emeritus Art Museum, 1988]), German 19th- sertation was later expanded into his fi rst of Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY, century drawings, and contemporary book, Taddeo Gaddi: Critical Reappraisal died of prostate cancer on 5 December European and American art. and Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: Univ. 2007. Born in Detroit in 1923, he of Missouri Press, 1982). After teaching earned his A.B. (1944) from Dartmouth eorge Hersey (VIT’72), profes- at Austin Peay State University, SUNY College and his M.M. (1944) and Ph.D. Gsor of the history of art at Yale Potsdam, Wright State University, and (1948) from the University of Michigan, University, died on 23 October 2007 Vanderbilt University, Ladis came to Ann Arbor, where he began his teach- at the age of 80. He was an authority I Tatti as a Fellow in 1985/86 with a ing career. He then moved fi rst to on Italian Renaissance architecture and topic on Giovanni di Paolo. After his Hunter College, CUNY and in 1971 to sculpture, as well as 19th-century archi- tecture and art in Europe and America. He wrote with verve on Ruskin, Palladio and the Vatican complex, but especially was a great connoisseur of Naples. He authored seven books, including Pythagorean Palaces: Architecture and Magic in the Italian Renaissance (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1976), The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture: Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988) and The Evolution of Allure: Sexual Selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk Rosa Molinaro & Alessandro Focosi (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996) and (above), numerous articles. For his book Possible & Giancarla Periti (right).

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 2424 99/26/08/26/08 10:26:5110:26:51 AMAM Brooklyn College where he founded the Press, 1988) and John Marston, Satirist She was associate producer of the PBS Institute for Studies in American Music, (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1961, 2nd show, “People, Places & Plants,” which which he directed through 1993. He ed. New York: Octagon Books, 1976). her husband, Roger Swain, co-hosted served as president of the Music Library for four years. As an I Tatti Fellow in Association, the Charles Ives Society and lisabeth Ward Mahnke Swain 1978/79, she was working on the fam- the American Musicological Society. E(VIT’79), Renaissance scholar, ily correspondence of the Gonzaga of He was also on the editorial board of Harvard administrator, and television Mantua. The Musical Quarterly, American Music, producer, died 7 February 2008 of can- and New World Records. In addition to cer at the age of 66. After a childhood iulia Lascialfare died on 7 August being a specialist in American music, he spent in the U.S. and China, she received G2008. Born in 1922, she came also edited and wrote on French and her B.A. from Radcliff e College in 1963, to I Tatti with her husband Giovanni Italian Baroque music (Marc-Antoine and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard Cantini in 1965 when he took pos- Charpentier, Giulio Caccini, et al.). College in 1966 and 1975 respectively. session of the Corbignano farm. After He was co-editor and chief content Her doctoral dissertation was on “The I Tatti hired the farmers in the early editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Political Career of a Condottiere- 1970s and stopped the share-cropping 25 American Music (New York, NY: Grove’s Prince: Ludovico Gonzaga, 1444-1466.” system previously in place, Giovanni ~~ Dictionaries of Music, 1986). His fi - She remained at Harvard in a variety of Cantini became the night watchman. nal work, Four Saints in Three Acts, Virgil posts, as teacher and mentor to students Giulia became a member of the house Thompson and Gertrude Stein, which he and faculty alike. She served in admis- staff in 1975 and retired in 1988. She is co-edited with Charles Fussell, was pub- sions, as an administrator of Harvard’s survived by two daughters. lished posthumously by A-R Editions core curriculum, as a senior tutor at for the American Musicological Society Leverett House and she co-founded s we go to press: Michael Mallett, in 2008. He and his wife, Janet Cox- the Harvard Yard Child Care Center. AOBE (VIT’75), emeritus professor Rearick (VIT’62,’63,’76,’91), spent most After retiring from Harvard in 2000, of history, Warwick University, died 2 summers in Florence and were regu- she began another career managing her September 2008. lar members of the I Tatti community. husband’s appearances at garden shows. He was an I Tatti Visiting Scholar in 1975/1976 and a Visiting Professor in 1991. a FORMER FELLOWS’ U PDATE a nthony Caputi (VIT’65), Sara Galletti (VIT’06) is taking up John M. Najemy (Toronto: Centre AProfessor Emeritus of Comparative a new position as assistant professor for Reformation and Renaissance Literature at Cornell University, died in the Department of Art, Art History Studies, 2008) at the New College after a long illness on 6 February 2008. and Visual Studies at Duke University. Conference in Saratoga, Florida on Born in 1924, he entered military ser- 7 March 2008. David S. Peterson vice in 1942 and served in the 793rd Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (VIT’86, (VIT’85), co-editor with Daniel Battalion of the Military Police. Using the G.I. Bill, he completed his B.A. in ’02), emerita professor of history at the E. Bornstein (VIT’90), presented English at the University of Buff alo in École des Hautes Études en Sciences the volume and gave the laudatory 1949, followed by his M.A. in 1951. Sociales, Paris, was given an honorary address on behalf of the 25 students He received his Ph.D. from Cornell doctorate in history and civilization and friends who had contributed es- University in 1956 where he taught from the University of Pisa in Janu- says. Among these were a number English, then Comparative Literature ary 2008. of former I Tatti Fellows: Gene from 1956-1991, serving some time as A. Brucker (VIT’65,’80,’84,’87), chair for both departments. He served David Quint (VIT’79,’87), Sterling Anthony Molho (VIT’69,’72), many years on the Cornell English de- Professor of English and Comparative Margaret Haines (VIT’76,’88-’09), partment committee distributing the Literature, Yale University, was among Robert D. Black (VIT’93), Alison prestigious George Jean Nathan Prize the 227 scholars, scientists, artists, civ- Brown (VIT’86,’91,’98), Julius for Dramatic Criticism. During his academic life he received a Fulbright ic, corporate and philanthropic lead- Kirshner (VIT’79,’96), Edward Muir fellowship at Merton College, Oxford ers elected to the American Academy (VIT’73), Susannah F. Baxendale University in 1954-55 as well as a senior of Arts and Sciences Class of 2008. (VIT’89), Dale Kent (VIT’78,’83,’07), Fulbright fellowship, a Guggenheim Quint spent three months this past Margery Ganz (VIT’85), Melissa fellowship and an NEH fellowship. spring as a guest in the Casa Morrill M. Bullard (VIT’81), Mikael Caputi was an I Tatti Fellow in 1964/65 on Costa San Giorgio. Hörnqvist (VIT’98), and Humfrey C. working on a project that later turned Butters (VIT’72,’80). The Harvard into his second book Buff o: The Genius John Najemy (VIT’70,’71,’75,’99) was Center at Villa I Tatti assisted in the of Vulgar Comedy (Detroit: Wayne State presented with Florence and publication of this festschrift through a Univ. Press, 1978). His other books in- Beyond: Culture, Society, and Politics in Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Special clude Pirandello and the Crisis of Modern Renaissance Italy. Essays in Honour of Publications Grant. Consciousness (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois

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e are pleased to announce that WGiorgio Pallini, who had helped in the kitchen last year, joined the permanent staff as one of the cooks last October. Aureliana Angini, Roberto Bruni and Giorgio prepare some 70 lunches each day at several sittings for the scholars, staff , and visitors, in ad- dition to the dinners and the fabulous cookies that appear miraculously at tea. Despite expanding waistlines, we are delighted Giorgio has joined the team. 26 ~~

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history at Syracuse University. by Michael Rocke on page 5. In ad- dition to helping Alessandro Superbi ith great regret we report the re- manage I Tatti’s fi nances, Signe Olander Wtirement of Fiorella Gioffredi helped Allen Grieco with the admin- Giorgio Pallini. Superbi, Agnes Mongan Curator of istrative side of I Tatti’s farm, and still the Fototeca Berenson, Curator of the found time to organize the occasional ith the unexpected death of Berenson Collection & Archive (see ping-pong tournament. In her place, WStefano Corsi last year, the page 9). After a lifetime spent at I Tatti, we welcome Simonetta Pinto who library staff was one member short. Fiorella has decided it is time to de- comes to us with a background in fi - Scott Palmer, who has been working vote herself to her many other interests. nance and customer service. part-time in the library since October She has helped countless scholars in 2005, has been hired to replace him. the Berenson Fototeca, edited numer- number of the library staff bal- Scott’s position has been taken over by ous books in the I Tatti series, and dili- Aance scholarship with their day Gian Mario Cao (VIT’03) who came gently cared for the Berenson Archive jobs. We congratulate Angela Dressen, last October as part-time library assis- and Collection. We will all be at a loss Reference Librarian and Assistant tant working mainly at the Reference without her wise counsel, charm, style, Cataloguer, on the recent publication desk where he has been and broad knowledge, of Pavimenti decorati del Quattrocento greatly appreciated by all the but we wish her good in Italia (Venezia: Marsilio; Centro library readers. His knowl- luck in the next chapter Internazionale di Studi di Architettura edge of the library as an as- of her life. Andrea Palladio, 2008), which won the siduous studioso, his insight as 2007 James Ackerman Award in the his- a Renaissance scholar in his lso opening a tory of architecture. own right, and his enthusi- Anew chapter are asm, have proved invaluable. Monica Steletti, who worked in the Fototeca eginning in July, Chris for 14 months, and BTangeman joined the Signe Olander who library as a volunteer for six worked for two years months. Chris received his in the administration B.A. in History from Ohio Monica Steletti and Samuele. and is now moving to State University in 2000 and Edinburgh. Monica has his M.L.S. from Kent State University been working on the project to cata- in 2008 and is in Florence with his wife logue the photographs of “homeless” Sarah who is working on an M.A. in art Italian drawings or paintings described Angela Dressen. ) The I Tatti newsletter is published once a year. Alexa M. Mason, editor, writer, design, and layout; WordTech Corporation, printing and distribution. Photographs are by Susan Bates, Joseph Connors, Nelda Ferace, Gianni Trambusti, Gianni Martilli, Signe Olanda or me. My apologies to anyone whose photo I have used and whom I have not acknowledged. ) Former Fellows are indicated in the text with the initials “VIT” after their name followed by the year(s) of their appointment as Fellow, Visiting Scholar or Professor, or Research Associate.

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Fellows of Melbourne, History. “Luxury’s De- “A Biography of Giovanni Morelli Carmen Bambach (2nd sem), Craig fi ning Moment in Renaissance Italy.” (1816-1891).” Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, The Met- Anne Leader, Rush H. Kress Fel- P. Renee Baernstein (2nd sem), Lila ropolitan Museum of Art, Art History. low (The City College of New York, Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Pro- “Drawings around Michelangelo: Ob- CUNY), Art History. “Burial Practices fessor, Miami University, Ohio, History. ject-based Research in the Great Col- in Renaissance Florence.” “Gender and Marriage in Late Renais- lections of the Master’s Drawings in Paola Marini (2nd sem), Craig sance and Baroque Rome: The Colonna Florence.” Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Mu- Family, 1527-1600.” Dora Bobory (2nd sem), Andrew W. seo di Castelvecchio, Verona, Art Wietse De Boer (2nd sem), Lila Mellon Research Fellow (Central Eu- History. “Paolo Veronese, Andrea Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Pro- ropean University), History. “The Palladio e i “creati” veronesi di fessor, Miami University, Ohio, History. Horoscopes of Gerolamo Cardano as Michele Sanmicheli.” “Castiglione and the Crisis of the Biographies.” Roberta Mucciarelli, Francesco De Renaissance.” 27 Benjamin Brand, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Sie- Fredrika Jacobs (1st sem), Lila Wal- ~~ Dombrowski Fellow, University of na, History. “Fama. Indagini intorno a lace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, North Texas, Musicology. “Cathedral un’idea (XIV-XV secolo).” Virginia Commonwealth University, Liturgies in the Golden Age of the Tus- Patrick Nold, Deborah Loeb Brice History. “Marian Devotionalism and can Communes.” Fellow, State University of New York at Image Effi cacy in 16th-Century Italy.” Mario Casari, Andrew W. Mellon Fel- Albany, History. “Heresy and Ortho- Bram Kempers (2nd sem), Lila Wal- low, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza,’ doxy in Early Trecento Florence.” lace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Literature. “The Oriental Studies of Klaus Pietschmann, Deborah Loeb University of Amsterdam. G.B. Raimondi in Late Renaissance Brice Fellow, Universität Bern, Musicol- Robert Kiely(2nd sem), Harvard Vis- Italy.” ogy. “Liturgical Polyphony in Florence iting Professor, Harvard University, Kathleen Christian, Robert Lehman between Reform Theology and Local Literature. “Blessed and Beautiful: Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Art His- Politics.” Reading the Saints with Help from tory. “Geniuses of the Place: Nymphs Denis Ribouillault, Florence J. Gould Italian Masters.” in Italian Renaissance Art.” Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, John Paoletti (1st sem), Lila Wallace Roberto Cobianchi, Ahmanson Fel- London, Art History. “Sacred Landscape - Reader’s Digest Visiting Profes- low, The British School at Rome, Art and Ideology in Early Modern Italy.” sor, Wesleyan University, Art History. History. “Ceremonies for Canonisation Camilla Russell, Hanna Kiel Fellow, “Strategies of Medici Patronage during in Renaissance Rome.” Newcastle University, History. “Imag- the Fifteenth Century.” William R. Day, History, Jean-François ining the Indies: Conceptualising the Erling Skaug (2nd sem), Robert Malle Fellow, University of Cambridge, Jesuit Missionary Enterprise in the Ital- Lehman Visiting Professor, University History. “Florentine and other Ital- ian Renaissance.” of Oslo, Art History. “Punch Marks in ian Personnel in Foreign Mints, 1200- Arielle Saiber, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, Tuscan Panel Paintings c.1300-1450.” 1500.” Bowdoin College, Literature. “Well- Nicholas Terpstra (1st sem), Robert Bianca De Divitiis, Lila Wallace - Versed Mathematics in Early Modern Lehman Visiting Professor, University Reader’s Digest Fellow, Università Italy (1450-1650).” of Toronto, History. “Life and Death IUAV, Venezia, Art History. “Tra Napoli Zsolt Török (1st sem), Andrew W. in a Cinquecento Conservatory for e Firenze: Giovanni Pontano e la cultura Mellon Research Fellow, Eötvös Lorand Abandoned artistica nel secondo Quattrocento.” University, Budapest, History. “Ital- Girls.” Barbara Deimling (1st sem), Craig ian Military Architecture, Renaissance Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Syracuse Cosmography and Cartographic Senior University, Florence, Art History. “The Representation.” Research Conversion of Mary Magdalene in a Associates Fourteenth-Century Fresco Cycle in Readers in Renaissance Studies Are the South Tyrol.” Max Freeman (1st sem), Harvard Uni- same as for Dávid Falvay (2nd sem), Andrew W. versity, Literature. 2007-2008 Mellon Research Fellow, Eötvös Loránd Anna Huber (2nd sem), Harvard Uni- (see page 2). University, Budapest, History. “Il culto versity, Art History. toscano di sante ungheresi (14-15 ss.): Yulia Ryzhik (1st sem), Harvard Uni- testi, immagini, comunità.” versity, Literature. Laura Giannetti, Lila Wallace - Read- Anna Elizabeth Traverse (2nd sem), er’s Digest Fellow, University of Miami, Harvard University, Literature. Ohio, Literature. “Food Culture and the Literary Imagination in Renaissance Visiting Professors Flora Dennis Italy.” Jaynie Anderson (1st sem), Lila Wallace - & Catherine Kovesi (1st sem), Craig Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Peter Stacey. Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, University University of Melbourne, Art History.

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VVL15942L15942 Newsletter.inddNewsletter.indd 2727 99/26/08/26/08 10:27:0610:27:06 AMAM (Continued from front page) enlisted an inspired team to explicate the Tudor kings, Henry VII and Henry this magic artist and his humanist milieu: VIII. The program was organized by Elisabetta Fadda, Alessandra Talignani, Cinzia Sicca with Louis Waldman, en- and Carlo Mambriani from Parma; listing sculptural experts Francesco Daniel Gasparotto from Piacenza; and Caglioti and Benedetta Matucci for Carolyn Smyth (VIT’92) from Rome. site visits. In June I Tatti joined with My own attempts to reach out to Gerhard Wolf of the Kunsthistorisches institutions in Eastern Europe contin- Institut to hold a symposium on the ued with a visit to Cracow and Warsaw “Codice Fiorentino,” one of the prized Joseph Connors & Brian Allen. in November. The visit to Budapest possessions of the Biblioteca Medicea Fiorella Superbi will retire this in May was my third, and the wel- Laurenziana. This encyclopedia of summer. For the full life of the Harvard come from Hungarian colleagues was Aztec life and religion was compiled Center she has been the living embodi- warmer than ever. It was lovely to be in Mexico in 1576-78 under “the fi rst ment of I Tatti’s best traditions. I have able to attend the opening of the newly anthropologist,” Fray Bernardino da had the good fortune of having had her refurbished museum at Dumbarton Sahagún. Planning for the conference at my side for six years. Her elegant Oaks in April, and see Jan Ziolkowski was guided by Clara Bargellini, Diana presence and sense of humor have always (VIT’93,’98) taking on the role of di- Magaloni and Alessandra Russo, and been wonderful, and I have had occasion rector with such gusto. The annual it brought scholars from Mexico and to appreciate her wise counsel again meeting of the I Tatti Council in New Argentina as well as Italy, the United and again. She will be much missed. York in April gave me the opportunity States, Germany and Spain. It was mov- Personal memories fl ood in as the to welcome three new members, Sylvia ing to examine the three massive vol- darkness grows around my bench: a Scheuer, Treacy and Darcy Beyer, and to umes of the Codice in the very room September conference on the Lake of see many old friends assembled in the of the Laurenziana where, last year, we Lugano that allowed me to revisit the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue for were shown precious manuscripts made village where Borromini was born; an inspiring lecture on Poussin by Keith for Matthias Corvinus. pensive walks around the former Jewish Christiansen. Earlier in June it was touching ghettos of Budapest and Cracow; the Both of the symposia this year were to meet some of the generation who pea-soup fog on the canals of Venice in joint enterprises. In September we knew the founders at the dedication February. Soon our sixth year at I Tatti joined forces with Yale’s Paul Mellon of a plaque in the chapel in honor of will have passed, but before our seventh Centre for British Art in London, under Nicky Mariano (1887-1968), whose begins we will visit Lithuania, where the guidance of Brian Allen, to study intelligence and charm are warmly re- the ninety-four-year odyssey of Bernard Florentine sculptors in the service of membered by all who knew her. Berenson began in 1865. ~ Joseph Connors, Director

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