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The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti Via di Vincigliata 26, 50135 Florence, Italy Volume 23 E-mail: [email protected] / Web: http://www.itatti.it—,m— Telephone: +39-055-603-251 / Fax: +39-055-603-383 Autumn 2003 ur first year has passed in the blink windows and balconies everywhere. The Oof an eye. On 2 September 2002, Letter from Florence invasion came on March 20th, and not a Françoise and I rounded the last mad P few of the Fellows had to reconcile their curve of the Via di Vincigliata to our disapproval of American military hege- new home, and to life amidst a commu- mony with a respect, I think real and nity of Fellows who were even newer to growing, for American educational insti- I Tatti than we were. Six mother tutions, especially the one they were in. tongues (Bulgarian and Czech in addi- Good will on the part of everyone got us tion to the mainstream four) quickly through a difficult time. boiled down to two dominant In the end the Fellows were here to Sprachgebiete at the lunch table, and with work, and work they did, culminating in goodwill on everyone’s part and the help most of them giving shop talks in the Big of bilingual bridge personalities a com- Library. We experimented with the out- munity gradually took shape. Short trips side lecture format, compressing the time helped give us a sense of camaraderie, for refreshments but expanding that first to the Scuola Normale in Pisa with allotted to questions. The Fellows took Gian Mario Cao, himself an ex- to the new arrangements with gusto; normalista, who guided us into the stacks The staff traveled too, most often the material that came out in dis- to see the great Momigliano bequest of memorably to Rome in February, where cussion was as interesting as that pre- 30,000 books. Jonathan Nelson (VIT’02) we combined a visit to Council member sented in the lecture itself. When, in the took us around the exhibition Venere e Gabriele Geier with meetings with col- spring, I announced the opportunity of Amore in the Accademia, while Tom leagues in the fototeche of the British forming I Tatti sessions at next year’s Henry and Bette Talvacchia illuminated School and the Bibliotheca Hertziana. In meeting of the Renaissance Society the Raphaels in the Uffizi and the Pitti between, we managed some sightseeing, of America, the response was over- during the luxury of a Monday closing. including the scavi under St. Peter’s and whelming, with many current and some Peggy Haines took us to see the sacristy the amazing installation of classical sculp- past Fellows getting together to discuss of the Duomo and then the archive, ture from the Capitoline Museum on the common quests that united them where archivist Lorenzo Fabbri (VIT’98) display amidst the electrical generators in across the boundaries of field. pulled out some of the more splendid the Centrale Montemartini. We also In January and March I went back choir books and Marica Tacconi gave an found time for a good anti-Caravaggio to America with Françoise and with illuminating commentary on what has visit to S. Luigi dei Francesi, a wonderful Alexa Mason for lightning visits to been, so far, her life’s work. In May the church now being wagged by one Washington, Baltimore, New York, and whole community went on a two-day (admittedly breathtaking) chapel. especially Cambridge. We met new trip to southern Tuscany. Landscape his- There were difficult as well as happy friends and old and got to know many torian Hervé Brunon explained for us times. On Tuesday, December 17th, members of the I Tatti Council better in the development of the crete senesi and there was an unusually lively lunch, with the course of several lunches and a won- Tom Henry commented on the Msgr. Timothy Verdon (VIT’87) and derful visit to the Leonardo drawings Signorelli frescoes at Monte Oliveto Salvatore Camporeale trying to outdo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, Maggiore, the abbey where the impres- one another with pungent Florentine guided by the curator, Carmen Bambach sionable young Berenson was converted wit. But late that night came the dreadful (VIT’97). It was especially satisfying to to Catholicism in 1890 (“converted to call with the news of the massive stroke form a personal relationship with another Italy” was how Mary Berenson later put in front of the convent door of S. Maria of Harvard’s off-campus research centers, it). The next day in Siena, Mauro Novella, and the loss of our gentle Dumbarton Oaks; director Ned Keenan Mussolin secured access to the Socrates at age 75, young for him. In and Judy Keenan visited I Tatti in the Osservanti churches of Francesco di Florence, as in much of Europe, it was autumn and we reciprocated in January. Giorgio and Peruzzi as well as the hid- a winter of discontent over America’s In fields and mission the two institutes den recesses of the Hospital of S. Maria policy on Iraq, with pace flags flying from seem close cousins. The time in della Scala. Continued on page 3 Cambridge Office: Villa I Tatti, Harvard University, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-5762 Telephone: +1 617 496-8742 or +1 617 495-8042 / Fax: +1 617 495-8041 Web: http://www.itatti.it VILLA I TATTI COMMUNITY 2002-2003 Fellows ELENA PIERAZZO, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Literature. “A Study of the Autograph ERVÉ RUNON, Florence J. Gould Fellow, H B Manuscript of Anton Francesco Doni.” Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, Art History. “The Landscape of the YOLANDA PLUMLEY, Committee to Rescue Medici. Mastery of Territory and its Cultural Italian Art Fellow, University College Cork, Representation in 16th-Century Tuscany.” Musicology. “The Transmission and Reception of French Lyrics and Songs in Italy (c. 1375-c. GIAN MARIO CAO, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, 1425).” Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, VAYLA OPOVA (2nd sem), Andrew W. History. “Critical Edition of Gianfrancesco Pico’s I P Mellon Research Fellow, Sofia University, History. Examen Vanitatis.” “The Italian Humanistic View of Byzantium and ANTHONY COLANTUONO, Robert Lehman the Balkans in the 15th Century.” Fellow, University of Maryland, Art History. “A CAROL EVERHART QUILLEN, Francesco study of humanist advisors as a mechanism of Malle Fellow Alessandro Daneloni. 2 De Dombrowski Fellow, Rice University, History. f cultural control.” “Writing the Human in Early Modern Italy.” ALESSANDRO DANELONI, Jean-François JUTTA SPERLING, Francesco De Dombrowski Research Associates Malle Fellow, Università di Messina, Literature. Fellow, Hampshire College, History. “Family “L’umanista Bartolomeo Fonzio nella cultura Politics before the Invention of Sexuality. A FABIO BISOGNI, Università di Siena, Art Fiorentina laurenziana e postlaurenziana.” Comparative History of Marriage and the Dowry History. “Iconografia dei santi nell’Italia del Nord AMEDEO DE VINCENTIIS, Andrew W. System in Italy and Portugal in the Middle Ages fino alla fine del Quattrocento.” Mellon Fellow, Università di Tuscia, Viterbo, and the Early Modern Period.” LINA BOLZONI, Scuola Normale Superiore, History. “La rappresentazione attraverso la JAN STEJSKAL, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, Pisa, Literature. “Prediche in volgare e uso delle scrittura (documenti) della signoria del duca d’Atene Charles University, Prague, History. “Czech immagini dalle origini al Savonarola.” in Firenze (1343) e, in seguito, la costruzione della Exile Activities in Italy (c.1400-1450).” EVE BORSOOK, Villa I Tatti, Art History. memoria della signoria da parte dei fiorentini.” MARICA TACCONI, Lila Wallace Reader’s “Medieval Mosaic Technology.” TOM HENRY, Ahmanson Fellow, Oxford Digest Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, SALVATORE I. CAMPOREALE, The Johns Brookes University, Art History. “The Artistic Musicology. “The Service-Books of the Hopkins University, History. “Uno studio sul De Patronage of Florentine Captains in Tuscan Florentine Cathedral: Civic Identity and Ritual.” libero arbitro di Lorenzo Valla.” Subject-Towns c.1415-1532.” KAREL THEIN (2nd sem), Andrew W. Mellon GINO CORTI (Emeritus), Villa I Tatti, KATHERINE JANSEN, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Research Fellow, Charles University, Prague, Art Paleography and History. “Lorenzo de’ Medici, Catholic University of America, History. “A History. “Exegesis of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s collezionista di antichità.” Study of Peacemaking in Late Medieval and Buon Governo frescoes considered together with his Allegory of Redemption.” LAURA CORTI, Università IUAV di Venezia, Early Renaissance Italy.” Art History. “Le Maquette dei Pittori: 3D models STEFANO JOSSA, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Visiting Professors for painters.” Università di Napoli, Literature. “Ludovico ALLEN GRIECO, Villa I Tatti, History. “A Castelvetro: Between Humanism and Heresy.” BETTE TALVACCHIA, University of Connecticut, Robert Lehman Visiting Professor, Art History. Social and Cultural History of Alimentary Habits MAURO MUSSOLIN, Rush H. Kress Fellow, “Monograph on the Art of Raphael.” in Renaissance Italy.” Art History. “San Bernardino all’Osservanza. NICHOLAS A. ECKSTEIN (2nd sem), MARGARET HAINES, Opera di Santa Maria Ritual, Architecture and Art in 15th-Century University of Sydney, Robert Lehman Visiting del Fiore, Art History. “Edition and Database of the Documentation of the Florentine Opera del Siena.” Professor, History. “Completion of Book Duomo during the Cupola Period.” Manuscript on Brancacci Chapel.” JULIAN KLIEMANN, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Art History. “Temi imperiali nell’iconografia papale del Cinquecento.” ARNALDO MORELLI, Conservatorio Statale di Musica ‘Ottorino Respighi,’ Latina, and Università della Calabria, Arcavacata, Cosenza, Musicology. “Tradizione scritta e non scritta nella musica per strumenti da tasto nell’età mo- derna,” e “Ritratti di musicisti nel Cinquecento in Italia: modelli, significati, autenticità.” MICHAEL ROCKE, Villa I Tatti, History. “Edition and Translation of Italian Texts related to Homoeroticism (14th-17th centuries).” MASSIMILIANO ROSSI, Università di Lecce, Art History. “Le genealogie ‘fantastiche’ dei Medici: politica letteraria e figurativa granducale tra Cinque e Seicento.” SILVANA SEIDEL-MENCHI, Università di Trento, History.