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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

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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. “Storia interna della Congregazione dell’Indice” e “I processi matri- moniali degli archivi ecclesiastici italiani.” MARCO SPALLANZANI, Università di Fellows and speakers visiting the Brancacci Chapel. Firenze, History. “Hispano-Moresque Pottery in Renaissance Florence.”

Villa I Tatti Letter from Florence (Continued from page 1) Cambridge offered an opportunity to Harvard Connections get to know some of the new faces at what the Italian authorities persist in ollowing in the footsteps of his calling our casa madre, Harvard. For forty Fpredecessors, Joe Connors has con- years this has been the fundamental tinued to forge closer ties between relationship in the history of the Center, Harvard University and its farthest but it has to be re-forged in each new outpost. While the Internet makes it generation. Especially pleasant were the easier to communicate with members of meetings with the new provost, Steven the Harvard administration, there’s Hyman, and the new Dean of Arts and nothing like personal contact to Sciences, Bill Kirby. improve relations. Ned Keenan, Walter Kaiser left I Tatti in superb Director of Dumbarton Oaks, spent a condition in every way. His one piece of few days at I Tatti with his wife Judy in 23 unfinished business was the conversion Director Joseph Connors with Adriano Prosperi November. Joe and Françoise returned (VIT’81) who lectured at I Tatti in March. of the 1950s garage in the parking area the visit to Washington in frozen into the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato, a January. Dean of the Faculty of Arts University Center for Italian building meant to house fifteen studies and Sciences, Bill Kirby, and his wife Renaissance Studies,” was intended for and a lecture hall; a complicated series of Yvette visited I Tatti in March on an moves would then, in the end, give the the Harvard library community and was official fact finding mission, and attended by a good crowd of over 100 library a few decades of breathing space. returned in the summer with their Nothing could be lovelier than the ele- people. The lecture outlined the history family for a Tuscan holiday. Frequent gant design of Charles Brickbauer, but of the I Tatti library and illustrated the visitors to I Tatti over the years, Bill nevertheless the commissione urbanistica of strengths and highlights of its collec- Boardman, Associate Vice President for Fiesole held up permission year after tions, explained current projects and Capital Giving, and his wife Alice year. A crucial step forward came in July, future plans, and discussed ways in when the town council approved a new returned to I Tatti once more in June. which the Berenson Library can be fur- piano di ricupero, or mini-zoning plan, for Franco Fido, Professor of Romance ther integrated into the Harvard I Tatti. This is not the end of the permis- Languages and Literatures at Harvard University Library system. sion process, but at least the highest hurdle University and member of the I Tatti has been cleared, with a unanimous vote Advisory Committee, visited briefly - Former Fellows Update 0 at that. that same month and enjoyed meeting The pleasures of this first year have many of the Fellows he and his fellow PAL ACS (VIT’94, Hungarian been many and intense. Living in the committee members had appointed. Institute for Literary Studies), JAN Villa, even though I often compare it to And Sean Buffington, Assistant Provost CHLIBEC (VIT’88,’97, Czech living in the Gardner Museum, has been for Interfaculty Programs, was here in Academy of Sciences), MARCIN FABIANSKI (VIT’95, Jagiellonian one of them, especially when I show it July. University in Krakow), PAVEL to visitors who love the paintings and In addition to various members of KALINA (VIT’00, Czech Technical respond instinctively to the very special the I Tatti staff visiting Cambridge in University in Prague), JERZY aura of the place. New York did not the course of their work during the MIZIOLEK (VIT’95, Warsaw prepare us for the pleasures of living on year, Michael Rocke, the Nicky University), and PIOTR URBANSKI an agricultural calendar, with its celebra- Mariano Librarian, lectured at Harvard’s (VIT’99, Szczecin University) were tions for the new wine and the new oil, Lamont Library in April. His talk, enti- among the 30 former Mellon and then the arrival of the wild flowers tled “A Library With a View: The Research Fellows present at the at the end of winter and the tulips in Biblioteca Berenson at the Harvard Renaissance and Renascences confer- April. It was lovely working with such a ence, held in Szeged, Hungary in dedicated and giving staff. Many Fellows July 2003. Funded by the Council became friends, and I took constant of the American Overseas Research pleasure in the warmth and depth and Centers, the coordinator of the range of interest of the two visiting Fellowships, the event presented professors, Bette Talvacchia and Nick some of the scholarship being pro- Eckstein. And I admit to wiping away duced in East-Central Europe now. a tear or two of joy during the concerts Senior Research Associate Allen in Kathryn Bosi’s series, Early Music at Grieco represented I Tatti at the meeting. Other host institutes pre- I Tatti, which will resume in October, as sent were the Herzog August another year begins in Arcadia. Bibliothek and the Warburg m Joseph Connors Ivayla Popova and Neida Ferace. Institute. Director

Autumn 2003 THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSON e-mail: [email protected] Hammond’s books are, for the most part, editions of the Latin classics from ifts of books and offprints have the 16th to the 20th centuries, includ- Galways helped to enrich the collec- ing some beautiful and finely printed tions of the Biblioteca Berenson, and exemplars. His bequest will add breadth the Library would be poorer indeed and luster to the Library’s section of without such continuing acts of gen- classical studies, and will be an appropri- erosity. In recent years between three ate memento of a former director who and four hundred volumes and scores of is recalled fondly by many members of offprints have come in annually as the I Tatti community. donations, whether from I Tatti Another special gift that deserves 4 appointees, readers, or other scholars, mention is the new facsimile of a mid- f museums, libraries, research centers, or 14th-century manuscript, held by publishing houses. This past year, in the Aya Sofya Library in Istanbul, of addition to the usual steady stream of the treatise entitled (in English) single items, the Library has received a Compendium on the Theory and Practice of Photo by Ralph Lieberman. number of larger and/or especially the Mechanical Arts, written around the One of the al-Jazar¯ı pages in the noteworthy donations of books. Shirley year 1200 by the engineer Ism¯ail ibn ar- Berenson Collection. Hibbard gave several dozen books from Razz¯az al-Jazar¯ı for the ruler of the the library of her late husband, art histor- Artuqid kingdom in northern Iraq. The hundreds of items in non-print media ian Howard Hibbard (1928-1984), most elegant facsimile, published in 2002 by such as microforms, CD-ROMS, and of them in the field of the history of the Institute for the History of Arabic- CD sound recordings. We also began Italian art and architecture. Hubert and Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang our first subscription to an online Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer made a pre- Goethe University in Frankfurt resource, the International Medieval cious donation of 100 volumes, the am Main, is the gift of its editor, Bibliography, or IMB online, published by majority consisting of 19th- and early Fuat Sezgin. Sezgin describes al-Jazar¯ı’s Brepols. This is a major reference work 20th-century publications on sculpture book as “the most beautiful and most for the European Middle Ages and and the minor arts, together with fine comprehensive work that has survived Renaissance (450-1500), which pro- catalogues, some quite rare, of private from the field of Arab-Islamic techno- vides a regularly updated index of art- and museum collections. Many of the logical literature,” and the Aya Sofya icles in journals and collected volumes. volumes deal with the fine arts of manuscript as “without doubt, the most The IMB online may be accessed only northern Europe in the Middle Ages beautiful” of the fifteen extant copies. from the I Tatti local area network. and Renaissance, and thus help to fill But what does I Tatti have to do with Many other online journals, databases, out these sections in which the Library this book, however fascinating it may and bibliographic resources are available does not actively acquire, while others be? From this manuscript, in fact, come to I Tatti appointees as well as to other add to our extensive holdings on Italian the two magnificent illuminated leaves Berenson Library readers through art. The Library has also received 157 of “automata” which Bernard Berenson Harvard University Library’s HOLLIS volumes (82 titles) from the late Mason purchased in Paris in 1910 and 1912 Catalog. Hammond (see page 22), who was and which have long adorned the dis- Our most substantial purchase this twice Acting Director of I Tatti in the play shelf of the Big Library. Together year was Italian Books Before 1601, a 1970s. Left to Harvard, but found with the text and its surviving intact large corpus of 3,160 books printed in mostly to be duplicates of holdings at illustrations, the facsimile reproduces Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Widener and Houghton Libraries, the thirteen illustrative leaves whose contained on 681 reels of microfilm. his books came to us through the good whereabouts are known out of the The series includes a very wide range of graces of Roger Stoddard, Curator of twenty-six or -seven that were removed authors and texts, focusing for the most Rare Books at Houghton. Professor from the manuscript and found their part on literary, philosophical, human- way, for a significant price, into private ist, religious, medical, and legal works, or public collections in America and including classical and medieval texts in Europe. early printed editions or commentaries. Our thanks go to all who have so With these subject concentrations, the kindly remembered and helped to new microfilm series provides a rich strengthen the Berenson Library in this complement to our other important way during the past year. collections of manuscripts and early The Library continued its sustained printed books on microforms – the one pace of acquisition and processing, in the field of music, expertly assembled adding nearly 3,600 volumes, between over the years by music librarian Lenka Reichova and Jan Stejskal. books and periodicals, in addition to Kathryn Bosi, and the other in the area

Villa I Tatti of fine arts and antiquities, constituted by the Leopoldo Cicognara Collection of nearly 5,000 pre-1820 books repro- duced on microfiches, a gift to the Berenson Library some years ago from the Kress Foundation. Most of the music items already appear in the IRIS online catalogue. Records for the con- tents of both the Cicognara Collection and this new series will eventually be added to the catalogue as well, but in the meantime printed indices are available in the Reference Room of the Library. The growing importance of the 5 Library’s microform collections has pro- Librarians Giovanni Pagliarulo, Stefano Corsi, 2 vided a strong motive for us to upgrade Manuela Michelloni, and Valerio Pacini surround Marco Pompili our equipment for reading and repro- of the administrative staff. ducing items on film or fiche. We recently purchased a Canon M800 microfilm scanner, which produces Acquisitions Committee identified over tise, and, of course, high spirits. A lot of high-quality digital images that can sixty fundamental journals then hard work was accomplished in either be printed directly or manipu- received whose runs we thought Acquisitions Committee meetings with lated with standard image software pro- urgently needed to be filled out. For Salvatore, but there was also much grams and then printed or saved to disk these titles we have now purchased all infectious laughter and good fun – as or CD. Comments of those Fellows or of the back issues which we have been when, with that familiar impish gleam readers who have already used the new able to locate from dealers or publish- in his eye, he would issue forth with reader/scanner have been enthusiastic, ers. With the aid of this same gift, over some biting battuta, or when, after some and we expect that it will be frequently the last three years we have also added affectionate, well-aimed provocation, utilized in the future. 44 new subscriptions to journals – 24 he would charge unwittingly up onto As regular readers of the Newsletter this year alone! – and have acquired all his metaphorical soapbox and deliver an know, during the past several years we of their back issues now available. This impassioned defense or critique of this have been making a concentrated effort most recent increment brings the num- or that, only to stop short, as barely to improve and expand the Library’s ber of journals currently received up suppressed giggles around the table collection of periodicals, both by buy- to 503. made him realize that he had fallen, ing back issues of journals that we mmmmm once again, into a carefully laid trap, already receive and by adding new sub- and then he too would join in the scriptions. I’m delighted to report that, uch has been said, both in this group’s hearty laughs. Committee thanks to the generosity of the gift in MNewsletter and elsewhere, about meetings will never be quite the same 2000 from the Deborah Loeb Brice Salvatore Camporeale, but given his without Campo, just as life in general at Foundation, we have already all but prolonged and important contribution I Tatti will not be the same. And where concluded the first part of this program to the growth and quality of the the Library is concerned, its now and have made very significant progress Berenson Library it is appropriate to unquestioned strength in the sections of on the second. Several years ago the add a brief tribute to him here as well. philosophy, humanism, history, and Director Craig Smyth appointed religion owes a great deal to his learned Campo in 1977 as Bibliographer of the counsel and discerning judgment over Library, responsible especially for the the last twenty-five years. His advice fields of history, philosophy, and reli- and suggestions, as much as his warmth, gion. Although that title appears even- humor, and humanity, will be sorely tually to have fallen by the wayside, for missed. It gives me personally some the next quarter of a century he sat on solace to know that, through the gen- the Library’s Acquisitions Committee erosity of his many friends and admirers and played a crucial part in the long- who have to date given $25,000 to the term development of its collections. Salvatore Camporeale Memorial Book The breadth of his erudition, the wide Fund, Campo and his gentle spirit will range of his reading, and the liveliness continue to live on in the Library and of his mind and his scholarly criticism to contribute concretely to its further all made him particularly well suited to growth and improvement. this role, which he fulfilled with his m Michael Rocke Allen Grieco and Stefano Jossa. typical dedication, self-effacing exper- Nicky Mariano Librarian

Autumn 2003 RECENT ACQUISITIONS

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

Paul Barolsky (VIT’81,’87,’91,’95). Marcello Fantoni (VIT’99), Louisa Marco Pellegrini (VIT’98). Ascanio Michelangelo and the Finger of God. Athens, C. Matthew (VIT’95), and Sara F. Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale- GA: Univ. of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Matthews-Grieco (VIT’94) eds. The Art principe del rinascimento. Roma: Istituto f6 Art, 2003. Market in Italy, 15th-17th centuries. Modena: Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2002. Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, 2003. Sergio Bertelli (VIT’66,’67). Il re, la Odile Redon (VIT’91,’94). Les langues de vergine, la sposa: eros, maternità e potere nella cul- Iain Fenlon (VIT’76). Music and Culture in l’Italie médiévale: textes d’histoire et de littérature tura figurativa europea. Roma: Donzelli, 2002. Late Renaissance Italy. New York: Oxford Xe-XIVe siècle. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. Univ. Press, 2002. Didier Boisseuil (VIT’00). Le thermalisme Lucio Riccetti (VIT’91) ed. Luigi Fumi, en Toscane à la fin du Moyen Age: Les bains Riccardo Fubini (VIT’65,’66-’73). Statuti e regesti dell’Opera di Santa Maria di siennois de la fin du XIIIe siécle au début du Humanism and Secularization: From Petrarch to Orvieto: Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri. XVIe siècle. Rome: Ecole Française, 2002. Valla trans. by Martha King. Durham: Duke Orvieto – Perugia: Deputazione di storia Univ. Press, 2002. patria per l’Umbria, 2002. Howard Burns (VIT’77,’84). Il Giuoco del Palazzo ovvero Palladio in Piazza. Venezia: Claudio Giunta (VIT’00). Due saggi sulla Leon Satkowski (VIT’83) and Colin Marsilio, 2003. tenzone. Roma: Antenore, 2002. Rowe. Italian Architecture of the 16th century. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, (VIT’96) (VIT’77). Renaissance Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. Rona Goffen 2002. intro., trans. & notes. Francesco Petrarca, Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian. Petrarch’s guide to the Holy Land: Itinerary to the New Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press, Anne Markham Schulz (VIT’84). La Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ = Itinerarium 2002. Cappella Badoer-Giustinian in San Francesco ad sepulchrum domini nostri Yehsu Christi: della Vigna a Venezia. Firenze: Centro Di, (VIT’03). La fondazione di Facsimile edition of Cremona, Biblioteca Stefano Jossa 2003. (Bilingual edition) un genere: il poema eroico tra Ariosto e Tasso. statale, Deposito libreria civica, manuscript Roma: Carocci, 2002. (VIT’73,’74) ed. BB.1.2.5. Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Edmund Strainchamps Marco da Gagliano, Madrigals: Part 1: Il Dame Press, 2002. (VIT’97) & José-A. Godoy. Silvio Leydi primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, Parate trionfali: Il manierismo nell’arte dell’ Salvatore I. Camporeale (VIT’77-’03). 1602). Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2003. armatura italiana. Milano; Genève: Lorenzo Valla: umanesimo, riforma e contro- 5 Continents, 2003. (VIT’86) & Manila riforma, studi e testi. Roma: Edizioni di storia Franek Sznura Soffici eds. Matteo Di Biliotto, Imbreviature: e letteratura, 2002. (VIT’63,’64,’65). April Lauro Martines 1. registro: anni 1294-1296. Tavarnuzze: SIS- Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici. Franco Cardini (VIT’77). I re Magi di MEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002. London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Benozzo a Palazzo Medici. Firenze: Karel Thein (VIT’03). Le lien intraitable: Mandragora, 2001. (VIT’99), trans. & Marina Montesano enquête sur le temps dans la République et le notes. Caffaro di Rustico, Storia della presa di Franco Cardini (VIT’77). In Terrasanta: Timée de Platon. Paris: J. Vrin, 2001. Almeria e Tortosa (1147-1149), edited by pellegrini italiani tra Medioevo e prima età mod- Gabriella Airaldi. Genova: F.lli Frilli, 2002. (VIT’01). Da Figline a erna. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002. Sergio Tognetti Firenze: ascesa economica e politica della famiglia Caroline Murphy (VIT’02). Lavinia William J. Connell (VIT’93) ed. Society Serristori (secoli XIV-XVI). Firenze: Opus Fontana: A Painter and her Patrons in Sixteenth- and Individual in Renaissance Florence. libri, 2003. Century Bologna. New Haven:Yale Univ. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: Univ. of Press, 2002. (VIT’87). Vedere il mis- California Press, 2002. Sergio Tognetti tero: il genio artistico della liturgia cattolica. Jonathan Nelson (VIT’02) & Richard J. Alessandro Daneloni (VIT’03). Milano: Mondadori, 2003. Zeckhauser. A Renaissance Instrument to Poliziano e il testo dell’Institutio oratoria. Support Nonprofits: The Sale of Private Chapels (VIT’83,’86). Sixteenth- Messina: Centro Interdipartimentale di Loránd Zentai in Florentine Churches. Cambridge, MA: Century Northern Italian Drawings. Budapest: Studi Umanistici, 2001. National Bureau of Economic Research, Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, 2003. Daniela De Rosa (VIT’78). Magia 2002. medievale e magia rinascimentale: Marsilio Ficino e la riforma magica del cristianesimo. Roma: Edizioni dello IEREF, 2000.

Villa I Tatti NEWS FROM THE BERENSON FOTOTECA, _) ARCHIVE, AND COLLECTION _)

n addition to the acquisition of fascin- Superintendent for Fine Arts in graphic campaign at the Galleria Iating and beautiful new documents Florence and the Marches, are particu- dell’Accademia into the Quattrocento, and images, more of which below, the larly valuable for stained-glass windows and is going on with photographing the Berenson Fototeca and Archive have and for 15th- and 16th-century archi- paintings, on color transparency, of the been enriched by the generosity of a tecture. A collection of photographs, Berenson Collection, complete with number of good people this year. A given by the Studio Cabras, records numerous beautiful details. I am donation from Treacy and Darcy Beyer, important restoration campaigns in delighted to announce that we now long friends of I Tatti, enabled us to Tuscany. The collection donated by hold the complete documentation of buy the first part of a collection of former I Tatti Director Craig Hugh the Jacopo Bellini Sketch Book, con- 7 1,500 photographs, taken by the con- Smyth includes 16th- and 17th-century served in the Cabinet des Dessins of the 2 servator Bruno Zanardi during the drawings from all over Europe as well as Louvre, and we continue to purchase restoration of the cycle of frescoes in photographs taken during his days at the photographs by Paolo Nannoni of the upper Church of S. Francesco, Collecting Point in Munich at the end architectural drawings in the Uffizi’s Assisi. This unique collection includes of WWII. Among these are series of Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, as well as striking close-ups taken under raking French silver from the Weill images by Roberto Sigismondi of works light which emphasize the painting’s Collection, and paintings from famous of art in Piedmont and Tuscany. texture and technique and which show Dutch collections, including The Archive has been enhanced by how the imagery was carried out stroke Goudstikker and Koenigs. These and the complete collection of letters by stroke. RCR di Rossi Lucio & C. of numerous other works of art have been between Bernard Berenson and Elena Parma produced these prints in black identified, wherever possible, and are Albertini Carandini – 137 letters writ- and white on baryta paper as well as in stored as a separate, named collection, ten between 1935 and 1957 – which color in digital format. one which will provide numerous were generously left to us by Maria Not only have the Beyers been gen- jewels for treasure seekers. Carandini Antonelli. erous financially, they have also volun- Generous gifts of time have also Our conservation efforts stretch teered their time every Wednesday been made by Kathleen McWeeny, a across all fields: in the Archive, while they are resident in Florence to Syracuse University student on a Fototeca, and Collection. In addition to help us in our conservation program by work/study program who worked in using correct storage materials for both re-filing various groups of photographs the Fototeca, and Lenka Reichova, the documents and images, we continue in acid-free folders and negatives on whose companion Jan Stejskal was a to restore damaged photographs (in par- film in appropriate archival preservers. Fellow this year, and who worked with ticular a number of carbon prints), fur- Eve Borsook, I Tatti Research Library Assistant Donatella Pieracci on niture, and objects. One interesting case Associate, has donated considerable archival collections. Margaret Burri, being undertaken by Fotocartarestauri is time to organizing several rich collec- who was on leave from her position as the restoration of a photo montage tions of photographic material. Curator of Manuscripts in the (54x164 cm) which assembles the entire Giuseppe Marchini’s photographs, Department of Special Collections, The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and which which document his research as an art Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins will be framed under glass. In the Villa, historian and his activities as University, while her husband Anthony the splendid inlaid cabinet (southern Colantuono was a Fellow here too, Germany, early 16th century) has been brought her considerable curatorial and magnificently restored by Simone archival skills to work in the Archive, Chiarugi, and the terracotta statuette Library, and Administration this year. (Florence, second half of the 15th cen- Since I last wrote in these pages, tury) representing the baby Jesus with acquisitions to the Fototeca have his hand raised in blessing, has been included the entire documentation of expertly cleaned by Barbara Schleicher the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel, who has removed, wherever possible, photographed by Antonio Quattrone the old and misleading plasterwork after their restoration. A fascinating from previous restorations. selection of these pictures was exhibited and helped to illustrate the talks given m Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi on the study day dedicated to the Agnes Mongan Curator of the Treacy and Darcy Beyer at work Chapel (see pages 12/13). Antonio Fototeca Berenson in the Fototeca. Curator of the Berenson Quattrone also continued his photo- Collection and Archive

Autumn 2003 Other literary sources acquired this year were a number of microfilms of antholo- gies reflecting the lit- erary tastes of Italian NEWS musicians of the late FROM 16th century which continued to be THE MORRILL exploited by com- MUSIC LIBRARY posers through the mid-17th century. he Morrill Music Library records Titles purchased Maria Luisa Cerron Puga (VIT’97) with CRIA Fellow Twith deep regret the death of include the Rime di Yolanda Plumley and her husband Bill Barnes. Elizabeth Morrill on 19 March this year diversi celebri poeti f8 (see page 22). In 1968, Elizabeth and (Bergamo, 1587), Gioie poetiche di madri- script preserves a late 10th-century Gordon founded the Music Library gali (Pavia, 1593), Le muse toscane Tonary by Odo of Arezzo, who exer- here that bears their name, and con- (Bergamo, 1594) and Il gareggiamento cised a direct influence on 11th-century tinued to support it their whole lives. It poetico (Venice, 1611). Besides their Italian music theory, especially that of is thanks to them that the Library is interest for musicologists as sources for Guido of Arezzo. now widely regarded as one of the texts of secular vocal music of the late We were particularly fortunate to finest collections for medieval, Renaissance and early Baroque, these acquire this year two facsimiles of Renaissance, and early Baroque music anthologies often contain poetry writ- important manuscripts which have long in Europe. We will commemorate ten for, or about, composers and per- been out of print. The Montpellier Codex Elizabeth and Gordon Morrill and their formers of the time. The most (Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine MS outstanding contribution to musicologi- interesting of all is a little-known H 196) is the largest extant manuscript cal research at Villa I Tatti in a concert anthology dated 1590 which includes of 13th-century polyphonic music and to be held at the church of San Martino verses in honor of musicians active at the most extensive source of the on 29 January 2004. the courts of Ferrara and Mantua in the medieval motet. The Carmina burana This year the Music Library began a 1570s and 1580s; it is the only literary manuscript (Clm 4460- 4460a of the new acquisition program centering source known to link Guarini’s cele- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich) is around literary sources which are ancil- brated Gorga di cantatrice ‘Mentre vaga the well known early 13th-century lary to musicological studies. One of Angioletta’ with the singer Laura collection of Latin and German songs our first purchases was the Corpus de la Peverara. and liturgical plays, some with musical littérature médiévale des origines à la fin du This year’s purchases for the notation, which came to the XVe siècle, an electronic resource for the Carapetyan Microfilm Collection Staatsbibliothek from the Abbey of study of French poetry from the 12th to included microfilms of 75 printed books Benediktbeuern in 1803. Numbered the 15th centuries. Its contents com- of Italian secular music from 1580-1630 copies from limited editions of these prise lyrics and longer poems, ranging acquired from libraries in Bologna, beautifully produced facsimiles were from the works of Chrétien de Troyes, Leipzig, London, Naples, Venice, and located and purchased with funds the trouvères and Adam de la Halle, to Verona. Manuscript additions to the those of Guillaume de Machaut and Carapetyan Microfilm Collection donated by Melvin Seiden in honor of beyond. This CD-ROM is an invalu- included the Grilanda musicale, a source Elizabeth and F. Gordon Morrill. able aid to scholars working on linguis- of monody from the Roman circles of Gifts to the CD Library this year tic, thematic and other aspects Cardinal Montalto now in the library of included 5 CDs of Igor Markevitch: the pertaining to French texts, offering the Conservatory of Venice, and an Complete Orchestral Music (Arnhem musicologists the potential to explore antiphonary from the Archivio Philarmonic Orchestra, conducted by linguistic and thematic usage in song Arcivescovile of Florence. This mid- Christopher Lyndon-Gee). Professor texts throughout the wider repertory. It 12th-century manuscript is a fundamen- Lyndon-Gee is currently studying includes a useful medieval French tal point of reference for the study of documents relating to Markevitch in dictionary. liturgical customs and chant practice at the Berenson Archive for his book on the early Cathedral of Santa Reparata, the life and works of this distinguished the cathedral of Florence before the composer and conductor, who was founding of Santa Maria del Fiore in Berenson’s guest at the Villino from 1296. The only pre-14th-century musi- 1941-47. Christopher Lyndon-Gee cal source of the Cathedral to have sur- teaches composition, conducting and Kress Fellow vived, it is particularly interesting for its 20th-century music at Adelphi Mauro Mussolin. chants for local saints such as St. University, New York. Zenobius and St. Minias, as well as for its unique chants for St. Vitus, St. m Kathryn Bosi Apollinaris and the Nativity of the Music Librarian Virgin. The last section of the manu-

Villa I Tatti COUNCIL NOTES

n March, FREDERICK S. KOONTZ Leonardo,” Carmen Iaccepted Chairman DEBORAH LOEB noted, “even for a little BRICE’S invitation to join the I Tatti scrap of paper, it takes Council. A generous friend of I Tatti vast effort and lots of for almost ten years, he is an attorney at negotiation,” adding the Baltimore law firm of Whiteford, that even a letter for Taylor & Preston, specializing in taxa- this purpose to the tion and estate planning. Charles Vatican was hand deliv- Brickbauer, the Baltimore architect ered. Her expert tour who is designing the Scholars’ Court and presentation for the (see below) first brought Fred Koontz Council were met with to I Tatti in 1995; he has been a regular sweeping praise, and 9 visitor ever since. The I Tatti Council, succeeded in humaniz- 2 many of whom had met him before, ing the “marvelous and Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind Jones were delighted to welcome him offi- celestial… Leonardo” who lectured at I Tatti in May. cially at the April Council meeting. as Giorgio Vasari called In contrast, the Council accepted him, while illuminating his multidi- presented a lecture entitled “A Revenant with regret the resignation of Elizabeth mensional thought process and provid- from Urbino” to over 80 guests gathered Peters who, after her husband Alton ing insight into his powerful sense of at the House of the Redeemer in New Peter’s death in 2000, had continued his observation. York City. Now belonging to the role on the Council. The Council DEBORAH LOEB BRICE chaired the Episcopal Church, this unusual venue is thanks her for her service and generos- April 2003 Council meeting, which a Renaissance-style mansion built ity these past years. was held at the Links Club in New between 1914 and 1916 by Edith A number of activities were York City. JOSEPH CONNORS reported Shepard Fabbri, great-granddaughter organized for the Council this year. On on his first year as Director of Villa of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and her Monday, 3 February 2003, Council I Tatti, and his efforts to build relation- husband, Ernesto Fabbri, an associate of members met at the Metropolitan ships with Harvard University’s new J. Pierpont Morgan. The lecture pre- Museum for a tour of Leonardo da Vinci: administration and the Florentine com- sented a fascinating history of several Master Draftsman guided by Carmen munity. He brought the Council mem- generations of the Dukes of Urbino and Bambach, Curator in the Department bers up to date on I Tatti’s scholarly their library at Urbania, which, over the of Drawings and Prints, who, together community and activities, concerts, the years, had been dismantled and lost. with Met Museum Department new website, publications, and the spe- Then, with great drama, the speaker Chairman George Goldner, was cial tributes that were paid to cherished surprised the audience by turning on responsible for organizing this first and valued members of the I Tatti the lights and revealing that they were comprehensive exhibition in the family, who, sadly, have passed away. sitting in that very library from United States of Leonardo’s drawings. At lunch, the Director reviewed the Urbania, complete with paneled walls Carmen Bambach (VIT’97), crossed the complexities of the long-awaited permit and the coat of arms on the ceiling. globe in pursuit of nearly 120 drawings for the Scholars Court project, and said The lecture was followed by a lively by the Renaissance genius, and found that, nonetheless, he hopes to break reception. collectors and museums particularly ground on the Deborah Loeb Brice m Graziella Macchetta reluctant to part with them, albeit Loggiato sometime in 2004. Development Associate temporarily. “When you negotiate for Later that afternoon, Prof. Connors

THE 2003 VILLA I TATTI COUNCIL Anne H. Bass Deborah Loeb Brice, Chairman Susan Mainwaring Roberts m Lewis W. Bernard Neil L. Rudenstine Jean A. Bonna Virgilia Pancoast Klein Melvin R. Seiden Susan Braddock Frederick S. Koontz Sydney S. Shuman Anne Coffin Maurice Lazarus Craig Hugh Smyth D. Ronald Daniel Troland S. Link Daniel Steiner Richard H. Ekman Timothy D. Llewellyn William F. Thompson Robert F. Erburu Barnabas McHenry Rosemary F. Weaver Gabriele Geier Benedetta Origo Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Mary Weitzel Gibbons Joseph P. Pellegrino William E. Hood, Jr. Marilyn Perry Walter Kaiser Frank E. Richardson Joseph Connors, Director Mellon Research Fellow Karel Thein.

Autumn 2003 Lectures & Programs with support from the Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman. THE BARTOLOMEO CRISTOFORI OVAL SPINET CONFERENCE

he discovery in 2000 of an oval instrument by Cristofori to be described constructed for the occasion was pre- Tspinet by Bartolomeo Cristofori in historical sources and is, moreover, sented by its makers Kerstin Schwarz dated 1690 in the Eredità Bardini in the only extant instrument from the and Tony Chinnery, after which its Florence was an event of outstanding maker’s first period not to have under- extraordinary sonorities and potential importance for historians of music and gone any significant modification. On repertoire were explored by keyboard 10 musical instruments. Similar to the 21-22 October 2002 Villa I Tatti co- performer Ella Sevskaya. The second f famous 1693 oval spinet in the Musical sponsored a conference held at the day offered a round table on the ethical, Instrument Museum of the University Galleria dell’Accademia to present the theoretical, and practical aspects of key- of Leipzig, and now on loan to the results of the Galleria’s initial findings board instrument conservation and Musical Instrument Museum of the on the spinet and to bring together a restoration with particular reference to Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, team of international experts to discuss the instrument in question. In a very this spinet is the earliest surviving the conservation and restoration of this lively open discussion the greater part unique instrument. of the participating scholars, musicians, On the first day scholars and cura- instrument makers, restorers, and cura- tors of major European and American tors emphasised the need for an musical instrument museums gave extremely conservative approach to the papers which examined the state of the restoration of this rare and valuable instrument, discussed possible methods item, which is documented in an of restoration, and compared ideas and inventory of instruments belonging to experiences relating to early keyboard Ferdinando de’ Medici, Grand Prince instrument restoration and conservation of Tuscany, in 1700. m in general. A modern copy of the spinet Kathryn Bosi Music Librarian Kathryn Bosi. Music Librarian

A chronological listing follows of informal talks and public lectures held at I Tatti during the 2002/2003 academic year. Institutional affiliation is not given for members of I Tatti’s 2002/2003 academic community.

“A day of Celebration for Salvatore Adriano Prosperi (VIT’81, Scuola Samuel Edgerton (VIT’72, Williams Camporeale.” CESARE VASOLI Normale Superiore, Pisa), “Il Battesimo College), “Jesus’s Cross and Indians’ (Università di Firenze), Michele nell’età della Riforma: rituali, teologie Tree: The Christian Mission as Native Ciliberto (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul e forme di identità.” Theater in 16th-century Mexico.” Rinascimento), Christopher S. Celenza Mario Biagioli (Harvard University), Peter Stallybrass (University of (VIT’00, Michigan State University), “Between the Scripture and the Book Pennsylvania) and Ann Rosalind Jones Mariangela Regoliosi (Università di of Nature: Galileo and the (Smith College), “Clothing and the Firenze). Theologians, 1613-1616.” Materialization of Memory in Early Music at I Tatti Concert – I: La Evelyn Welch (University of Sussex). Renaissance Europe.” Reverdie – “O tu chara sciença” “Shopping in the Renaissance.” Early Music at I Tatti Concert – II: Andrew Ladis (VIT’86,’98, University “Nicolai Rubinstein as Historian” at I Fagiolini, “Mascarate piacevoli et of Georgia), “Giorgio Vasari’s Lives: the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul ridicolose.” Identity and Imperfection in the Age of Rinascimento, Palazzo Strozzi. “The Brancacci Chapel: A Symposium Michelangelo.” Riccardo Fubini (VIT’65,’66-’73, on Form, Function and Setting.” For Bette Talvacchia, “The Word Made Università di Firenze), Michael Mallett full list of speakers and papers, please Flesh – Sacred Subjects and Carnal (VIT’75, University of Warwick, Emeritus), see pages 12 and 13. Depictions in Renaissance Art.” and F.W. Kent (VIT’78,’83,’87,’96,’97, Michelangelo Zaccarello, Memorial Concert for Ruth and Monash University, Prato). (Pembroke College, Oxford), “An Nicolai Rubinstein by The Orlando Unknown Episode of Burchiello’s Consort. Fortune in the Early Cinquecento.”

Villa I Tatti Remembering Nicolai and Ruth

icolai and Ruth Rubinstein, who specific connections to Ndied just ten days apart in August Florence, and especially 2002 (see last year’s Newsletter), were with the Florence of so closely tied to Florence that their Lorenzo de’ Medici, passing could not go unremarked offi- whose civilization cially. In collaboration with the Nicolai and Ruth knew Archivio di Stato di Firenze, the Istituto and loved so well. The Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Orlando Consort from the Monash University Centre in Prato, Britain returned to and the Scuola Normale Superiore di I Tatti to perform cere- Pisa, I Tatti hosted a memorial concert monial and occasional last November in the lovely church of music by Heinrich Isaac 211 and Guillaume Du Fay San Martino a Mensola. Kathryn Bosi The Orlando Consort in the church and Bill Kent searched for music with – both composers well of San Martino a Mensola. known to Lorenzo him- self. Friends of the Rubinsteins came Fubini discussed his place in Florentine from all over Florence and Tuscany, as historiography, Mallett gave an account well as from England, for the beautiful of the history of the project to publish performance. As Kent and Bosi wrote the letters of Lorenzo de’ Medici, and in the program notes, “Listening to it Kent talked about Rubinstein as a [Guillaume Du Fay’s Salve flos Tusce teacher. Monica Donato (VIT’90, gentis which celebrates Florence and its Università di Parma) was, at the last learned citizens] on this occasion, we minute, unable to attend but will can surely also celebrate the high publish an analysis of Rubinstein’s art humanist learning and values which historical interests in the proceedings Ruth and Nicolai Rubinstein embod- which will emerge from this study ied in their scholarly work and in their afternoon. lives.” Bill Kent again, “One misses, and In April, the same institutions will continue to miss, them very much jointly sponsored an afternoon at the indeed. Not only for their Renaissance Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul scholarship but for the humanity and Rinascimento. Riccardo Fubini kindness which were inseparable from (VIT’65,’66-’73, Università di their learning, for their example in Firenze), Michael Mallett (VIT’75, leading a civilized, that is to say useful University of Warwick, Emeritus), and and expansive, life together.” Bill Kent (VIT’78,’83,’87,’96,’97, m Alexa Mason Nicolai and Ruth Rubinstein in Monash University, Prato) each spoke Assistant Director for External Hampstead some years ago. on “Nicolai Rubinstein as Historian.” Relations

- Former Fellows Update 0

STEPHEN MILNER (VIT’00) was promoted last spring to Senior Career and the Buildings (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, Lecturer at the University of Bristol where he teaches Italian in 2001). This award is given annually by the Society of the School of Modern Languages. He and STEPHEN Architectural Historians for the most distinguished work of CAMPBELL (VIT’00), Professor of Italian Renaissance and scholarship in the history of Architecture. Past I Tatti award Baroque Art at The Johns Hopkins University, have recently winners have included MARTIN TRACHTENBERG (VIT’75, submitted the manuscript of their edited book entitled Artistic ‘76) and DAVID FRIEDMAN (VIT’89). Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City to Cambridge University Press for publication in 2004. The DANIEL BORNSTEIN (VIT’90), Professor of History at Texas topic was conceived during their fellowship year at I Tatti. A&M University, was selected as a National Humanities Center Fellow for 2003-04. Bornstein will use his Fellowship ISABELLE HYMAN (VIT’73), Professor of Fine Arts at New to complete his book An Italian Church: Religion, Culture, and York University, was presented with the Alice Davis Society in Late Medieval Cortona. Hitchcock Award for her book, Marcel Breuer, Architect: The

Autumn 2003 MICHELANGELO BRANCACCI CHA ZACCARELLO ON BURCHIELLO n Friday 6 June, the Myron and cations. So what could possibly be left Sheila Gilmore Limonaia at to say that does not in some sense ow significant is Burchiello in the O I Tatti accommodated another of its repeat the already vast scholarship on context of the Italian Renaissance? H endless series of successful scholarly this topic? A great deal, in fact, as the Traditionally he has been considered to events, this time a giornata di studi on more than 130 members of the audi- be an idiosyncratic and extravagant the fresco cycle of the Brancacci ence who heard the eight papers, and poet, outside the classical canon of Chapel. The symposium was conceived who joined in the fruitful discussions Italian poetry. More recently, and organized in association with that they generated, discovered. Burchiello has been appreciated not Joseph Connors by Nick Eckstein The program was unusual in that it only for his bizarre and distinctive (VIT’99,’03) of the University of comprised scholars invited less because voice, but also for his important contri- Sydney. Expert assistance at every stage they had written before on the Chapel bution to the Italian Renaissance. 12 leading up to the day itself – including than because their approach or recent Michelangelo Zaccarello (currently f the inspired idea of a special display of study in a variety of areas offered the at Pembroke College, Oxford, but soon the Fototeca’s images of the Chapel – possibility of genuinely new insights. In returning to Italy, to the Università di was provided by Fiorella Superbi and the end, the formula was more success- Verona), has pointed out that Anton Giovanni Pagliarulo. ful than anyone involved with the organ- Francesco Grazzini (il Lasca) placed The Brancacci Chapel has, of ization and running of the symposium Burchiello among the Florentine course, attracted the intense interest of had dared to hope. The most satisfying “crowns,” together with Dante and scholars for many generations and is the aspect of the program was the dense Petrarch. subject of innumerable scholarly publi- interweaving of many complementary At Villa I Tatti, on 19 June, Zaccarello reconstructed the “alla burchia” style, which is characterized by the accumulation, juxtaposition, par- ody, and recontextualization of all kinds of poetic materials. He then demon- strated the extent to which Burchiello influenced Italian poetry in the Quattro- and Cinquecento. In his lec- ture, he argued that Burchiello was not an isolated and transgressive voice in a poetical game, but, along with many imitators, he formed part of a literary culture that was far more complex than Peter Howard. the traditional reduction to classical pat- terns. Zaccarello showed how much Lunch in the shade. Burchiello was esteemed and how his work served as a model in a series of anonymous poems transmitted in an early 16th-century manuscript. These anonymous poems reveal strong inter- textual engagement with Burchiello. This style is part of the poetical tech- nique of the Italian Renaissance.

m Stefano Jossa Cecilia Frosinini. Hanna Kiel Fellow & Yolanda Plumley Dale Kent an CRIA Fellow Megan Holmes.

Nicholas Eckstein (VIT’99,’03, University of Sydney) Dale Kent (VIT’78,’83, University of California, “The Brancacci, the Chapel, and the Mythic History of Riverside), “The Brancacci Chapel in the Context of the San Frediano.” Culture of Artistic Patronage in Florence.” Christa Gardner Von Teuffel (VIT’94, University of Cecilia Frosinini (Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Firenze), Warwick), “The Significance of the Madonna del “Masaccio e Masolino: una compagnia di pittori nel Popolo in the Brancacci Chapel.” contesto delle botteghe fiorentine del primo m Quattrocento.” Villa I Tatti PEL STUDY DAY BAPTISM IN THE AGE OF REFORM themes, and the creation of a surpris- The next day participants and cur- n March 2003, ADRIANO PROSPERI ingly unified interpretative fabric from rent Fellows had the opportunity to I(VIT’81), Professor of History at the individual contributions. pursue many insights and ideas raised at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, gave The day was divided into two the Symposium when they took part in a moving, informative, and altogether sessions of four tightly focused papers, a special site visit to the Brancacci fascinating talk on “Baptism in the Age expertly moderated by Patricia Rubin Chapel itself, and enjoyed the addi- of Reform: Rituals, Theology, and (VIT’87,’90,’93,’97, Courtauld Institute) tional treat of exploring reaches of the Forms of Identity.” In the first part, and Caroline Elam (VIT’82, CASVA). Carmine rarely opened to visitors. The Prosperi discussed the fact that all major The morning was devoted to issues group was accompanied by Dottoressa reform councils since the 15th century concerning the cultural origin and Chiara Silla, Director of Florentine City insisted on the function of baptism as a physical creation of the frescoes (Nick Museums, with whose kind support the prerequisite for entry to heaven, even in Eckstein, Christa Gardner von Teuffel, visit was arranged. The visit was both a the case of newborn babies. This norma- 13 Dale Kent, Cecilia Frosinini); the after- fitting conclusion and a fascinating cli- tive approach to what originally was 2 noon session (Rona Goffen, Nerida max to the Symposium. meant to be an adult’s individual conver- Newbigin, Megan Holmes, Peter The collected essays of the sympo- sion caused emotional distress and spiri- Howard) addressed matters of interpre- sium are currently being edited for tual anxiety among many parents whose tation and questions that open vistas on publication as a volume in the I Tatti newborn children had died right after the wider cultural significance of the series. birth. As a response to this situation, iconography. m Nicholas Eckstein a cult emerged around certain Swiss Lehman Visiting Professor sanctuaries in the late 15th century, believed to have the capacity to temporarily resurrect children for the purpose of baptism. This cult became immediately very popular: in the year of 1470 alone, more than 2000 babies were witnessed to have been brought back to life for the few seconds it took to admin- ister this sacrament. In the second part of his talk, Prosperi juxtaposed the spontaneous veneration of those sanctuaries with the fully orchestrated cult of Mary´s Immaculate Conception in post-triden- The photograph exhibition. tine Hispanic America. Only Mary, the Christiane Klapish-Zuber and Françoise Connors. theory went, had never been in need of baptism because of the “special” circum- stances of her own conception. All other humans’ innate sins had to be washed off by baptism, even if their bearers had never intended to enter the Christian paradise. The coerced conversion of Portuguese Jews in 1473 prior to their “relocation” in São Tomé was only the prelude to a thoroughly colonial approach to the various redefinitions of the first sacrament and its application during the missions in Latin America nd Nerida Newbigin. Christa Gardner von Teuffel. (and back home). Prosperi’s talk under- lined once again the importance of inter- preting the Council of Trent in the Rona Goffen (VIT’77, Rutgers University), “Adam and Megan Holmes (VIT’97, University of Michigan), “The context of Empire, especially its many Eve in the Brancacci Chapel, or Sex and Gender in the Carmelites of Santa Maria del Carmine and the “modern” or “modernizing” features. Beginning.” Currency of Miracles.” Nerida Newbigin (VIT’84, University of Sydney), Peter Howard (VIT’01, Monash University), “The m “Playing in the Piazza: St. Peter and St. Paul leave the Common Culture of the Renaissance Preacher and Jutta Sperling Carmine.” Painter at the Carmine.” Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow

Autumn 2003 Many former Fellows and friends have sent I Tatti words of condolence and memories of Salvatore Camporeale.These are being assembled and are available on our website (www.itatti.it) for anyone who wants to read them.Among the many that have come is the following, part of a longer text from Melissa Bullard (VIT’81, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

n the dedication of his last science. Salvatore could “Ibook, Umanesimo, Riforma e be equally tough on Controriforma, Salvatore quoted the pretensions and the following lines from Rilke: hypocrisy in academia, Sie war in sich, wie Eine but even those who felt 14 f hoher Hoffnüng,… the prick of his clear- Sie war in sich. Und ihr eyed critique, never Gestorbensein doubted the sincerity erfüllte sie wie Fülle and integrity behind it. These lines could well have Salvatore was also been his own epitaph, for many understanding of who knew him, even close human nature, gener- friends in the I Tatti community ous at heart and a very over the many years he worked kind and forgiving soul. and studied there, only fully real- Salavatore Camporeale celebrates the publication of the first volume He had an infectious ized the magnitude of his pres- of I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance in 1985 with sense of humor and he ence once he was gone. Not Alexa Mason and Fiorella Superbi. loved a good joke surprisingly he remained almost as much as a intensely loyal to I Tatti throughout his eager to meet them on the open frontier rousing argument about Italian politics. tenure as Research Associate, for of ideas. His special fondness for I can see him now regaling my young Harvard had given him a treasured Americans dated back to the post son with the old carabinieri jokes that place to study, to serve and to engage World War II years when he had been seemed just as hilarious in English as other scholars from around the world in an unheralded gift of the Italian long as Salvatore was doing the Socratic dialogue. Dominicans to St. Albert’s College in telling… Earlier in his career, Salvatore had Oakland, California… The words he wrote me in consola- felt under-appreciated for his scholar- Salvatore’s life always remained a tion at the death of my father several ship, and he never received the Italian difficult balancing act – how to be in years ago seem appropriate to share university appointment he richly the church while at the same time with all those who knew and cherished deserved. Fortunately in his later years remonstrating against some of its prac- and miss our dear friend Salvatore: this lacuna was filled by his annual visit- tices. Salvatore followed in the footsteps “Ma è proprio nell’amore ed affetto ing professorship at Johns Hopkins and of his intellectual hero, Valla, whose di chi è stato parte integrante ed intima the numerous invitations to teach and own courageous challenge to the imper- di noi stessi che permane la continuità lecture at other American universities. ial papacy in the 15th century through a del rapporto con la persona che si è A year ago, he gave a seminar in Tel philological critique of the pseudo amato e si ama tuttora, che permane la Aviv, fulfilling a lifelong ambition to Donation of Constantine had brought continuità di quel legame di vita che visit Jerusalem and the Holy Land. him posthumous fame, but during his neanche la morte può rompere.” …Seeing Salvatore in his lifetime only retribution and poverty, The complete text can be found on our Dominican attire was a reminder that the heavy price for speaking one’s con- website. he lived in two seemingly different worlds, one religious, one secular, yet - Former Fellows Update 0 for him the two worlds were indivisi- ble. Historically the mission of the Clare Robertson (VIT’93,’96) will soon be taking up a three-year Dominican Order had been to preach, Leverhulme Senior Reseach Fellowship to work on a project to recon- but Salvatore interpreted his vocation in struct the topography and physical make-up of Rome in 1600, focusing more contemporary terms, namely to on artistic and architectural patronage, on the experience of artists and study and to teach. He lived his calling architects, and on stylistic change and the exchange of artistic ideas. She fino in fondo, studying and writing and has recently completed a book entitled The Invention of Annibale Carracci. always making himself available to others,

Villa I Tatti Celebrating the Life of Salvatore Camporeale alvatore Camporeale’s 70th birthday ship with his teacher, Eugenio Garin, as Swas celebrated at I Tatti on 12 well as his long-standing friendship September 2002 by a colloquium since their student days with another of devoted to his contribution to the his- Garin’s pupils and his fellow tory of Renaissance philosophy. The Dominican, Armando Verde (also pre- meeting was chaired by Mariangela sent at the colloquium). Last to speak in Regoliosi (Università di Firenze). After a honor of Camporeale was Christopher brief address by I Tatti’s new director, Celenza (VIT’00, Michigan State Joseph Connors, who stressed University), who discussed the body/soul Jonathan Nelson (VIT’02) in the Camporeale’s long and fruitful associa- dichotomy from antiquity to the 20th Paul E. Geier Library. tion with I Tatti, the first principal century, and whose principal focus was speaker was Cesare Vasoli (Università di Ficino, emphasizing the fact that he was cluded, made the day all the more grati- 15 Firenze), who emphasized Camporeale’s a priest. Salvatore Camporeale replied fying. The entire colloquium was a 2 illuminating work on Valla as a philoso- to the speakers, expressing his gratitude truly fitting tribute to this important pher of ordinary language. The next and, with typical humility, evinced Renaissance scholar, who enriched the contributor was Michele Ciliberto embarrassment at receiving so much intellectual life of I Tatti for so many (Istituto Nazionale per gli Studi sul attention. He was deeply moved, he years. Rinascimento), who spoke of said, by the occasion, which had been m Robert Black (VIT’93) Camporeale’s close intellectual relation- planned in secrecy; the surprise, he con- University of Leeds

deliberately used in turer’s easy manner and elegantly play- the service of reli- ful turn of phrase (Bellini’s angeletti in gion, especially when Rimini were, for instance, described as demonstrating “frisky”). At other moments the Christ’s complete lecture visited new territory in order humanity by the to discuss touching (and kissing) in display of his genitals. religious painting, and the role of She discussed how marginal elements in enriching the Vasari defended artis- work as a whole by increasing the over- tic license in this all level of ornato in the work. Here sphere by arguing that the evidence seemed to point in two physical beauty in art directions: on the one hand serving as represented heavenly an easy entry-point to spiritual material, Bette Talvacchia, Carol Quillen, and Tom Henry in the perfection, and that and on the other being specifically Gilmore Limonaia. the problem (if there described as marginal and having no were one) lay with bearing on the religious content. Both The Word Made Flesh - the viewer and not the artist. positions are unlikely to be true at the Sacred Subjects and Talvacchia’s argument was that the glo- same time, although both are surely rification of the body played a part in appropriate interpretations in certain Carnal Depictions in seducing the viewer. The same could circumstances. Renaissance Art be said of the selection of slides, the lec- m Tom Henry Ahmanson Fellow ccompanied by 98 slides that - 0 Aranged from Donatello and Crivelli Former Fellows Update to Michelangelo and Correggio, Bette JAMES HANKINS (VIT’89,’93) was awarded the Anna-Maria Kellen Fellowship for Talvacchia (Robert Lehman Visiting Study by the American Academy in Berlin to pursue his research on “The Soul in the Professor) discussed the apparent con- Renaissance” at the Academy’s Hans Arnhold Center. Hankins, who teaches flict between spirituality and carnality (a Renaissance intellectual and cultural history, is Professor of History at Harvard subject opened up by the research of University. He is also General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library, Associate Editor Leo Steinberg in the 1980s). Rejecting of the Catalogus Translationum and Commentariorum, and a member of I Tatti’s Advisory Committee, the group of senior scholars who appoint the Fellows each year. The first the modern notion of an opposition volume of his two-volume collection of studies, Humanism and Platonism in the Italian between spirituality and the eroticised Renaissance, was published in Rome by Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura in June. body, she argued that carnality was

Autumn 2003 GALILEO AND THE THEOLOGIANS

rofessor of the History of Science Culture of Absolutism (Chicago: by Galileo, Biagioli brilliantly suggested, Pat Harvard University, MARIO University of Chicago Press, 1993), in his own attempt to justify BIAGIOLI is a scholar of international which deals with patronage and scient- Copernican astronomy with regard to scale. Born in Prato, Tuscany, he ific activity, has been regarded as innov- theology. Contrary to the Scripture, the obtained his laurea at Pisa, and then his ative in the history of science as Francis Book of God, Nature is transparent and Haskell’s famous Patrons and Painters was should be merely read, not interpreted regarded in the history of art. He has through exegesis. Galileo’s ‘mathemati- recently co-edited with Peter Galison a cal realism’ may be seen as ‘fundamen- volume on Scientific Authorship: Credit talism,’ and is based on the conviction and Intellectual Property in Science (New of the possibility of epistemological York: Routledge, 2002), the subject of progress. The controversy between the f16 his current research. In Biagioli’s lec- scientist and his adversaries, clearly ture, entitled “Between the Scripture examined by Biagioli, shows the oppo- and the Book of Nature: Galileo and sition between two conceptions of the Theologians, 1613-16,” he turned knowledge, and their growing contra- Mario Biagioli before his lecture to the idea expressed in the Saggiatore diction, which involved a series of cen- in the Geier Library. (1623), that the world is a book “writ- tral questions in the history of ideas doctorate at the University of ten in the language of mathematics, and during the early modern period and was California, Berkeley, and has been sev- its characters are triangles, circles and to be dramatically revealed with eral times directeur d’études associé at the other geometric figures.” The famous Galileo’s condemnation in 1633. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences topos of Nature as a book, well studied Sociales, Paris. His book Galileo, since Eugenio Garin’s La cultura del m Hervé Brunon Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Rinascimento italiano, was therefore used Florence J. Gould Fellow

Giorgio Vasari’s of the Last Judgment, was himself of Michelangelo’s David and implying extraordinarily gifted with artistic that whatever fame it may have won Lives: Identity and giudizio. Vasari likewise characterizes for the artist was stolen from Imperfection in the the painter Sodoma, solely on the basis Michelangelo himself, through a life- of his name, as a man corrupted by time of lying, cheating and villainy. Age of Michelangelo same-sex desire, whose bestial character Ladis’s lecture thus articulated a num- was reflected in his keeping of animals ber of previously unobserved patterns ow do the biographical represen- in his house and his portrayal of them in Vasari’s methods of rhetorical inven- Htations of Giorgio Vasari’s Vite in his pictorial works; yet as Ladis tion, enabling a more sophisticated use relate to the historical reality of the pointed out, documentary sources of the text as an art-historical source. artists’ lives and character? In a reveal that Sodoma’s domestic situation thought-provoking and eloquent lec- was instead entirely conventional. m Anthony Colantuono ture delivered to a standing-room-only Finally Ladis argued that Vasari’s Robert Lehman Fellow audience in Villa I Tatti’s Geier extravagant praise of Michelangelo as Library, Andrew Ladis (VIT’86,’98, the divine savior of art University of Georgia) addressed this fun- required, as a matter of damental question, comparing Vasari’s rhetorical technique, the rhetorical fictions to the documentary condemnation of an record, and demonstrating the remark- equally evil anti-hero, able degree to which the biographer’s whom he identifies as personal allegiances, ethical judgments the sculptor Baccio and rhetorical technologies inform his Bandinelli. Indeed, portrayal of the artists and their works. Vasari characterizes Ladis showed that Vasari consistently Bandinelli’s wicked assumed a symmetrical relationship nature through a series between a given artist’s personal char- of conceits alluding to acter and the character of his art. Vasari his famous statue Hercules says, for example, that his hero and Cacus, opposing its Michelangelo, named for the archangel flaws to the perfections Kate and Nick Eckstein flank Anthony Colantuono.

Villa I Tatti Early Music at I Tatti

arly Music at I Tatti,” a new instruments rarely heard “Econcert series organized by today: vielle, rebec, muted Music Librarian Kathryn Bosi, was cornett, symphonia (or inaugurated this Fall. On a beautiful hurdy-gurdy), etc. first day of October, over two-hundred On 29 May, the second people congregated in the Myron and concert of the series fea- Sheila Gilmore Limonaia to attend the tured the London- first of this year’s two concerts. based vocal ensemble La Reverdie, a five-member Italian I Fagiolini, directed by vocal and instrumental ensemble Robert Hollingworth and specialized in medieval music, per- with the collaboration of formed sacred and secular works often David Miller (lute) and 217 drawn from some of the most famous former I Tatti staff member, music manuscripts of the Middle Ages: now professional actor, La Reverdie opens the new series of Early Music at I Tatti. the “Old Hall Manuscript” (London, Antonio Fazzini (reciting British Library, Ms. Add. 57950), the voice). The title of the concert, basso continuo in 1623). This charm- Chantilly Manuscript (Chantilly, Musée “Mascarate piacevoli et ridicolose,” ing, quasi-theatrical “madrigal comedy” Condé, Ms. 564), the Cortona Laudario taken from Giovanni Croce’s 1590 col- consists of a series of tableaux that takes (Cortona, Biblioteca Comunale, lection of comic pieces, was most place on a boat traveling down the Ms. 91). Under the title of “O tu chara appropriate for a program that included Brenta canal from Venice to Padua. sciença” (a line derived from a madrigal some of the lighter forms of musical Among the musical highlights are bril- by the mid-14th-century composer entertainment from the late sixteenth liant parodies of madrigals by other Giovanni da Cascia), the aim of the and early seventeenth centuries. As contemporary composers, including concert was to explore the role of explained by Kathryn Bosi in the pro- Carlo Gesualdo and Luca Marenzio. music in medieval thought. As such, gram notes, “masquerades, musical Two “serious” madrigals by Andrea the program was organized in three games, dialogues, madrigal comedies Gabrieli provided a welcome contrast broad sections: Musica terrestris (music and other bizzarrie… were performed as with the more humorous and frivolous which onomatopoeically imitates the diversions at banquets, between the acts compositions by Giovanni Croce, sounds of the earth), Ars musica (music of plays, at gatherings of academies, and Claudio Monteverdi and Adriano of a more elevated, intellectual nature), perhaps also, in the case of the mascarate, Banchieri. The musical mastery of and music for the Laudatio Dei (music in the streets and piazze during carnival I Fagiolini and their remarkable ability in praise of God). The performance season.” The second half of the pro- to engage the audience guaranteed an provided a rich and varied exploration gram was entirely dedicated to Adriano afternoon of great musical delight. of the textures and sounds of medieval Banchieri’s Barca di Venezia per Padova music. It also exposed the audience to (first published in 1605; reprinted with m Marica S. Tacconi Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Fellow

Robert Hollingworth rehearsing I Fagiolini in the Myron and Photo by M. Tacconi Sheila Gilmore Limonaia. Alessandro Daneloni, Mauro Mussolin, Michael Rocke, Hervé Brunon, Marica Tacconi, Nelda Ferace, Ivayla Popova, Elena Pierazzo, and Yolanda Plumley at Monte Oliveto.

Autumn 2003 Jesus’s Cross and Indian’s Tree

ormer fellow Samuel Edgerton (VIT Soon after 1521, F’72), now Amos Lawrence Professor when Cortes conquered of Art History at Williams College, the Aztec Empire, shared his extraordinary intellectual mendicant friars arrived breadth with the I Tatti community in in Mexico to make a lecture called, “Jesus’s Cross and Christians of the Indians’ Tree: The Christian Mission as now subject peoples. Native Theater in Sixteenth-Century Although they repre- Mexico.” As the author of books on the sented different religious rediscovery of linear perspective and on orders, the friars quickly the heritage of Giotto’s geometry, adopted similar strategies 18 Edgerton is already known among of conversion that f Renaissance scholars for his capacity to capitalized on indigenous combine technical with iconographic ritual practices and reli- analysis. His more recent work builds gious symbols. For exam- Samuel Edgerton flanked by Tony Molho (VIT’69, ’72) and on this dual interest in engineering and ple, no matter which Ronnie Laskin (VIT ’66, ’67) before his lecture. art while expanding beyond Europe to order they represented, focus on the New World, and specifi- the friars built an open arena that served of stark oppression or victimization but cally on the post-conquest encounter as a “theatre of conversion.” Through a rather as a process of accommodation, between missionary friars and process that Edgerton calls “expedient whereby the tenets and symbols of Amerindians. selection,” friars chose symbols from the European Christianity intermingled Christian lexicon that with selected native religious and artistic specifically resonated with traditions. native cultural traditions. Edgerton’s lively presentation and Furthermore, the friars enthusiasm for his subject encouraged represented Christian questions, and left his audience with a ideas through images (the deep appreciation both of his scholarly instruments of the pas- insight and his gifts as a teacher. sion, for example) in a way that appropriated m Carol Quillen native iconographical tra- Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow ditions and artistic tech- niques. As a result, Edgerton argued, the post-conquest conversion Fellows Gian Mario Cao and Carol Quillen of the Indians is best after the lecture. understood not in terms

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GIOVANNI CIAPPELLI (VIT’94) has been promoted to Associate York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and co-editor of Benvenuto Professor of Early Modern History at the Università di Trento. Cellini: Sculptor, Goldsmith, Writer, which will be published by Since the publication of Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Cambridge University Press, in 2004. Her article “Burned Under Florence (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000), jointly edited the Tuscan Sun: A Newly Discovered Witchcraft Document in with PATRICIA RUBIN (VIT’87,’90,’93,’97), Ciappelli has pub- the Archivio di Stato, Florence,” which appeared in Annals of lished various articles on family memory, of which one is on the Scholarship (2003), is drawn from her I Tatti project. “libri di ricordi” of the Medici. He is currently writing a book on family memory from the Middle Ages to the modern age. He has LAWRIN ARMSTRONG (VIT’00) was last year appointed also edited the first volume of the collected essays of Nicolai Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at the Centre for Rubinstein: Studies in Italian History in the Middle Ages and the Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, where he shares Renaissance, I, Political Thought and the Language of Politics. Art and responsibility for the medieval Latin program and teaches eco- Politics (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003). nomic and legal history. He has recently published a book enti- tled Usury and Public Debt in Early Renaissance Florence: Lorenzo MEG GALLUCCI (VIT ’01) is author of Benvenuto Cellini: Ridolfi on the Monte Comune (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Sexuality, Masculinity, and Artistic Identity in Renaissance Italy (New Mediaeval Studies, 2003).

Villa I Tatti 1 GARDENS AND GROUNDS 2

his past year much thought and plan- creet earthmoving to please the eye, the suggested above all by the rather grand Tning have gone into improving the removal of old overgrown bushes, and the staircase leading up to the raised garden. outlying properties through three distinct creation of five new beds with mixed Here a low hedge of Myrtus tarentina has projects. The first such project was to Mediterranean borders have transformed been planted. While it still needs a cou- remodel the garden of the Villa Papiniana. the garden while maintaining its familiar ple of years before it will create the In the past, the magnificent view of look. An interesting discovery was made proper effect, we chose it because it is a while doing all this work. Like most gar- little less formal than boxwood but was dens built in the past, the Papiniana had a much used in Renaissance mixed cistern to collect water for use during the hedges. In other parts of the garden, long, dry Tuscan summers. When, in the some degree of visual order has been interests of keeping maintenance at a rea- created with an elliptical hedge of grey- 19 sonable level, an automatic watering sys- leaved Helichrysum italicum enclosing a 2 tem was installed, the true dimensions of mixed border. This elliptical border is the old water cistern came to light. This picked up by a higher row of darker- cistern turned out to be carved into the leaved boxwood that skirts two sides of bedrock on the far side of the building and the building, finally curving out to was much larger than an initial quick look enclose a small raised herb garden. through the narrow trapdoor had led one The third project was at Ponte a At the Podere al Mulino, attractive to expect. The most common way of fill- Mensola where we planted a hedge all steps now lead up to a newly planted ing a cistern would be to use it to collect along Via Gabriele D’Annunzio with a Mediterranean garden adjacent to I Tatti’s vineyard. rainwater from the roof. But in the process of cleaning out the Florence distracted the visitor from the woods behind the villa, we rather rundown and makeshift garden unearthed an ingenious system of there. Renovations to the exterior of the dykes and decanting pools building have recently been completed, designed to feed into the cistern. however, and the garden’s shortcomings Over the years, these had silted up suddenly became all too apparent. A long but after much clearing they are sinuous wall, with new lights, dividing the now working again – or will work driveway from the rest of the garden, a when it eventually starts to rain pebble floor under the loggia, some dis- again. The second project that kept the garden crew rather busy in spring was an ex novo garden wrapped around three sides of the newly restored Podere al New grass was sown around the terrace and spectacular Mulino. The problems to be lookout point at the Papiniana. The area has now been solved here were quite different well defined by a new retaining wall. from those encountered at the Papiniana. In this case there were no variety of low-growing bushes and cas- pre-extant features to be followed cading perennials chosen to bloom from except for a raised area, which had been late winter through autumn. The hedge used as a vegetable garden until quite will frame the fields and the beautifully recently. A formal garden plan risked situated church of San Martino a looking pretentious next to a building Mensola but will also improve the that, no matter how beautifully reno- rather bleak wall that separates I Tatti vated, was and remains a farmhouse. property from the main thoroughfare. On the other hand, a “cottage garden” Waiting for the number 10 bus should approach did not seem to be appropri- be a little more pleasant from now on. ate either, since such a garden would Photos on this page by Gianni Trambusti. look out of place in a traditional Tuscan m Allen J. Grieco The pebble floor at the front door to the Senior Research Associate Papiniana was completely relaid. setting. The solution has been to intro- duce a somewhat understated formality,

Autumn 2003 - Former Fellows Update 0 LILA WALLACE–READER’S DIGEST

MASSIMILIANO ROSSI (VIT’93-’03) was SPECIAL GRANTS recently appointed full professor at the Università di Lecce. illa I Tatti grants of up to $8,000 2002/2003 Lila Wallace – Reader’s MARICA TACCONI (VIT’03) received Vper person, for a total of not more Digest Publications Subsidies word during her fellowship year that she than $40,000 per year, are available Recipients: had been granted early tenure at from the Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Pennsylvania State University, with a Publications Subsidy to former GAUVIN A. BAILEY (VIT’01) towards promotion to Associate Professor of Appointees who apply to help subsidize Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Musicology. the publication of a scholarly mono- Rome, 1565-1610. graph or article on the Italian Michele Bordin (VIT’99) towards Boccaccio Renaissance, to help pay for pho- versificatore. 20 tographs or other special costs of such a CHRISTOPHER S. CELENZA (VIT’00) f publication, to help prepare a manu- towards The Lost Literature of Western Europe. script for publication, to engage a Dario Covi (VIT’97) towards Andrea del research assistant, etc. Verrocchio: Life and Work. In addition, Villa I Tatti grants of up Massimo Danzi (VIT’92) towards to $16,000 per project, for a total of not La biblioteca del cardinal Pietro Bembo. Michèle Mulchahey with more than $40,000 per year, are avail- John E. Law (VIT’95) towards The Hanna Kiel Fellow Kate Jansen. able from the Lila Wallace – Reader’s Victorian and Edwardian Response to the Italian Digest Special Project Grant to former Renaissance. MICHÈLE MULCHAHEY (VIT’99,’04) Appointees who wish to initiate, pro- CAROLINE MURPHY (VIT’02) towards will be Visiting Professor at I Tatti dur- mote, or engage in some sort of inter- Lavinia Fontana; A Painter and Her Patrons in ing 2003/2004 before taking up a new disciplinary project in Italian Sixteenth-Century Bologna. post as Senior Lecturer in the Renaissance studies. Eligible projects ALISON JANE WRIGHT (VIT’97) towards Department of Mediaeval History at the would include conferences, publica- The Pollaiuolo Brothers and the Arts of Florence University of St. Andrews. tions, courses, seminars, workshops, or and Rome. GERALDINE JOHNSON (VIT’00) now lectures which are interdisciplinary in holds a permanent position as a character. University Lecturer in History of Art at Recipients of both grants are chosen Oxford and has also been elected to a by a committee formed of three to five fellowship at Christ Church. senior Renaissance scholars (plus the VIRGINIA COX (VIT’97) was recently Director acting as chairman) chosen appointed Professor of Italian at New from among the I Tatti Research York University where she teaches 15th- Associates, Visiting Professors and and 16th-century Italian literature and Scholars, and former Fellows. Proposals, intellectual history, early modern Italian which should include a brief project women’s writing, and the history of description, a budget, and a short list of rhetoric. relevant publications, should be sent to Nick Eckstein with Jutta Sperling, A number of former I Tatti Fellows the Director by 30 September each her daughter Olivia, and Hervé Brunon. were involved in celebrating the 500th year. In the case of applications relating anniversary of the birth of Bronzino to the special costs of publication (pub- www.itatti.it last spring. JANET COX-REARICK lication subvention, cost of illustrations, (VIT’62,’63,’76,’91) organized a collo- etc.), in addition to giving the length Wireless Internet service will soon quium at the CUNY Graduate Center and scope of the projects the descrip- be available in the library and villa – in April and four sessions on “The tion should explain what financial even in the garden – for Fellows and Painting and Poetry of Agnolo Bronzino difference a subvention will make. A library users equipped with their (1503-1572)” at the March 2003 RSA letter from the publisher indicating that own laptop and a wireless card. meeting in Toronto where, among oth- the manuscript has been accepted for General e-mail messages can be ers, ELIZABETH CROPPER (VIT’79), publication should also be sent. Final BRUCE EDELSTEIN (VIT’02), ROBERT addressed to [email protected] notification will be sent to applicants in GASTON (VIT’82), LEATRICE October. Preference will be given to Most staff members can be MENDELSOHN (VIT’86), DEBORAH reached via e-mail by using their PARKER (VIT’93), ELIZABETH PILLIOD applicants who have not previously received such an award. first initial and last name followed by (VIT’92), and BETTE TALVACCHIA @itatti.it. e.g., Michael Rocke can (VIT’96,’97,’03,’04) all presented papers. be reached at [email protected]

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hose of you Former Fellows who nother departure Tlive in or return to Florence Athis year is contribute greatly to the vitality and Corrado Doddi, richness of the scholarly community who retired in April here and are encouraged to join in all from the farm staff the activities of the Center. Please after 13 years. His remember that you have the same smiling face, hard access to the Biblioteca Berenson (8.00 work, and reliability a.m. to 9.45 p.m. every day of the year) will be sorely missed. and to I Tatti’s computer facilities as do While he was not a 21 current Fellows. If you wish to work life-long I Tatti 2 outside normal 9:00 – 6:00 hours, how- farmer as some of ever, this must be arranged ahead of those who have At his retirement party, Corrado Doddi is surrounded by time. Your first lunch each year is “on retired in recent years his colleagues on the I Tatti farm staff: Andrea Bendoni, the house.” Thereafter you are asked to have been, Corrado’s hired as Corrado’s replacement in April, Andrea Laini, pay a small sum to cover costs. To departure closes a Leonardo Rossi, and Paolo Cresci. avoid bookkeeping, please remember to chapter in traditional pay in advance at the reception desk. Tuscan farming here. A younger e are delighted to announce the generation of farming staff has Wweddings of Emiliano and he Premio Daria Borghese, given succeeded now. Angela Pernice last September, and Tsince 1965 to a non-Italian for Fellow Kate Jansen and Massimo general achievement in the study of e were delighted to welcome Cersa in the early summer, as well as Roman art and history, was conferred WManuela Michelloni to the the birth of Dario, second child of on 31 May 2003 on Joseph Connors regular Library staff this year as Assistant Gianni and Mioara Trambusti in in a ceremony in the Palazzo Borghese, Cataloguer. Manuela began working March. Artena (Lazio). The laudatio was given with temporary contracts in 2000 by Professor Christoph Frommel, on the special project to catalogue Director Emeritus of the Bibliotheca retrospectively the library’s important Hertziana in Rome. At the same time collection of art auction catalogues. - Former Fellows Update 0 the Premio Livio Giuseppe Borghese, That job was expertly completed last meant for Italian romanisti, was con- year (consult the database SAL in the PAUL GRENDLER (VIT’71,’72), Professor of History Emeritus, ferred on Giancarlo Alteri, a distin- IRIS catalogue), and this summer the University of Toronto, was elected guished numismatist who is the director 15,000 catalogues are being entirely a member of the American of the Medagliere Vaticano. Principessa rehoused in sturdier containers. Philosophical Society in April Loretta Borghese presided over Manuela has moved on in the mean- 2002. Founded by Benjamin the ceremony and reception, which was time to other cataloguing projects, in Franklin in 1743, this is the oldest attended by several hundred guests, particular the Music Library’s growing and probably most prestigious hon- including several of Connors’s collection of CD sound recordings. orary society in America. In Ph.D. students. January 2003, he received his third Marraro Prize, given by the laria Della Monica, Library American Historical Association, n December 2002, we sadly bade IAssistant, has finished – with flying for his book, The Universities of the Ifarewell to Fortunato Pratesi who colors – the first year of a two-year Italian Renaissance (Baltimore, retired from the security staff after 18 Master’s program in archival studies and London: Johns Hopkins Univ. years on the payroll. After the closure of library science at the Università di Press, 2002). Also in January, he his carpentry workshop in Ponte a Firenze. The course focuses on organi- began a two-year term as president Mensola, he was hired as substitute zation and inventorying of archives, and of the Society for Italian Historical night watchman and odd-job man in cataloguing of manuscripts, printed Studies. Later in the spring, he March 1984 and became a full-time materials, and digital materials. Her delivered the Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture at the annual guard with the upgrading of the villa’s specialization will be in modern and meeting of the Renaissance Society security system. Happily, he has not contemporary archives. of America in Toronto, Canada. gone far; he lives in Ponte a Mensola The title was “The Universities of and is a devoted volunteer in the the Renaissance and Reformation.” Settignano Misericordia.

Autumn 2003 IN MEMORIAM

I Tatti records with sorrow the following deaths: ason Hammond (VIT’72,’74) died on 13 October 2002 Memorie Domenicane (1970-2002) and I Tatti Studies: Essays in Mjust shy of his 100th birthday. Hammond received his the Renaissance (1986-2002) and was on the editorial board of first and last degrees from Harvard, his A.B. in 1925 (summa cum Vita Sociale from 1965 to 1977. laude) and an honorary doctorate (LL.D.) in 1994. A Harvard Camporeale was appointed one of I Tatti’s first Research man through and through, he began teaching there as a classics Associates in 1976. In 1977, he was appointed Bibliographer instructor in 1928, and he retired as Pope Professor of Latin in the Biblioteca Berenson and he remained on the library’s Language and Literature Emeritus in 1973. From 1946 to 1955 Acquisitions Committee ever since. Between 1980 and 1986 he also served as Master of Kirkland House. In retirement he he was a member of the I Tatti Advisory Committee, the continued to occupy his office in Widener Library, where he group of senior scholars which chooses the Fellows each year. received a steady stream of former students and colleagues and He was learned in so many fields that there are few people at where he devoted himself to writing about various aspects of I Tatti, scholars, staff, or visitors, who didn’t find themselves 22 f the history of Harvard. Just before WWII, he served as profes- and their work changed by their conversations with him. sor in charge of classical studies at the American Academy in Rome, a position he held again in the mid-fifties. He and his lizabeth Morrill, widow of F. Gordon Morrill, died in wife Florence visited Berenson’s I Tatti several times, returned Eher sleep on Wednesday, 19 March 2003. Gordon and again and again for longer or shorter periods after the Harvard Elizabeth Morrill first came to Florence before WWII and Center opened in 1961, and were closely involved with the made their home in a charming house on Costa San Giorgio. Center for the remainder of their long lives. For one semester They became friends with Bernard and Mary Berenson and fre- in 1972 and again in 1973, Hammond served as Acting quently visited I Tatti. After Berenson’s death they decided to Director of I Tatti. His major scholarly publications include honor his memory by establishing and endowing the Morrill City State and World State in Greece and Roman Political Thought Music Library at I Tatti: both had a sincere love of music until Augustus (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1951), (Elizabeth had a fine soprano voice and sang a great deal), and The Antonine Monarchy (Rome: American Academy in Rome, they had noticed that only a very small part of the holdings of 1959), The City in the Ancient World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard the Biblioteca Berenson was devoted to music. Their generosity Univ. Press, 1972), and Latin: A Historical and Linguistic has financed one of the best-equipped libraries for the study and Handbook (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1976). performance of early music in the whole of Italy, earning them the gratitude of many generations of musicologists, both from alvatore I. Camporeale (VIT’77-’03), beloved member of Italy and abroad. Elizabeth Morrill’s favorite composer was Sthis community, died 17 December 2002 of a heart attack Johann Adolph Hasse. She spent many years painstakingly tran- on his way home to S. Maria Novella after a normal day at scribing his arias from manuscripts in libraries all over Europe, I Tatti. He was born in 1928 in Molfetta (Bari). His learning working out her own embellishments for their performance, was grounded in the Dominican’s traditional, long, and exact- which she then recorded in the studio in the tower of their ing education. Shortly after WWII he was sent to St. Albert’s house on Costa San Giorgio, Gordon manning the controls. College in Oakland, CA, where he received his BA in 1950. They continued to visit I Tatti as long as their health allowed He was ordained in St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. He them, and they took great pleasure in getting to know the returned to Italy to pursue his doctorate in theology Music Fellows, many of whom enjoyed the hospitality of their (Angelicum University, Rome, 1961) and his laurea (1970) and house in Florence. Their last act of generosity was to leave this Diploma di Perfezionamento (1974), both in Filosofia, at the house to I Tatti. A concert, which will commemorate the out- University of Florence where he undertook his seminal work standing contribution of Elizabeth and Gordon Morrill to the on Lorenzo Valla under Eugenio Garin. He belonged to the Biblioteca Berenson and to musicology in general, will be held Dominican community in Pistoia from 1955 to 1977 when he at the church of San Martino on 29 January 2004. moved to the convent at S. Maria Novella in Florence. Camporeale held annual visiting professorships at Johns ettimo Galleotti, retired I Tatti guard, died on 19 July Hopkins University for many years, taught at the University of S2003. Born in Scarperia in 1942, Galleotti lived his whole California at Berkeley, the University of North Carolina at life in the Mugello where he developed a passion for his small- Chapel Hill, and Tel Aviv University, and lectured in numer- holding in San Piero a Sieve. After many years working for ous universities and academic institutions across the United Fiat, his desire to spend his days in his vegetable garden led him States, in England, and in Italy. first to a night job in a garage and then, in 1991, to I Tatti Salvatore Camporeale’s publications include Lorenzo Valla: where he came as night watchman. He retired in 1995, the Umanesimo, Riforma e Controriforma, studi e testi (Roma: Edizioni same year his son, Sergio, joined the I Tatti security staff, to di Storia e Letteratura, 2002), Lorenzo Valla: umanesimo e teologia spend the rest of his days tilling the soil between the tomato (Firenze: Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 1972), vines and tending his chickens. and numerous articles, including ten in Memorie Domenicane. He was a founding editor of both the new series of the journal Continued on page 23

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I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, The Egyptian bronze cat (ca 700 B.C.) Vol. 9, Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2001. Vol. 10, Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. at Christmas. mmmmm mmmmm 19. The Italian Renaissance in the 20th L’Arme e gli amori: Ariosto, Tasso, Guarini I TATTI STUDIES: Century. Acts of an international confer- in Late Renaissance Florence. Acts of an ESSAYS IN THE RENAISSANCE ence, Villa I Tatti, Florence, 9-11 June international conference, Villa I Tatti, Leo S. Olschki 23 1999, edited by Allen J. Grieco, Michael Florence, 27-29 June 2001, edited by 2 Rocke, and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi. Massimiliano Rossi and Fiorella Superbi Editor-in-Chief Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002. Gioffredi. Florence: Leo S. Olschki. Joseph Connors mmmmm The Acts of The Brancacci Chapel: Editors A Symposium on Form, Function Alison Brown ITRL 7. Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology, and Setting. Villa I Tatti, June 2003. orga- Elizabeth Cropper Vol. 3, Books IX-XII, trans. by Michael J. nized by Joseph Connors and Nicholas Caroline Elam B. Allen with John Warden & ed. by James Eckstein. Hankins with William Bowen. 2003. F.W. Kent Jessie Ann Owens ITRL 8. Leon Battista Alberti. Momus, COMPLETE LIST OF ALL trans. by Sarah Knight, ed. by Virginia A David Quint Brown and Sarah Knight. 2003. I TATTI PUBLICATIONS Editorial Co-ordinator Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi ITRL 9. Giannozzo Manetti. Biographical Writings, trans. & ed. by Stefano Ugo CAN BE FOUND Editorial Administrator Nelda Ferace Baldassari and Rolf Bagemihl. ON OUR WEB SITE mmmmmmmmmmmmmm AT WWW.ITATTI.IT I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press The editors of I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance welcome submissions from General Editor Renaissance scholars whether former Fellows or not. Manuscripts should be about 7,000 to James Hankins 10,000 words long, and should be as accessible as possible in style, with minimum use of technical terminology. The editors are eager to encourage interdisciplinary approaches. Essays Editorial Board in languages other than English or Italian are welcome. All publications inquiries and requests Michael J. B. Allen for the style sheet should be addressed to: Brian Copenhaver Vincenzo Fera The Editors, I Tatti Studies, Via di Vincigliata 26,50135 Florence, Italy Claudio Leonardi [email protected] Walther Ludwig Nicholas Mann Silvia Rizzo Continued from page 22 ohn Shearman, distinguished historian of Italian Renaissance Jart, died on 11 August 2003. He was a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art where he taught from 1957 until he moved to Princeton University in 1979. In 1987 he began teaching at Harvard University and became Adams University Professor there in 1994. He retired in 2002. He was a member of the I Tatti Advisory Committee from 1987 to 1990. He was a prolific writer; his numerous books, articles, and published lectures include works on Mannerism and Quattrocento art as well as the painters Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo, and Raphael. Raphael in Early Modern Sources (1483-1602) (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press) came out this year and an extensive series of documents on Raphael and his works is due to be published by Lenka Reichova, Yolanda Plumley, and Elena Pierazzo. the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

Autumn 2003 I Tatti Community 2003-2004 Fellows James Harper, Rush H. Kress Fellow, Stefania Pastore, Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest University of Oregon, Art History. “Post- Fellow, History. “Tra mecenatismo anti- Maurizio Arfaioli, Andrew W. Mellon nepotism: Art Strategies and the Survival of romano e dissidenza religiosa: il Fellow, Università di Pisa, History. “The the Cardinal Nephew (1621-1676).” ‘Rinascimento italiano’ di Diego Hurtado de Italian ‘Nation’ in the Army of Flanders Mendoza (1539-1552).” (1567-1602).” Andrew Hopkins, Committee to Rescue Italian Art Fellow, Art History. “Architecture and Bronwen Moira Wilson, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Molly Bourne, Robert Lehman Fellow, Ceremony in San Marco, Venice.” McGill University, Art History. Syracuse University, Florence, Art History. Samantha Kelly, Francesco De Dombrowski “Portraiture, Physiognomy, and Naturalism “The Domestic Interior in Renaissance in Northern Italy (1550-1620).” Mantua.” Fellow, Rutgers University, History. “The Development of the Urban Reputation or Shane Butler, Ahmanson Fellow, University ‘Myth’ of Naples (c. 1250-c. 1650).” of Pennsylvania, Literature. “Latin Poetry about the Plague, from Lucretius to Luigi Lazzerini, Francesco De Dombrowski Visiting Professors Fracastoro.” Fellow, History. “Tempore Hyemali (In the Wintertime): Civic and Ritual Violence in Don Harran, (2nd sem), Robert Lehman Clizia Carminati, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, Medieval and Modern Pisa.” Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Literature. “Dal romanzo cavalleresco al Jerusalem, Musicology. “Jews in the Music romanzo in prosa: la riflessione cinque-sei- Stuart Lingo, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Michigan of the Italian Renaissance.” centesca” State University, Art History. “Federico Barocci: Retrospection, Modernity, and the Kristen Lippincott (2nd sem), National Silvia Evangelisti, Jean-François Malle Fellow, Reform of the Altarpiece.” Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Art History. 24 University of Birmingham, History. “Imagines Caeli: Mapping the Heavens in the f “Illegitimate Daughters in Convents in Early Pedro Memelsdorff, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Renaissance.” Modern Florence.” Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, Musicology. “Scribal Mentalities and Early M. Michèle Mulchahey, University of St. Guido Guerzoni, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, Use of Music Manuscripts: Faenza 117.” Andrews, History. “Dominican Teaching in Università Bocconi, Milano, History. “A Dante’s Florence. Remigio De’Girolami and Comparison of the Este and Gonzaga di Roberta Morosini, Florence J. Gould Fellow, the Schools of Santa Maria Novella.” Novellara Courts in the 16th century.” Wake Forest University, Literature. “What about the Franceschi romanzi? From France to Robert Nelson, (1st sem), University of Gabor Hajnóczi, (1st sem), Andrew W. Italy - from Italy to France.” Chicago, Art History. “Illustrated Greek Mellon Research Fellow, Pázmány Péter Manuscripts in the Renaissance.” Catholic University, Art History. Wlodzimierz Olszaniec (1st sem), Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Warsaw Bette Talvacchia, University of “Hungarian Edition of Leon Battista Alberti’s Connecticut, Art History. “Monograph on De re aedificatoria.” University, Literature. “Guarino Guarini’s Commentary on Rhetorica ad Herennium - a the Art of Raphael.” Study of the Work.”

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