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Letter from Florence an Giovanni fi nds me once again to deliver the Berenson Lectures. The S sitting on the Berenson bench in book based on them, Friendship, Trust the garden, wondering how the year has and Fidelity in Renaissance Florence, will managed to speed by so fast. It seems just be published by Harvard University yesterday that we were fêting the arrival Press in 2008. It will be a worthy sequel of the new Fellows with a concert in to Edward Muir’s (VIT’73) Berenson the Big Library by four lovely young Lectures of 2006, The Culture Wars of harpsichordists from Moscow. In late the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and September the Fellows went on a trip Opera, which appeared earlier this year. to the Mantegna exhibitions in Padua, In the spring our Visiting Verona and Mantua. It was still bright Professors included John Law, still autumn weather when we awarded the Scottish after years in Wales, who I Tatti Mongan Prize to Paola Barocchi, enriched the community with his vast the dean of Vasari studies and master knowledge of Renaissance history and of the sources, digitized and printed, and Doris Carl (VIT’95) to combine of that burgeoning fi eld, the Renaissance of Renaissance art. She reminisced erudition and pleasure on a day-long visit in the nineteenth century; Daniel Javitch, movingly about a walk in the garden to the fresco cycles of San Gimignano. who added literary depth and lectured on sixty years earlier with the sage of I Tatti Nicholas Eckstein, nearing completion of Ariosto’s delicate interweaving of classical and his ironical but encouraging advice. his own work on the Cappella Brancacci, literature and the world of romance; and But then time sped up dizzyingly, rushing brought the Fellows to the Carmine for James Hankins and Virginia Brown, who faster and faster through Thanksgiving a memorable visit, putting art back into were genial hosts in the Casa Morrill. and Christmas, through three visits to the context of neighborhood. Deborah In April Jim organized a conference America and one to Slovenia and two Howard crossed the Atlantic to address jointly with the Istituto Nazionale di to Hungary, when suddenly I found the I Tatti family in New York on the Studi sul Rinascimento celebrating myself on a beautiful spring morning Metropolitan Museum exhibition, the publication of the fi nal volume of welcoming James Ackerman back to and the Islamic World. But she also allowed Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology I Tatti for a short stay, and hearing about us to sit in on the acoustical experiments for the I Tatti Renaissance Library. It was his visit to B.B., not quite sixty years ago, that she conducted in Venice, when the an occasion to offer tribute to Michael to ask for advice on his thesis. (“Now that choir of St. John’s College Cambridge Allen, the genial Shakespearian who saw you’re in Italy, work on something that came to sing in a dozen churches, in this Everest of a translation through all you can see.”) every conceivable position, from choir fi ve volumes. Visiting Professors enlivened to barca to space under the cupola. Never The spring saw a grand pile-up the year and got us out into the wider will I be able to visit those churches on the foggy autostrada of conferences, as world. On an unforgettable October again without thinking of those sublime we took up opportunities that were too Monday the Uffi zi was opened just for moments of sound. In April Guido good to be missed. In May, working with us and Henk van Os took us to the Beltramini, Director of the Centro Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi of the , rooms to refl ect on the historiography Palladio in , offered a fascinating and Alessandro Nova and Gerhard Wolf of Sienese art over the half-century visit to villas of Renaissance humanists of the Kunsthistorisches Institut, I Tatti (nearly) that he had been working in the Veneto. joined in on a three-day conference on on it, exchanging ideas with curator Dale Kent was Visiting Pro- Desiderio da Settignano, the Vermeer of Alessandro Cecchi and with Machtelt fessor in the fall and returned in March Renaissance sculpture, to accompany Israëls (VIT’05). Henk later teamed Continued on back page. up with Eve Borsook (VIT’82-’08)

CAMBRIDGE OFFICE: , Harvard University, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-5762 Tel: +1 617 496 8724 or +1 617 495 8042 / Fax: +1 617 495 8041 / Web: http://www.itatti.it Visiting Professors VIRGINIA BROWN (2nd sem), Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Pontifi cal Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Literature. Fellows MONIQUE O’CONNELL, Melville J. Kahn “Impact of Antiquity on the Middle Ages GÁBOR A LMÁSI (2nd sem), Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Wake Forest University, History. and Renaissance.” Research Fellow, Hapsburg Historical “Venice’s Maritime Empire: Confl ict and NICHOLAS ECKSTEIN (1st sem), Robert Institute, Literature. “The Humanist and Negotiation in the Renaissance.” Lehman Visiting Professor, University of his Dog: the Social and Anthropological VALENTINA PROSPERI, Andrew W. Mellon Sydney, History. “The Cultural History Aspects of Scholarly Dog-Keeping in the Fellow, Università di Sassari, Literature. of the : Confraternities Italian Renaissance.” “The War of Troy from Antiquity to the and Communities in 16th-Century JOSKO BELAMARIC (2nd sem), Craig Hugh Renaissance.” Florence.” nd Smyth Visiting Fellow, Croatian Ministry HELENA SERAZIN (2nd sem), I Tatti Research JAMES HANKINS (2 sem), Lila Wallace - of Culture, Art History. “The Protagonist, Fellow, France Stele Institute of Art Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Harvard 2 the Project and the Iconographic History, Slovenia, Art History. “The University, History. “Repertorium Programme of the Chapel of the Blessed Circle of Baldassare Peruzzi between Brunianum: A Guide to the Writings of John in Trogir.” Italy and Central-East Europe: The Leonardo Bruni, vol. 2.” nd GIORGIO CARAVALE, Lila Wallace - Diffusion of the Inventions in Late DEBORAH HOWARD (2 sem), Robert Reader’s Digest Fellow, Università di Renaissance Military Architecture.” Lehman Visiting Professor, University of Roma “La Sapienza,” Musicology. “Dal SAMO STEFANAC (2nd sem), I Tatti Research Cambridge, Art History. “Architecture Rinascimento fi orentino all’irenismo Fellow, University of Ljubljana, Art and Music in Renaissance Venice” and europeo: Francesco Pucci e la ‘terza via’ History. “A Monograph on Niccolò “State Building Projects in Late 16th italiana alla Riforma.” di Giovanni Fiorentino, Architect and Century Venice.” nd FEDERICA CICCOLELLA, Francesco De Sculptor.” DANIEL JAVITCH (2 sem), Lila Wallace - Dombrowski Fellow, Texas A & M ELEONORA STOPPINO, Ahmanson Fellow, Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, New York University, Literature. “Greek Grammars, University of Illinois, Literature. “The University, Literature. “A Collection of Schoolbooks, and Elementary Readings Travelers’ Library: Early Modern Essays on Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.” in the Italian Renaissance.” Exploration and Italian Popular Epic.” DALE V. K ENT (1st sem), Lila Wallace MICHAEL COLE, Robert Lehman Fellow, T. B ARTON T HURBER, (1 st sem), Craig Hugh - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Art Smyth Visiting Fellow, Hood Museum of University of California, Riverside, History. “The Art and Architecture of Art, Dartmouth College, Art History. “ Art, History. “Friendship, Love and Fidelity Giambologna and his Circle.” Architecture and Religious Confl ict in in Renaissance Florence.” nd IPPOLITA DI MAJO, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Villa Counter-Reformation .” JOHN E. LAW (2 sem), Lila Wallace - I Tatti, Art History. “Il mecenatismo di ELENA V ALERI, Jean-François Malle Fellow, Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, University Alfonso d’Avalos (1509-1546).” Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” of Wales, Swansea, History. “The Urban ERIC DURSTELER, Committee to Rescue History. “Storia civile e storia ecclesiastica: Lordship – the signorie – of Early Italian Art Fellow, Brigham Young la rappresentazione dell’Italia nella Renaissance Italy.” University, History. “The Experience storiografi a del Rinascimento.” HENK VAN OS (1st sem), Lila Wallace - of Renegade Women as a Window into MAUDE VANHAELEN, Deborah Loeb Brice Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, University Gender and Religious Identity in the Fellow, University of Warwick, Literature. of Amsterdam, Art History. “Refl ections Early Modern Mediterranean.” “Mysticism and Reason in on 50 Years of Art History of Sienese MORTEN HANSEN, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Florence: Ficino’s and Pico’s doctrines of Painting.” University of Copenhagen, Art History. philosophical Raptus.” Research Associate “The Imitation of in MATTHEW VESTER, Florence J. Gould Fellow, INGRID BAUMGÄRTNER (2nd sem), Sixteenth-Century Italy.” West Virginia University, History. “The Universität Kassel, History. “Cartography WENDY HELLER, Frederick Burkhardt Geography of Political Culture in the and Travel Reports in the Late Middle Residential Fellow, , Early Modern Alps.” Ages.” Musicology. “Baroque Dramatic Music GIOVANNI ZANOVELLO, Francesco De and the Uses of Antiquity.” Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Padova, Senior Research Associates ESTELLE LINGO, Rush H. Kress Fellow, Musicology. “Investigation of Music, EVE BORSOOK, Villa I Tatti, Art History. University of Washington at Seattle, Art Ritual, and Politics at Santissima “Medieval Mosaic Technology.” History. “Sculptural Form and Reform: Annunziata.” ALLEN GRIECO, Villa I Tatti, History. “A Francesco Mochi and the Edge of Social and Cultural History of Alimentary Tradition.” Readers in Renaissance Studies Habits in Renaissance Italy.” st ANDREA MOZZATO, Lila Wallace - Reader’s KIM (1 sem), Harvard University, MARGARET HAINES, Opera di Santa Digest Fellow, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Art History. Maria del Fiore, Art History. “Online Lettere ed Arti, History. “Storia della EVAN A. MACCARTHY (2nd sem), Harvard Digital Edition of the Sources of the ditta di Agostino Altucci, speziale e University, Musicology. Archive of Santa Maria del Fiore in the mercante tra Venezia, Firenze ed Arezzo Cupola Period.” nella seconda metà del XV secolo. Aspetti MICHAEL ROCKE, Villa I Tatti, History. sociali ed economici.” “Edition and Translation of Italian Texts related to Homoeroticism (14th-17th centuries).”

VILLA I TATTI The Scholars’ Court Project

rchitect Charles Brickbauer working with Ziger/Snead A LLP of Baltimore will be at I Tatti in September for pre- construction meetings with the Italian consultants and the builder, in advance of the actual construction of the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato which should begin before the end of the calendar year. On the basis of Brickbauer’s completed construction drawings, bills of quantities have been prepared and translated into Italian according to local specifi cations. Some fi rms have already received a copy and others will soon. Brickbauer, in the course of the same trip, will also In the late spring the authorities fi nally granted be approving samples of building permission for the creation of a temporary road to the building materials. site which was essential for going ahead with foundation Hence, in preparation for and construction work. Heavy trucks, excavators, micropole construction, site work continues machines, cement mixers and large pieces of equipment could apace. The last edition of the not have accessed the building site through gate 22 on Via di Newsletter told of the demolition Vincigliata. Presently there is a temporary gate to the building of the old garage and tractor shed site. It is hoped that with time the authorities will see that a on the parking lot and the tearing landscaped version of this gate and road can be allowed to remain down of the dilapidated green- as otherwise there will be serious parking problems, and access house and garden buildings in the to I Tatti’s fi elds to the north will be impossible. historic gardens just below where The building site has presented various problems of the southern end of the Loggiato stability because it is on unconsolidated landfi ll built up over will be. Since then much of the the last hundred years. But our able collaborators are fi nding wiring which brings power to the whole institution from the ways to solve these problems. Currently, 12- to 15-meter-long Villa’s power transforming station adjacent to the building site micropoles are being drilled deep into the ground around the has been permanently rerouted so that all systems (HVAC, perimeter of where the Loggiato will be constructed. More security, computer, light, power) have continued to operate micropoles will go under the southern wall of the Loggiato without interruption. This required extensive excavation in the that separates the Scholars’ Court area from the historic gardens. fi elds, in the gardens, into the bowels of the Villa to the power These two areas will be joined by an elegant staircase designed distribution center. All this was done with the attention, care and by Charles Brickbauer which will relieve the library of the skill of the many companies that have long worked for I Tatti. traffi c and noise generated by visitors and workmen. Most of Simultaneously the same painstaking work was done for the the authorities have approved this plan. We await the last permit water supply lines, drainage systems, septic systems and gas lines. from the city of . Only a very minimal part of this intricate work is temporary. The city of Florence, after nine months, in July granted permission to open temporary parking in a fi eld below I Tatti. This is necessary because parking inside gate 22 is now very limited while use of the center continues uninterrupted. Rumors (hopefully not idle) from those who stay close to the building site say that once construction of the building itself begins, it will take 18 months to reach completion. So save a tentative date for June 2009? Nelda Ferace Assistant Director for Special Projects

AUTUMN 2007 THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSOn

everal projects engaged the library this system, which has many S year that will have a major impact features that will facilitate and on its future development and on the enrich the work of the library accessibility of its collections. First, staff and will have many we are very pleased to announce that pay-offs for library users the library’s bibliographic holdings as well. By late August all and all of its operations are being the records of the Berenson integrated completely into the Harvard Library’s bibliographic University Library system. As the library holdings will be visible 4 of the Harvard Center, the Biblioteca online in Harvard’s HOLLIS Berenson has always been formally catalogue. The library will affi liated with the University’s Library. remain an active partner in Since 1993 it has also been part of the the IRIS consortium, and Florentine IRIS consortium and has regular exports of data from operated in the context of its union the Harvard system will keep Joeseph & Françoise Connors fl ank catalogue. Physical distance fi rst, and its holdings up-to-date also Ippolita di Majo & Henk van Os. slow Internet connections later, made in IRIS’s online catalogue. full integration in the University Library HOLLIS will henceforth be system inconceivable before now. Today’s the library’s default catalogue, however. Bologna. The cataloguing team includes high-speed data transmission lines and This will offer numerous advantages two other new members. Elisabetta other technological advances have fi nally to researchers, above all to current Cunsolo also holds a doctorate in art made it possible for the Berenson Library I Tatti appointees and other on-site users history from the University of Bologna to realize its “natural” institutional who have unlimited access to Harvard’s (2004), and has extensive experience as a assimilation into the Harvard University exceptional range of electronic resources, photograph cataloguer at the Fondazione Library. Made up of nearly ninety while all will benefi t from the University Zeri as well as at other museums in libraries, Harvard’s is the largest academic Library’s commitment to developing Bologna and Bergamo. Monica Steletti, library in the world. Its extraordinary and implementing new technologies for who holds a Master’s in Women’s Studies collections include nearly 16 million discovery and access. from the Università Federico II in Naples books, 8 million photographs, millions A second important project (2001), is currently enrolled in the Library of manuscript pages, recordings, maps, began this year to catalogue and, we Science program at the Università di Pisa, ephemera, and a rapidly expanding hope, eventually to digitize a small but and has years of experience in book number of digital resources. signifi cant group of photographs held cataloguing at Widener Library (Harvard) In preparation throughout the in the Fototeca, thanks to a grant from and at Casalini Libri in Florence. Her spring, the process of integration will the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This excellent knowledge of English and be complete by summer’s end. Already represents the fi rst initiative ever by the of international cataloguing practices all of our acquisitions, cataloguing, and Biblioteca Berenson to inventory or and standards are indispensable for our fi nancial operations are being carried catalogue the photographs in this unique project. out in the University’s integrated library collection. We envision it as the initial Finally, during the course of step in what should become a long- the year we began laying plans to range endeavor to catalogue the renovate part of the library complex, the entire photograph archive. You may read more about this undertaking in the description of it in these pages by Valentina Branchini, the excellent project manager we hired to plan, implement, and supervise the project. Valentina holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Bologna (2004), and for fi ve years, before joining our staff, she worked as assistant Giorgio Caravale, Michael Cole, Ippolita di Majo, curator of the Photograph Archive Nora Stoppino & Elena Valeri. of the Fondazione Federico Zeri in Federica Ciccolella.

VILLA I TATTI Lila Acheson Wallace – Reader’s Digest two-story wing added in the 1950s Special Grants adjacent to the older “monumental” nucleus of the library. Unfortunately, the ormer I Tatti Appointees are eligible to apply for two kinds of grants to promote delay in building the Loggiato has pushed F their scholarship. the successive phase of the Scholars’ LILA ACHESON WALLACE – READER’S DIGEST PUBLICATION GRANTS provide Court project – the new Fototeca/ subsidies for scholarly books on the Italian Renaissance. These can be a monograph Library building – that much farther into by a single author or a pair of authors, or a collection of essays by autori varii. Books the future, and consequently the lack that grow directly out of research carried out at I Tatti are especially appropriate. In addition, SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS are occasionally available to former of adequate shelving space has grown Appointees who wish to initiate, promote, or engage in an interdiciplinary project critical once again. I Tatti has engaged in Italian Renaissance studies such as a conference or workshop. the -based fi rm Garofalo Miura Recipients are chosen by a committee of senior Renaissance scholars, plus Architetti, which among other things the Director acting as chairman. The applicant’s covering letter should include a is responsible for the recent handsome brief project description, a budget, and a short list of publications since the I Tatti expansion and renovation of the library appointment. The application deadline is 1 October each year. of the British School at Rome, to plan For publications grants, the book must already be accepted by a publisher, who and carry out this project, which aims at should write a letter describing the planned publication and giving precise fi gures maximizing shelf space and modernizing for the print run and cost. The publisher’s letter is quite important; cursory letters services throughout this wing of the only a few lines long that merely affi rm acceptance of a manuscript will not be library. We are still in a preliminary considered. If a former Appointee has fi nished a manuscript but the relationship with the publisher is still tentative, he or she should wait until there is a fi rm planning phase, but we expect work to contract before applying. begin probably by the end of the year Grants can also be made for translating books, though since funds are limited, and to last at least through next summer. direct publication subsidies will take priority. The library will remain open during this Publications grants can assume two forms. They can be made directly to the period and we will make every effort to publisher in order to ensure a higher quality of publication or a lower list price. keep all books accessible. More details The publisher should explain exactly how this would happen in the letter. Grants will be announced on the I Tatti web can also be made to an individual to reimburse expenses for photographs and site as the project progresses. reproduction rights. It is also possible to split a grant, earmarking some for the With all of its positive features, publisher and the rest for reimbursement of personal expenses. this year the library and all of I Tatti also Applications for the publication of fi rst books or collected essays may fi nd suffered a terrible, poignant tragedy with $4,000 to $5,000 a good target fi gure, but for major, expensive books that are the fruit of long years of research the subsidy can go as high as $8,000. Since repeated the untimely loss of our much-loved grants will be very rare, Appointees should wait until they are publishing a substantial colleague Stefano Corsi. A man of many book to apply. gifts, Stefano was a fundamental part of the library’s professional team as well 2006/2007 LILA A CHESON W ALLACE – READER’S as a good friend to all. Others will pay DIGEST GRANT RECIPIENTS: tribute to him elsewhere in these pages. I will limit myself to observing that he CAMMY BROTHERS (VIT’02) towards the was highly esteemed, is intensely missed, publication of Michelangelo, Drawing, and the and will always remain embedded in Invention of Architecture. our hearts. CHRISTOPHER S. CELENZA (VIT’00) towards the Michael Rocke translation of two studies by Salvatore Camporeale: Valentina Prosperi. Nicky Mariano Librarian of the Lorenzo Valla tra medioevo e rinascimento. Encomion s. Thomae, 1457 and Lorenzo Valla Biblioteca Berenson e “il De Falso credita donatione”: Retorica, libertà ed ecclesiologia nel ‘400. SARA GALLETTI (VIT’06) towards the publication of Marie de Médicis et le Palais du Luxembourg, 1611-1641. SARA MATTHEWS GRIECO (VIT’94) towards the publication of The Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy. FABRIZIO NEVOLA (VIT’05) towards the publication of Architecture and Government in Renaissance Siena. Fashioning Urban Experience (1400-1555). LUKE SYSON (VIT’06) towards the publication of Renaissance Siena: Art for a City. MICHAEL W. W YATT (VIT’05) towards the publication of Writing Relations, American Scholars in Italian Archives – Essays for Franca Nardelli and Armando Petrucci.

AUTUMN 2007 RECENT ACQUISITIONS BOOKS BY FORMER FELLOWS mong the many recent additions to the Library, whether purchased by one of the endowed book funds, from donations given A by the Friends of the Biblioteca Berenson, or given directly, are the following recent publications by former Fellows. We are delighted that this list seems to grow each year, but as space is very limited, please forgive us if your volume is not listed or the title has been abbreviated.

FRANCES ANDREWS (VIT’05). The Other Olivier Bonfait, PHILIPPE COSTAMAGNA JANEZ HÖFLER (VIT’87) & Frank Büttner. Friars: The Carmelite, Augustinian, Sack and (VIT’99), Monica Preti-Hamard eds. Bayern und Slowenien im Zeitalter des Pied Friars in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Le goût pour la peinture italienne autour de Barock: Architektur, Skulptur, Malerei: zweites 6 Boydell Press, 2006. 1800: prédécesseurs, modèles et concurrents slowenisch-bayerisches kunstgeschichtliches LAWRIN ARMSTRONG (VIT’00), Ivana du Cardinal Fesch: actes du colloque, Ajaccio, Kolloquium. Regensburg: Schnell & Elbl, Martin M. Elbl eds. Money, Markets 1 - 4 mars 2005. Ajaccio: Musée Fesch, Steiner, 2006. and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays 2006. STEFANO JOSSA (VIT’03). L’Italia letteraria. in Honour of John H. A. Munro. Leiden; STEFANO DALL’AGLIO (VIT’06). Savonarola Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006. Boston: Brill, 2007. in Francia: circolazione di un’eredità politico- DALE V. K ENT (VIT’78,’83,’07). Il INGRID BAUMGÄRTNER (VIT’07,’08). religiosa nell’Europa del Cinquecento. committente e le arti: Cosimo de’ Medici e Martinus Garatus Laudensis: ein italienischer Torino: N. Aragno, 2006. il Rinascimento fi orentino. Milano: Electa, Rechtsgelehrter des 15. Jahrhunderts. Köln; DARIO DEL PUPPO (VIT’98) & LORENZO 2005. Wien: Böhlau, 1986. FABBRI (VIT’98) eds. Tommaso Rimbotti, VICTORIA KIRKHAM (VIT’78,’89,’96). 1565-1622. Rime. Firenze: L. S. Olschki, Dante the Book Glutton, or, Food for 2005. Thought from Italian Poets. Binghamton, CAROLINE ELAM (VIT’82,’05) ed. Roger NY: CEMERS, SUNY Binghamton, Eliot Fry, 1866-1934. Mantegna. Trad. 2004. di Rossella Rizzo. Milano: Abscondita, ANTHONY MOLHO (VIT’69,’72), Diogo 2006. Ramada Curto & Niki Koniordos eds. CAROLINE ELAM (VIT’82,’05) ed. Finding Europe: Discourses on Margins, Michelangelo e il disegno di architettura. Communities, Images ca. 13th - ca. 18th Venezia: Marsilio, 2006. Centuries. New York; Oxford: Berghahn SILVIA EVANGELISTI (VIT’04). Nuns: Books, 2007. A History of Convent Life 1450-1700. Rosanna New York: Oxford UP, 2007. Gasparri & Cheti ANDREA GÁLDY (VIT’06). The Benvenuti. Chimera from Arezzo and Renaissance Etruscology. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006. INGRID BAUMGÄRTNER (VIT’07,’08) DAVID GENTILCORE (VIT’06). Medical ed. Helmarshausen: Buchkultur und Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy. Goldschmiedekunst im Hochmittelalter. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2006. Kassel: Euregioverlag, 2003. CATHERINE MONBEIG GOGUEL (VIT’02) Paolo G UIDO BELTRAMINI (VIT’08) & ed. Textes réunis par Cordélia Hattori. Gasparri. Marco Gaiani eds. Una metodologia per L’artiste collectioneur de dessin. Paris: l’acquisizione e la restituzione dei giacimenti Société du Salon du Dessin; : 5 documentali dell’architettura: i materiali per continents, 2006. lo studio di . Milano: Poli GUIDO GUERZONI (VIT’04). Apollo e Design, 2003. Vulcano: i mercati artistici in Italia (1400- PHILIPPE MOREL (VIT’92,’93,’99) ed. L’art DORIS CARL (VIT’95). Benedetto da 1700). Venezia: Marsilio, 2006. de la Renaissance entre science et magie. Paris: Maiano: A Florentine Sculptor at the TOM HENRY (VIT’03) ed. Amicizia e Somogy, 2006. Threshold of the High Renaissance. francescanesimo: Luca Signorelli, Umbertide EDWARD MUIR (VIT’73). The Culture Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. e la pala di Santa Croce. Città di Castello: Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, JAN CHLÍBEC (VIT’88,’97). Italské renesancní Petruzzi, 2006. Libertines, and Opera. Cambridge, MA; socharství v ceskych statnich a soukromých London: Harvard UP, 2007. sbírkách. Praha: Academia, 2006. JOHN M. NAJEMY (VIT’70,’71,’75,’99). A

VILLA I TATTI The Berenson Fototeca Catalogue

he pilot project for the Berenson work record, shared with other Harvard T Fototeca aims to catalogue a group repositories so as to avoid unnecessary of ca. 10,000 photographs of “homeless” replications, provides numerous text Italian Renaissance paintings and fields for descriptive notes on the drawings, according to Berenson’s artwork. It is possible to specify defi nition for works of art whose current information relevant to the Fototeca’s location is unknown, consequent to materials, such as Berenson’s attributions their sale, loss, or theft. This is a small and the data included in the inscriptions but signifi cant section of the collection, on the back of the photographs or in which in some cases represents rare and related documents concerning the Valentina Branchini, Monica Steletti & precious documentation for works that ownership and the collecting history Elisabetta Cunsolo. have seldom or never been studied. of the work. To a single work record are This automated catalogue with multiple Cataloguing is being carried linked one or more surrogate records, whose access points will help users in locating out in the OLIVIA system, developed at somewhat different structure better the photographs and doing systematic Harvard University for visual materials renders the historical and artefactual research. It will also be an essential tool and widely used by Harvard repositories. value of the photographs themselves. We for managing the photograph library, Controlled vocabularies and inter- hope in the near future, once funding is for monitoring its size and content, national cataloguing standards are used, secured, to initiate a project to digitize order, and state of conservation, and for and the data are supplied from OLIVIA these photographs. The surrogate records recording both related documents and to VIA (Visual Information Access), will then be completed with images of new acquisitions. the online union catalogue of visual both recto and verso of the print, allowing resources in Harvard collections. public access to inscriptions on the back Valentina Branchini Different and related types as well. Project Manager, of records are created in the OLIVIA In preparation for the item-level Photograph Catalogue database, one for the original artwork catalogue, a general folder-level inventory and one for each reproduction. The of the entire collection has been started. Books by Former Fellows Cont.------

History of Florence 1200-1575. Malden, nell’Italia del Seicento. Milano: Bruno Patrizia Meli & SERGIO TOGNETTI MA: Blackwell, 2006. Mondadori, 2006. (VIT’01) with an essay by LORENZO Bonita Cleri & GIOVANNA PERINI PAOLO S IMONCELLI (VIT’82). Fuoriuscitismo FABBRI (VIT’98). Il principe e il mercante (VIT’88) eds. Guide e viaggiatori tra repubblicano fi orentino, 1530-1554. Milano: nella Toscana del Quattrocento: il Magnifi co Marche e Liguria dal Sei all’Ottocento: atti F. Angeli Storia, 2006. signore di Piombino, Jacopo III Appiani e le del convegno, Urbino, Palazzo Albani, 26-27 CHRISTINE SMITH (VIT’90) & Joseph aziende Maschiani di Pisa. Firenze: L.S. ottobre 2004. Sant’Angelo in Vado: Grafi ca F. O’Connor. Building the Kingdom: Olschki, 2006. Vadese, 2006. Giannozzo Manetti on the Material and ELENA VALERI (VIT’07). “Italia dilacerata”: IVAYLA POPOVA (VIT’03). Aeneas Sylvius Spiritual Edifi ce. Tempe: ACMRS, 2006. Girolamo Borgia nella cultura storica del Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) and the Balkans MARCO SPALLANZANI (VIT’82-’03). Rinascimento. Milano: F. Angeli Storia, in the 15th Century: Historical Etudes. Maioliche ispano-moresche a Firenze nel 2007. V. Tärnovo: Faber, 2006. Rinascimento. Firenze: SPES, 2006. TIMOTHY WILSON (VIT’84) & Elisa ADRIANO PROSPERI (VIT’81) ed. Salvezza MARCO SPALLANZANI (VIT’82-’03). Paola Sani. Le maioliche rinascimentali delle anime, disciplina dei corpi: un seminario Oriental Rugs in Renaissance Florence. nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di sulla storia del battesimo. Pisa: Edizioni della Florence: SPES, 2007. Risparmio di Perugia. Città di Castello: Normale, 2006. SAMO ŠTEFANAC (VIT’07). Kiparstvo Petruzzi, 2006. LIONELLO PUPPI (VIT’69) ed. Un Mantegna Nikole Firentinca i njegovog kruga. Split: SERGIO ZATTI (VIT’88). The Quest for da scoprire: la Madonna della tenerezza. Knjizevni krug, 2006. Epic: From Ariosto to Ta s s o . Toronto: Univ. Milano: Skira, 2006. LECH SZCZUCKI (VIT’78,’85). Humanisci, of Toronto Press, 2006. MASSIMILIANO ROSSI (VIT’93,’98-’03). heretycy, inkwizytorzy:studia z dziejów DIANE FINIELLO ZERVAS (VIT’78,’79). Le fi la del tempo: il sistema storico di Luigi kultury XVI i XVII wieku. Kraków: Polska Andrea Orcagna: il tabernacolo di Lanzi. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 2006. Akademia Umiejetnosci, 2006. . Modena: Franco Cosimo FRANCESCO SBERLATI (VIT’96). La Panini, 2006. ragione barocca: politica e letteratura

AUTUMN 2007 News from the Berenson Fototeca, Archive & Collection

e are delighted to be dipping our some 2,400 black and white glass plates to its current state of W toes in the digital pond, so to and slides, color glass transparencies, ill repair. What used speak, with the project to catalogue glass slides, and autochromes Lumiére, to be Logan Pearsall the “homeless” photographs, described of different sizes ranging from 6x7 cm Smith’s sitting room, by Valentina Branchini on page 7. We to 40x30 cm. Particularly interesting are under the eves of anticipate this will be the start of a the glass plates and autochromes Lumiére the main part of far larger project to catalogue and to which document views of I Tatti’s the house, has become a temporary digitize the collection here, although interior and garden in its early days. The conservation laboratory. There, Roberto 8 Marchig collection chiefl y provides a Bellucci has gently removed the old we have no illusions as to the time and resources we will need to complete it. unique documentation of paintings at varnish and the traces of previous repairs In the meantime, we have no intention various stages of conservation in the years and is painstakingly and with the lightest of abandoning the “old” format and after World War II. Leonetto Tintori’s of touches stabilizing the picture. In continue to acquire photographs through material is focused on Simone Martini’s addition, two Persian ceramics, a ewer gifts and purchases. Thanks to Treacy frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. and a vase fragment, have been restored and Darcy Beyer, we have been able to Giorgio Castelfranco was an art historian by Fabio Burrini, together with a small purchase hundreds of photographs of who was one of the fi rst admirers of the Chinese bronze horse which has regained renowned fresco cycles by Fra Angelico famous painter Giorgio De Chirico. its original charming modeling. at San Marco, Masolino at Castiglione His collection of glass plates documents In the Berenson Archive, Ilaria th Olona, and Giotto at Padua. In addition, his interest in the art of the early 20 Della Monica has been working hard important gifts of photographs have century. Giuseppe Marchini’s material to inventory the papers of Laurance come from art historian Sabine Eiche refl ects his wide range of research in P. and Isabel S. Roberts, as mentioned (VIT’83) and conservator Andrea Rothe, Italian art. A large group of small glass in last year’s Newsletter. These papers who has given a first group of his negatives document Ludovico Borgo’s were left in very good order and will invaluable collection of photographs of specifi c study of the drawings by Fra soon be available for consultation. In works of art treated by him. Bartolomeo and his circle, during his the meantime, more material has been A major project to inventory fellowship at I Tatti. added to the collection of Frederick and correctly house in a climate- We take this opportunity to Hartt’s papers and we have completed controlled environment our entire thank Alyson Gombas, Megan Walker, microfi lming Mary Berenson’s diaries. collection of glass plates was completed Lauren Murphy, and Laura Brown, interns this year. The original Berensonian from Syracuse University in Florence, Fiorella Superbi nucleus of some 430 items has over the who with great enthusiasm and interest Agnes Mongan Curator of the years been enriched by material from have helped us in various projects. We Fototeca Berenson, Curator of the the conservators Giannino Marchig and also thank our other generous donors, Berenson Collection and Archive Leonetto Tintori (VIT’76-’84) and from in particular Eve Borsook (VIT’81-’07) & the art historians Giorgio Castelfranco, for her time and expertise, and Fred Stein Giovanni Pagliarulo Giuseppe Marchini, and Ludovico Borgo whose generosity has allowed us to tackle Andrew W. Mellon Librarian (VIT’65). The collection now contains some conservation problems in both the Fototeca and the Berenson Collection. As happens annually, Roberto Bellucci and Cecilia Frosinini of the Opifi cio delle Pietre Dure conservation laboratory carefully examined the state of conservation of the paintings in the Berenson Collection this year and discovered that the Madonna and Child attributed by Mr. Berenson to Jacopo Bellini was in urgent need of treatment. The painting has been restored at various times in its history and these restorations have contributed Morten Hansen & Maude Vanhaelen. Giovanni Pagliarulo & Fiorella Superbi.

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FROM THE instruments in their own country. We are MORRILL MUSIC grateful to the Accademia Bartolomeo LIBRARY Cristofori, the Galleria dell’Accademia and Prof. Ella Sevskaya for their kind collaboration in this new undertaking. Another successful collabo- ration involved Villa I Tatti, the Victoria his year the Music Library inititated and Albert Museum in London, and the T a three-year project of collaboration Florentine-based early music ensemble with the Department of Historical and Trictilla, directed by Giulia Nuti. For the Contemporary Performance of the P. I. occasion of the “At Home in Renaissance Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow. Italy” exhibition that opened in October Four students from the department, 2006 at the V & A, the curators of the Evan MacCarthy & Josko Belamaric. directed by Alexei Lubimov, were invited exhibition, Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and by I Tatti to study for a week on historic Flora Dennis (VIT’08), worked closely now been extended: harpsichordist Giulia keyboard instruments in under Nuti, with the musicians of Trictilla, and the direction of Ella Sevskaya. These in collaboration with the Royal College brilliant young musicians enjoyed the of Music, London, will be providing resources of the Accademia Bartolomeo music for the permanent collections of Cristofori, which placed at their disposal the Victoria and Albert Museum. three fortepianos, and the Museo degli We are grateful to Evan Strumenti Musicali of the Galleria MacCarthy, who came from the Harvard dell’Accademia, which made available Music Department in January to be one their copy of a Cristofori fortepiano of this year’s Readers in Renaissance of 1726 built by Kerstin Schwarz and Studies at Villa I Tatti, for his expert Tony Chinnery. The students concluded assistance with the identifi cation and their week with a recital on I Tatti’s classifi cation of a group of photographs harpsichord, built by Ugo Casiglia Peggy Haines, Helena Serazin of music manuscripts in the Carapetyan and based on the G. B. Giusti of 1693 & Samo Stefanac. Collection which had not yet been in the Smithsonian Institute, which catalogued. was generously donated to Villa I Tatti with the musicians of Trictilla to recreate Kathryn Bosi the sound environment for a house of F. Gordon and that period and class. In producing a Elizabeth Morrill Music Moscow recording of music for the house of Librarian student Daria an Italian Renaissance gentleman, they Borkovskaya chose music that came from the same plays years and the same cities as the works of Broadwood square piano art and everyday domestic objects in the no. 37179 at Museum’s displays. The music recorded the Accademia was written for domestic use, rather Bartolomeo than for church or court, and the Cristofori. choice of instruments was governed by those that would have been present and played in a Renaissance gentleman’s household. An authentic ambience for by Frederick Hammond (VIT’72). the recording sessions was provided by Our project aims at facilitating the the Florentine family Budini Gattai, studies of eminent musicians from the who kindly made available their Moscow Conservatory who rarely have palazzo in piazza SS. Annunziata. The the opportunity of playing on historic initial project, sponsored by I Tatti, has Wendy Heller & Nora Stoppino.

AUTUMN 2007 Lectures & Programs with support from the Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman.

n addition to the public lectures and conferences listed below and on the following pages, many of this year’s Fellows chose to I present their work in progress at in-house workshops. MAUDE V ANHAELEN opened the series with “Theurgy, Demonology, and Ficino’s Translations in the years 1486-89.” ANDREA MOZZATO’S topic was ‘Tra integrazione e monopolio. Vicende commerciali di uno straniero a Venezia, Agostino Altucci, speziale toscano “all’insegna della Croce” (1464-1475).’ ELEONORA STOPPINO and MICHAEL COLE offered a double shoptalk on “Iconology and the Narrative Sequence: Two Case Studies,” as did MONIQUE O’CONNELL and ERIC DURSTELER who gave separate papers on the theme of “Venice’s Multicultural Renaissance: Refl ections on Public and Private in the Maritime Empire.” FEDERICA CICCOLELLA spoke about “The Making of Renaissance Greek Schoolbooks” 10 while MORTEN HANSEN’S topic was “In Michelangelo’s Mirror: Daniele da Volterra from the 1540s.” IPPOLITA DI MAJO and ELENA VALERI joined forces to discuss “Dalle corti all’impero: storiografi a e committenza a Napoli nel Cinquecento;” GÁBOR ALMÁSI gave an introduction to “Renaissance Scholarly Dog-Keeping and its Social Context;” and GIORGIO CARAVALE explored the topic of “Diventare eretico nella Firenze del ‘500. Francesco Pucci e la sua formazione.” Musicologists WENDY HELLER and GIOVANNI ZANOVELLO respectively discussed “Animating Arcadia: Ovid through Opera’s Mirror in Seicento Venice” and “Musica, rituale e politica alla Santissima Annunziata tra il XV e il XVI secolo: novità e continuità.” ESTELLE LINGO discussed her work on the sculptor Francesco Mochi and MATTHEW V ESTER covered “Cultura politica valdostana, 1550-1600.”

A chronological listing follows of public lectures, concerts, and conferences held at I Tatti during the 2006/2007 academic year. Institutional affi liation is not given for members of I Tatti’s 2006/2007 academic community.

Recital by students from Moscow Conservatory tutored by ELLA SEVSKAYA Workshop: Marriage in Europe – organized by SILVANA SEIDEL- MENCHI (VIT’75,’94-’03) Early Music at I Tatti Concert - IX: Ricercar Consort: Antonio Bertali, ‘valoroso nel violino’ RUDOLF PREIMESBERGER (Freie Universitat, Berlin): Qualche rifl essione sulla “Cattura di Cristo” di HUGO VAN DER V ELDEN (Harvard University): Pictor Hubertus: Hubert van Eyck and the Ghent Altarpiece MARIA ANTONIETTA VISCEGLIA (Università’ di Roma, La Stephen Gersh, John Monfasani, Michael Allen & Sapienza): Liturgia e politica. Il Corpus Domini a Roma in età Brian Copenhaver at the Ficino conference. moderna DALE KENT: The Berenson Lectures: Friendship, Love and Trust in Renaissance Florence. 1) Framing Friendship; 2) Making Friends; FORMER FELLOWS 3) “Test your friend a hundred times before you trust him” PDATE FRANCESCA FIORANI (University of Virginia): Leonardo’s U Shadows Conference on Ficino, organized by JAMES HANKINS, M ICHAEL SARA GALLETTI and JANIE COLE (both VIT’06) received ALLEN and MICHELE CILIBERTO Conference on Desiderio da Settignano, organized with the a prestigious Getty Foundation Collaborative Research Kunsthistorisches Institut and the Bargello Museum grant, being administered by Harvard University, for their DANIEL JAVITCH: The Fusion of Classical Poetry and Chivalric two-year project: “Artistic Patronage, Cultural Brokerage Romance in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Europe: the Arts Early Music at I Tatti Concert – X: La Reverdie: Viaggio in at the Court of Maria de’ Medici.” This project was born Italia out of their shared interests in 17th-century arts patronage, Italy and Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Early Renaissance, especially of Maria de’ Medici during her years as queen conference organized by PÉTER FARBAKY (VIT’02, Budapest and regent to the throne of France (1600-1631). By drawing History Museum), ILDIKÓ FEHÉR (VIT’06, Budapest Academy on extensive new archival research, their forthcoming book of Fine Arts), and LOUIS W ALDMAN (VIT’06, University of Texas will encompass a wide variety of the French court’s artistic at Austin) interests ranging from architecture and urbanism to music, DEBORAH HOWARD: Architectural Politics in Renaissance Venice theatrical spectacle, court festival, and the fi ne arts.

VILLA I TATTI the garden, when Berenson asked what Paola Barocchi and the her plans were and she replied that she hoped to study art history, BB warned her, “Lei troverà molti pantaloni che I Tatti Mongan Prize G ostacoleranno la sua strada.” She took this as a challenge, and derived quiet satisfaction from sending her fi rst book, n 10th October 2006 the I Tatti inspiring training to generations of on Rosso Fiorentino, to the I Tatti library. Mongan Prize was awarded at now-celebrated art historians. Her list of O (What she did not point out was that a packed ceremony in the Myron and publications is awe-inspiring, beginning this book was published, astonishingly, Sheila Gilmore Limonaia to PAOLA with monographs on artists such as Rosso when she was only twenty-three years BAROCCHI, Emeritus Professor of Art and Vasari, and continuing through old, a young woman of great beauty History at the Scuola Normale di Pisa. as the photograph on the dust-jacket The prize was founded in 1986 by reveals.) Melvin R. Seiden “to honor a scholar When considering whether who carries into a new generation the she should accept the I Tatti Mongan qualities of imaginative scholarship, Prize, Professor Barocchi continued, personal generosity and altruistic she was swayed by its emphasis on devotion to the institutions of art contribution to the life of institutions. history that were exemplifi ed in their When she had fi rst known it, I Tatti had own generation by Agnes and Elizabeth been a solipsistic place, a kind of court Mongan.” Agnes Mongan (1905-96), revolving around a central monarchical a great curator and connoisseur of fi gure, whereas now it was outward drawings, became the Director of the looking and was of importance to Fogg Museum of Art (1969-71). Her the whole world. On a more personal younger sister Elizabeth (1910-2002) Paola Barocchi accepts the I Tatti Mongan Prize. note, she spoke movingly of the was the fi rst curator of the Lessing J. freedom of retirement, a freedom as Rosenwald collection of prints and complete as the freedom of youth, but taught at Smith College from 1969 to epic volumes of art-historical texts transformed by the loss of so many loved 1975. with exhaustive historical commentary, ones: “La libertà in vecchiaia è una cosa Before presenting the tradi- invaluable editions of primary documents conquistata, una seconda libertà che tional bouquet of roses, the Mongans’ such as Michelangelo’s correspondence, ha bisogno di reinvenzione.” But her favourite fl ower, Joseph Connors gave and major studies of the history of audience remained in no doubt that what an outline of Paola Barocchi’s career, collecting and the history of museums. she called freedom was, as ever, a life of fi rst at the University of Lecce then She was one of the fi rst art historians to service to others. at the Scuola Normale at Pisa, where realise the full potential of the computer Caroline Elam (VIT’81,’05) she gave an intellectually rigorous and (a seminal meeting on memorizzazione took place at I Tatti in the 1970s), and has master-minded the publication on Previous I Tatti Mongan Prize winners are FORMER FELLOWS the Internet of freely available, user- Sydney J. Freedberg (1988), Craig Hugh UPDATE friendly, word-searchable texts which Smyth (1992), Sir Ernst Gombrich (1996), are transforming our understanding Caroline Elam (2003). JAN ZIOLKOWSKI (VIT’93,’98), Arthur of sources such as Vasari’s Lives. Since Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval retirement from Pisa she continues Latin at Harvard University, has this work with the organisation called recently been appointed Director ‘Memofonte,’ directed from her house of Dumbarton Oaks Research in Florence, which is also the seat of the Library and Collection. His latest publishing house S.P.E.S. which has for book, co-authored with Bridget K. many decades produced important series Balint, A Bouquet of Satire, Wisdom, of art-historical texts and catalogues. and History: An Anthology of Latin In her speech of acceptance, Verse from Twelfth-Century France Paola Barocchi recalled her fi rst visit at in Houghton Library (Houghton the age of twenty to I Tatti, a kind of Library Studies) is due to be scholarly paradise two years after the published by Harvard UP in war, when Italian libraries were starved October 2007. of funds to buy books and the German Gabor Almasi, Matthew Vester Institute remained closed. Walking in & Giorgio Caravale.

AUTUMN 2007 Pictor Hubertus

painter’s tomb, the birth of a royal about the origins of the celebrated yet completed; instead, Professor van der A heir, and the interpretation of a altarpiece and the role of Hubert van Velden proposed, this date may refer to puzzling chronogram were key elements Eyck, the mysterious brother of Jan van the work’s temporary display in St. Bavo, in the talk “Pictor Hubertus: Hubert van Eyck. The date May 6, 1432, supplied over the tomb of Hubert, on the occasion Eyck and the Ghent Altarpiece,”delivered by the chronogram which appears in of the royal baptism. at I Tatti on January 11th by HUGO VAN the inscription on the frame of the Estelle Lingo DER V ELDEN, Professor of History of Art altarpiece in St. Bavo, coincides with Rush H. Kress Fellow & Architecture at Harvard. Professor the date of the baptism of the heir of the van der Velden drew upon his extensive Duke of Burgundy in the same church. archival research on the Ghent Altar- Professor van der Velden proposed that 12 piece, the subject of his forthcoming Hubert began the painting for a different monograph, to offer a new theory project, an altarpiece commissioned by the alderman of Ghent for the town hall in 1424, a theory which would help to explain the work’s unusual iconography. When Hubert died in 1426, the painting evidently remained unfinished, and van der Velden suggested that only several years later did Jodocus Vijd, the patron of Estelle & Stuart Lingo. the Ghent Altarpiece, commission Jan to complete the altarpiece and transform it into the work we know today. But it was unlikely the altarpiece was completed by 1432, when its intended chapel was not Hugo van der Velden.

Leonardo’s Shadows

RANCESCA FIORANI, Associate Professor of Art History at Leonardo’s shadows are intertwined with colors. F the University of Virginia, came to Florence last April In his paintings and notes, shadows are always colored and, to discuss the depiction of shadows in Leonardo’s oeuvre. conversely, colors are always shadowed since, in his view, Her paper considered Leonardo’s shadows in relation to the shadows and colors are both affected by the optical laws of scientifi c knowledge, natural philosophy, and artistic practice refl ection. of the Renaissance and his own writings on art. No Renaissance artist was more obsessed with the depiction of shadows than Leonardo. From his early days as a painter, he characterized his works with sfumato, his pictorial means to represent relief in painting through modulations of light and shadow, and throughout his life fi lled his notebooks with drawings and notes on the topic. Leonardo studied and painted the shadows of modeling, the internal shadows of objects that suggest the three-dimensionality of things, but gave special attention to derivative shadows, as he called them, the shadows that place people and things in relation to each other, the atmosphere, the viewer and the cosmos. Among the many shadows of nature, his life-long concern was for the shadows generated outdoors by the interaction of sunlight with the light of the sky vault. Francesca Fiorani. VILLA I TATTI Early Music at I Tatti

he ninth concert of the series “Early This very fl awless control and individual papacy. The musicians of the ensemble T Music at I Tatti” was held in character allowed Pierlot and the others La Reverdie sometimes chose to separate October 2006 in the Myron and Sheila to focus on the “affects” expressed by the motets by means of instrumental Gilmore Limonaia. The concert was the various pieces, centered around the fi gure of Antonio masterfully pro- Bertali (1605-1669), defined in the jecting a marvelous concert title “Valoroso nel violino” variety of colors, (valiant in the violin), a characterization feelings and effects used by his contemporary G.A. Bertoli. A even in the first native of Verona, Bertali spent most of his part of the concert, life in the Habsburg court of Austria. The in which the per- Ricercar Consort featured a selection from forming forces were the musician’s instrumental compositions, more homogeneous. enriched with music by Johann Heinrich In the second part, the public had the chance to listen to Piccinini’s Ciaccona La Reverdie returns to I Tatti. performed on a theorbo, followed by Bertali’s Ciaccona for violin. It was a great dances, as is generally done, but (more opportunity to compare two kinds of the unusually) also inserted readings recited virtuoso playing called for by the 17th- by an actor posing as an “imaginary Du century compositions created on this Fay.” In the performance – much enjoyed very successful dance bass – the theorbo by the large public – La Reverdie featured more introspective and controlled, the an enchanting sound, linked to a skillfully violin more showy and brilliant, but deployed and rich palette of instrumental both featuring music and a performance and vocal colors. Also characteristic was of the highest level, which the public their keen sense of melody, evident in Almost late for the concert! greeted with enthusiastic and prolonged the instrumental pieces but also in the Giovanni Zanovello & Josko Belamaric. applause. highly virtuosic motets. The tenth concert, held in Giovanni Zanovello Schmelzer (1620-1680) and Alessandro May 2007, was entitled “Viaggio in Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow Piccinini (1566-1638). During their Italia” and proposed a musical journey performance, the members of the through early-15th-century Italy, where Consort also demonstrated their valore, the celebrated composer for their performance was carried out Guillaume Du Fay (1397- with all the aplomb needed to approach 1474) lived at the beginning this repertoire, tailored for musicians of of his professional career. The uncommon talent to showcase their ability. program featured a choice of Du Fay’s best known motets to illustrate his status with Italian Signori such as Pandolfo Malatesta, Nicolò III d’Este and with the

Kathryn Bosi with the Andrea Mozzato. Ricercar Consort.

AUTUMN 2007 Italy and Hungary: Art and H Some Refl ections on ungary was the fi rst land in Europe to embrace the Capture of Christ H the artistic and literary culture of the Italian by Caravaggio Renaissance, and the conference Italy and Hungary: Art and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (6-8 June 2007) offered a rare opportunity to survey recent scholarship on the close udolf Preimesberger, Professor cultural connections between the two countries. “There R Emeritus of Art History at the could be no more appropriate place to hold the world’s Freie Universität in Berlin, lectured in fi rst symposium on interactions between Renaissance the Geier Library last November on the Italy and Hungary,” said Péter Farbaky (VIT’02), Director proposed importance of Aristotle’s text, of the Kiscelli Múzeum in Budapest, who conceived the 14 symposium. For decades I Tatti has been a second home the fourth book of his Poetics, for the reception of the Caravaggio painting to many Hungarian scholars, beginning with the creation The Capture of Christ. This painting, of the Fondazione Amicizia in 1987 and continuing today commissioned by the Marchese Ciriaco with the Mellon Research Fellowships. And, as Joseph Mattei for a wall of Palazzo Mattei di Connors explained in opening the proceedings, the history Conference participan Paganica, includes a self portrait, fi rst of I Tatti itself is bound up with Hungary. The nearby church of San Martino a Mensola houses an altarpiece Hungarian National identifi ed by Roberto Longhi, among © Chris Rees. the seven active and suffering fi gures depicting the eleventh-century Hungarian prince, St. of the painting. With this in mind, Emmerich, together with a portrait of the donor who bore Preimesberger spoke about Aristotle’s the saint’s Italianized name: Amerigo Zati. Such devotion famous theoretical and anthropological to an obscure Hungarian saint on the part of the Zati family (whose name probab explanation of mimesis and pointed evolved over the years into the plac out that at the end of the chapter, name “I Tatti”) has led to speculation Aristotle formulates the fundamental to whether I Tatti’s medieval neighbo difference between the two forms of originated in Hungary or owed part aesthetic pleasure. In well-known their fortune to commercial ties ther words translated with commentary by In his keynote address, Er Ludovico Castelvetro, Aristotle outlines Marosi, Vice President of the Hungari two receptive levels, each of which is Academy of Sciences, explored th connected to a specifi c form of pleasure. role of the Renaissance in forming The fi rst produces a simple pleasure; national identity for Hungary in th the second instead a double pleasure, nineteenth century. László Szören corresponding to the difference between (VIT’81), introducing the sectio a pleasure which is due to “the technique, devoted to humanism and literatu or the colour, or some other cause” reflected on the development and the pleasure of “recognising that Hungarian Renaissance literary studi this is he.” with special emphasis on the semin Eve Borsook explains the Chapel of the Cardinal role of Tibor Klaniczay (1923-1992 of Portugal at S. Miniato, the model for the Papers by Klára Pajorin (VIT’97 Bakócz Chapel at Esztergom. Valery Rees, Ágnes Ritoók-Szalay, an László Jankovits (VIT’94) focused on the careers of Hungarian and Italian humanists, the journeys, and their relationships with their princely patrons and with one another. Ne research into the illuminated manuscripts commissioned for Matthias Corvinus was th subject of papers by Angela Dillon Bussi and Jonathan Alexander. A mutually illuminatin group of studies by Mária Prokopp (VIT’82,’86) and Zsuzsanna Wierdl, Péter Farbak and Árpád Mikó explored problems of artistic patronage centered around the Episcop Palace in Esztergom and the Renaissance transformations of the Royal Palace in Bud The fi nal session featured studies of the artists and agents who created sculpture for th Hungarian court (by Francesco Caglioti, Dániel Pócs, Alfredo Bellandi, Johannes Rö Rudolf Preimesberger & Angela Dressen. and Louis A. Waldman [VIT’06]). The conference concluded with an informal semin in which participants were able to see works by some of those same artists fi rst-han The full program can

VILLA I TATTI manism in the Early Renaissance Architectural at the Bargello, to leaf through the Corvinian manuscripts in the Laurenziana, and to visit other sites in Florence associated Politics in with Renaissance Hungary. Renaissance Venice The following weekend, Péter Farbaky and symposium co-organizer Ildikó Fehér Gericsné (VIT’06) led a group of conference participants (as well as current and ver the past few decades Venetian former I Tatti Fellows and Visiting Professors) on a three-day O historiography has highlighted study tour of Renaissance sites in Hungary, accompanied by architecture as one of the means of a distinguished group of specialists (June 14-16). They visited expression of the so -called “Myth of the Pest Parish Church with Manga Pattantyús, after which Venice.” It has become an accepted tenet Gyöngi Török illustrated the stylistic diversity of Hungarian among architectural historians that the Renaissance painting at the National Gallery of Republic sought to project its ideology Hungary; Károly Magyar and Andras Végh led the to the public through the patronage of group through the ruins of Matthias Corvinus’s public buildings, and that architecture palace at Buda; fi nally, surrounded by Corvinian helped to defi ne the polity of the ruling manuscripts at the National Library, Sándor Bene patriciate by framing its state ceremonial. (VIT’06) gave a talk about the career of Antonio Architectural historians have sought to Bonfi ni, a humanist at the court of Matthias. In identify political and religious affi liations Esztergom, Erika Kiss spoke about the magnifi cent in both executed and unexecuted designs. metalwork in the Cathedral Treasury, Dóra Sallay In her 21 June 2007 lecture, Visiting led a tour of the Renaissance masterpieces in Professor DEBORAH HOWARD questioned the Christian Museum, the validity of this assumption through and the group had the a close examination of decision-making opportunity to observe procedures in the major public building the ongoing restoration projects of the 16th century. th th of the 14 - and 15 - Professor Howard attempted century frescoes in to defi ne where the power base lay in the Archiepiscopal the implementation of state building Palace. Gergely Buzás Péter Farbaky projects by answering the following led the group through questions: What were the relative roles of & Louis Waldman. Ildikó Fehér his reconstruction of & Gábor Almási. the Doge, the Procurators of St. Mark’s, Matthias’s castle at the Council of Ten and the Senate in Visegrád, underlining the the defi ning of architectural policies? king’s concurrent involvement in Gothic and Where and by whom were the crucial . The visit concluded design decisions made? What was the with a bus trip to southern Hungary, where effect on the constant rotation of offi cers the group had an opportunity to study the on project management? How did monumental Renaissance tabernacle in non-noble employees such as chancery the Cathedral of Pécs, to visit the ongoing secretaries and proti (masters of works) archaeological work at the castle of Siklós participate in the political decisions? (with its leader, György Bartos), and to admire How closely were public building sites th the early 15 -century Italian frescoes in the monitored? What were the relative roles nearby Siklós Parish Church (accompanied by of technology, funding issues and the Zsombor Jékely). A concert of Renaissance theories of classicism of the printed music at the Kiscelli Múzeum performed treatise? The lecture suggested that by the vocal ensemble “Voces Equales” was Conference participants at I Tatti. “democratic” processes often impeded among the many festive highlights of the the formulation of coherent ideologies of trip, a journey that illustrated the depth and state, while technological innovation on complexity of Italo-Hungarian relations in the Renaissance and brought into focus the the building site earned as much respect extraordinary vitality of contemporary scholarship in the fi eld. as classical erudition. Louis A. Waldman Acting Assistant Director for Programs on our web site at www.itatti.it.

AUTUMN 2007 LITURGY AND POLITICS

n 8th February 2007, MARIA ANTONIETTA V ISCEGLIA of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, for example, devised a portable O the Università di Roma, La Sapienza, delivered a lecture kneeling-stool where the pope could genufl ect during the on Liturgia e politica. Il Corpus Domini a Roma in età moderna in procession while keeping the host raised, almost a sacred fl oat the Paul E. Geier Library. In her paper, Visceglia reviewed the with an exceptional actor. In the course of the 16th century the history of this most important Catholic feast, established in 1215, processions multiplied, to the point that by 1621 Rome hosted which celebrates the transubstantiation of the host into Christ’s fi fty processions, including the Papal one, those linked to the body. The ceremonies linked to Corpus Christi are interesting confraternities of the Holy Sacrament, and others organized from a historical point of view because in the course of the by the national . The parades, accompanied centuries the body of Christ came to signify the mystical body by music, recitations, and occasionally even tableaux vivants, of the Church. From the peculiar ritual established in Viterbo sacralized limited parts of the city, thus refl ecting its essentially 16 by Pius II, displaying fi ve armed kings and a rex gloriae, the “local” character – in terms of neighborhood, confraternity, and celebration evolved into a procession held only in the Lateran so forth – even at the ritual level. and later into one reaching Saint Peter’s. In the late 15th century Giovanni Zanovello the procession caused disputes between clergy and courtiers Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow over rank and order. Having the clergy precede the pope – a practice adopted in 1496 – proved unsatisfactory and a special congregation of cardinals had to be created to solve the issue. This polemic sheds light on the character of this important procession, which did not so much refl ect the established order as it represented a moment of social and political performance.

Maria Daniel and Antonietta Leila Javitch Visceglia welcome & Joseph Enzo Crea to Connors. I Tatti. Classical Poetry & Chivalric Romance

isiting Professor DANIEL JAVITCH than chivalric romance, as has been V concluded the cycle of conferences often suggested, but attempted to raise this year by giving a talk on “The Fusion of the romanzo, traditionally seen as an Classical Poetry and Chivalric Romance inferior, popular form of literature, to the in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso.” Javitch’s privileged status of ancient epic. In this main purpose is to reassess Ariosto’s way, Ariosto saw a continuity between The I Tatti newsletter is published relationship towards the Classical tradition Ovid, Virgil, and vernacular chivalric once a year. Alexa M. Mason, editor, he sought to imitate, and in particular poetry, and this in turn facilitated the writer, design, and layout; WordTech, Ovid and Virgil. Moving away from a fusion of different poetic traditions. printing and distribution. I have lost quasi-exclusive focus upon the classical This drawing together of classical and track of who took which photograph; sources themselves, Javitch explores the medieval traditions precisely constitutes, most are by Susan Bates, Joseph ways in which Ariosto incorporates Javitch argues, what is most innovative Connors, Nelda Ferace, Gianni Ovidian and Virgilian episodes within and characteristic of Renaissance art. Trambusti, Gianni Martilli, Signe his romanzo, and the narrative situations For the Renaissance “revival” of Classical Olander, or me. My apologies to in which such incorporation takes past does not constitute a mere form anyone whose photo I have used and place. Several instances in which the of imitation of antiquity, but rather, as whom I have not acknowledged. author draws from episodes of Ovid’s Charles Dempsey put it, “an intention Metamorphoses and Virgil’s Aeneid, suggest to renew the present by ennobling and Former Fellows are indicated in that Ariosto’s selection and imitation of perfecting its own living institutions the text with the initials “VIT” after ancient passages is determined by the and its own forms of literary and artistic their name followed by the year(s) of dramatic circumstances of the narrative, expression.” their appointment as Fellow, Visiting while the narrative structure of Orlando Maude Vanhaelen Scholar or Professor, or Research furioso itself remains largely indebted to Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow Associate. Boiardo’s Orlando innamorato. Ariosto did not grant epic poetry a higher status

VILLA I TATTI Desiderio da Settignano

three-day conference was organized da Settignano e il problema di Gregorio di Angelo Marucelli E delle teste di Dante A last May by Joseph Connors of Allegretto). Soderini); Anita Moskowitz (VIT’80, I Tatti, Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi of the I Tatti hosted the third day, SUNY, Stony Brook: “Dell’Anima Museo Nazionale del Bargello, and providing a well-earned lunch to all Trasmigrata:” Giovanni Bastianini and Alessandro Nova and Gerhard Wolf of those who had tramped through the Desiderio da Settignano); and Andrea the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, quarries at Maiano with Massimo Baldinotti (Firenze: Parole per il “Sogno”: Max-Planck Institut. Coli (Università di Firenze), his Gabriele d’Annunzio e Desiderio da The fi rst two days were held geology students, and Margaret Haines Settignano). at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, where (VIT’76,’88-08) that morning. The On the Saturday morning, papers ranged from Alison Luchs afternoon session was chaired by Joseph the conference participants boarded a (National Gallery, Washington, DC: “Così Connors who introduced Alan P. Darr bus for a trip to the marble quarries si specchi:” Speculations on Medici Patronage (VIT’89, The Detroit Institute of Arts: in Pietrasanta, organized by Andrea and Purposes for Two Desiderio Reliefs) , Desiderio and his Brothers, and Baldinotti (Firenze). through Christiane Klapisch Zuber Quattrocento Sculpture in Pietra Serena for (VIT’86,’02, EHESS, Paris: Réalités, a Boni Palace and Elsewhere in Florence), The full program can be found on our web imaginaire et représentations de l’enfance Tommaso Mozzati (Università di Perugia: site at www.itatti.it. au Quattrocento), to Anne Markham “Il ragazzo morto e le comete.” Alcune Schulz (VIT’84, Brown University: Uno rifl essioni sul luogo dell’artista ‘adolescente.’); scultore padovano infl uenzato da Desiderio Francesca Baldry (Villa Acton, NYU: Rivisitando Desiderio: degli ornati di

James Hankins & Virginia Brown (left), David Kim (center), John Law & Allen Grieco (right).

FORMER FELLOWS UPDATE

MONICA AZZOLINI (VIT’06), has (Volume 19, Issue 4). Renaissance at the Folger Library next year and recently been appointed Lecturer at Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal is an editor of a new series, Early the School of History and Classics, which publishes articles and editions of Modern Catholicism and the Visual , where she documents on all aspects of Renaissance Arts. Another member of the editorial will continue working on a monograph history and culture. The articles range board is GAUVIN BAILEY (VIT’01), with on the role of medicine and astrology over the history, art, architecture, religion, whom O’Malley edited The Jesuits in the politics of 15th-century Milan, literature, and languages of Europe and the Arts (Philadelphia: St. Joseph’s the project she was working on during during the period. UP, 2005) and, with Steven J. Harris, her fellowship. In 2005, Azzolini was T. Frank Kennedy, edited The Jesuits the Renaissance Studies Essay Prize JOHN O’MALLEY (VIT’67,’68) was II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540- winner with “In Praise of Art: Text and recently appointed University Professor 1773 (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, Context of Leonardo’s Paragone and at Georgetown University. He will 2006). its Critique of the Arts and Sciences” be leading a seminar on the Jesuits

AUTUMN 2007 Newsbriefs

his year has been particularly fraught with illness, injury, and sadly even Amanda Smith T from our death among the staff. We have been Cambridge offi ce fortunate indeed to be able to welcome married a number of wonderful people as Lou Mastromattei temporary staff members to help out. at I Tatti in May GIORGIO PALLINI has been cooking up a surrounded by her storm since AURELIA A NGINI took time off friends and in March to have her knee replaced. GIAN colleagues. MARIO CAO (VIT’03) joined the library 18 staff for the months of June and July to work principally at the Reference Desk YLVIA STAVRIDI, Reference Librarian contributed to Disegno, giudizio e bella which freed up ILARIA DELLA MONICA to S in the Arts and Multimedia Library maniera. Studi sul disegno italiano in onore di spend more time working in the Archive of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in CATHERINE MONBEIG GOGUEL (VIT’02), and ANGELA DRESSEN and SCOTT PALMER Alexandria, Egypt, was recently awarded edited by PHILIPPE COSTAMAGNA (VIT’99), to take over some of STEFANO CORSI’s a grant from the Italian Cultural Institute Florian Härb, Simonetta Prosperi Valenti duties with journal subscriptions. CHRIS in Cairo to spend two months in Florence Rodinò (Cinisello Balsamo MI: Silvana, DARKE joined the farmers temporarily as part of her professional development. 2005), and collaborated on the exhibition while ANDREA BENDONI and BRUNO She chose to carry out internships at the of drawings held in her honor at the MESSINI were both unwell. Biblioteca Nazionale last April and at the Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence. He Biblioteca Berenson in May.

ASSIMILIANO GAVILLI sadly left the M Security department in June to take over his father’s business. Massimiliano has been a cheery and helpful member of the security staff since May 2002. Shortly thereafter we were able to fi ll his position by hiring ANTONIO CRESCIOLI who comes to us with experience in the Guardia Giurata. Joseph & Françoise Connors say farewell to IOVANNI PAGLIARULO, who has Massimiliano Gavilli. worked in the Berenson Fototeca Liviana Bartolozzi, Roberto Bruni G since 1988, has been named the Andrew is currently writing entries on early & Giorgio Pallini in the kitchen. W. Mellon Librarian. In addition to 17th-century Florentine drawings for his work with the Harvard Center’s the on-line catalogue of drawings in the photographic Marucelliana collection. images and the planning for digi- irths: JAMES HARPER (VIT’04) and his tizing this collection, B wife Roxanne welcomed Eleanor he works on the Dawkins Harper into the world last Berenson Collection August, while in November, SCOTT and Archive. He PALMER and MONICA STELETTI, both on the library staff, proudly presented us with their second child, Samuel, a This year, both brother to Isabelle. In March, I Tatti calcetto teams gardener CLAUDIO BRESCI and his wife seemed to have Sara became parents for the fi rst time I Tatti staff on them. This ensured victory with the arrival of Mirko. And KAREL for the interni, but THEIN (VIT’03) and Daniela proudly what happened to the announced the birth of their son Daniel esterni? in April 2007.

VILLA I TATTI The Berenson Lectures in the Italian Renaissance

DALE KENT (VIT’78,’83,’07) Professor of History at University of California, Riverside Friendship, Trust and Fidelity in Renaissance Florence

n March 2007, DALE KENT, I Tatti assassinate Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ I Visiting Professor during the fall Medici in 1478 expose the complexity semester, returned to Florence to and ambivalence of Florentine friendship present three lectures which explored a in the 15th century. In the 16th century, question that pre-occupied Renaissance in Michelangelo’s poetry and art, the same Florentines, as it had the ancient Greeks combination of patronage with mutual and Romans whose culture they admired intellectual passion and love – erotic, and emulated: could mutual affection, platonic and Christian – endures. respect, and trust, agreed to be the basis These three lectures will be of an ideal friendship, exist within the published by Harvard University Press as framework of the functional friendships the second in the BERENSON LECTURES Nick Eckstein & Dale Kent. or partisan patronage networks on which series. The fi rst was The Culture Wars of individuals relied to protect and support same time, Florentines strove to forge the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and them in a real world where the state and human relationships of love, trust and Opera (Cambridge, MA; London: HUP, its institutions were not strong enough caritas within the inevitable framework 2007) by Edward Muir (VIT’73). to do so? of patronage, and to express their fi delity Professor Kent’s lively lecture in letters and poems, friendship pacts series began with Framing Friendship: and portraits. What Did Friendship Mean? Florentines The second lecture – Making “of every rank” debated this question Friends: Where Did Friends Meet? – at a contest to present the best poem focussed on the elements of shared on friendship held in the cathedral in experience in friendships between 1441. The participants, after comparing Florentines of various occupations and at length the prescriptions of classical ranks, considered how their relationships authorities concerning ideal friendship were shaped in the physical spaces of the with the realities of personal relationships city – the streets, street-corners, outdoor in the Florentine civic world, concluded benches and loggias, family palaces, Liliana Ciullini & James Ackerman. that only the friendship of God is true: churches, confraternal meeting-places, “ogn’altra[è] setta.” Florentine images and the workshops of artisans and artists, celebrations of the saints, men’s “very taverns, dinner-tables, workplaces, and FORMER FELLOWS special friends” and advocates in heaven, the baptismal font. UPDATE helped to elevate perceptions of earthly The third lecture asked if protectors and intercessors, and played friends could be trusted: “Test Your GUIDO REBECCHINI (VIT’05), who a major part in stimulating the artistic Friend a Hundred Times Before You Trust is an Assistant Professor at the post- patronage that created the Florentine Him.” According to Giovanni Morelli, graduate institute, Scuola Superiore Renaissance in the visual arts. At the who gave this advice in his ricordi, friends di Studi Umanistici, of the University could seldom be trusted. The acid test of Siena, has been awarded a Visiting of friendship, love, and trust was action. Senior Fellowship at the Center for This lecture looked at groups of friends the Advanced Study of the Visual in moments of crisis or trial, in which Arts (CASVA) at the National friendships were tested and either failed Gallery, in Washington, DC, for or endured. The exile of Cosimo de’ September-October 2007. There he Morten Medici in 1433 and his recall in 1434, will be continuing work on a book on Hansen & the attempt in 1466 of the closest amici Cardinal Ippolito de’Medici’s life and Monique of the Medici to take over their patronage patronage, a project he started while a O’Connell. network, and the Pazzi conspiracy to Fellow at I Tatti.

AUTUMN 2007 COUNCIL NOTES

he I Tatti Council sadly records the the passing of Craig Hugh Smyth and T death last December of CRAIG announced new Council members. HUGH SMYTH (see page 22). An inspiring Joseph Connors gave an overview of director of I Tatti from 1973 to 1985, he I Tatti’s news, events, publications and was a highly respected art historian with updates for the past year, mentioning remarkable and admirable leadership conferences on Marsilio Ficino, Desiderio qualities, attested to by the many messages da Settignano, Hungary and Florence sent by former Fellows and others. In in the Renaissance and the Berenson & Deborah Howard. 20 1980, he established the I Tatti Council Lectures given this year by Professor to assist in providing continuing support Dale Kent (VIT’78,’83,’07). Alexa Mason The meeting ended with Joseph for the Harvard Center’s activities and to presented the budget and Michael Connors inviting Council members and act as a formal advisory group. Rocke, Nicky Mariano Librarian, spoke special guests to Florence, Siena, and D. R ONALD DANIEL, who joined of the need to renovate the part of London in October to look at Sienese the Council in 1992, retired in June. It is the Library known as the Annex, for art, visit the exhibition Renaissance Siena: with regret that we accept his decision. which funds are being raised in honor Art for a City at the National Gallery in We are profoundly grateful for his of Craig and Barbara Smyth (see page London, and hear Luke Syson (VIT’06) commitment, leadership and advice over 21), and a new pilot project to catalogue talk on the subject. the years. His many efforts on behalf of 12,000 images in the Fototeca Berenson, In conjunction with I Tatti have always been characterized funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon the Metropolitan Museum of Art Foundation. Graziella Macchetta exhibition on Venice and the Islamic reported on a March trip to Los World, which opened in March 2007, Angeles and San Francisco, where Visiting Professor Deborah Howard, she met with new supporters of Professor of Architectural History at I Tatti, and a lecture given by the , presented Ralph Lieberman (VIT’80,’81) for a fascinating lecture to I Tatti Council the Harvard Club of Cape Cod. He members, former Fellows and other spoke of the Renaissance not just as friends at the Colony Club following the a period circumscribed to Florence Council meeting. Entitled “Venice and that later rippled outward to other Persia,” her lecture traced the political, Sylvia Scheuer (right, at an I Tatti conference) commercial and artistic contacts between joined the I Tatti Council in late summer. cities; Venice, in particular, had a distinct Renaissance of its own, Venice and Persia between the 9th and 17th by generosity, unfailing attention and with very different architecture. With centuries and was beautifully illustrated genuine affection. We hope that he and the aid of beautiful slides, he compared with photographs of many of the objects his wife Lise Scott will often return to buildings, architectonic ideas, and the in the Metropolitan exhibition as well as I Tatti, where they will always be warmly political environments that impacted the architectural views taken by Howard in received. architecture of Venice and Florence. her own travels through the region. In January, TREACY AND DARCY Graziella Macchetta BEYER accepted Chairman DEBORAH Development Associate LOEB BRICE’s invitation to join the Council. Passionate about Italy and its art, they divide the year between their homes THE 2007 VILLA I TATTI COUNCIL in Connecticut and Florence. When in Deborah Loeb Brice, Chairman Florence, it is not unusual to fi nd them Joseph Connors, Director volunteering in the Berenson Fototeca, Anne H. Bass Gabriele Geier Joseph P. Pellegrino which they generously support. Darcy Beyer Mary Weitzel Gibbons Marilyn Perry Fifteen members attended the Treacy Beyer William E. Hood, Jr. Susan Mainwaring Roberts annual Villa I Tatti Council meeting last Jean A. Bonna Walter Kaiser Neil L. Rudenstine March in New York City. BARNEY and Susan Braddock Virgilia Pancoast Klein Melvin R. Seiden BANNIE MCHENRY generously hosted James R. Cherry, Jr. Frederick S. Koontz Sydney R. Shuman the event at the Colony Club. Chairman Anne Coffi n Troland S. Link William F. Thompson Robert F. Erburu Guillaume Malle Rosemary F. Weaver DEBORAH LOEB BRICE remembered Barnabas McHenry

VILLA I TATTI F Craig Hugh and Barbara Linforth Smyth Fund ho can forget sitting down to lunch next to Craig Hugh Smyth – always at the W fi replace end of the table – and being asked with genuine curiosity what one had found in the archive that morning, or what interesting nugget one had discovered in the library or words one had written in one’s study? Not only art historians, of course, sat next to Craig, but no matter one’s interests, he truly wanted to know. Barbara, too, fully engaged in the life of the institute, in the Fellows’ research, and in FORMER FELLOWS the guests and visitors. UPDATE Craig Hugh Smyth, who died last December (see page 22), was I Tatti’s third director from 1973 to 1985. He LAWRIN ARMSTRONG (VIT ’00) and Barbara led the institute with served as Associate Director of charm, grace and friendly good the Centre for Mediaeval Studies, humor. Craig nurtured the strong University of Toronto, from 2004- intellectual direction established by 07, and has been appointed Acting his predecessors by launching I Tatti Director for 2007/08. He recently Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, co-edited Money, Markets and Trade in continuing the I Tatti publication Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H. A. Munro, Later Medieval program, sponsoring lectures and Europe 1 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, international conferences, hosting 2007). Currently he is completing distinguished guests and taking a his socio-biographical study of deep interest in the work of the the Florentine canonist Lorenzo I Tatti scholars. In addition, he Craig & Barbara Smyth with their children d’Antonio Ridolfi (d. 1443) and an turned I Tatti’s fi nances round by Sandy & Ned. edition of two disputed questions raising considerable money each on usury by the theologian Gerard year to cover the budget shortfall of Siena (d. ca. 1336). and fi ght the rampant infl ation and disastrous exchange rate. He more than doubled the endowment, established the I Tatti Council, secured the Lila Acheson Wallace M. MICHÈLE MULCHAHEY – Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund gift, our largest fund to date, and strengthened (VIT’99,’04) has recently been existing ties with the Samuel H. Kress, Robert Lehman, Andrew W. Mellon, and appointed the fi rst holder of the new Leopold Schepp Foundations and the J. Paul Getty Trust. With little money he Leonard Boyle Chair in Manuscript nonetheless tackled the fabric of the property by converting the I Tatti farmhouse into Studies at the Pontifi cal Institute of the beautiful Paul E. Geier Library, by creating apartments for Fellows at San Martino Medieval Studies, Toronto. There and by initiating an urgently needed buildings conservation program. Together, Craig she will continue her work on the and Barbara strove to improve the lot of each and every one associated with the Harvard religious and intellectual culture of Center. This included making sure the staff were adequately compensated and that the the later middle ages. She has edited farmers, who until then had been contadini on the mezzadria system, became members a forthcoming volume of the I Tatti of the staff along with everyone else and thus entitled to a pension too. The Smyths’ Renaissance Library series Girolamo encouragement and support brought out the very best in everyone. Savonarola: Apologetic Writings and is A fund is being established to keep their memory alive for future generations at work on her fi fth book, “Jacopo and to pay for the renovation of a part of the I Tatti library which will henceforth bear Passavanti at : both their names. I Tatti Council members MELVIN R. SEIDEN, S USAN MAINWARING Dominican Life, Learning, and Art in ROBERTS and WILLIAM E. HOOD, J R. are co-chairing this effort. As Michael Rocke has Fourteenth-Century Florence.” explained on page 5, the architects Francesco Garofalo and Sharon Miura have started plans to renovate the 1950s block behind the reference desk and the Morrill Music HARVEY C. MANSFIELD, J R. (VIT’90) the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Library. This major renovation will install foundations, replace the roof, fl oors, and Government at Harvard University, windows, revamp the heating/air conditioning system, and will involve installing many delivered the 2007 Jefferson Lecturer meters of custom shelving, which will more than double the available shelving space in the Humanities, sponsored by and provide additional readers’ carrels. We anticipate the cost of this project, which the NEH in Washington, DC last will start this winter, to be around $1,000,000, and we very much hope that all those May: “How to Understand Politics: whose lives Craig and Barbara Smyth touched over the years will contribute to raise What the Humanities Can Say to at least $500,000 towards that goal with the rest to be matched by I Tatti. Science.” For further details please do not hesitate to get in touch with Alexa Mason at [email protected] or Graziella Macchetta at [email protected] or write to them at the addresses on the front of the newsletter. AUTUMN 2007 IN MEMORIAM I Tatti records with sorrow the following deaths:

ARTIN PICKER (VIT’67), Professor many honors included election to the ABIO BISOGNI (VIT’72-’02), who died M Emeritus of Music, Rutgers American Academy of Arts and Sciences F suddenly on 12 December 2006 in University, died in February 2005. Born in 1963 and the Premio Internazionale Todi at the age of 68, studied art history in 1929, he received his BA and MA Virgilio. He came to I Tatti as a Harvard and music at the University of Florence, from the University of Chicago, and Visiting Professor in 1989 and stayed at where he received his laurea in 1960 with his PhD in 1960 from the University the Papiniana with his wife Margaret a dissertation on Schubert. Music was of California, Berkeley. An eminent who died in November 2006. always a part of his life, through teaching, musicologist, he was known especially television, theatre and the press. He for his work on the chansonniers of LIVO PAPI, I Tatti farmer, died on 14 was I Tatti’s fi rst music librarian (1967- Marguerite of Austria and the music O October 2006, at the age of 84. 1973). In 1967 he also began to work 22 of Isaac, Josquin, and Ockeghem. His He came to work at I Tatti in July 1953 with George Kaftal, preparing the third I Tatti fellowship, during which he shortly before the rest of the Papi family and fourth volumes of the monumental studied early 16th-century sacred music, moved into the I Tatti farmhouse (now Iconography of the Saints in Italian Painting fell early during his career at Rutgers known as the Paul E. Geier Library). (Florence: Sansoni, 1978 and Florence: Le University where he began teaching He was first employed as a tenant Lettere, 1985). In 1973 he began his long in 1961 and from which he retired in farmer until 1973 when all the farmers career at the University of Siena where 1997. He was editor of the Journal of became regular I Tatti employees. He was he taught iconography until 1999. He the American Musicological Society (1969- responsible for pruning and could often also taught at the Università Cattolica di 1971) and interim executive director of be seen high up in a swaying cypress Milano (1995-1999). In 1972, the Samuel the Society (1993-1996). cutting dead branches. When this became H. Kress Foundation gave I Tatti a fi ve- too much for him, he took charge of year grant to create an iconographical ONATHAN B. RIESS (VIT’75), Professor the vegetable garden. In the orto, fi rst at index of Italian art through the 15th J of Art History at the University of the Villino and then within the I Tatti century. Bisogni was one of the fi rst in Cincinnati and former director of the garden, he carefully planted seeds and Italy to apply information technology to College of Design, Architecture, Art and transplanted seedlings in step with the the study of art history and iconography; Planning’s School of Art, died in May phases of the moon. His vegetables were indeed, this computer-based pilot project 2006. A graduate of Amherst College and enjoyed by all who dined at I Tatti. He was well ahead of its time. The Catalogue Columbia University, he was considered was unable to work properly after a bad of Italian Art with Iconographical Analysis an expert on 15th century Italian art. accident when he fell off a ladder while Realized with the Use of the Computer, His 1981 book on the frescoes in the trimming ivy at the top of the cypress which began with a corpus of Trecento Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia was the allée and he retired in November 1991. Riminese painting, was sponsored by direct outcome of his fellowship year He lived in the Corbignano farmhouse I Tatti, the University of Siena, the at I Tatti. His other publications include with his wife, who predeceased him, their Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa and The Renaissance Antichrist: Luca Signorelli’s daughter and her family. the CNUCE, Istituto del CNR, Pisa. Orvieto Frescoes (Princeton: Princeton In 1975, the project continued with the UP, 1995) and Luca Signorelli: The San INO SARTI, after a lifetime at I Tatti, corpus of Sienese Art. In his long career, Brizio Chapel, Orvieto (New York: George G died on 28 November 2006 age he published extensively on Medieval Braziller, 1995). 87. He fi rst came to I Tatti at the age of Christian iconography and was an I Tatti seven when his family – parents, siblings, Research Associate for thirty years. ENDELL CLAUSEN (VIT’89), Pope uncle, aunt and cousins – moved into W Professor of the Latin Language the I Tatti farmhouse (now known as RAIG HUGH SMYTH, former Director and Literature Emeritus at Harvard the Paul E. Geier Library) in 1926. The C of Villa I Tatti and Professor Emeritus University, who died 12 October 2006, Sarti family worked the land. In 1950 of Art History, Harvard University, died was a pioneer in the intertextual reading Gino Sarti married Lilia Antimi and on 22 December 2006 at the age of 91. of classical works, and one of the fi rst their two sons, Giovanni and Giuliano, He received his AB in 1938, his MFA English-speaking scholars to study were born in the farmhouse. In 1954 in 1941 and his PhD in 1956, all from the relationship between the Latin they moved to their Mulino di Sopra Princeton University. As a Lieutenant and Hellenistic Greek poets. He was apartment at the bottom of the I Tatti in the US Navy during WWII, he was passionate about poetry all his life garden. Gino learned to drive during named director of the US Army’s Central and his fi rst major publication, a 1956 his military service and in 1948 changed Art Collecting Point in Munich and edition of the Roman satirist Persius, from working the land to driving for was placed in charge of identifying and brought him international acclaim. He Mr. Berenson, alongside Hugh Parry, repatriating stolen artworks. He worked began his career at Amherst College, the English chauffeur, who retired shortly at the National Gallery in Washington, where he taught from 1948 to 1959, afterwards. After Mr. Berenson’s death, DC, the Frick Collection, and as the and joined the Harvard faculty as a Gino continued to run errands and to Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, professor of Greek and Latin in 1959. He drive the Lancia Flaminia for successive NYU (1951-1973). As I Tatti’s Director retired from active teaching in 1993. His generations of I Tatti directors until his from 1973 to 1985 he developed the retirement in May 1980.

VILLA I TATTI intellectual aspects of the program and the University of Frankfurt am Main. He NTONIO ROTONDÒ (VIT’68), vastly improved its finances. He and came to I Tatti in 1968 with a project to A professor of modern history at his wife Barbara Linforth Smyth were study Florentine clergy in the late Middle the University of Florence, died in closely involved in every detail of this Ages and Renaissance. After teaching in early April at the age of 77. In 1956 he varied institute and left an indelible mark. Texas and Illinois, he joined the faculty received his laurea from the University of At the same time, Smyth continued his at SUNY Binghamton in 1978 where Florence under the direction of Eugenio own scholarship. For many years, he he remained until his retirement in Garin. He taught for several years in the and Henry Millon worked assiduously 2003. His major publications include 20 Scuola Media Superiore before moving on Michelangelo’s contribution to books, among which are Public Life in to the University of Turin and then the design of St. Peter’s. He was a Renaissance Florence (New York: Academic returning to the University of Florence distinguished connoisseur of Bronzino Press, 1980); Sex and Conquest: Gendered where he remained for many years. He drawings and will be remembered for Violence, Political Order, and the European founded and was the general editor of his Mannerism and Maniera, fi rst published Conquest of the Americas (Cambridge, UK: two important series, Studi e testi per la in 1963 (Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin) Polity Press, 1995); The Journey of the storia religiosa del Cinquecento and Studi e and republished with an introduction Magi: Meanings in History of a Christian testi per la storia della tolleranza in Europa by Elizabeth Cropper in 1992 (: Story (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997) nei secoli XVI-XVIII, both published in IRSA); and Bronzino as Draughtsman: An and over 60 articles and 70 book reviews. Florence by Leo S. Olschki. Among his Introduction, With Notes on His Portraiture A Festschrift, the preliminary title of other publications, he edited the works and Tapestries (Locust Valley, NY: J.J. which is Public Life and Private Conduct: of two important Renaissance fi gures: Augustin, 1971). With Barbara, Craig Perspectives on Power, Identity, and Gender Laelius Socinus (1525-1562), Opere/ made many friends for I Tatti in the across the Early Modern World, Essays in Lelio Sozzini; edizione critica (Firenze: museums and art administration of Honor of Richard C. Trexler, is expected L.S. Olschki, 1986) and Camillo Renato Florence and forged intellectual bonds out in early 2008. It is being co-edited (1540-1570), Opere/Camillo Renato; with Fellows in a wide variety of fi elds, by Michael Rocke (VIT’91,’99-’08) and documenti e testimonianze (Firenze: Sansoni; as the 87 articles in his Festschrift show: Peter Arnade, and will be published in the Chicago, Newberry Library, 1968). Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Essays and Studies series of the University Smyth, eds. Andrew Morrogh, Fiorella of Toronto’s Centre for Reformation and TEFANO CORSI, I Tatti librarian since Superbi Gioffredi, Piero Morselli and Renaissance Studies. S 1997, died suddenly on 21 April Eve Borsook, (Florence: Giunti Barbéra, 2007 of pleural cancer. His premature 1985). ICCARDO FRANCOVICH (VIT’73), and precipitous death deeply affected the R Professor of Medieval Archaeology I Tatti community. Born in Grosseto in DILE REDON (VIT’91,’94), Emeritus at the University of Florence, died in a 1964, he graduated in Lettere classiche at O Professor of History at the tragic fall in Fiesole last March at the the University of Florence in 1990, with University of Paris VIII, died of cancer age of 60. A graduate of the University a thesis in Greco-Roman archaeology. on 26 February 2007. During her of Florence in 1971, Francovich was After teaching Latin and Greek at high long career she wrote some 76 books a pioneering Italian archaeologist and school, he held a fellowship (1993-97) and articles on food history, Tuscany, expert on medieval Italy. He began at the Casa Buonarotti with which he Siena, and saints in the Middle Ages, teaching at the University of Siena in maintained close ties and was involved including L’espace d’une cité: Sienne et le 1975, and was president of the Società as author and/or editor in many pays siénnois (XIIIe-XIVe siècles), Rome: degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani exhibitions. He wrote the catalogue Ecole Française de Rome, 1994 and Les from 1996 to 2000. He directed or of their collection of Antiquities: Casa langues de l’Italie médiévale: textes d’histoire co-ordinated numerous archaeological Buonarroti. La collezione archeologica et de littérature Xe-XIVe siècle, Turnhout, sites including the Ospedale di S. Maria (Milano: Charta, 1997) and published Belgium: Brepols, 2002. She was co- della Scala in Siena. In 1974 he founded regularly, with a new contribution almost founder and director of the journal and became co-director of the journal every year since 1992. His extraordinary Médiévales, published by the University of Archeologia Medievale. He also edited sensitivity and depth of knowledge, Vincennes. A conference in her honor Ricerche di archeologia altomedievale e especially in relation to Antiquity and the was organized for her 65th birthday and medievale and Quaderni e biblioteca del Renaissance, shines through his writing. later published as Scrivere il Medioevo: lo dipartimento di archeologia e storia delle His last essay, La facciata albertiana del spazio, la santità, il cibo: un libro dedicato ad arti. Among his many other publications Palazzo Rucellai: Roma antica a Firenze, Odile Redon, edited by Bruno Laurioux are four books on medieval ceramics, appeared in the volume Restaurare Leon and Laurence Moulinier-Brogi, Roma: numerous articles and conference Battista Alberti: il caso di Palazzo Rucellai, Viella, 2001. papers, Villa to Village: The Transformation contributi e ricerche in corso (Firenze: of the Roman Countryside in Italy, c. Libreria Editrice Fiorentina, 2006), was ICHARD C. TREXLER (VIT’69,’70) 400-1000 (co-authored with Richard published on the occasion of the recent R Distinguished Research Professor Hodges, London: Duckworth, 2003) exhibition devoted to Leon Battista Emeritus of History at SUNY and, co-edited with Daniele Manacorda, Alberti held at Palazzo Strozzi. Binghamton, died on 8 March 2007 at Dizionario di archeologia: temi, concetti e Continued on page 27. age 74. Trexler, a Florentine Renaissance metodi (Roma: GLF Editori Laterza, specialist, received his BA from Baylor 2000). University, and his PhD in 1963 from

AUTUMN 2007 with support from the Lila Acheson Wallace – Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund, the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Publications Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman, and the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Publication Fund.

A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL I TATTI PUBLICATIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS: CAN BE FOUND ON OUR W EB RECENT T ITLES: SITE AT WWW.ITATTI.IT I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance I Tatti Renaissance Library History: ITRL 24. Lorenzo Valla: On the Donation We are pleased to announce the of Constantine, translated by G.W. I TATTI STUDIES: inauguration of a new publication series Bowersock, 2007. ITRL 25. Teofi lo Folengo Baldo, Volume ESSAYS IN THE RENAISSANCE of monographs and interpretive studies 24 Florence: Leo S. Olschki 1: Books I-XII, translated by Ann E. that concern the history of the Italian Mullaney, 2007. Executive Editor th th Renaissance from the 13 to the 17 ITRL 26. Ciceronian Controversies, edited CAROLINE ELAM centuries. The series will publish two by JoAnn Della Neva, English translation Editors to three examples per year of the very by Brian Duvick, 2007. ALISON BROWN highest quality scholarship that fi t into JOSEPH CONNORS this chronologically broad definition ELIZABETH CROPPER of the fi eld. All books in the series will IAIN FENLON be published in English by Harvard F. W. K ENT University Press. DAVID QUINT Editorial Co-ordinator Inquiries should be addressed to Edward FIORELLA GIOFFREDI SUPERBI Muir, Editor, I Tatti Studies in Italian Editorial Administrator Renaissance History at NELDA FERACE [email protected] I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Italian James Hankins & some of the I Tatti I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY Renaissance: Renaissance Library volumes. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press Readers of this Newsletter, whether General Editor or not they are former Fellows, are JAMES HANKINS strongly encouraged to submit material. The Berenson Lectures at I Tatti: Associate Editor Manuscripts should be about 7,000 1. Edward Muir, The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance, The Berenson Lectures in MARTIN DAVIES to 10,000 words long, and should be Editoral Board the Italian Renaissance, Villa I Tatti, March as accessible as possible in style, with 2006. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. MICHAEL J.B. ALLEN minimum use of technical terminology. Press. BRIAN COPENHAVER An important criterion in assessing a VINCENZO FERA manuscript is that it should have the The Villa I Tatti Series: JULIA HAIG GAISSER character of an essay or ‘saggio,’ and inter- 22. The Brancacci Chapel: A Symposium CLAUDIO LEONARDI disciplinary explorations are strongly on Form, Function and Setting, Florence WALTHER LUDWIG encouraged. Essays in languages other Villa I Tatti, 6 June 2003, edited by NICHOLAS MANN than English or Italian are welcome. Nicholas Eckstein. Florence: Leo S. SILVIA RIZZO Olschki, 2007. Requests for the style sheet, inquiries about publications, manuscripts and Joint Ventures: I TATTI STUDIES IN legible copies of illustrations proposed Leonardo Bruni: Epistolarum Libri VIII. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE HISTORY should be addressed to: Recensente Laurentio Mehus (1741), a cura Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press di James Hankins. Istituto Nazionale General Editor Nelda Ferace, I Tatti Studies: Essays in the di Studi sul Rinascimento, Edizioni di EDWARD MUIR Renaissance at [email protected] Storia e Letteratura. Roma: 2007. Board of Editors JAMES HANKINS Orders for any volume may be placed directly with the publisher or CAROL LANSING with Casalini Libri Spa., 3 via , 50014 Fiesole FI, Italy. JOHN M. NAJEMY Email [email protected] Homepage www.casalini.it KATHARINE PARK Tel: +39 055 50181. Fax: +39 055 5018201.

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JOHN LAW (VIT’95,’07), Reader in the History Department of the F ORTHCOMING TITLES: University of Swansea, has been elected Chair of the Society for I Tatti Renaissance Renaissance Studies for a three-year Library term. Until very recently Law was Pietro Bembo: History of editor of the journal Renaissance Venice, Volume 1, Books Studies which is published by the I-IV, edited and translated Society and to which members of the by Robert W. Ulery, Jr. I Tatti community have frequently Leonardo Bruni: History contributed. The Society’s third of the Florentine People, international conference will be Volume 3, Books IX-XII, Memoirs, edited and held in Dublin in the summer of Nelda Ferace, Marco Pompili, Barbara 2008. Law also received a grant translated by James Hankins with D.J.W. Flores, Signe Ollander, Patrizia Carella & from the British Academy to support Bradley. Valerio Pacini at the Tinaia for the Pius II: Commentaries, Volume 2, Books svinatura. the conference “Communes and III-IV, edited by Margaret Meserve and Despots: A Conference in Memory Marcello Simonetta. of Philip Jones” (Brasenose College, The Villa I Tatti Series: Oxford, 6-7 September 2007). The Berenson Lectures at I Tatti: 23. Arnolfo’s Moment: Acts of an International Several members of the I Tatti 2. Dale Kent, Friendship, Trust and Fidelity Conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, 26-27 community – including ROBERT in Renaissance Florence, The Berenson May 2005, edited by David Friedman, BLACK (VIT’93, University of Leeds); Lectures in the Italian Renaissance, Florence, Julian Gardner, Margaret Haines, Fiorella MARCO GENTILE (VIT’06, University Villa I Tatti, March 2007. Cambridge, MA: Gioffredi Superbi. Florence: Leo S. Harvard Univ. Press. of Milan); GEORGE HOLMES (VIT’95) Olschki. All Souls College, Oxford, Emeritus); 24. Italy & Hungary: Humanism & Art in F. W. K ENT (VIT’78,’83,’87,’96,’97, I Tatti Studies, Essays in the Renaissance: the Early Renaissance, Acts of an International Volume 11, will include inter alia: Conference, Villa I Tatti, 6, 7, 8 June Monash University); CAROL LANSING NERIDA NEWBIGIN, “Greasing the Wheels 2007, edited by Peter Farbaky, Louis A. (VIT’95,’08, University of California, of Heaven: Recycling, Innovation and Waldman, Fiorella Santa Barbara); CHRISTINE MEEK the Question of ‘Brunelleschi’s’ Stage Gioffredi Superbi. (VIT’96, Trinity College, Dublin) Machinery.” Florence: Leo S. – contributed to this event, and SUZANNE BROWN BUTTERS, “The Uses Olschki. more intend to participate in the and Abuses of Gifts in Ferdinando de’ anticipated collection of essays. Medici’s World.” Joint Ventures: FLAMINIA BARDATI, “Napoli in Francia? Leon Battista L’arco di Alfonso I e i portali monumentali BLAKE WILSON (VIT’98), Associate Alberti: Architetture Barton Thurber. del primo Rinascimento francese.” Professor of Music at Dickinson e Committenti: G UIDO REBECCHINI, “After the College, returned to Florence twice Medici: The New Rome of Pope Paul Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, bringing music with him last year. Farnese.” Firenze – Villa I Tatti, Rimini – Palazzo In October 2006, in conjunction MACHTELT ISRAELS, “Absence and Buonadrata, Mantova – Teatro Bibiena, with the second symposium devoted Resemblance. Early Images of Bernardino 12-16 ottobre 2004, a cura di A. Calzona, to Orsanmichele sponsored by da Siena and the Issue of Portraiture.” J. Connors, F. P. Fiore, C. Vasoli. Firenze: CASVA, he organized a concert by La Olschki, i.c.s. (“Ingenium,” 12). Reverdie, “Legenda Aurea: La lauda Desiderio da Settignano:Atti del convegno trecentesca in Orsanmichele” and internazionale, Firenze, Museo Nazionale in June, he brought the Dickinson del Bargello, Kunsthistorisches Institut College Collegium of which he is in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Villa the director, to the church of San I Tatti, 9-12 maggio 2007, a cura di Martino a Mensola with a concert Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, Alessandro of 250 years of American choral Matthew Nova, Gerhard Wolf, Joseph Connors. music. Vester & Eric Dursteler.

AUTUMN 2007 In Memoriam continued from page 23. and Roman literature and antiquities. range of paintings and prints that linked The same seriousness and dedication Those who had the fortune to know late medieval courtly love subjects to which Stefano showed in his own him, to enjoy his charm, friendship, and Renaissance Florence. scholarship, guided him in his work in intellectual intimacy, have experienced the Berenson Library over the last ten an unforgettable human relationship. AMES BECK (VIT’68,’72,’83,’91,’93), years, fi rst as reference librarian, then in J Professor of Art History at Columbia his responsibilities for the acquisition and AUL F. W ATSON (VIT’79), University, who died of lung cancer on cataloguing of the periodicals collection, P Associate Professor Emeritus 26 May 2007 at the age of 77, received and in addition as specialist bibliographer of the History of Art, University of his BA from Oberlin College in 1952, his for the Library in the fi eld of Greek Pennsylvania, died on May 15 at the age MA from New York University in 1954 of 65. He received his BA from and in 1963 his PhD from Columbia the University of Toronto in University where he stayed for the rest 1962, and his PhD in art history of his academic career. He published from in 1970. extensively on Italian Renaissance He taught at the University of art including 13 books and countless 26 Pennsylvania from 1968 until his articles on artists such as Jacopo della retirement in 2000 after which Quercia, , Giotto, Caravaggio, he continued his engagement and Michelangelo. Among these are his with undergraduates as College comprehensive survey, Italian Renaissance advisor. He came to I Tatti as the Painting (New York: Harper & Row, Hanna Kiel Fellow in 1978/79 1981) and Jacopo Della Quercia (New with a project to study Italian York: Columbia UP, 1991). He was an illustrations of the writings of outspoken critic of the overcleaning of Giovanni Boccaccio from 1350 to works of art, most notably Michelangelo’s 1500 which resulted in numerous frescoes in the and publications. His publications Quercia’s Ilaria del Carretto in Lucca. Stefano Corsi surrounded by friends and colleagues at include The Garden of Love in In 1992 he co-founded ArtWatch the Fettunta party to celebrate the new olive oil. Tuscan Art of the Early Renaissance International, a nonprofit advocacy (Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, organization to monitor the restoration, 1979), in which he explicated a attribution, and international shipment of works of art. Many of his concerns came together in his recent book From FORMER FELLOWS UPDATE Duccio to Raphael: Connoisseurship in Crisis (Florence: European Press Academic Publishing, 2006). During his long career A NNA MARIA BUSSE BERGER DEBORAH PARKER (VIT’93), Professor he received many awards, including the (VIT’93,’06), Chair of the Department of Italian at the University of Virginia, title Commendatore di Merito della of Music and Professor of Medieval received a prestigious National Repubblica Italiana (1992). and Renaissance History and Theory Endowment for the Humanities at the University of California, Davis, (NEH) grant to extend her electronic last year received two major awards for teaching resource on Dante’s Divine her book Medieval Music and the Art of Comedy, The World of Dante (http:// Memory (Berkeley: Univ. of California www3.iath.virginia.edu/dante/). Press, 2005): the Deems Taylor Award This multi-media web site is an (given by the American Society of educational tool intended to deepen Composers, Authors & Publishers), students understanding of Dante’s which recognizes outstanding print, remarkable visual imagination. The broadcast and new media coverage of World of Dante currently includes the music; and the Wallace Berry Award for Italian text of the Inferno, an English best book in 2005 which was awarded translation, illustrations and other by the Society for Music Theory at visual material for every canto and their annual meeting. The book project a scalable map of Hell. Three other was begun when Busse Berger was a former Fellows are members of the Fellow at I Tatti in 1992-93, and its World of Dante advisory board: RON publication was aided by a grant from WITT (VIT’69,’05), PAUL BAROLSKY the Lila Acheson Wallace – Reader’s (VIT’81,’87,’91,’95,’08), GEORGE Digest Publication Grant from I Tatti. DAMERON (VIT’88), and JONATHAN NELSON (VIT’02). Lino Pertile & Diana Sorensen visited I Tatti from Harvard University last June.

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Fellows GABRIELE PEDULLÀ, Francesco De “Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Modern ANNALISA ANDREONI, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Teramo, Concept of the Artist.” Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Pisa, Literature. “Il pensiero politico di EDWARD D. E NGLISH (2nd sem), Lila Literature. “Benedetto Varchi lettore Francesco Patrizi da Siena.” Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, di Dante e Petrarca all’Accademia GIANCARLA PERITI, Jean-François Malle University of California, Santa Barbara, Fiorentina.” Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in History. “Magnates, the Politics, and the JÉRÉMIE BARTHAS, Florence J. Gould Fellow, the Visual Arts (CASVA), Art History. Culture of Siena, 1240-1420.” Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences “Art and Ornamented Spaces in Italian SEAN GALLAGHER (1st sem), Robert Lehman Sociales, History. “Florentine Public Renaissance Convents.” Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Finances during Machiavelli’s Service to DAINORA POCIUTE ABUKEVICIENE (2nd Musicology. “Musical Poetics in the the Republic (1498-1512).” sem), Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Fifteenth Century.” GUIDO BELTRAMINI (2nd sem), Craig Vilnius University, History. “Bernardino ROBERT W. G ASTON (1st sem), Lila Wallace Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Centro Ochino from Siena and the Early - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, La Trobe Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Protestantism in East Europe.” University, Art History. “Pirro Ligorio’s Andrea Palladio, Art History. “Abitare MADDALENA SPAGNOLO, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Encyclopaedic Antiquarianism.” all’antica nel Veneto di Pietro Bembo.” Università di Siena – Italian Academy PETER FRANCIS HOWARD (1st sem), Lila DIANE BODART, Ahmanson Fellow, (NY), Art History. “Irony and Wit in Art Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Université de Poitiers, Art History. Criticism 16th to 17th Century.” Monash University, History. “The “Reflections in Italian Renaissance PETER STACEY, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, Studia of Fifteenth-Century Florence as Painting as Emblem of Pictorial Sidney Sussex College, University Communities of Learning.” Conception.” of Cambridge, History. “Renaissance CAROL LANSING (2nd sem), Robert Lehman VINCENZO BORGHETTI, Lila Wallace Rage: The Place of Seneca’s De ira in Visiting Professor, University of California, - Reader’s Digest Fellow, (Università Renaissance Thought.” Santa Barbara, History. “Noble Romans: di Pavia), Musicology. “Music for the MARTIN STEFANIK (1st sem), Andrew W. Elite Culture in Thirteenth-Century Prince: Chapels in Italian Renaissance Mellon Research Fellow, Institute of History, Lazio.” Courts.” Slovak Academy of Sciences, History. LODI NAUTA (2nd sem), Lila Wallace - VALERIA CAFÀ, Hanna Kiel Fellow, (Scuola “Precious Metals from Slovakia in the Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, University Vaticana di Paleografi a, Diplomatica e Context of the Relations between the of Groningen, History. “Lorenzo Archivistica), Art History. “Il valore della Republic of Florence and Kingdom of Valla and the Humanist Critique of copia nel Rinascimento: il cosiddetto Hungary in the XIV-XV Centuries.” Scholasticism.” taccuino senese di Baldassarre Peruzzi.” CHRISTINA STRUNCK, Rush H. Kress FLORA DENNIS, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, Fellow, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Director’s Research Fellow University of Sussex, Musicology. “Music, Art History. “Christine of Lorraine as a IPPOLITA DI MAJO, Università di Napoli, Sound and Domestic Space in Italy, Mediator between France and Tuscany.” Art History. “Suor Orsola Benincasa.” 1450-1620.” DOMINIQUE THIEBAUT (1st sem), Craig HOLLY HURLBURT, Committee to Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Musée Research Associate Rescue Italian Art Fellow, Southern du Louvre, Art History. Catalogue de INGRID BAUMGÄRTNER, Universität Illinois University, Carbondale, History. l’exposition Mantegna (Louvre, fall Kassel, History. “Cartography and Travel “Caterina Corner: Women and Gender 2008). Reports in the Late Middle Ages.” in the Venetian Empire, 1300-1600.” STEPHAN W OLOHOJIAN, Craig Hugh Smyth MARK JURDJEVIC, Melville J. Kahn Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, Art Senior Research Associates Fellow, University of Ottawa, History. History. “The Making and Facture of Are the same as for 2006-2007. “Machiavelli’s Political Thought.” Italian Renaissance Plaquettes.” CYNTHIA KLESTINEC, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Miami University, Ohio, History. Readers in Renaissance Studies “Renaissance Surgery; Medical/ MARISA BASS (2nd sem), Harvard Humanist Practices; Concerns about University, Art History. Hygiene and Pain; Patients.” LESLIE ANN GEDDES (1st sem), Princeton JOZEF MATULA (2nd sem), Andrew W. University, Art History. Mellon Research Fellow, Palacky University, EDWARD H. WOUK (1st sem), Harvard History. “Averroes’ Importance for the University, Art History. Soul/Body Problem in Late Paduan Aristotelianism.” Visiting Professors GERRY MILLIGAN, Robert Lehman Fellow, PAUL BAROLSKY (2nd sem), Lila Wallace College of Staten Island – CUNY, - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Literature. “Gender and Warfare in Italian University of Virginia, Art History. Elena Valeri Renaissance Literature.” & Guido Beltramini.

AUTUMN 2007 major exhibitions of his work in of Mátyás Corvinus in 2008. The week countries, speaking eight languages. Paris, Florence and Washington. It fell to after the conference, we traveled with the It should be a wonderful year. New I Tatti to explore the sculptor’s afterlife speakers and some members of the I Tatti developments for 2007-08 will include and to organize a visit, with Margaret community to Budapest, Esztergom, at least three new volumes in the Haines (VIT’76,’87-08) and University Visegrad and Pécs to see Renaissance I Tatti Renaissance Library, and the fi rst of Florence geologist Massimo Coli, sites. One had a sense of meeting volumes in a series I Tatti Studies in Italian to one of the most romantic spots in an intensely engaged community of Renaissance History to be published by the neighborhood, the Laghetto delle scholars, all with superb humanistic Harvard University Press under the Colonne, where the fl ooded pietra serena training and passionately committed to general editorship of Edward Muir quarry that had supplied Brunelleschi the interpretation of a diffi cult history (VIT’73). A catalogue of the Italian was turned into a Victorian folly by John and a fragmented past. For me, this will paintings in the Berenson Collection is Temple Leader, builder of the Castello di have been one of the most moving events being undertaken under the direction Vincigliata. of my time at I Tatti. of Carl Strehlke, working with Machtelt In June I Tatti held an ambitious The whole I Tatti family was Israëls (VIT’05) and a number of other 28 conference on the connections in art and deeply saddened by the death after a specialists. Finally, I look forward with ~ humanism between Italy and Hungary short illness of Stefano Corsi, classical pleasure to welcoming Louis Waldman in the Renaissance. It was organized by scholar and librarian, who had been (VIT’06) of the University of Texas at two former Mellon Research Fellows working in the Biblioteca Berenson since Austin for a term in a new post, Assistant from Hungary, Péter Farbaky (VIT’02) 1997 and was a dear friend as well to Director for Programs. of the Budapest History Museum and many Fellows. Added to the loss of Craig Night closes in on the Berenson Ildikó Fehér (VIT’06) of the Academy Hugh Smyth, the much loved Director of bench, and our fi fth year at I Tatti draws of Fine Arts of Budapest, working closely I Tatti from 1973 to 1985, the year had to a close, with prospects for a banner with Louis Waldman (VIT’06). The event its fair share of sorrow. year to come. precedes a related effort on the part By the time you read this, the Joseph Connors of the Budapest History Museum to new Fellows and some of the Visiting Director organize a large exhibition on the world Professors will have arrived, from ten

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