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Rialto Provo, UT 84602 USA Tel &84 /0/5)& 3*"-50 No. 29 2010 EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Patricia Fortini Brown Dept. of Art & Archeology Princeton University Robert C. Davis Department of History The Ohio State University Paul Grendler Emeritus Professor of History University of Toronto Edward Muir Department of History Northwestern University EDITOR Eric Dursteler Department of History Brigham Young University Published with the support of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Evans Foundation, and the Department of History at Brigham Young University. For information, contact: News on the Rialto Provo, UT 84602 USA Tel. (801) 361-2904 Fax (801) 422-0275 [email protected] or www.newsontherialto.com LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES ARCHIVIO DI STATO, FRARI CENTRO TEDESCO DI STUDI ISTITUTO DI STUDI STORICI S. Polo 3002, tel. 041-5222281; VENEZIANI S. 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Disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences are eligibile areas of study, including (but not limited to) archaeology, architecture, art, bibliography, economics, history, history of science, law, literature, music, political science, religion, and theater. The deadline for applications is December 15. Guidelines and application forms are available from the Foundation’s website: www.delmas.org. DELMAS COMMONWEALTH GRANTS FOR VENETIAN RESEARCH: The Trustees of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of New York announce that up to £20,000 will be made available to scholars from Great Britain and the Commonwealth for research in Venice. The principal areas of research envisaged concern both the past (art, architecture, history, law, language, literature, music) and the present (conservation, culture, environment, politics) of Venice and the territories formerly subject to it. Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary to the Delmas Foundation’s Advisory Committee, Professor Julian Gardner, 44, Foundry House, Eagle Works, Walton Well Road, Oxford OX2 6AQ UK (telephone 01865 511 499 e-mail julian. [email protected]). Applications should reach Professor Julian Gardner by May 15. ARCHIVIO DI STATO ONLINE: L’Archivio di stato di Venezia annuncia che sono on line sia il Sistema informativo dell’archivio, che descrive tutti LIRQGLDUFKLYLVWLFLHJOLVWUXPHQWLGLFRUUHGR ÀQGLQJDLGV FROOHJDWLQRQFKpSHUFLUFDODPHWjGLHVVLODULVSHWWLYD DUWLFROD]LRQHLQVHULHVRWWRVHULHHGDSRFRLQL]LDWDHSHURUDFLUFRVFULWWDDSRFKLIRQGLDQFKHOHXQLWj,VRJJHWWL produttori (le istituzioni o le persone o famiglie che hanno prodotto gli archivi) sono presenti, ma ancora in corso di approfondimento. 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Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History. 3 VOLUME 29 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS MEDITERRANEAN HISTORICAL REVIEW – UK VENETIAN SEMINAR: CALL FOR PAPERS: The annual Venetian Seminar was held 11 May 2010 at the Mediterranean Historical Review is a bi-annual, refereed John Rylands University Library, University of Manches- journal, published by Routledge. The journal is interested in ter. For information regarding the 2011 conference, please receiving papers treating the history of the Mediterranean contact Mary Laven ([email protected]) or Filippo de Vivo EDVLQHPSKDVL]LQJFRQWDFWVUHODWLRQVDQGLQÁXHQFHVZLWKLQ ([email protected]). a Mediterranean context, as well as questions of a compara- tive and comparable nature. For information regarding the CALL FOR PAPERS: submission of manuscripts, please visit our website: The Mediterranean Seminar (www.mediterraneanseminar. www.tau.ac.il/humanities/cmc/mhr/mhr.html. Or contact us org) is proposing panels on the Medieval Mediterranean at: [email protected]. for the 2011 meeting of the Medieval Academy of America to be held 14-16 April in Tempe AZ. Session organizers: VENICE IN PERIL SUMMER LECTURE: Brian A. Catlos, History: University of California, Santa Michelle Lovric will present the Venice in Peril Summer Cruz/ Religious Studies: University of Colorado at Boulder Lecture, entitled “The Night Venice Nearly Died: The Con- & Sharon Kinoshita, Literature: University of California, spiracy of Bajamonte Tiepolo 1310–2010,” at The Royal Santa Cruz. Geographical Society, 7pm, Tuesday 1 June 2010. Addi- Papers are welcome on a wide range of topics, including: tional information is available at [email protected]. religious, social, political, economic, institutional, cultural, and literary history as well as the history of art, science, and ENGLISH WRITERS IN ITALY: philosophy. Successful proposals will focus on “history (QJOLVK:ULWHUVLQ,WDO\LVDQLQIRUPDODVVRFLDWLRQRI(QJOLVK of” rather than ‘history in” the Mediterranean, which is to DQG$PHULFDQZULWHUVEDVHGLQYDULRXVUHJLRQVRI,WDO\ say, they will focus on region-wide phenomena, on move- Our website is www.englishwritersinitaly.com. Our mem- PHQWDFFXOWXUDWLRQFRQÁLFWLQWHUHWKQLFRULQWHUFRQIHV- bership includes novelists, poets, journalists, translators sional relations, take a comparative approach, or address the and academics. We meet two or three times a year. The nature of the Mediterranean as region across either a broad next meeting is in Umbria in May. We are currently putting chronological or geographical sweep. together a proposal for an anthology provisionally entitled Please submit a 250-word proposal, short CV (3 pages) Exiles in Paradiso, about living, working and studying in maximum, and a request for AV/computing equipment (if ,WDO\ necessary). Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in ,I\RXZRXOGOLNHWRMRLQWKHDVVRFLDWLRQRU\RXKDYH length and must be delivered in person. Proposals should a piece (300-2,500 words) you’d like to put forward for be submitted by email no later than May 1, 2010. Send inclusion in the anthology, please contact Gay Marks inquiries and proposals to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar. [email protected] org, with the subject line “MAA 2011.” 4 NEWS ON THE RIALTO AN NOUNCEMENTS CINI FOUNDATION: The Marciana has now become the leader among the The Fondazione Giorgio Cini
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