Locating Foundlings in the Early Modern World

COMMON CHILDREN AND THE This conference has been organized with support from COMMON GOOD: the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund LOCATING FOUNDLINGS IN THE and the scholarly programs and publications funds in EARLY MODERN WORLD the names of Myron and Sheila Gilmore, Jean-Francois Malle , Andrew W. Mellon, Robert Lehman, Craig and DAI BAMBINI "COMUNI" AL BENE COMUNE: Barbara Smyth, and Malcolm Hewitt Wiener. I “TROVATELLI” NELLA PRIMA ETÀ MODERNA

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY NICHOLAS TERPSTRA IMAGES: (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO) Bernardino Poccetti, The 600th anniversary of the inauguration of Scene di Vita Ospedaliera, 1610 the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence provides Firenze, Spedale degli Innocenti, an opportunity to re-examine the contexts for foundling care both within and beyond this Niccolò Gerini e Ambrigio di Baldese, pioneering institution. This conference will examine I capitani della Misericordia consegnano the spaces and artworks of the institution itself, i bambini alle nuove madri, 1336, literary and legal fashioning of illegitimacy by Firenze, Museo del Bigallo humanists and magistrates, the care taken with the formation of youths in the broadest sense, and Andrea della Robbia, Putto the ways in which other Europeans learned from the example of Florence as they aimed to address Firenze, Spedale degli Innocenti, 1487 the challenge of foundling care in their own urban, national, and imperial settings. I Tatti - The Harvard University Center Il Seicentenario dell’inaugurazione dell’Ospedale for Italian Renaissance Studies degli Innocenti a Firenze offre un’opportunità per Via di Vincigliata 26, Florence, 50135 riesaminare i contesti dell’assistenza ai “trovatelli”, +39 055 603 251 [email protected] sia all’interno che all’esterno di questa istituzione pioneristica. Il convegno prenderà in esame gli spazi e le opere d’arte della stessa istituzione, i modi in cui umanisti e magistrati hanno dato forma COMMON CHILDREN letteraria e giuridica all’illegittimità, la cura dedicata alla formazione dei giovani nel senso più ampio, e il modo in cui le altre realtà europee si sono ispirate and the COMMON GOOD: all’esempio fiorentino nel momento in cui si sono poste l’obiettivo di affrontare la sfida dell’assistenza Locating Foundlings ai bambini abbandonati nei propri contesti urbani, nazionali e coloniali. in the Early Modern World

Unless indicated otherwise in the title, all talks will be in AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE English / Salvo diversamente indicato nel titolo, tutte le relazioni si terranno in inglese.

December 9-10 2019

I TATTI / ISTITUTO DEGLI INNOCENTI Monday, December 9 Istituto degli Innocenti (Salone Brunelleschi) 17:00 Discussion FRAMING FOUNDLINGS – PHYSICAL HEALTH AND MORAL FORMATION 10:30 ARABELLA S. NATALINI (Museo degli Innocenti) 17:30 Coffee Break ALINA PAYNE (I Tatti / Harvard University) CHAIR: REUVEN AMITAI NICHOLAS TERPSTRA (University of Toronto) THE INNOCENTI IN THE URBAN AND SOCIAL (I Tatti / Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Welcome and Introduction FABRIC OF FLORENCE CHAIR: CECILIE HOLLBERG (I Tatti) 11:30 DIANA BULLEN PRESCIUTTI (University of Essex) RECREATING THE SPACES OF THE INNOCENTI Picturing Female Foundlings and Orphans CHAIR: FELIPE PEREDA (I Tatti/Harvard University) 17:45 NIALL ATKINSON & CARMEN CASWELL in Early Modern Italy and Holland (University of Chicago) 11:00 AMEDEO BELLUZZI (University of Florence) Understanding the Social and Spatial Ecology of the 12:00 SPIRIT WAITE (University of Toronto) L’ospedale degli Innocenti e la piazza di Santa Maria dei Servi Innocenti’s Neighborhood Woven by Hand, Worn on the Body: Textiles and the Formation of Florentine and Pratese Foundlings, 11:30 GEORGE BENT (Washington and Lee University) 18:15 MARIO BEVILACQUA & EMANUELA FERRETTI c. 1570-1650 A Model Institution: The Ospedale degli Innocenti (University of Florence) in Three Dimensions The Innocenti, Architecture and the City: 12:30 Discussion between Republic and Principality (15th-16th centuries) 12:00 FABRIZIO NEVOLA (University of Exeter) 13:00 Lunch Immersive Renaissance – New Narratives for a Spatialized 18:45 COLIN ROSE (Brock University) Understanding of Art and Architecture & DANIEL JAMISON (University of Toronto) Innocenti Investments: Property Consolidation and LEGITIMACY AND ILLEGITIMACY 12:30 Discussion Webs of Production in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Florence CHAIR: THOMAS GRUBER (I Tatti)

13:00 Lunch Break 19:15 Discussion 14:30 THOMAS KUEHN (Clemson University) The Confused Legal Status of the FOUNDLING CARE – Children of Foundling Hospitals Tuesday, December 10 EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL COMPARISONS I Tatti (Gould Hall) CHAIR: INGRID GREENFIELD (I Tatti) 15:00 SANNE MUURLING (Leiden University) 08:45 Welcome Coffee See you in court? Unwed Mothers, Urban Institutions 15:30 NICHOLAS TERPSTRA (University of Toronto) and Agency in Early Modern Europe Found & Lost: Race, Demography, and Reason of State FRAMING LEGAL AND FAMILY RELATIONS (Vanderbilt University) in Early-Modern Foundling Care CHAIR: ALINA PAYNE (I Tatti / Harvard University) 15:30 JOEL F. HARRINGTON A 'Sonderweg' Among Early Modern Foundling Homes? 16:00 ISABEL DOS GUIMÃRES SÁ (Universidade do Minho) 09:00 MARTIN MCLAUGHLIN (Oxford University) The Nuremberg Findel in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Foundlings in the Portuguese World: Alberti on the Care of Young Children The Culture of Child Abandonment 16:00 Discussion 09:30 CASPAR PEARSON (University of Essex) 16:30 ANN TWINAM (University of Texas) 16:30 Closing Coffee Orphanage and Order: Leon Battista Alberti Dimensions of Abandonment in Spain and the Indies: and the Origins of Renaissance Architecture the Casas de Expósitos and Beyond 10:00 ANNE LEADER (University of Virginia) The Sepulchral Landscape of the Innocenti

10:30 Discussion

11:00 Coffee Break