The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti Via di Vincigliata 26, 50135 Florence, Italy Volume 22 E-mail: [email protected] / Web: http://www.itatti.it—,m— Telephone: +39-055-603-251 / Fax: +39-055-603-383 Autumn 2002

t has been a month since Françoise and promises a lecture on the erotic ele- Iand I were driven up the tortuous First Impressions ment in religious art; each of the thirty- curves of the Via di Vincigliata, not for P seven Madonnas who look down on the first time, but for the first time as me as I wander through the house home. Memories of these warns me against the temp- thirty days, each at first so dis- tations that might arise tinct, are beginning to coalesce from Bette’s slides. Nicholas into one vast and variegated Eckstein will come from first impression. As always Sydney in the spring semester when one arrives in Italy there to preside over a symposium is the assault on the senses, but he is organizing on the more pronounced than ever, Brancacci Chapel for the first and on all five of them. On week of June. This will be an taste, of course, from the wine interdisciplinary experience, to and olive oil produced on the be sure, but I wonder what farm. On smell, from the could be more interdis- breezes that blow up in waves ciplinary than the I Tatti from the late-blooming roses lunches, especially if Salvatore and olea fragrans trees in the Camporeale, Eve Borsook, or garden, lately mixed with pun- Peggy Haines, our Senior gent smoke from autumn Incoming director Joseph Connors talking to Research Associates, or Allen burnings on the neighboring Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller and Fausto Calderai. Grieco or Michael Rocke sit farms. On touch, the sensa- within earshot. tions can be either cold and smooth, series, Early Music at I Tatti. Perhaps it is Walter Kaiser left I Tatti in a superb from the rotund Japanese elephant at under hearing that one might mention state; buildings, gardens, library, and the foot of the stairs, which no one can the two minutes of silence observed by patrimony. No one who has visited help patting, or soft and velvety, from the Fellows and staff, out in the garden, after a long absence has failed to remark the moss on the trunks of the cypresses on September 11th, so very moving to on this. And a wonderful staff, who has at the foot of the great allee. The cham- this New Yorker. But as Berenson taken us generously into the extended pion Florentine mosquitoes also see would have wished, it is the sense of family of I Tatti, is part of his gift to us to it that this sense is not under- sight that is most exercised when one too. Of the rich legacy left by his pre- represented. The assault on hearing arrives at I Tatti: by the exquisite flower decessors, Françoise and I constantly begins gently, with the vesper bell of arrangements Margrit places in every think as well of the example of Craig S. Martino, but picks up at night, from room, by the view down the enfilade of and Barbara Smyth, and of their wise the many species of birds, the lone the garden from the piano nobile, by the observation, made over lunch just night-owl, and the squealing piglets in glow of the fondi d’oro, at their brightest before we left New York, that it had the boar troop whose latest transhu- in early evening when the rest of the been exhilarating to work so closely as a mance has brought them to I Tatti, house sinks into darkness. couple. where they live off the grapes. To these Fifteen Fellows have now arrived: Behind every painting, behind the memory now adds the haunting voices five American, six Italian, two British, house and gardens, behind half of the of La Reverdie, the north Italian group one French, and one Czech. I Tatti is as books, lurks the endlessly fascinating who performed a few days ago to a full international as ever. Bette Talvacchia figure of the founder. When we arrived has begun her year as Visiting Professor Limonaia in the first concert in a new Continued on back page

Cambridge Office: Villa I Tatti, Harvard University, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-5762 Telephone: +1 617 496-8742 or +1 617 495-8042 / Fax: 617 495-8041 Web: http://www.itatti.it VILLA I TATTI COMMUNITY 2001-2002

Fellows ROBERTO LEPORATTI, Lila Wallace – Research Associates Reader’s Digest Fellow, Scuola Media “A. URT ARSTOW, Ahmanson Fellow, J. Paul K B Lorenzetti,” Monticiano (SI), Literature. FABIO BISOGNI, Università di Siena, Art Getty Museum, Art History. “Art in the Age of “Ricerche sulla figura e l’opera di Girolamo History. “Rifacimento della sezione iconografica Mantegna.” Benivieni (1452-1542).” della Bibliotheca Sanctorum.” ANDREW C. BLUME, Rush H. Kress Fellow, CHRISTIAN R. MOEVS, Andrew W. Mellon LINA BOLZONI, Scuola Normale Superiore, Harvard University, Art History. “Sixtus IV and Fellow, University of Notre Dame, Literature. Pisa, Literature. “Prediche in volgare e uso delle his Palace Chapel: the Sistine Chapel in the 15th “Landino’s Dante: The Spiritual-Philosophical immagini dalle origini al Savonarola.” Century.” Interpretation of the Comedy in the EVE BORSOOK, Villa I Tatti, Art History. CAMMY BROTHERS, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Renaissance.” “Medieval Mosaic Technology” and “Life & University of Virginia, Art History. “Memory CAROLINE P. MURPHY, Melville J. Kahn Letters of Filippo Strozzi the Elder.” and Invention in Michelangelo’s Architectural Fellow, University of California, Riverside, Art SALVATORE I. CAMPOREALE, The Johns Drawings.” History. “Artistic Patronage of Felice della Hopkins University, History. “Uno studio sul De MARILINA CIRILLO FALZARANO, Jean- Rovere Orsini, Daughter of Julius II.” libero arbitro di Lorenzo Valla.” François Malle Fellow, Liceo Classico Tito Livio, 2 JONATHAN NELSON, Robert Lehman Fellow, GINO CORTI (Emeritus), Villa I Tatti, Sant’Agata dei Goti (BN), Literature. “Metodi e f Syracuse University in Florence, Art History. Paleography and History. “Lorenzo de’ Medici, tecniche del tradurre nei volgarizzamenti trecen- “The Definition, Analysis, and Reception of collezionista di antichità.” teschi pisani.” Michelangelo’s Female Nudes.” LAURA CORTI, Istituto Universitario di SUZANNE G. CUSICK, Frederick Burkhardt DEANNA M. SHEMEK, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Architettura, Venezia, Art History. “Le genealo- Residential Fellow, New York University, University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature. gie degli scalpellini fiesolani.” Musicology. “The Seicento Musician Francesca “Critical Book on the Letters of Isabella d’Este.” Caccini: Gender, Power, Vocality.” ALLEN GRIECO, Villa I Tatti, History. “A Social and Cultural History of Alimentary Habits NDREW ELL’ NTONIO, Andrew W. Guest Scholar A D A in Renaissance Italy.” Mellon Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, GÉRALDINE ALBERS, Florence Gould Guest Musicology. “Changing Models of Listening MARGARET HAINES, Opera di Santa Maria Scholar, Art History. “Histoir de la dépose des Practice in Italy, 1580-1630.” del Fiore, Art History. “Edition and Database of peintures murales en Italie. Mémoire des lieux, the Documentation of the Florentine Opera del RUCE . DELSTEIN, Jean-François Malle B L E voyage des oeuvres.” Duomo during the Cupola Period.” Fellow, New York University in Florence, “Eleonora di Toledo and the Early History of the Visiting Professors JULIAN KLIEMANN, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Boboli Gardens.” Art History. “Temi imperiali nell’iconografia ARTHUR FIELD, Indiana University, History. papale del Cinquecento.” PETER FARBAKY (2nd sem), Andrew W. “Francesco Filelfo’s School of Anti-Medici Mellon Research Fellow, Eötvös Loránd University, Rhetoric in Florence, 1429-1434.” ARNALDO MORELLI, Conservatorio Statale Art History. “Florentine Connections of Early di Musica ‘Ottorino Respighi,’ Latina, and CATHERINE GOGUEL (1st sem), Robert Renaissance Art in Hungary.” Università della Calabria, Arcavacata, Cosenza, Lehman Visiting Professor, Musée du Louvre, Art Musicology. “Tradizione scritta e non scritta ATHERINE . ILL, Francesco De Dombrowski K J G History. “Tuscan Drawings in the Louvre nella musica per strumenti da tasto nell’età mo- Fellow, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Saint Collections, from Renaissance to Baroque,” and derna,” e “Ritratti di musicisti nel Cinquecento John’s University, History. “The Expansion of “Gender Iconography: The Woman Spinning in Italia: modelli, significati, autenticità.” Women’s Monasticism in late Medieval Italy.” with the Distaff.” MICHAEL ROCKE, Villa I Tatti, History. AROLYN AMES, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, C J PAUL HILLS (2nd sem), Robert Lehman Visiting “Edition and Translation of Italian Texts related Monash University, History. “Politics and Professor, University College London, Art to Homoeroticism (14th-17th centuries).” Marital Strategies in the Correspondence of History. “Curtain and Veil in Renaissance Art.” Isabella d’Este.” MASSIMILIANO ROSSI, Università di Lecce, JANEZ HÖFLER (2nd sem), University of Art History. “Le genealogie ‘fantastiche’ dei . AWRENCE ENKENS, CRIA Fellow, A L J Ljubljana, Art History. “The Montefeltro Palace Medici: politica letteraria e figurativa granducale University of New Orleans, Art History. in Urbino (1376-1508).” tra Cinque e Seicento.” “Florentine Artists in Naples and the Formation CHRISTIANE KLAPISCH-ZUBER, École of a Neapolitan Court Style, 1450-1500.” SILVANA SEIDEL-MENCHI, Università des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, History. di Trento, History. “Storia interna della ETER AUTNER (2nd sem), Andrew W. P L “The Florentine ‘Magnates’ at the End of the Congregazione dell’Indice” e “I processi matri- Mellon Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of 14th Century.” moniali degli archivi ecclesiastici italiani.” Sciences, History. “The Influence of Simplicius OLGA PUJMANOVÀ (1st sem), National and Philoponus on Zabarella’s Commentary on MARCO SPALLANZANI, Università di Gallery in Prague, Art History. “Italian Gothic and Aristotle’s De Anima.” Firenze, History. “Hispano-Moresque Pottery in Renaissance Paintings in the Czech Republic.” Renaissance Florence.”

Fellows Andrew Blume and Kurt Barstow.

Fellows Cammy Brothers and Suzanne Cusick with Margaret McFadden.

Villa I Tatti THE WALTER KAISER FUND FOR THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSON

alter Kaiser (Harvard AB new bookshelves, salaries, heat- W1954, PhD 1960), Francis ing and lighting, cataloguing, Lee Higginson Professor of digitizing or any number of English Literature and Professor other library-related expenses in of Comparative Literature, addition to the acquisition of became Director of Villa I Tatti books and periodicals. in July 1988 and retired at the “I am delighted to be able to tell end of June 2002. His retire- you, Walter, that you have more ment coincided with I Tatti’s friends than you might imagine! 40th anniversary as the Harvard Two hundred and sixty-six friends Center for Italian Renaissance have come together to show their Studies, so the festivities which Walter Kaiser and Alexa Mason with his outsize check. affection for you and their support were held in mid-June this year for I Tatti. Together, they have 23 celebrated both the first four raised the extraordinary sum of decades of the life of the center as well as the last fourteen $1,425,975.31. I am proud and happy to present you with the years under Walter’s leadership. In the Myron and Sheila Walter Kaiser Fund for the Biblioteca Berenson.” Gilmore Limonaia on June 13th, after Harvard President Walter was too overcome to accept the oversized check Emeritus Neil L. Rudenstine’s remarks (see page 12), I Tatti Debby Brice handed to him, but did manage to make it to the Council Chairman Deborah Loeb Brice spoke a few words podium as she gestured to the top of the Limonaia steps. At about the outgoing director, his talents, strengths, and gen- her words, “And the check has been signed by …” a 9-meter erosity – as well as his foibles! In conclusion, she referred to scroll bearing the names of all those who contributed to the the endowment fund for the Biblioteca Berenson, which has fund was unrolled. The list, which bears the following names, been established in Walter Kaiser’s name. The income from reached from the top step to the podium. this fund will be restricted to the Library but unrestricted Both deep personal thanks and profound institutional therein and can be spent on electronic resources, conservation, thanks go to all these friends of Walter Kaiser and of I Tatti: The Ahmanson Foundation Giorgiana Corsini Helen Hotze Haas Foundation Barnabas McHenry J. Mark Rudkin Michael J. B. Allen Alexander Cortesi & Peggy Haines Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Charitable Foundation Paul Anbinder Wendy MacKenzie Conrad & Marcia Harper Michael Mallett Guido Ruggiero & Aureliana Angini David N. Counter Inge Heckel Manuela Michelloni Laura Giannetti Cecilia Asso Janet Cox-Rearick William & Flora Christian Moevs Peter & Katharine Sachs Riccardo Baldini Suzanne Cusick Hewlett Foundation Marina Montesano Fernando Savarese Paul & Ruth Barolsky Frank D’Accone Ralph Hexter Mr. & Mrs. M.D. Moross Pippa Scott Kurt Barstow & Chris Hughes D. Ronald Daniel Paul Hills Edward W. Muir, Jr. Silvana Seidel-Menchi Liviana & Giancarlo Bartolozzi Ilaria Della Monica H. Wiley Hitchcock John M. Najemy Melvin R. Seiden Susan Bates Dante Della Terza Janez Höfler Jonathan Nelson Salvatore Settis Jill & Lewis Bernard Charles Dempsey & James R. & Maisie K. Houghton George & Abby O’Neill Deanna Shemek Jane Bestor Elizabeth Cropper Elizabeth Huidekoper Benedetta Origo Stanley & Sydney Shuman Treacy & Darcy Beyer Nancy Dersofi International Music & Patricia Osmond Robert Silvers & Grace Dudley Andrew & Jacalyn Blume Bruce Edelstein Art Foundation Jessie Ann Owens Amanda Smith Beppina Bongini Richard Ekman Istituto Universitario Olandese Valerio Pacini Craig H. & Barbara L. Smyth Daniel Bornstein Priscilla Endicott di Storia dell’Arte Giovanni Pagliarullo Giorgio Spini Eve Borsook Robert F. Erburu Carolyn James & Bill Kent Mariella Pallavicino Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller Kathryn Bosi Bette Anne Farmer Daniel Javitch Giuseppe Palmero Antoinette Delruelle & William Boyd Susan K. Feagin & John Brown Lawrence Jenkens & Angiolino Papi Joshua Steiner Richard & Susan Braddock Richard L. Feigen Catherine Drake Katharine Park & Martin Brody Prudence & Daniel Steiner Deborah Loeb Brice Iain Fenlon Irene Kacandes Joseph & Anne Pellegrino Alessandro Superbi Shelton & Hope Brooks Nelda & Sandro Ferace Virginia Kahn Emiliano Pernice Fiorella & Giorgio Superbi Alison Brown Arthur Field David Kaiser Marilyn Perry Donald J. & Denise Sutherland Beverly Brown Barbara Flores Robert & Claire Kaiser Regina S. Peruggi Bette Talvacchia Charlotte & Fletcher Brown Alessandro Focosi & Steven & Kathy Keller Elizabeth Peters Anna Terni David A. Brown Rosa Molinaro Victoria Kirkham Philanthropic Collaborative Inc. Nicholas Terpstra J. Carter Brown Catherine Freedberg Christiane Klapisch-Zuber Donatella Pieracci Eugene V. & Claire E. Thaw Roberto Bruni Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. Walter & Virgilia Klein Marco Pompili William & Julie Thompson Anna Maria Busse Berger Margrit Freivogel Frederick S. Koontz Fortunato Pratesi David & Julie Tobey Gilbert & Ildiko Butler Douglas H. Funkhouser Samuel H. Kress Foundation Elizabeth B. Pryor Franklin Toker Suzanne & Humfrey Butters Lilian R. Furst Sheila Lafarge Olga Pujmanovà Neri Torrigiani Fausto Calderai Sergio Galeotti & Anthony Lambton Ricardo Quinones Philip A. Uzielli Salvatore Camporeale Cheti Benvenuti John Law Christopher Reynolds & Timothy Verdon Patrizia Carella Paolo Gasparri Nell & Maurice Lazarus Alessa Johns Lee Walcott Robert & Nancy Carney Gabriele Geier Angela Lees & Family Frank E. Richardson III William Wallace & Judith Chiara Amanda George Timothy & Elizabeth Llewellyn Laurance & Isabel Roberts Elizabeth Fagan Marco & Françoise Chiarini Mary Weitzel Gibbons Arthur L. Loeb Michael Roberts & Jay Corcoran William & Rosemary Weaver Marilina Cirillo Gennaro Giustino Graziella Macchetta Susan & Anthony Roberts Edwin L. & Barbara Weisl Liliana Ciullini Fred & Eleanor Glimp Neil MacGregor Claire Robertson & Paul & Harriet Weissman Thekla & John Clark Catherine Goguel Michael Mallon John Kenyon Alice Sedgwick Wohl Wendell & Margaret Clausen Beatrice Gori Alessandra Malquori Michael Rocke & Giacinto Sturino Hellmut Wohl Anne & John Coffin Luigi & Hermione Grassi Thomas Martin & Gretchen Wold John Roe Jayne Wrightsman William J. Connell Stephen R. & Alexa Mason & Patricia L. Rubin Steve Ziger, Jamie Snead, & Joseph & Françoise Connors Margaret Graubard Donald Campbell Neil L. & Charles Brickbauer Stefano Corsi Sarah Matthews & Allen Grieco Timothy & Bonnie McGee Angelica Z. Rudenstine

Autumn 2002 THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSON

Please note the library’s new e-mail address: library. During his directorship many of Antonio Muratori’s Rerum italicarum [email protected] the library’s facilities were modernized, scriptores, originally published 1723- staff training and services were 1751, and also that we had the good he future of I Tatti’s library grew improved, substantial new endowment fortune to find and buy the 24-volume Tmore secure this year thanks to the was raised for acquisitions, conservation, Delizie degli eruditi toscani, edited by generous outpouring of support for the and librarians’ positions, and the Ildefonso di San Luigi (Firenze, G. new Walter Kaiser Fund for the library’s exceptional resources were Cambiagi, 1770-1789), containing Biblioteca Berenson, which was raised made more easily accessible through an important chronicles from the 14th to to honor Walter’s outstanding accom- on-line catalogue. Thanks in large part the 16th centuries that have never plishments as the Harvard Center’s to his vision and hard work, the appeared in modern editions. Director from 1988 to 2002 and pre- f4 Biblioteca Berenson has become a more Finally, we purchased several superb sented to him at the 40th anniversary dynamic and comprehensive research facsimile editions of manuscripts that celebration in June (see page 3). At library, and is an increasingly funda- will be of general interest to nearly $1,426,000, the Kaiser Fund is, mental point of reference in the Renaissance scholars. These include the with one close exception, the largest panorama of Italian Renaissance studies. first two of what will eventually be four single endowment at I Tatti dedicated works published by Franco Cosimo specifically to the library’s use. mmmmm Panini in the aptly named series “La Unrestricted in scope, it can be utilized Biblioteca Impossibile.” They are La to provide financial support for the full Bibbia di Borso d’Este, one of the most range of the library’s needs and activi- n a year which saw a record 3,500 lavishly illuminated manuscripts of the ties, as circumstances might require. As Ivolumes newly added to the shelves, Italian Renaissance, produced for the the fund matures and grows over the the library made numerous acquisitions Duke of Ferrara in the late 1450s, and the years it will help guarantee that that are especially noteworthy. Historia plantarum, a late 14th-century the Berenson Library can continue to Important reference sources purchased compendium of the natural sciences that provide the best possible research include Max Pfister, Lessico etimologico was exquisitely illustrated in the work- facilities and resources for scholars of italiano: LEI (Wiesbaden, L. Reichert, shop of Giovannino de’ Grassi for the Renaissance Italy. I would like to take 1984-), with seven volumes published Duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, this opportunity, as Director of the so far, and Wilhelm Risse’s 11-volume as a gift to the Emperor Wenceslaus. In Biblioteca Berenson and on behalf of Bibliographia philosophica vetus addition, we acquired a rare complete the entire library staff, to express my (Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1998), covering (12-volume) facsimile edition of the sincerest gratitude to everyone who philosophical works printed up to 1800. manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci held helped make this fund-raising venture To strengthen the library’s resources at the Institut de France, transcribed by such a resounding success. This notable supporting work in classical and the great Leonardo scholar Augusto achievement is an especially fitting trib- Renaissance philology, we acquired Marinoni, and published by Giunti ute to Walter, who during his fourteen numerous concordances or indices to Barbèra (Florence, 1986-90). Together years at I Tatti devoted much of his the writings of the Latin authors Cicero, with several others mentioned above, seemingly boundless energy to the Horace, Livy, Lucretius, Lucanus, this last item was among the over 200 Lucilius, Ovid, Pliny, Sallust, and titles purchased this year with funds for NOTA BENE! Seneca. The library’s section on Dante the acquisition of older or out-of-print has been reinforced notably through the materials that have generously been As of this year, the library has dis- purchase of many older studies, in addi- provided by the Florence J. Gould continued the practice of adding tion to the new 4-volume critical edi- Foundation, to which goes our pro- name/title entries to bibliographic tion of Cristoforo Landino’s Comento found appreciation and thanks. records for the contributions of for- sopra la Comedia by Paolo Procaccioli. We also pushed steadily ahead this mer I Tatti Appointees that appear This is the first work to have come out year with the program to acquire back in collective works, such as confer- so far in the monumental new Edizione issues of periodicals and started subscrip- ence proceedings or collections of nazionale dei Commenti danteschi (Salerno tions to several new journals as well as essays. Former Appointees who Editrice), of which we will of course some important older ones. A total of want such articles of theirs to appear obtain all of the relevant commentaries fourteen titles were newly added. in the library’s catalogue are warmly as they are published. Historians will, I Among them, recently founded journals encouraged to send us offprints, think, be particularly happy to learn that include Critica del testo (1998-); Musique, which we will continue to catalogue we acquired the 28-volume facsimile Images, Instruments: Revue française as separate items. reprint (Forni, 1975-1989) of Ludovico d’organologie et d’iconographie musicale

Villa I Tatti (1996-); Pegasus: Berliner Beiträge zur The IRIS Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries Nachleben der Antike (1999-); Stilistica e metrica italiana (2001-); Studiolo: Revue This was an important year for IRIS from several different perspectives. The d’histoire de l’art de l’Academie de France à online catalogue continues to grow and be enriched, not only as records of new Rome (2002-); and Troja: Trossinger accessions are contributed to the database daily, but especially as the libraries of Jahrbuch für Renaissancemusik (2001-). both the Uffizi and the Fondazione Roberto Longhi, in addition to their current Happily, we were able to purchase acquisitions, are now also steadily adding their retrospective holdings to the cata- nearly all of the back issues of the logue. At the completion of these two projects, foreseen within the coming year, longer-established journals to which we virtually all of the published materials held by the six member libraries will be rep- began subscriptions. These include resented in the online catalogue. Not only will this fulfill one of the consortium’s Analecta Augustiniana (1905-); Archivum major initial goals, but it will also considerably aid scholars in locating the research fratrum praedicatorum (from v. 4, 1934-); materials they need throughout this significant group of Florentine libraries. Archivum historicum societatis Iesu (1932-); IRIS was also the beneficiary this year of generous financial support from the Bullettino dell’Istituto storico italiano per il Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, one of the most important local charitable 5 Medioevo (from v. 5, 1888-); Esperienze foundations, among whose chief mandates is the promotion of art, artistic and 2 letterarie (1976-); Grafica d’arte: rivista di cultural activities, and scholarly research in Tuscany, particularly in the storia dell’incisione antica e moderna e storia Florentine area. The consortium received an initial grant of nearly €26,000 (at del disegno (1990-); Studia borromaica: the current exchange rate, about $25,350) for the purpose of acquiring electronic Saggi e documenti di storia religiosa e civile resources that will help facilitate scholarly research. It will also cover the costs of della prima età moderna (1987-); and Testo acquiring the licenses necessary to implement the Z39.50 protocol, an interna- a fronte (1989-). We completed, or all tional standard for database searching and information retrieval that simplifies but completed, the runs of numerous communication between information systems. Advantages to IRIS of adopting journals considered vital research the Z39.50 protocol include the possibilities of participating in local, regional, and resources for the Harvard Center, such international library gateways, and of importing bibliographic records from other as Archivum franciscanum historicum (83 library sources (for example, the Library of Congress) that also use the protocol. vols.); Atti e memorie dell’Accademia In the spring the Ente CRF provided a second, much more substantial grant fiorentina di scienze morali La Colombaria to IRIS of €250,000 ($244,000). These funds will be used in part toward the (35); Humanistica lovaniensia (17); purchase and implementation of the most recent version available of the consor- Memorie domenicane (49); Nouvelles de la tium’s system software, Aleph500, a major upgrade tentatively scheduled for late Republique des lettres (15); Quellen und this year. A portion of the funds will be employed to facilitate the entrance of Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und new member institutes to the consortium. Finally, the Ente CRF grant will also Bibliotheken (40); Rivista di storia della be utilized to implement a costly, but essential, project of authority control on the bibliographic database. The purpose of authority control is to allow more chiesa in Italia (10); Rivista storica italiana efficient access to the data contained in the IRIS catalogue by assigning a unique, (75); and Studi medievali (29). Altogether or “authorized,” form of heading (e.g. for names or subjects) and by using cross- over 900 volumes of back issues of references from related or variant headings. Creating consistency in the headings journals were acquired this year, thanks that identify personal names, corporate names, geographic locations, series titles, to the munificent support of the and subjects will make searching the catalogue much more effective. The result- Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation. ing enhanced access to the bibliographical data will assist the IRIS librarians who To the many donors whose contri- build and maintain the catalogue, but above all it will provide added benefits to butions help sustain the Library in so researchers in the form of highly reliable search results. many ways, as well as to the scholars and institutions who this year donated a total of 425 books and offprints to the Library, on behalf of everyone attached to the Center I would like to express my deep and con- tinuing gratitude.

m Michael Rocke Nicky Mariano Librarian

Katherine Gill, Arthur Field, Jonathan Nelson and Michael Rocke converse before a lecture.

Autumn 2002 RECENT ACQUISITIONS X fsfsfsfsfsO} fsfsfsfsfsC BOOKS BY FORMER FELLOWS

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

FRANCESCO BAUSI (VIT’94) ed. Niccolò SAMUEL COHN (VIT’89,’94). The Black Death ELIZABETH PILLIOD (VIT’92). Pontormo, Machiavelli, Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio. Transformed. Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Bronzino, Allori. A Genealogy of Florentine Art. New Roma: Salerno, 2001. Europe. London: Arnold, 2002. Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press, 2001. SERGIO BERTELLI (VIT’66,’67). The King’s CHARLES DEMPSEY (VIT’74). Inventing the W. ROGER REARICK (VIT’62,’63,’73). Il di- Body. The Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Renaissance Putto. Chapel Hill, N.C.; London: segno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milano: Electa, 2001. 6 f Early Modern Europe, translated by R. Burr Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2001. FRANCESCO SBERLATI (VIT’96). Il genere e Litchfield. University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania GEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN (VIT’88). la disputa: la poetica tra Ariosto e Tasso. Roma: State Univ. Press, 2001. Aprire Venere: nudità, sogno, crudeltà. Torino: Bulzoni, 2001. MAURIZIO BETTINI (VIT’86). Le orecchie di Einaudi, 2001. WALTER STEPHENS (VIT’88). Demon Lovers. Hermes: studi di antropologia e letterature classiche. GEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN (VIT’88). Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. Chicago: Torino: Einaudi, 2000. L’image survivante: histoire de l’art et temps des fan- Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002. ROBERT BLACK (VIT’93). Humanism and tômes selon Aby Warburg. Paris: Les Éditions de SERGIO TOGNETTI (VIT’01). Un’industria di Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Tradition Minuit, 2002. lusso al servizio del grande commercio: il mercato dei and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the CLAUDIO GIUNTA (VIT’00). Versi a un desti- drappi serici e della seta nella Firenze del Quattrocento. Fifteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. natario: saggio sulla poesia italiana del Medioevo. Firenze: Olschki, 2002. Press, 2001. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002. TIMOTHY VERDON (VIT’87). L’arte sacra in LINA BOLZONI (VIT’92-’03). The Gallery of CATHERINE MONBEIG-GOGUEL (VIT’02), Italia: l’immaginazione religiosa dal paleocristiano al Memory. Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age PHILIPPE COSTAMAGNA (VIT’99) & postmoderno. Milano: Mondadori, 2001. of the Printing Press, translated by Jeremy Parzen. Michel Hochmann, eds. Francesco Salviati o la bella ELISSA WEAVER (VIT’89). Convent Theatre in Toronto; Buffalo; London: Univ. of Toronto maniera: actes des colloques de Rome et de Paris (1998). Press, 2001. Early Modern Italy. Spiritual Fun and Learning for Rome: École Française de Rome, 2001. Women. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. DAVID ALAN BROWN (VIT’70), et al. Virtue JANEZ HÖFLER (VIT’87,’02). Srednjeveske and Beauty. Leonardo’s Ginevra de’ Benci and JOANNA WEINBERG (VIT’76), translated freske v Sloveniji, fotografije Marjan Smerke. from the Hebrew, introduction & annotations. Renaissance Portraits of Women. Washington, D.C.: Ljubljana: Druzina, 1996-2001. National Gallery of Art, 2001. Azariah ben Moses dei Rossi, The Light of the Eyes. CAROLYN JAMES (VIT’02) ed. Giovanni New Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press, 2001. ANDREW BUTTERFIELD (VIT’94). Vittoria Sabadino degli Arienti, The Letters of Giovanni DONALD WEINSTEIN (VIT’63,’94). The and Tiepolo. The Giulio Contarini Bust and the Drawings Sabadino degli Arienti (1481-1510). Firenze: it Inspired. New York: Salander-O’Reilly, 2001. Captain’s Concubine. Love, Honor, and Violence in Olschki; Perth: Dept. of Italian, The Univ. of W. Renaissance Tuscany. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins ANDREW BUTTERFIELD (VIT’94) and Australia, 2001. Univ. Press, 2000. Anthony Radcliffe. Masterpieces of Renaissance Art. NERIDA NEWBIGIN (VIT’84) ed. Giusto Eight Rediscoveries. New York: Salander-O’Reilly, Giusti, I Giornali di Ser Giusto Giusti d’Anghiari 2001. (1437-1482). Roma: Moxedano, 2002. - Former Fellows Update 0 WILLIAM CAFERRO (VIT’99) and Philip NUCCIO ORDINE (VIT’87). Giordano Bruno Jacks. The Spinelli of Florence. Fortunes of a und die Philosophie des Esels, trans. Christine Ott. WIETSE DE BOER (VIT’97), Renaissance Merchant Family. University Park, PA: München: W. Fink, 1999. Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2001. ALAN R. PERREIAH (VIT’81). Paulus Indiana University, received the CHRISTOPHER S. CELENZA (VIT’00). Piety Venetus, Logica Parva. First Critical Edition from the 2001 Howard R. Marraro Prize of and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence. The Manuscripts with Introduction and Commentary. ‘Symbolum Nesianum’. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Leiden: Brill, 2002. the American Catholic Historical Association for his book, The Conquest of the Soul. Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2001). The prize is awarded annually by a joint jury of the American Historical Association, the Society for Italian Historical Studies, and the ACHA. The book is the result of his fellow- ship year at I Tatti. De Boer is cur- rently writing a book tentatively entitled The Education of the Senses. Theories and Practices of Perception in Brice Fellow Carolyn James with I Tatti Council member Mary Gibbons. Renaissance and Baroque Italy.

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s was anticipated in last is very far along on a more sub- Ayear’s Newsletter, special stantial collection containing the attention was dedicated to the papers of architectural historian library’s manuscript collections and critic Roberto Papini and this year. Jacalyn Blume, an his sculptor wife Livia, who for archivist “on loan” from the many years lived in the “Villa Schlesinger Library at the Papiniana” on the I Tatti estate. Radcliffe Institute at Harvard This collection unites not only and wife of I Tatti Fellow biographical and personal mate- Andrew Blume, focused mainly rial, but their rich correspon- on our most important and dence with members of the extensive collection, the massive Italian cultural world of the first 27 archive of Bernard and Mary half of the 20th century, as well Berenson’s papers, consisting of as projects and work notes relat- around 250 boxes of biographi- ing to Papini’s life as an archi- cal material, diaries, research tect, professor, and writer. notes, writings, photographs, Our collective thanks go to and some 35,000 letters. Jacalyn Blume, CRIA Fellow Lawrence Jenkens Jacalyn Blume for her indispens- Building on the work she began and Michael Rocke tasting I Tatti’s new wine. able assistance as well as for during her original seven- being such an enjoyable col- month stay in 1994, Jacalyn sys- league. tematically reviewed the archive’s continuing collaboration of Jacalyn and Finally, we are especially pleased contents, improved the arrangement of another Harvard colleague, archivist that this year we were able to acquire and classification of the materials, and, and information technology specialist an extremely interesting collection of with the help of Library Assistant Susan von Salis, further necessary steps Sir Kenneth Clark’s papers, consisting Donatella Pieracci, rehoused them in will be taken towards adding this and primarily of some 940 letters, postcards preservation-standard conditions. By other inventories to OASIS, the grow- and cables, including 68 from Bernard year’s end she produced a near-final ing on-line catalogue of finding aids to Berenson and many others from leading draft of an exhaustive finding aid to the manuscript collections in Harvard figures in British museum and cultural entire collection, which integrates the University repositories. circles. These documents have also now revised inventory of the correspon- With Giovanni Pagliarulo and Ilaria been organized and re-housed, and a dence, published by Nicky Mariano in Della Monica, Jacalyn began to survey, finding aid will be created as soon as 1965 and updated thereafter, with the organize, and process our other collec- possible to facilitate scholars’ access to other Berenson papers. The whole runs tions, and important progress has been these important resources. to nearly 300 pages. Though a small made with several of these as well. We amount of work remains to be done, now have completed finding aids to m Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi sometime this fall we should be able to four small collections (the papers of Curator of the Berenson Archive make the finished finding aid to this Mary Berenson’s family, the Whitall- and Michael Rocke magnificent resource available for Smiths; of the writer Stanislaus Eric Nicky Mariano Librarian on-site consultation. During the course Stenbock; of Valeria Piacentini; and of of the coming year, with the kind art historian Frederick Hartt), and work

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MARIA LUISA CERRON PUGA (VIT’97) was appointed Professore Ordinario di Lingua e Letteratura Spagnola at the University of Rome, La Sapienza in November. She is currently finish- ing her book, Petrarchismo rimosso. Catalogo ragionato Silvio Leydi delle antologie cinquecentesche (Firenze, Leo S. (VIT’97), Olschki), and working on an annotated anthology Paolo Garbolino, Maria Luisa for a prestigious Spanish collection: Poesía española. Cerron Puga Siglos de Oro: Renacimiento (Barcelona, Crítica). (VIT’97).

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he collection of photographic never existed. At one point, Timages housed in the Fototeca we thought it would make Berenson has once again grown – by sense to catalogue the collec- about 2,000 additions this year. Some tion at the same time as the have come as gifts from former Fellows photographs are digitized – a or from various antiquarians represented project we plan to undertake at the Biennale dell’Antiquariato at in the future – but it now Palazzo Corsini last year. Some were seems wise not to wait, but to purchased from photographers or get started sooner rather than f8 museum collections. Others were later. We are deeply grateful, acquired through photographic therefore, to the Cabot Family campaigns, both at the Galleria Trust for their donation last dell’Accademia in Florence, mentioned year towards preliminary work in these pages last year, or through a on this catalogue. We are cur- campaign to document a Quattrocento rently in the process of assess- altarpiece in the church of San Donnino ing the various programs at Villamagna, to the east of Florence. available on the market, and While the total number of holdings hope to begin this project increases each year, we are well aware within the year. It was a plea- that a catalogue of the collection has sure to welcome Muffie and Louis Cabot to the Harvard - Former Fellows Update 0 Center at the end of May and in particular to the Fototeca Berenson where Mrs. Cabot, who is publishing a book on her mother’s travels through A Game of Backgammon and Chess, from the Asia, was particularly inter- Anthology of Baysunghur (1427). Colors and gold on paper, miniature. 26.5 x 17.5 cm. ested in the rich collection of Herat (Iran), Timurid Period. photographs of Oriental art collected by Bernard Berenson, besides the pho- tographs of Italian Renaissance art that Quattrone as part of the ongoing cam- one normally expects to find here. paign to document the art and furniture Mr. Berenson’s interest in Oriental in the Berenson Collection. CHRISTIANE KLAPISCH-ZUBER art enriched his collection not only with This campaign complements a new (VIT’86,’02), Director of Studies at rare photographs but with some works inventory of the furniture, sculpture, the École des Hautes Études en of art of the highest quality as well. objects, rugs, and hangings undertaken Sciences Sociales, Paris, will be Some of these treasures have recently by the Studio Fausto Calderai – Camilla receiving the 2003 Paul Oskar been published by Gauvin Alexander Mazzei, which has produced revealing Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Bailey (VIT’01) in two important arti- aspects of their structure and condition Award of the Renaissance Society cles, “The Bernard Berenson Collection and which will greatly help future plans of America at their annual meeting of Islamic Painting at Villa I Tatti: for their conservation. Meanwhile, two in Toronto next March. A Visiting Mamluk, Ilkhanid, and Early Timurid small bronzes, an Egyptian cat and a Professor for the second semester at Miniatures,” Oriental Art, vol. XLVII, Chinese cart, are currently being I Tatti this past year, Klapisch- N° 4 (2001) part I; pp. 53-62, and restored. Zuber is working on a project enti- “The Bernard Berenson Collection of tled “The Florentine ‘Magnates’ at Islamic Painting at Villa I Tatti: m Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi the End of the 14th Century.” Her Turkman, Uzbek, and Safavid Agnes Mongan Curator recent publications include L’ombre Miniatures,” Oriental Art, vol. XLVIII, of the Fototeca Berenson des ancêtres: essai sur l’imaginaire N° 1 (2002) part II, pp. 2-16. These Curator of the Berenson médiéval de la parenté (Paris: Fayard, studies have been fully illustrated with Collection and Archive 2000). splendid photographs taken by Antonio

Villa I Tatti The microfilm collection of early Recent gifts to the CD collection printed music currently holds 1,300 include: items, the greater part of which com- prises sources of vocal music. To redress 1 Insula feminarum: résonances médiévales the balance, a new program for the de la Fémininité Celte. La Reverdie. NEWS acquisition of Italian instrumental music Arcana, 1997. through 1650 was begun this year, with 1 Narcisso speculando: madrigaux de Paolo FROM the purchase of microfilms of music by da Firenze. Mala Punica, directed by THE MORRILL Tarquinio Merula, Biagio Marini, Pedro Memelsdorff. Harmonia MUSIC LIBRARY Marco Uccellini, and Giovanni Battista mundi, 2002. Buonamente from the libraries of 1 Il laudario di Cortona (Cortona, Durham Cathedral and the University of Biblioteca del Comune e dell’Accademia his year the Morrill Music Library Wroclaw, both of which contain Etrusca, Ms 91). Ed. Micrologus, purchased microfilms of 150 vol- remarkably rich collections of Italian 2000. T 9 umes of early printed music from instrumental music of the early Baroque 1 Landini e la musica fiorentina secolo 2 libraries in England, Belgium, Sweden, period. Scholars and performers of XIV. Micrologus. Opus 111, 1994. Italy, Austria, Germany, and Poland. music for lute and chitarrone will be 1 O Yesu dolce: laudi italiane del quattro- Many of these represent the on-going interested to know that we have also cento. Micrologus. Opus 111, 1997. program for acquiring the works of acquired a copy of Giovanni Girolamo 1 Napolitane: villanelle – arie – moresche, composers active in Tuscany, such as Kapsperger’s Libro terzo d’intavolatura di 1530-1570. Micrologus; Cappella Luca Bati, Pietro Benedetti, Severo chitarone con le sue tavole per sonar sopra la de’ Turchini. Opus 111, 1998. Bonini, Antonio Brunelli, Giovanni Del parte, published in Rome in 1626. This 1 La guitarra en el México barroco: obras Turco, Giovanni Battista, and Marco da unique print has been in the possession provenientes del Códice Saldívar IV. Gagliano. Perhaps the most interesting of private owners for decades. It was Isabelle Villey. Fonca, 1996. of the new additions to this corpus is purchased by Yale University Library Donated by Pierluigi Ferrari. Domenico Belli’s Orfeo dolente: musica last year and through their generosity 1 Gesualdo da Venosa, Il quarto libro de …diviso in cinque intermedi (Venice, has at last become accessible to the madrigali, 1596. La Venexiana. 1616), containing five scenes, with texts public. Glossa, 2000. partly by Chiabrera, performed as inter- The CD collection of the Morrill 1 Sigismondo D’India, Libro primo de medii between acts of Torquato Tasso’s Music Library reached a total of 600 madrigali, 1606. La Venexiana. pastoral play Aminta which the Rinaldi items this year. The 600th acquisition Glossa, 2000. family produced at Palazzo della was an anthology of eight CDs containing 1 Luca Marenzio, Il sesto libro de madri- Gherardesca in Florence in 1616. This the works of Saint Hildegard von Bingen, gali a cinque voci, 1594. La Venexiana. very rare print was acquired from the Abbess of Rupertsberg (1098-1179), Glossa, 2001. Biblioteka Uniwersytecka in Wroclaw, produced for the 900th anniversary of Poland. her birth by Sequentia: the ensemble for m Kathryn Bosi medieval music directed by Benjamin Music Librarian Bagby and the late Barbara Thornton.

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KATHARINE PARK (VIT’01), the Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zumurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation’s pre- eminent learned society, founded in 1780. Park, a leading scholar in the history of science and in gender and women’s history, also chairs the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies and is Deputy Chairman of I Tatti’s Academic Advisory Committee. Her publications include Doctors and Medicine in Renaissance Florence (Princeton University Press, 1985) and Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Zone Books, 1998), co-authored with Lorraine Daston, which won the Pfizer Prize for the best book published in the history of science. She is currently working on a study of autopsy, dissection, and caesarian section in late medieval and Renaissance Italy, entitled Visible Women: Gender, Jerzy Miziolek (VIT’95) with Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection. former head librarian Anna Terni.

Autumn 2002 On February 7, Villa I Tatti partici- Lectures & Programs pated in the international study day Rime e suoni per corde spagnole: fonti with support from the Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the per la chitarra barocca a Firenze, held Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, by the Biblioteca Riccardiana for Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman. the opening of their exhibition of rare manuscripts and printed books dsddsdsddsdsddsdsddsdsddsdsdddsdd relating to the Baroque guitar or A chronological listing follows of informal talks and public lectures held at I Tatti during the “chitarra spagnola”: an instrument 2001/2002 academic year. Institutional affiliation is not given for members of I Tatti’s 2001/2002 which was highly popular at the academic community. Medici court in the early 17th cen- tury for accompanying dance and CATHERINE GOGUEL, “La donna che NEIL RUDENSTINE (President Emeritus, solo song. Research Associate fila colla conocchia, tra santità e stre- Harvard University) “I Tatti Past and Arnaldo Morelli (VIT ’95, ‘97-’02) goneria. Un’iconografia femminile.” Present: More than Gem-Like” in cele- 10 represented Villa I Tatti at the f JOSEPH CONNORS (Columbia University), bration of the fortieth anniversary of the opening session, which welcomed “Vanished Libraries of the Baroque.” Harvard University Center for Italian scholars from Italy, Spain, the Renaissance Studies. ROBERTO LEPORATTI and JONATHAN United States, and Australia, and contributed a paper on La chitarra NELSON, an informal talk about their barocca tra prassi e iconografia to the research on mid-16th-century love afternoon round table. I Tatti was poetry and on the body types of co-sponsor of the concluding con- Michelangelo’s female figures. cert, L’altra monodia, in which a PAUL BAROLSKY (VIT’81,’87,’91,’95, repertoire of works relating to this University of Virginia), “Michelangelo Florentine corpus of manuscripts was and the Creation of Adam.” performed by members of the pres- tigious early music ensemble, La SUZANNE CUSICK, “The Name of the Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini of Mother and the Call of the Son: the Walter Kaiser and Lehman Visiting Naples: tenor Giuseppe de Vittorio Voices of Female Creativity in Professor Catherine Goguel. and Federico Maricola playing lute, Francesca Caccini’s Sacred Songs.” theorbo, and Spanish guitar.

Please note I Tatti’s new web address: www.itatti.it General e-mail messages can be addressed to [email protected] Most staff members can be reached via e-mail by using their first initial and last name (no space between) followed by @itatti.it. e.g. Michael Rocke can be reached at [email protected]. Former Appointees are free to read and post notices on I Tatti’s web bulletin board (to be found at the bottom of the home page). You will need a password which can be requested from [email protected].

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ANTONIO ROTONDÒ (VIT’68), professor of history at the University of Florence was presented with La formazione storica della alterità: Studi di storia della tolleranza nell’età moderna offerti a Antonio Rotondò, promossi da Henry Méchoulan et al. (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2001). -0 In July 1999, on the occasion of her retirement from the department of History at the University of Paris, friends and colleagues of ODILE REDON (VIT’91,’94) congregated in Cennina, near Siena, for a convivial weekend seminar devoted to Mellon Fellow Christian Moevs saints, cuisine, and Siena. The result was Scrivere il Medioevo: lo spazio, la santità, il checking things out in I Tatti’s tinaia. cibo. Un libro dedicato ad Odile Redon, edited by Bruno Laurioux & Laurence Moulinier-Brogi (Roma: Viella, 2001).

Villa I Tatti VANISHED GENDER IN THE GRANAIO REDUX LIBRARIES OF THE BAROQUE esearch projects supported this To these informal encounters over Ryear by I Tatti included several wine and light snacks, we sometimes that focused on women, gender, and brought specific research problems of he I Tatti community had an oppor- sexuality: Suzanne Cusick’s on terminology or method. One day, for tunity to welcome its incoming T Francesca Caccini; Bruce Edelstein’s on example, we discussed the sexuality of director, JOSEPH CONNORS of the Eleonora di Toledo; Katherine Gill’s on the castrati. On other occasions we Department of Art History and women’s religious communities, addressed problems common to our Archaeology at Columbia University, Carolyn James’s and Deanna Shemek’s, work in different disciplines: legitimacy when he delivered a lecture here on both on Isabella d’Este; Caroline and bastardy as these categories related February 28th. Appropriate to both site Murphy’s on Felice Orsini della to women across social classes; or the and setting, Connors talked about Rovere; and Jonathan Nelson’s on constant challenge of finding the women Roman baroque libraries. As Walter Michelangelo’s female nudes. In early in documentation focused on paternity. Kaiser promised in his warm introduction 211 of his successor, we were treated to a learned and lively picture of baroque libraries in Rome, and one which encompassed not just their physical char- acteristics but the intellectual and social circumstances that helped fashion them. Born of late medieval and Renaissance monastic libraries, nurtured by an increasing interest in the great libraries of antiquity and the revolutionary technol- ogy of printing, and weaned, finally, on a desire for display, the baroque library was large and open and housed vast numbers of books in very sumptuous settings. In Rome princely libraries, now Fellows Deanna Shemek and Bruce Edelstein talking mostly dispersed, set the tone for the with Lehman Visiting Professor Paul Hills. baroque library. Their learning, patron- age and politics mixed rather freely in a fall, this group decided to meet regu- We returned repeatedly to the problem setting of rich and precious materials larly, reviving from several previous of how to represent women as subjects and elaborate displays of painting, sculp- years the gatherings known as Gender in emerging from documents, given the ture and architecture. These princely the Granaio (GiG). We were regularly frequent use of mediating figures like precincts were imitated and greatly joined by Michael Rocke and Visiting secretaries. Often we shared informa- amplified by the institutional libraries of Professor Christiane Klapisch-Zuber tion on women’s managerial roles – in Seicento Rome, some of which – the (2nd semester); while many other the courts, in families, in their own Vallicella and Casanatense for instance – Fellows dropped in from time to time to careers, or within religious communi- survive. add to our conversations. ties – and weighed our evidence that Professor Connors’ verbal pictures these roles have not yet been described of the baroque library were compelling, adequately by historians. We consid- but he also treated us to something ered how our own research on active quite unexpected – the “lost” Della women proprietors and administrators Rovere library from Urbania now pre- could be integrated in more accurate served in a Manhattan townhouse. histories of women’s work. As I write Discovered by the fortuitous combina- these words, the GiG group has tion of chance and expertise, this early spawned projects for several collabora- baroque library offers a vivid sense of tions in the near and distant future, those that followed it. including conference sessions, joint grant proposals, and seminars. It seems m Lawrence Jenkens that GiG has a promising afterlife! CRIA Fellow m Deanna Shemek Mellon Research Fellow Hanna Kiel Fellow Peter Lautner.

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hen he decided to leave his estate to WHarvard upon his death, “Bernard Berenson wanted I Tatti to become an international community of scholars, using his splendid library, enjoying his paintings and his gardens, with unencumbered leisure to read and to write and to look, and to share talk and ideas,” as Walter Kaiser noted during the Harvard Center’s 40th anniversary celebrations in mid-June 2002. “That was, grosso modo, Berenson’s idea of what I Tatti should become. It is, moreover, pretty much what it has Council members Bill Hood become. Of course, we all know the ways and Debby Brice. Waiting for the concert, Suzy Butters, Anna Terni, 12 f in which Harvard wisely modified that Victoria Kirkham, and Humfrey Butters. original idea, reducing fellowships to only one year, but expanding them to encompass every aspect of the Italian Renaissance, not just Fine Arts. Essentially, however, Harvard and my distinguished Unwinding predecessors miraculously turned the 9 m. scroll listing all the Berenson’s dream into a reality. By the donors to the time I got here, there wasn’t much more Walter Kaiser to accomplish: the shape of this place had Fund for the already been defined and established, and Biblioteca all one had to do was maintain it as best Berenson. one could.” Far from just maintaining the status quo, Walter Kaiser has, in his 14-year tenure as Director, built extensively upon the excel- Walter Kaiser, John Brown, lent work of his predecessors. One might say that from the plans drawn up by Bernard Berenson, Kenneth B. Murdock, between 1961 and 1964, laid solid founda- tions for the Center based on Harvard tra- ditions; Myron P. Gilmore built a substantial first story from 1964 to 1973, integrating I Tatti into the Florentine cul- tural and academic context; Craig Hugh Smyth added the second story between 1973 and 1985 by furthering these rela- tionships with the city, by instigating Soprano Janet Youngdahl and former Fellow I Tatti’s publications program, and by Victor Coelho perform in the church of building a notable constituency of support- San Martino a Mensola. The Funk Of ers who helped to turn I Tatti’s finances round; and Louise George Clubb broad- ened access to the institute and library between 1985 and 1988. A building, however, needs a roof in order to keep out the rain and to help it stand strong against the north wind. Over the last 14 years, Walter Kaiser has added that roof, tile by tile – consolidating finances, expanding the publications series, renovating the buildings and gardens, and modernizing the library among so much else. Joseph Connors, who now begins his directorship, takes over a sound construction with plenty of potential for the future. Over the last 40 years many other people, of course, have had a positive impact on this extraordinary place. As Neil Rudenstine remarked, “And the fact that I Tatti has continued to flourish ever since Berenson’s death – now more than 40 years ago – has clearly been due to the devotion, attentiveness, and absolute understanding of the spiritual purposes of this Center on the part of I Tatti’s astonishing staff, Fellows, friends, Harvard colleagues, members of the Florentine community, and others.” A new booklet was recently published to mark the Harvard Center’s 40th anniversary. In addition to descriptions of I Tatti’s history, fellowship program, the library, collections, gardens and grounds, and an excellent essay on the Center’s first 40 years by

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John Najemy (VIT’70,’71,’75,’99), the booklet lists most of the people who have helped to shape this remarkable structure. As well as the aforementioned directors, there have been five acting directors who have served for a semester or two each; 65 senior scholars have chosen the almost 500 scholars who have held an I Tatti Fellowship; there have been some 90 Visiting Professors, Scholars and Research Associates; 65 patrons have served on the I Tatti Council and International Council; Debby Brice, Joe Connors, and 70 generous benefactors lead the and Angelica Z. Rudenstine at the Nicky Mariano Librarian Michael Rocke names of the hundreds and hundreds of 40th anniversary lecture. 13 flanked by David and Julie Tobey. other donors. Not listed in the booklet are 2 the 150 or so members of staff who have worked here at one time or another, for shorter or longer periods, in the house, in the library, on the farm, at the kitchen Harvard stoves, in the gardens, behind the comput- President ers, at the reception desk, in the USA, at Emeritus the catalogue – wherever mortar was Neil L. Rudenstine. needed to cement the bricks together. Some of them were originally employed by Bernard Berenson. A few still working today were here when Eric Cochrane, Janet Cox-Rearick, John Freccero, David Herlihy, Roger Rearick, and Curtiss Shell arrived for the 1961/1962 academic year. Susan Feagin, and Jim Cuno. Fiorella Superbi, Anna Terni, and Liliana Ciullini have continued to work from the first through the 40th fellowship year. Nelda Ferace misses that distinction by just one year. Susan Arcamone, Kathy Bosi, Amanda George, and Giorgio Superbi have each worked at the Center for over 25 years and several more members of staff are fast approaching that milestone. This past June, scores of these people descended on I Tatti to help celebrate the construction of this extraordinary edifice Guests filling the Myron and over the last four decades. On 13 June, Sheila Gilmore Limonaia for the Harvard University’s President Emeritus, ff street band. 40th anniversary celebrations. Neil L. Rudenstine, spoke eloquently of Berenson’s dream for the Harvard Center and the life at I Tatti that led up to Harvard’s tenure. Council Chairman Deborah Loeb Brice presented Walter Kaiser with the fund for the library established in his honor (see page 3), and a funky jazz band enlivened the ensuing garden party. The following day Victor Coelho (VIT’98) and soprano Janet Youngdahl gave a heavenly concert of Elizabethan lute songs in the beautiful church of San Martino a Mensola, fol- lowed by a gala dinner in the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Limonaia. The celebrations coincided with Walter Kaiser’s retirement. The occasion was used not only to festeggiare four decades of Renaissance scholarship, but to send him off in style, and to warmly welcome Joseph and Françoise Connors. It also marked, of course, the start of the Harvard Center’s fifth decade. A selection of photographs from the 40th anniversary celebrations can be found on I Tatti’s web site www.itatti.it. Click on Calendar, then on Events, and you will see Photographs of I Tatti Events at the top of the page. Click on this and you will be asked for a password, which is 40vit40. (This is case sensitive.) Then just follow the directions. m Alexa Mason Assistant Director for External Relations

Autumn 2002 JONATHAN NELSON AND ROBERTO LEPORATTI

n 21 March, in the Big Library, translated into Latin in the 15th century of either artist’s oeuvre. The painting also Otwo current Fellows, JONATHAN by Poliziano and into Italian in the late provides an excellent opportunity to NELSON and ROBERTO LEPORATTI, 15th or early 16th century by Benivieni. consider the problem of Michelangelo’s who did not know each other before Benivieni’s works were published in ideal female nude, which Nelson con- their fellowship year, presented their 1519, continued to be republished vincingly presented as being a clearly work in progress on mid-16th-century throughout the 1520s, and may thus be female body type, “improved” according love poetry and the body types of considered virtually contemporary with to the artist’s canon by the inclusion Michelangelo’s female figures. They have Michelangelo’s conception for the of selected male characteristics. been collaborating on an exhibition at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, which runs from 24 June to 3 November 2002, entitled “Venere e Amore: 14 f Michelangelo and the New Ideal of Beauty.” This exciting project brings together the talents of many past and pre- sent Tattiani: in addition to Nelson and Leporatti, Philippe Costamagna (VIT’90), Janet Cox-Rearick (VIT’62,’63,’76,’91) and Leatrice Mendelsohn (VIT’86) have all contributed to the exhibition cata- logue, while Janet Cox-Rearick and Catherine Goguel (VIT’02) both served on the research committee. The exhibition examines works exe- cuted for, or related to, a decorative complex commissioned by a Florentine patrician, Bartolomeo Bettini, but com- Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fellow Roberto Leporatti with pleted only partially and never installed in Florence Gould Guest Scholar Géraldine Albers. its intended location, a room in the patron’s palazzo. Bettini’s project featured a painting of Venus and Cupid, executed Venus and Cupid. His translation of Michelangelo’s collaboration with by Pontormo based on a cartoon sup- Moscus’s poem remained especially pop- Pontormo may thus be seen as an plied by Michelangelo. This work, one ular, as its subsequent employment by attempt to produce the “best” Florentine of the treasures of the Accademia’s per- Benedetto Varchi for a Medici court response, or critique of, the Venetian manent collection, has recently under- masque attests. Benivieni’s translation of nude. Also discussed were the work’s gone important conservation work; the Moscus contains important elements for enormous contemporary popularity, its painting’s return to the galleries inspired understanding the iconography of complex iconography and some of the the organization of the exhibition. Michelangelo’s work and other mid- classical sources for this. According to Vasari, Pontormo’s 16th-century paintings of Venus, espe- Venus was intended to be accompanied cially the novel presentation of Cupid as m Bruce L. Edelstein by images of Tuscan love poets for the a deceitful adolescent rather than his tra- Jean-François Malle Fellow lunettes of Bettini’s hall, of which only ditional image as a playful infant. three were completed by Bronzino. Jonathan Nelson introduced some of While these lunettes were previously the particular problems presented by thought to be lost, Philippe Costamagna Pontormo’s painting, for example the recently discovered what is most likely distance between the modern concept of Bronzino’s original lunette depicting the work as a painting by Pontormo after Dante. This work is displayed in the a design by Michelangelo and that of the exhibition, reuniting it with the 16th century, when it was seen as a work Michelangelo-Pontormo Venus for the by Michelangelo that was simply “col- first time since the Renaissance. ored” by Pontormo. Twentieth-century At the I Tatti talk, Roberto Leporatti preoccupation with “originality” and presented part of his research on con- “authorship” are likely responsible for Research Associate Laura Corti with temporary love poetry, focusing on the this work’s being largely ignored in the Sara Matthews Grieco (VIT’94). Greek poet Moscus’s “Amore fugitive,” literature as somehow not characteristic

Villa I Tatti THE NAME OF THE MOTHER AND THE CALL OF THE SON

UZANNE CUSICK, the world’s fore- gender role into which she was born. Smost scholar on the Florentine com- Like Suor Maria Maddalena, Cusick poser Francesca Caccini and 2001-02 argued, Caccini was able to draw on a Burkhardt Fellow at Villa I Tatti, offered specifically Florentine model of female a rare convergence of scholarship and empowerment – one made possible by performance with a day devoted to the the strategies of their mutual patron, sacred output of this most undervalued Duchess Regent Maria Maddalena exponent of the early 17th-century nuove d’Austria, who self-consciously created musiche. Cusick’s presentation, “The an atmosphere that allowed (select) Name of the Mother and the Call of the women substantial financial and legal Son: Voices of Female Creativity in independence. A remarkably skilled 215 Francesca Caccini’s Sacred Songs,” vocalist, rhetorician, and composer, Hubert Damisch (VIT’95,’99) returning explored how Caccini created rhetorical Francesca Caccini was successful in tak- to I Tatti for the dedication of the Osvaldo Tangocci Olive Grove (see p. 19). space for her singing and compositional ing full advantage of the circumstances activity (in spite of being a “mere available to an enterprising woman in woman”) through the intervention of early 17th-century Florence. - Former Fellows Update 0 the Virgin Mary (in highlighting the Later that evening, a concert in the name “Maria” with specific musical ges- Florence Baptistery (co-sponsored by CAROLINE ELAM (VIT’82), for- tures) and of Christ, whose appeal to his I Tatti and the Opera di S. Maria del merly Editor of The Burlington people Caccini set for soprano voice – Fiore) offered the first modern perfor- Magazine, has taken up a new post her own range – thereby appropriating mance of several sacred songs by Caccini. as 2002/2003 Andrew W. Mellon the words of the Son into a female vocal Soprano Emily Van Evera’s singing was Professor at space. Taken as a whole, Cusick argued, exquisite, and she showed her virtuosity the Center for Caccini’s collection of sacred songs can by taking full advantage of the irregular the Advanced also be seen as a series of increasingly acoustics of the space. Accompanying Study in the complex vocal exercises, potentially Van Evera was a flexible ensemble: Paul Visual Arts at designed to train the vocal student O’Dette (lute) and Maxine Eilander the National (Caccini was also a renowned teacher) to (harp) played with wonderful skill and Gallery in acquire vocal power along with spiritual complemented Van Evera’s voice per- Washington, authority. Cusick compared Caccini’s fectly, though their solo efforts were D.C. rhetorical strategy to the path of her con- often lost in the large concert space; temporary Suor Maria Maddalena organist Alfonso Fedi was more success- -0 de’Pazzi, who likewise was able to draw ful in filling the Battistero with sound. on the authority of the Virgin and her JANET COX-REARICK (VIT’62, Son – through visions – in order to cir- m Andrew Dell’Antonio ’63,’76,’91), Distinguished Professor cumvent the traditionally disempowered Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the History of Art at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, was honored by the CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts in 2002 “for her dedica- tion to scholarship and to the high- est standards of teaching, her personal generosity to younger scholars, and her unfailing loyalty to her students.” -0

BRUCE BOUCHER (VIT’85) has been appointed the Eloise Martin Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture and Ancient Art Former Fellows Leatrice Mendelsohn, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Philippe Costamagna, and Janet Cox-Rearick.

Autumn 2002 IN MEMORIAM I Tatti records with sorrow the following deaths: weekend in May 1989. In 1990 they returned to stay at the GIOVANNI CANTINI died on 25 October 2001 at 80 years villa La Papiniana on the I Tatti property and Donald of age. He and his wife Giulia lived for many years in the joined the I Tatti Council in 1991. In addition to numer- Corbignano farmhouse to which they first came in 1965 ous other gifts to I Tatti, he and Denise established the when he was taken on as a farmer under the old mezzadria Denise Jackson and Donald J. Sutherland Book Fund in system. In 1973, when this sharecropping system was abol- 1991. In 1999 Donald added substantially to this fund, the ished, he became I Tatti’s night watchman, patrolling the income from which was then designated for I Tatti’s cur- halls first alone and in later years with his dog, Lusanna, rent periodical subscriptions. Donald will be greatly missed until his retirement in 1994. Even after moving into the for his generosity of spirit, helpful advice, warm personality city to a home of their own, both Giovanni and Giulia and true friendship. Cantini maintained strong ties to the I Tatti community. 16 f NICOLAI RUBINSTEIN, who died on 19 August 2002, ALFREDO PESCI, who came to work at I Tatti in 1959, was born in Berlin in 1911. He began his education and his died on 12 May 2002. He too was taken on as a farmer life-long love of Florentine history there, but received his under the old system of mezzadria until 1973 when the laurea in 1935 from the University of Florence, before mov- farmers were employed with regular work contracts. He ing to England in 1939, where he settled into a long teach- had originally been given the Molino I farm, a small piece ing career at Westfield College, University of London. He of land stretching from the church of San Martino to the and his wife Ruth were frequent visitors to the Harvard Mugnaio (Mulino di Sotto) as well as a house at Ponte a Center since its inception and were close personal friends of Mensola for his family. When the smallholdings were dis- all I Tatti’s directors. Rubinstein served on I Tatti’s solved and the farmers became regular employees, Pesci was Academic Advisory Board, the committee which chooses put in charge of the vegetable garden, which he continued I Tatti Fellows, for 13 years from 1978, and many of his to cultivate until his retirement in 1980. He remained a part former students have been Fellows here. Until last year, he of the I Tatti community nonetheless. His smiling face and was general editor of the Lorenzo de’ Medici Letters, a pro- good humor were very much in evidence at the Christmas ject begun in the 1950s under the auspices of the Istituto party each year, and he would always lend a hand at the Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento in collaboration with vendemmia each autumn. I Tatti, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Warburg Institute, his second London home after HANS HEINRICH THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA died of a heart Westfield. He himself edited volumes III and IV of the attack on 27 April 2002 in Spain at the age of 81. In the Letters in addition to compiling a checklist of the extant words of the then Director Craig Hugh Smyth on the occa- letters with Pier Giorgio Ricci in 1964. Rubinstein pub- sion of the establishment of the Hanna Kiel Fellowship in lished numerous articles on the political, social, constitu- 1977, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza was “a tional, and diplomatic history of Medicean Florence, and great and famous collector of art. He is still refining and two books: The Government of Florence Under the Medici adding to his collection with great skill. Baron Thyssen has (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966) and The Palazzo Vecchio, something very much in common with the tradition of this 1298-1532. Government, Architecture and Imagery in the Civic house and with a number of the Fellows who have been Palace of the Florentine Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, here: [he has] a real joy in works of art and an intimate con- 1995). A multi-volume set of his essays is forthcoming. noisseur’s knowledge of them. Also, he has a concern for the Among other prizes, Rubinstein was awarded the Premio preservation of works of art going far beyond his own col- Internazionale Galileo Galilei in 1985, and made an lection, making it possible, through admirable and anony- Honorary Citizen of Florence in 1992. Sadly, RUTH mous generosity, to conserve major parts of the world’s RUBINSTEIN, a scholar in her own right, died of cancer just artistic heritage....” Baron Thyssen was an honorary member ten days later, on 29 August 2002. In addition to a number of the I Tatti Council from 1980 to 1993. of articles, Ruth Rubinstein published, jointly with Phyllis Pray Bober, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture: A DONALD J. SUTHERLAND (Harvard MBA’58), I Tatti Handbook of Sources (London: Miller; Oxford: Oxford Univ. Council member, died on 10 August 2002 after a long ill- Press, 1986), and, with Emanuele Casamassima, edited the ness. Donald Sutherland was the managing partner of catalogue Antiquarian Drawings from Dosio’s Roman Workshop: Quincy Partners, a management and investment firm based Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (Firenze: Giunta in Glen Head, NY. He was an alumnus of Phillips Regionale Toscana; Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 1993). Academy, Andover, where he and Walter Kaiser were We mourn their passing, which closes a rich chapter in classmates. He and Walter met up again when Donald and Renaissance studies. his wife Denise first came to I Tatti on a Harvard Alumni

Villa I Tatti MICHELANGELO’S CREATION OF ADAM

ormer fellow and three-time Visiting aerodynamic theme by describing how the identity of the creator spiritus, as God FProfessor at I Tatti, PAUL BAROLSKY Michelangelo uses the concept of flying is on the point of blowing life into (VIT’81,’87,’91,’95) gave a Adam. Critical to Barolsky’s lecture on Michelangelo’s argument is the need to recog- Creation of Adam that was both nize that the wind of life has yet stimulating and provocative. to reach Adam, he is still a work Acknowledging that he was in progress. This Creation of moving away from the more Adam, he proposed, would be playful territory that he tradi- better titled God Creating Adam. tionally has occupied, Barolsky At this point, he turned to the turned to a recontextualisation of issue of Michelangelo as creator. the image within the framework It is Michelangelo’s divine hands 17 of the Sistine Chapel, and to the which will complete Adam, and 2 matter of Michelangelo as the- he who will ultimately allow his ologian. Michelangelo’s poetic creature the breath of life. Adam imagination, Barolsky reminded is thus touched by the hand of the audience, gave visual form to two gods, one, Barolsky con- the aesthetics of theology, and Paul and Ruth Barolsky cluded, “the sublime, subliminal served to render a Creation with Ronnie Laskin (VIT’66,’67). icon of the modern artist.” scene replete with details never before utilized in previous versions. For divinity to magnify God’s magnificence, Paul Barolsky is Commonwealth example, while God is habitually and further exploits the role of wind Professor of Art History at the University of depicted standing or seated next to within the image. Not only does divine Virginia. Adam, Michelangelo creates Him as a wind, implied by the swell of the drapes fully articulated body in flight, the first of behind the figure of God, propel Him m Caroline P. Murphy its kind. Barolsky elaborated on this across the picture plane, but it also signals Melville J. Kahn Fellow

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RONALD WITT (VIT’69), Professor of INGRID D. ROWLAND (VIT’94) SABINE EICHE (VIT’83), a senior History at Duke University, continues became the Andrew W. Mellon research associate at CASVA, the to work on Italian humanism. He Professor at the American Academy in National Gallery of Art, is based in won the RSA’s Phyllis Goodhart Rome in September 2001. Her recent Florence where she works part-time on Gordon Book Prize, the American publications include The Ecstatic Journey: the Center’s architectural drawings Philosophical Association’s Jacques Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome project. She continues to research and Barzun Prize in Cultural History and (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Library, publish in her two main areas of inter- the Helen and Howard R. Marraro 2000), The Place of the Antique in Early est: the art and architecture of the dukes Prize of the AHA for his book In the Modern Europe (Chicago: Smart of Urbino, and Italian Renaissance and Footsteps of the Ancients. The Origins of Museum of Art, 2000), The Baroque architectural drawings. In June Humanism from Lovato to Bruni (Leiden; Correspondence of Agostino Chigi (Studi e 2001, Eiche was elected corresponding Boston; Köln: Brill, 2000). A collection Testi 399, Vatican City: Biblioteca member of the 19th-century Accademia of his articles has recently been pub- Apostolica Vaticana, 2001), and a New Raffaello of Urbino in recognition of lished with the title Italian Humanism York Times book review of Boccaccio’s her studies on the art and architecture and Medieval Rhetoric (Aldershot: Famous Women, edited and translated of the former duchy of Urbino. Eiche Variorum, 2002). Witt, who is cur- by Virginia Brown, the first volume in was a member of the coordinating rently serving as President of the the new I Tatti Renaissance Library committee for the international con- Renaissance Society of America, is series. Rowland was the Erasmus of gress I Della Rovere nell’Italia delle corti finishing another book, The Italian Rotterdam Society speaker at the (Urbania: 1999); she was also a mem- Difference: The Two Cultures of Medieval Chicago 2001 Renaissance Society of ber of the editorial committee for the Italy 800-1250, which traces the inter- America conference, where EDWARD Acts of the congress, published in June relationship between the documentary MUIR (VIT’73) was the Bennett 2002, to which she contributed a paper and book culture of medieval Italy. Lecturer. on the Barco of Casteldurante.

Autumn 2002 COUNCIL NOTES

e are deeply saddened to record In October, Wthe death of Council member Council members and longtime friend DONALD J. met at the Knicker- SUTHERLAND. An “alumnus” of bocker Club in New I Tatti, as he liked to call himself, he York City for a and his wife Denise were interested in reception hosted by the Italian Renaissance and in the work WALTER KAISER, in of the scholars who study the period, honor of his succes- and enjoyed returning periodically to sor, JOSEPH CON- the Florentine “campus.” (See page 16) NORS, who takes up The I Tatti Council will sorely miss his his position as the f18 wonderful friendship and generosity. sixth Director of the The I Tatti Council is delighted Harvard University to welcome new member NEIL L. Center for Italian RUDENSTINE, Harvard University Renaissance Studies Graziella Macchetta, from I Tatti’s Cambridge office, President Emeritus, who, throughout in July 2002. Many with Council member Gabriele Geier. his years at Harvard and before that at members attended the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the cocktail party to has given I Tatti his unflagging support. meet Joe and Françoise Connors and to of the Harvard Corporation. Various A scholar of the Renaissance, Neil welcome them to the I Tatti family. toasts were made to honor members Rudenstine has returned to the Mellon Connors, who was Director of the past and present. In thanking them, Foundation where he chairs the American Academy in Rome for four Walter Kaiser noted how the wise Advisory Board of ArtSTOR. The cen- years in the 1980s, will be on leave of counsel and unparalleled generosity of tral purpose of ArtSTOR is to use the absence from the Department of Art this remarkable I Tatti Council has capacities of modern information tech- History and Archeology at Columbia helped the Harvard Center become a nology to enhance scholarship, teaching University. center of excellence in Renaissance and learning in art history, as well as in The annual I Tatti Council meeting scholarship. other fields of knowledge that draw took place in New York City in April. Earlier that morning, Council mem- significantly upon visual images. This was Walter Kaiser’s last meeting as bers met at the Metropolitan Museum Conceived by the Andrew W. Mellon Director of I Tatti. DEBORAH LOEB of Art for a guided tour of the first Foundation, this initiative will enable BRICE, Council Chairman, opened the major exhibition of Renaissance tapes- the aggregation, storage, distribution, meeting with a tribute to Walter that tries in the United States in 25 years. and educational use of art-related digital expressed everyone’s sentiments con- Amazing in their details, the tapestries, resources. ArtSTOR will make avail- cerning his departure, and gave a warm made after drawings or cartoons by such able on-line images and relevant schol- welcome to Joe and Françoise Connors. painters as Raphael, are the resulting arship information, drawn from sources A delectable and lively lunch followed, union of Italian artistry with the crafts- around the world, to faculty members, during which much of I Tatti’s history manship of the weavers, mostly men, in curators, conservators, librarians, stu- was recalled; many Council members the tapestry workshops of the dents, and others associated with not- expressed their thanks to Walter for Netherlands. These enormous, resplen- for-profit educational institutions. giving I Tatti so very much, and D. dent, and costly weavings of silk and RONALD DANIEL saluted him on behalf gold thread, symbols of the political power of Renaissance kings and princes, are surprisingly alive, and were thethe villa villa i itatti tatti council council often done in cycles. The Metropolitan Frank E. Richardson Anne H. Bass (as(as of ofSept July 2002) 2000) exhibition featured 41 of the greatest . Lewis W. Bernard Susan Mainwaring Roberts Jean A. Bonna DeborahDeborah Loeb Loeb Brice, Brice, Chairman Chairman Neil L. Rudenstine surviving tapestries produced between Susan Braddock Edmund P. Pillsbury,* Melvin R. Seiden 1460 and 1560, which, as exhibition Anne Coffin MauriceFounding Lazarus Chairman Sydney S. Shuman curator Thomas Campbell related, D. Ronald Daniel MelvinTroland R. Seiden, S. ChairmanLink Emeritus Craig Hugh Smyth necessitated entering the museum by Richard H. Ekman Timothy D. Llewellyn Daniel Steiner Robert F. Erburu Barnabas McHenry William F. Thompson the main entrance in the wee hours, Gabriele Geier Benedetta Origo Rosemary F. Weaver owing to the size of the works. Mary Weitzel Gibbons Joseph P. Pellegrino Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. William E. Hood, Jr. Marilyn Perry Joseph Connors, Director m Graziella Macchetta Walter Kaiser Elizabeth Peters Virgilia Pancoast Klein Edmund P. Pillsbury* *Honorary Development Associate

Villa I Tatti 1 GARDENS AND GROUNDS 2

or most “tattiani” the garden looms from Pescia, the best olive tree-produc- a new state-of-the-art vineyard, which Fforemost in their memories, when ing center in Tuscany. A generous dona- now produces all our grapes and wine. thinking about the outdoor space here, tion from Terri and Hubert Damisch The cellar and its equipment, however, even though the farms that surround it (VIT’95,’99), which was matched by were still very much behind the technical absorb at least as much time revolution that has over- and labor. In part this is due come winemaking in to the fact that the gardens Tuscany and elsewhere in are distinctly more romantic recent decades. With the to think about – and to arrival of the new head walk through – than the farmer, ANDREA LAINI (see 19 farms. The latter do, how- Newsbriefs), who had been 2 ever, produce the olive oil in charge of operations for a and wine that appear on the wine producer in the table each day and for many Chianti and is versed in the Fellows the vendemmia is the latest developments, it sud- first collective experience of denly became possible to the year, a tradition that is bring our own operations up now threatened by new to date. As a consequence labor laws. This year, rather we have invested in new than write about the garden stainless steel vats, barriques and the various improve- (oak casks traditionally used ments it has undergone in Replacing a full-grown camellia in the in the Bordeaux area but the past twelve months, I giardino pensile is quite a job. now a worldwide phenome- want to say something about non), and a variety of other the farms where both the equipment. Two significant wine and the olive sectors additions have been a proper are undergoing relatively pump to transfer the wine major changes. from one vat to another Over the past two years without incorporating too much time and effort have much air (as the old circular gone into restructuring the pumps did) and, above all, a olive groves. After finally new cooling system to keep obtaining permission from the temperature of the fer- the authorities, we were menting grapes at an accept- able to remove old and dead able level. This rather olive trees in lower-lying cumbersome but efficient areas of the property and machine prevents the tem- plant new trees in better perature from rising above plots. Above the church of 30°C, a common occur- San Martino, miles of rence in most years, above trenches were dug six feet deep to ensure Walter Kaiser, paid for much of this which the more delicate aromas of the proper drainage in an area where the new olive grove. In March, the grapes are destroyed. As a result, the 2001 waterproof layer of clay is uncomfortably grove was dedicated to OSVALDO vintage has shown a very distinct close to the surface. The trenches were TANGOCCI (founder of Osvaldo’s restau- improvement over the past and will be then filled, not with the stones and bun- rant at Ponte a Mensola, caretaker at the bottled in a year’s time for proper aging. dles of branches called for by the Papiniana, and driver of the I Tatti medieval agricultural treatises but rather minibus who died in March 1999) whose m Allen J. Grieco with hollow bricks covered with porous name is remembered in a discreet plaque Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant to the cloth that lets the water through but pre- set into the wall along via di San Martino Director for Scholarly Programs and for vents soil particles from slowly clogging a Mensola just opposite the church itself. Gardens and Grounds up the drainage system. The next step The wine sector at I Tatti has seen was to replace the earth and plant hun- even more important changes. These dreds of handpicked, three-year-old trees began five years ago with the planting of

Autumn 2002 LILA WALLACE–READER’S DIGEST SPECIAL GRANTS

illa I Tatti grants of up to $8,000 Recipients of both grants are chosen 2001/2002 Lila Wallace – Vper person, for a total of not more by a committee formed of three to five Reader’s Digest Publications than $40,000 per year, are available senior Renaissance scholars (plus the Subsidies Recipients: from the Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Director acting as chairman) chosen LAWRIN ARMSTRONG (VIT’00), Publications Subsidy to former from among the I Tatti Research towards Usury and Public Debt in Early Appointees who apply to help subsidize Associates, Visiting Professors and Renaissance Florence. Lorenzo Ridolfi on the the publication of a scholarly mono- Scholars, and former Fellows. Proposals, “Monte Comune.” graph or article on the Italian which should include a brief project MARCELLO FANTONI (VIT’99), Renaissance, to help pay for pho- description, a budget, and a short list of towards Gli abiti del principe. Arte e potere tographs or other special costs of such a relevant publications, should be sent to nell’Italia del Cinque-Seicento. publication, to help prepare a manu- the Director by 15 September each VALERIA FINUCCI (VIT’95), 20 f script for publication, to engage a year. In the case of applications relating towards a critical English translation of the research assistant, etc. to the special costs of publication (pub- 16th-century Italian prose romance by Giulia In addition, Villa I Tatti grants of up lication subvention, cost of illustrations, Bigolina, Urania. to $16,000 per project, for a total of not etc.), in addition to giving the length MARCO PELLEGRINI (VIT’98) more than $40,000 per year, are avail- and scope of the project the description towards Ascanio Maria Sforza. La parabola able from the Lila Wallace – Reader’s should explain what financial difference politica di un cardinale-principe del rinasci- Digest Special Project Grant to former a subvention will make. A letter from mento italiano. Appointees who wish to initiate, pro- the publisher indicating that the manu- PIOTR SALWA (VIT’84) towards mote, or engage in some sort of inter- script has been accepted for publication Tuscan Renaissance “novellieri” and their disciplinary project in Italian should also be sent. Final notification Ideological and Political Commitment. Renaissance studies. Eligible projects will be sent to applicants in October. SERGIO TOGNETTI (VIT’01) would include conferences, publica- Preference will be given to applicants towards Un’industria di lusso al servizio del tions, courses, seminars, workshops, or who have not previously received such grande commercio. Il mercato dei drappi serici lectures which are interdisciplinary in an award. e della seta nella Firenze del Quattrocento. character. RONI WEINSTEIN (VIT’01) towards Marriage Rituals in Jewish-Italian - Former Fellows Update 0 Communities during the Early Modern Period. An Anthropological Perspective. SALVATORE CAMPOREALE (VIT’77-’03) is one of I Tatti’s longest serving Research Associates. For many years he has taught a graduate seminar at the 2001/2002 Lila Wallace – Johns Hopkins University during the spring term. In March 2002, Johns Reader’s Digest Special Hopkins celebrated his 17th year of teaching with a conference in his honor. Project Grants Recipients: Last year, in addition to travelling to Baltimore, he spent the fall semester as a ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI (VIT’99) Carey Senior Faculty Fellow at the Erasmus Institute at the University of Notre towards Recreation in the Renaissance. Dame. In addition, he was appointed the 2002 Silvermann Professor at the JAMES HANKINS (VIT’89,’93) Cohn Institute for the History of Philosophy and Science at the University of towards Humanism and Platonism in the Tel-Aviv, a ten-week visiting professorship Italian Renaissance. which he held later in the spring. Among many MARCO SPALLANZANI (VIT’82-’03) other publications on Renaissance humanism, towards Maioliche ispano-moresche a Camporeale has recently published Lorenzo Valla. Firenze nel Rinascimento. Umanesimo, riforma e controriforma, studi e testi (Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2002). -0

DALE V. KENT (VIT’78,’83), Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, was presented with the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in 2002 for her book Cosimo de’ Medici and the Florentine Renaissance. The Patron’s Oeuvre (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2000), a study of the artistic patronage of Cosimo and his sons, viewed in the context of Florentine civic, religious, and popular culture. The award, named in honor of one of the founding members of the CAA, is presented for an especially distinguished book in the history of art. Kent, who has recently held two residential fellowships (at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Newberry Library in Chicago), is currently working on the companion volume entitled Fathers and Friends: Patronage and Patriarchy in Early Medicean Florence, which deals with the extension of personal patronage into the political sphere.

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I Tatti is delighted to announce that last are deeply grateful to him winter we won first prize in a competi- for his dedication to the tion organized by New York vines, olives, fields, and University’s Villa La Pietra. The compe- community of I Tatti. tition judged the quality of olive oil pro- duced by the small handful of Replacing Angiolino as olive-oil-producing American university head farmer is ANDREA institutes in the Florence area. The LAINI, who came to judges, Dott.ssa Nizzi-Griffi and an I Tatti with experience in official taster of the newly formed viticulture from the 21 national association of oil tasters, sam- Fattoria la Castellina in 2 pled each oil in a blind tasting. Like Chianti. With Andrea’s sommeliers and tea blenders, olive oil arrival in July 2001, tasters have very fine palates. Much to I Tatti has taken another I Tatti’s enthusiastic soccer team. the amazement of the assembled grow- step in the direction of ers, the judges were able to distinguish improving our table wine. The annual five-a-side soccer match that the olives in one batch of oil had between the interni (I Tatti staff) and been damaged by hail shortly before the In the spring, SERGIO GALLEOTTI was esterni (outside contractors) was fiercely harvest. Their ranking in order of excel- promoted to Head of Security. Sergio contested again this year. I Tatti’s team lence: Villa I Tatti, Villa La Pietra has been with I Tatti since 1995. consisted of Paolo Marsilli (goal keeper), (NYU), Villa Le Balze (Georgetown GIANNI NOCENTINI has been named Lapo Nanini, Stefano Pernice, Andrea University), Harding University in Deputy Head of Security. MASSIMO Laini, Emiliano Pernice, Marco Pompili, Florence, and the Cassa di Risparmio di SARACINI, who came to I Tatti in 1994, Alessandro Focosi, and Paolo Cresci. Firenze, a local savings bank. This is the left the security staff in February. We The cup, dedicated to the memory of second year NYU has sponsored the wish him well in the future. To replace Franco Montemurro, a young builder competition. I Tatti was placed second Massimo and another guard who will be who died in 1994, was won this year by last year. retiring this autumn, three new guards the esterni some of whom, it turns out, have been hired: CARLO FEI, STEFANO actually play soccer more than once a Stepping down from the tractor, PERNICE, and MASSIMILIANO GAVILLI. year. Enthusiastically coached by chief ANGIOLINO PAPI retired as head of the Benvenuti tutti! contractor Giorgio Piazzini, the team farm staff at the end of last December consisted of plumbers, cabinetmakers, after 48 years. He has worked hard, in I Tatti is grateful once again to PETER and builders. Friends and family of both all weathers, in all seasons. Farming is NELSON who returned this summer to teams loudly rooted for their side while not a 9-5 job. In winter he has driven work as an intern in the Library. We the Ponte a Mensola milkman held the the olive-laden tractor for miles to a hope we can look forward to his return unenviable post of umpire. As usual, the frantoio to press the olive oil. These mills again next summer! final score has been quietly forgotten. run 24 hours a day in season; one’s appointment to crush the olives may “First comes love, then comes mar- well turn out to be in the middle of the riage, then comes baby in a baby car- night. Angiolino never grumbled. We riage.” We are happy to announce the - Former Fellows Update 0 marriage of I Tatti security guard PAOLO MARSILLI to Lucia Consigli in PIOTR URBANSKI (VIT’99) has April. The couple crossed the world to recently been promoted Associate spend their honeymoon in Australia. Professor of Early Polish and Latin JILL BURKE (VIT’01) and David Literature at the University of Rosenthal are delighted to announce the Szczecin. His recent publications birth of their son Joe in October 2001. include “Theologia Fabulosa: And RONI WEINSTEIN (VIT’01) and Commentationes Sarbievianae” Dorit Lerer are the proud parents of a (Szczecin: 2000) and he is currently daughter, Yael, born in February 2002. working on an anthology of English translations of Latin poems by Maciej Angiolino Papi. Kazimierz.

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General Editor James Hankins Editorial Board Michael J. B. Allen Brian Copenhaver Vincenzo Fera Walter Kaiser flanked by Claudio Bresci and Gian Luca Rossi of the garden staff, Claudio Leonardi and Emiliano Pernice, Rosa Molinari and Alessando Focosi of the house staff. Walther Ludwig Nicholas Mann Silvia Rizzo f22 ITRL 1. Giovanni Boccaccio. Publications Famous Women, ed. & trans. by with support from the Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund, Virginia Brown. 2001. the Scholarly Programs and Publications Funds in the names of ITRL 2. Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Malcolm Hewitt Wiener, Craig and Barbara Smyth, Jean-François Malle, Andrew W. Mellon, and Robert Lehman, and the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Publication Fund. Theology, Vol. 1, Books I-IV, trans. by Michael J. B. Allen with John Warden & ed. by James Hankins Forthcoming Titles: with William Bowen. 2001. I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, Vol. 9, Florence: Leo S. Olschki, which contains the ITRL 3. Leonardo Bruni. History of following articles: the Florentine People, Vol. 1, Books • ALISON BROWN (VIT’86,’91,’98): “Lucretius and the Epicureans in the Social and I-IV, ed. & trans. by James Hankins. Political Context of Renaissance Florence.” 2001. • GIANCARLO FIORENZA, “Pandolfo Collenuccio’s Specchio d’Esopo and the Portrait of the Courtier.” ITRL 4. Marsilio Ficino. Platonic • MAUREEN MILLER (VIT’00), “The Medici Renovation of the Florentine Theology, Vol. 2, Books V-VIII, Arcivescovado.” trans. by Michael J. B. Allen with • ALESSANDRA MALQUORI (VIT’00), “La Tebaide degli Uffizi: tradizioni letterarie e John Warden & ed. by James figurative per l’interpretazione di un tema iconografico.” Hankins with William Bowen. 2002. • LORENZ BÖNINGER (VIT’95): “Politics, Trade and Tolerance in Renaissance ITRL 5. Humanist Educational Florence: Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Besalù Brothers.” Treatises, ed. & trans. by Craig W. The Italian Renaissance in the 20th Century. Acts of an international conference, Villa I Tatti, Kallendorf. 2002. Florence, 9-11 June 1999, edited by Allen Grieco (VIT’89-’03), Michael Rocke (VIT’91-’03), and Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi. Florence: Leo S. Olschki. ITRL 6. Polydore Vergil. On L’Arme e gli amori: Ariosto, Tasso, Guarini in Late Renaissance Florence. Acts of an international Discovery, ed. & trans. by Brian P. conference, Villa I Tatti, Florence, 27 – 29 June 2001, edited by Massimiliano Rossi Copenhaver. 2002. (VIT’93,’98-’03), and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi. Florence: Leo S. Olschki.

- 0 Former Fellows Update Orders for any volume PAL ACS (VIT’94), who is a in the I Tatti series Professor of Early Modern may be placed directly with Hungarian Literature at the the publisher or with University of Budapest and at Casalini Libri spa, the University of Pécs, received 3 via Benedetto da Maiano, a two-month fellowship at the 50014 Fiesole FI, Italy. Netherlands Institute for Tel: +39 055 50181; Advanced Study last year to Fax: +39 055 581 8201. continue his research on Information and general Erasmus. He is currently correspondence: working on a book to be enti- [email protected]. tled, “Apocalypticism and Orders by e-mail: Malle Fellow Marilina Cirillo Falzarano Millenarism in Hungarian [email protected]. with Alessandro Superbi. Peter Farbaky, Renaissance Literature.” Web site: www.casalini.it Mellon Research Fellow, in the background.

Villa I Tatti Published in the Villa I Tatti series: I TATTI STUDIES:ESSAYS IN 1. Studies on Machiavelli, edited by Myron P. Gilmore. Florence: Casa Editrice Sansoni, 1972. THE RENAISSANCE 2. Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore, edited by Sergio Bertelli and Gloria Ramakus. Vol. 1. Florence: Villa I Tatti, 1985. Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1978, 2 vols. Vols. 2-8. Florence: Leo S. 3. Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque Style, by Charles Dempsey. Glückstadt: J.J. Olschki, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1994, Augustin Verlag, 1977. 1995, 1998, 1999. 4. Masaccio: The Documents, by James Beck, with the collaboration of Gino Corti. Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1978. A complete listing of the essays in each volume can be found on 5. Florence and Venice: Comparisons and Relations. Acts of two Conferences at Villa I Tatti in I Tatti’s web site at: 1976 and 1977, organized by S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein, and C.H. Smyth. Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1979-80, 2 vols. http://www.itatti.it 6. Neighbours and Neighbourhood in Renaissance Florence: the District of the Red Lion in the Fifteenth Century, by D.V. and F.W. Kent. Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin Publisher, Editor-in-Chief 223 1982. Joseph Connors 7. Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, edited by A. Morrogh, F. Superbi Editors Gioffredi, P. Morselli, E. Borsook. Florence: Giunti Barbera, 1985, 2 vols. Salvatore Camporeale 8. The Parte Guelfa, Brunelleschi and Donatello, by Diane Finiello Zervas. Locust Valley, NY: Elizabeth Cropper J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1988. Caroline Elam F. W. K e n t 9. Tecnica e stile: esempi di pittura murale del Rinascimento italiano, a cura di E. Borsook e F. Jessie Ann Owens Superbi Gioffredi. Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 1986, 2 vol. David Quint 10. Pirro Ligorio – Artist and Antiquarian, edited by Robert W. Gaston. Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Editorial Co-ordinator Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi 11. Florence and Milan: Comparisons and Relations. Acts of two Conferences at Villa I Tatti in 1984 and 1986, organized by S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein, and C.H. Smyth, edited by Editorial Administrator C.H. Smyth and G. C. Garfagnini. Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1989, 2 vols. Nelda Ferace 12. On Artists and Art Historians: Selected Book Reviews of John Pope-Hennessy, edited by Walter Kaiser and Michael Mallon. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1993. The editors of I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance welcome submissions from 13. Opera. Carattere e ruolo delle fabbriche cittadine fino all’inizio dell’età moderna. Atti della Renaissance scholars whether former Fellows Tavola Rotonda, Villa I Tatti, Firenze, 3 aprile 1991, a cura di M. Haines e L. Riccetti. or not. Manuscripts should be about 7,000 to Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1996. 10,000 words long, and should be as accessi- ble as possible in style, with minimum use of 14. The Triumph of Vulcan. Sculptor’s Tools, Porphyry and the Prince in Ducal Florence, by technical terminology. The editors are eager Suzanne B. Butters. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1995. to encourage interdisciplinary approaches. Essays in languages other than English or 15. Aldus Manutius and Renaissance Culture. Essays in Memory of Franklin D. Murphy. Acts of Italian are welcome. All publications inquiries an International Conference, Venice and Florence, 14-17 June 1994, edited by D.S. and requests for the style sheet should be Zeidberg, with the assistance of Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, addressed to: 1998. The Editors 16. Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque Style, by Charles Dempsey, 2nd ed. Fiesole: I Tatti Studies Cadmo, 2000. Via di Vincigliata 26 50135 Florence, Italy 17. Medieval Mosaics: Light, Color, Materials, edited by Eve Borsook, F. Gioffredi Superbi and [email protected] G. Pagliarulo. Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2000. 18. Santa Maria del Fiore. The Cathedral and its Sculpture. Acts of an international conference, Villa I Tatti, Florence, 5 – 7 June 1997, edited by Margaret Haines. Fiesole: Cadmo 2001.

Published under the auspices of Villa I Tatti: The Bernard Berenson Collection of Oriental Art at Villa I Tatti, by The Letters Between Bernard Berenson and Charles Henry Coster, edited Laurance P. Roberts, with introductory essays by Sir Harold by Giles Constable in collaboration with Elizabeth H. Beatson Acton, Walter Kaiser, John M. Rosenfield. New York: Hudson and Luca Dainelli. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1993. Hills Press, 1991. Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550. Function and Design, edited by Eve Verrocchio and Late Quattrocento Sculpture. Acts of two Conferences, Borsook and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi. Oxford: Clarendon 1988-89, edited by Steve Bule, Alan Darr, Fiorella Superbi Press, 1994. Gioffredi. Florence: Licosa-Le Lettere, 1992. A Legacy of Excellence: The Story of Villa I Tatti, by William Weaver, with photographs by David Finn and David Morowitz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

Autumn 2002 I Tatti Community 2002-2003 Fellows AMEDEO DE VINCENTIIS, Andrew W. Mellon CAROL EVERHART QUILLEN, Francesco De Fellow, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Dombrowski Fellow, Rice University, History. HERVÉ BRUNON, Florence J. Gould Fellow, Art History. “La rappresentazione attraverso la scrittura “Writing the Human in Early Modern Italy.” History. “The Landscape of the Medici. Mastery of (documenti) della signoria del duca d’Atene in JUTTA SPERLING, Francesco De Dombrowski Territory and its Cultural Representation in 16th- Firenze (1343) e, in seguito, la costruzione della Century Tuscany.” Fellow, Hampshire College, History. “Family memoria della signoria da parte dei fiorentini.” Politics Before the Invention of Sexuality. A GIAN MARIO CAO, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, TOM HENRY, Ahmanson Fellow, Oxford Comparative History of Marriage and the Dowry Università di Firenze, History. “Critical Edition of Brookes University, Art History. “The Artistic System in Italy and Portugal in the Middle Ages Gianfrancesco Pico’s Examen Vanitatis.” Patronage of Florentine Captains in Tuscan and the Early Modern Period.” ANTHONY COLANTUONO, Robert Lehman Subject-Towns c.1415-1532.” JAN STEJSKAL, Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow, Charles Fellow, University of Maryland, Art History. “A KATHERINE JANSEN, Hanna Kiel Fellow, University, Prague, History. “Czech Exile Activities Study of Humanist Advisors as a Mechanism of Catholic University of America, History. “A Study in Italy (c.1400-1450).” Cultural Control.” of Peacemaking in Late Medieval and Early MARICA TACCONI, Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest ALESSANDRO DANELONI, Jean-François Renaissance Italy.” Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, Musicology. Malle Fellow, Literature. “L’umanista Bartolomeo STEFANO JOSSA, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Liceo “The Service-Books of the Florentine Cathedral: 24 Fonzio nella cultura Fiorentina laurenziana e Classico “Tacito,” Roma, Literature. “Ludovico Civic Identity and Ritual.” f postlaurenziana.” Castelvetro: Between Humanism and Heresy.” KAREL THEIN (2nd sem), Andrew W. Mellon MAURO MUSSOLIN, Rush H. Kress Fellow, Art Research Fellow, Charles University, Prague, Art History. “San Bernardino all’Osservanza. Ritual, History. “Exegesis of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Buon Architecture and Art in 15th-Century Siena.” Governo frescoes considered together with his ELENA PIERAZZO, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Allegory of Redemption.” Literature. “A study of the autograph manuscript of Visiting Professors Anton Francesco Doni.” YOLANDA PLUMLEY, Committee to Rescue Bette Talvacchia, University of Connecticut, Robert Italian Art Fellow, University College Cork, Lehman Visiting Professor, Art History. Musicology. “The Transmission and Reception of “Monograph on the Art of Raphael.” French Lyrics and Songs in Italy c.1375-1425.” Nicholas A. Eckstein (2nd sem), University of IVAYLA POPOVA (2nd sem), Andrew W. Mellon Sydney, History. “Completion of Book Manuscript Research Fellow, Sofia University, History. “The on Brancacci Chapel.” 15th-century Italian Humanistic View of The Research Associates are the same as for 2001/2002. Byzantium and the Balkans.”

Dante Della Terza, who was Acting The I Tatti newsletter is published once a year. Alexa M. Mason, editor and writer; Harvard Printing & Publications Director of I Tatti in 1978. Services, designer. Unless otherwise specified, photographs are by Nelda Ferace, Gianni Trambusti, Gianni Martilli, and Alexa M. Mason.

Former Fellows are indicated in this volume with the initials “VIT” after their name, followed by the year(s) of their appointment as Fellow, Visiting Scholar, Visiting Professor, or Research Associate.

First Impressions Continued from page 1 realizes that love of the classical world front of the Sassetta altarpiece, which we devoured the wonderful two- ran deep in their reading and so did a shows the air and earth, wind and volume biography of Berenson by Ernest passion for politics, philosophy and water mentioned in the poem, and Samuels, each of us racing through one literature. especially the resplendent sun shining volume in a week and then swapping. On a chilly morning last week the out in all its glory. The memories of Fiorella and Liliana staff gathered in the chapel while Don As much as we love Italy and feel have brought his shade closer to reality, Carlo Bazzi, the learned parish priest we know a good deal of it, first impres- but living in the Villa deepens the sense from S. Martino a Mensola, celebrated sions are that life in this little Arcadia of mystery about his personality rather mass on the anniversary of BB’s death. will be like nothing else we have ever than dispels it. A house that can seem The flat floor slabs for Bernard, born in experienced. But the task is also daunt- both formal and formidable at first turns Lithuania, and for Mary, born in ing. None of the pleasure of living here, over time into a magic place, where wit Quaker Philadelphia, remind one I constantly remind myself, will mean and knowledge lie behind the place- forcefully of the shape and color these anything unless these sensations, these ment of every picture and every piece two powerful personalities gave to the books, these conversations, and these of furniture. Unforgettable too is the house and the institute. As it happens, serenities are shared as generously as commingling of East and West that the anniversary is also the feast of St. possible with Fellows, former Fellows, takes place on top of the bookshelves, Francis of Assisi, BB’s favorite saint and Renaissance scholars of every stamp with their Greek statuettes and Chinese (though perhaps not the standard bearer and origin. The founder, one feels, Buddhas. When one comes across of his favorite virtues). After lunch, would be a stern taskmaster on that books from the original core of the Fellows and many of the staff moved to score. library, with the famous bookplate, Ex the Salone, where Don Carlo read m Joseph Connors Libris Bernardi et Mariae Berenson, one Francis’s Il Cantico delle Creature, in Director

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