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Volume 29 E-mail: [email protected] / Web: http://www.itatti.it D D D Tel: +39 055 603 251 / Fax: +39 055 603 383 Autumn 2009

nce again I fi nd myself sitting on Letter from Florence ping nudes from the debate about the Othe Berenson garden bench past artist’s homosexuality. Jaynie Anderson, sunset on the feast of San Giovanni, fresh from organizing a splendid refl ecting on a good I Tatti year. It meeting of the Comité Internatio- began in July 2008 when Françoise nale d’Histoire de l’Art in Melbourne, and I visited Butrimonys, the village explored the Morellian origins of in rural Lithuania where Bernhard connoisseurship. Fredrika Jacobs of Valvrojenski, later Bernard Berenson, Virginia Commonwealth University was born in 1865. Dainora Pociūtė studied Marian devotion and image (VIT’08) helped us discover the effi cacy. Nicholas Terpstra of Toronto overgrown Jewish graveyard on a teased out of reluctant archives shock- nearby hillside. It was painful to ing mortality rates for girls lodged think of the tragedy that overtook the in a female conservatory, exploring town’s Jewish community in 1941, but the darker side of Florentine social I also refl ected on the resilience of the structures. scholar who, then seventy-six, had just In the second semester Erling Skaug been told that Harvard would never of Oslo moved from the punch mark accept his legacy and who went into analysis for which he is celebrated to hiding not long afterward. Luckily, Tuscany to perform it in the Myron & larger issues of Giotto’s career in his lecture by the time Mr. Berenson died on 6 Sheila Gilmore Limonaia. on the great Florentine fl ood of 1333, October 1959, Harvard had changed its Envying those Benedictines of the while Karen Skaug brought to life both mind, allowing I Tatti to grow into the strictest observance who took a fourth the von Bülow piano in the Papiniana fl ourishing research institute that it has vow, that of Stability, I nevertheless and the Frederick Hammond (VIT’72) become. found myself often on the move: to harpsichord in the Studio Berenson. Wietse This year’s Fellows came from the Los Angeles for the meeting of the de Boer of Miami University analyzed United States, Italy, the United King- Renaissance Society of America, to the revisions to Castiglione’s Corteggiano, dom, France, Switzerland, and Australia. London for a lecture, to south India in particular on the subject of war, while They included four Craig Hugh Smyth for a family reunion on Christmas Eve Renée Baernstein of Miami University Visiting Fellows as well as three Mellon in Goa, to Cambridge for meetings at spoke on the letters of a noblewoman Research Fellows, this year all from the casa madre, and to Boston for a visit of the Counter-Reformation, Costanza Hungary, and four Readers in Renais- with the I Tatti Council to the splen- Colonna. Bram Kempers of Amsterdam sance Studies from the English and Art did exhibition of Venetian painting off ered his rethinking of many of the History departments at Harvard. off ered by its eloquent curator, Frederick projects of Julius II at the Vatican, especially Shortly after the September Ilchman. on the pope’s library and St. Peter’s. vendemmia we went on the fall trip to Visiting Professors once again The Casa Morrill, a beautiful Vicenza for a visit to the magnifi cent contributed to the vitality of the com- house in the Oltrarno, hosted Robert Palladio exhibition with the curators, munity, among other things by partici- (VIT’91,’09) and Jana Kiely in the Howard Burns (VIT’77,’84) and Guido pating in the Tuesday shop talks. John spring. At Harvard, this gregarious, Beltramini (VIT’08). In October the Paoletti of Wesleyan explored the con- elegant couple had been co-masters of founders were brought back to life by cept of public nakedness as a context Adams House for 26 years. Bob studied the performance of Simon Gray’s play, for Michelangelo’s David, joining with the iconography of sainthood and Jana The Old Masters. After a successful run Michael Rocke (VIT’91,’98-’10), who worked on translations of contemporary in the West End it was revived by the used his knowledge of Florentine social Czech poetry. Their gracious presence spirited actors of London’s Garden history to remove Michelangelo’s strap- was felt both on the Costa di San Suburb Theatre, who traveled to Giorgio and at I Tatti. Continued on back page.

Cambridge Office: Villa I Tatti, Harvard University, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-5762 Tel: +1 617 496 8724 or +1 617 495 8042 / Fax: +1 617 495 8041 / Web: http://www.itatti.it P. Renée Baernstein (2nd sem), Lila VILLA I TATTI COMMUNITY 2008-2009 Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Pro- fessor, Miami University, Ohio, History. Fellows Defi ning Moment in Renaissance Italy.” “Gender and Marriage in Late Renais- Carmen Bambach (2nd sem), Craig Paola Marini (2nd sem), Craig Hugh sance and Baroque Rome: The Colon- Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, The Met- Smyth Visiting Fellow, Museo di na Family, 1527-1600.” ropolitan Museum of Art, Art History. Castelvecchio, Verona, Art History. “Paolo Wietse de Boer (2nd sem), Lila Wallace “Drawings around Michelangelo.” Veronese, Andrea Palladio e i ‘creati’ vero- - Reader’s Digest Visiting Profes- Dora Bobory (2nd sem), Andrew nesi di Michele Sanmicheli.” sor, Miami University, Ohio, History. W. Mellon Research Fellow, (Central Roberta Mucciarelli, Francesco De “Castiglione and the Crisis of the European University), History. “The Dombrowski Fellow, Università di Renaissance.” Horoscopes of Gerolamo Cardano as Siena, History. “Fama. Indagini intorno Fredrika Jacobs (1st sem), Lila Wallace Biographies.” a un’idea (XIV-XV secolo).” - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Benjamin Brand, Francesco De Patrick Nold, Deborah Loeb Brice Virginia Commonwealth University, Dombrowski Fellow, University of Fellow, State University of New York History. “Marian Devotionalism and North Texas, Musicology. “Cathedral at Albany, History. “Heresy and Ortho- Image Effi cacy in 16th Century Italy.” 2 Liturgies in the Golden Age of the Tus- doxy in Early Trecento Florence.” Bram Kempers, Lila Wallace - Reader’s F can Communes.” Klaus Pietschmann, Deborah Loeb Digest Visiting Professor, University Mario Casari, Andrew W. Mellon Fel- Brice Fellow, Universität Bern, Musicol- of Amsterdam, Art History. “Raphael, low, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza,’ ogy. “Liturgical Polyphony in Florence Julius II and God: The Stanza della Seg- Literature. “The Oriental Studies of between Reform Theology and Local natura in Context.” G.B. Raimondi in Late Renaissance Politics.” Robert Kiely (2nd sem), Harvard Vis- Italy.” Denis Ribouillault, Florence J. Gould iting Professor, Harvard University, Lit- Kathleen Christian , Robert Lehman Fellow, French Academy in Rome, Art erature. “Blessed and Beautiful: Read- Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Art History. “Sacred Landscape and Ideol- ing the Saints with Help from Italian History. “Geniuses of the Place: ogy in Early Modern Italy.” Masters.” Nymphs in Italian Renaissance Art.” Camilla Russell, Hanna Kiel Fellow, John Paoletti (1st sem), Lila Wallace - Roberto Cobianchi, Ahmanson Fel- University of Newcastle, NSW, Aus- Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Wes- low, Università di Messina, Art History. tralia, History. “Imagining the Indies: leyan University, Art History. “Strategies “Ceremonies for Canonisation in Conceptualising the Jesuit Missionary of Medici Patronage during the Fif- Renaissance Rome.” Enterprise in the Italian Renaissance.” teenth Century.” William R. Day, Jean-François Malle Arielle Saiber, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, Erling Skaug (2nd sem), Robert Fellow, University of Cambridge, His- Bowdoin College, Literature. “Well- Lehman Visiting Professor, University tory. “Florentine and other Italian Per- Versed Mathematics in Early Modern of Oslo, Art History. “Punch Marks in sonnel in Foreign Mints, 1200-1500.” Italy (1450-1650).” Tuscan Panel Paintings c.1300-1450.” Bianca De Divitiis, Lila Wallace - Zsolt Török (1st sem), Andrew W. Mellon Nicholas Terpstra (1st sem), Robert Reader’s Digest Fellow, Università Research Fellow, Eöt- Lehman Visiting Professor, Uni- IUAV, Venezia, Art History. “Tra Napoli vös Lorand University, versity of Toronto, History. “Life e Firenze: Giovanni Pontano e la cultura Budapest, History. “Ital- and Death in a Cinquecento artistica nel secondo Quattrocento.” ian Military Architecture, Conservatory for Abandoned Barbara Deimling (1st sem), Craig Renaissance Cosmog- Girls.” Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Syracuse raphy and Cartographic University Florence, Art History. “The Representation.” Research Associate Ingrid Baumgärtner, Univer- Conversion of Mary Magdalene in a sität Kassel, History. “Text, Image Fourteenth-Century Fresco Cycle in Readers in Renaissance and Space in Medieval Cartogra- South Tyrol.” Studies (all from Harvard phy (12th -16th centuries).” Dávid Falvay (2nd sem), Andrew W. Zsolt Török gave the Mellon Research Fellow, Eötvös Loránd University) 2009 Malcolm Young Max Freeman (1st sem), Senior Research Associates University, Budapest, History. “Il culto Lecture, “Francesco Eve Borsook, Villa I Tatti, Art His- Literature. toscano di sante ungheresi (XIV-XV Rosselli and Early Map tory. “Bequest of 9,000 photographs Anna Huber (2nd sem), ss.): testi, immagini, comunità.” Printing,” at the Inter- from Mario Di Giampaolo.” Art History. Laura Giannetti, Lila Wallace - Read- national Map Collec- Allen J. Grieco, Villa I Tatti, History. Steven Rozenski (2nd tors’ Society in London er’s Digest Fellow, University of Miami, “A Brief History of Wine and Wine- sem), Literature. where he received the Literature. “Food Culture and the Liter- making in Italy.” Yulia Ryzhik (1st sem), Helen Wallis Award ary Imagination in Renaissance Italy.” Margaret Haines, Opera di Santa Literature. in June. Anne Leader, Rush H. Kress Fellow, Maria del Fiore Foundation, Art The Savannah College of Art & Design, Visiting Professors History. “Studies on the Worksite of Atlanta, Art History. “Burial Practices in Jaynie Anderson (1st sem), Lila Wallace the Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore.” Renaissance Florence.” - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Michael J. Rocke, Villa I Tatti, History. Catherine Kovesi (1st sem), Craig University of Melbourne, Art History. “Edition and Translation of Italian Texts Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Univer- “A Biography of Giovanni Morelli Related to Homoeroticism (14th-17th sity of Melbourne, History. “Luxury’s (1816-1891).” centuries).”

Villa I Tatti I Tatti as Building Site: The Craig & Barbara The Craig & Barbara Smyth Library & Smyth Library Fund The Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato ur heartfelt thanks go to the very many friends – more than 220 – who have so ell, the good news is really good! While co-chairs Melvin R. Seiden, Susan O generously helped us raise over $1,040,000 WM. Roberts, and William Hood, have successfully concluded the campaign to towards the Craig and Barbara Smyth Library raise $1,000,000 towards the Craig and Barbara Smyth Library Fund – and indeed in the Biblioteca Berenson. We send particular have gone beyond! – the architects Garofalo-Miura, construction company SIRE, thanks to and all the other contractors have successfully concluded the library renovation. I Tatti The Ahmanson Foundation had two building sites open last year – and we thank everyone who worked at the Anonymous Foundations Harvard Center in any capacity for their extraordinary patience and good cheer Arthur Bugs & Joan Baer in putting up with noise, dust, vibrations, closed access, scaff olding staircases, noise, Jean Bonna muddy footprints, confusion, and did we say noise? We are delighted to be able to Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation report that one of these building sites is being closed as this newsletter goes to press. Suzanne & Humfrey Butters 3 The inauguration of the beautiful new James R. Cherry, Jr. D. Ronald Daniel & Lise Scott Craig and Barbara Smyth Library wing is Robert & Lois Erburu taking place on Friday, 16 October, and Gabriele Geier a special edition of the newsletter will be Michael E. Gellert Trust sent out afterwards to record the generosity Mary Gibbons Landor of the many donors who have contributed Goldman Sachs & Co. to this fund, the skilled workmanship that Florence Gould Foundation has gone into the elegant design and con- Mark Haas Foundation struction of the beautiful book-lined bays Virgilia & Walter Klein and work desks, and the festivities that will Frederick S. Koontz mark the occasion. Samuel H. Kress Foundation Have we mentioned the bad news yet? You’ve guessed it! New delays to the Arthur L. Loeb Foundation Janine Luke Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato. The exceptionally heavy rain, which had delayed Richard & Ronay Menschel construction, and complications over the roof necessitated an extension to the build- Marilyn Perry ing permit which we fortunately obtained in Walter & Franziska Petschek Family Trust May. Sadly, the economic climate that has Edmund P. Pillsbury aff ected everyone in recent months has had Anthony Roberts a direct impact on this building site. The David Rockefeller company which was contracted to build the Billy Rose Foundation Loggiato roof, and with which we have been Neil L. & Angelica Z. Rudenstine working closely for months, declared bank- Sydney & Stanley Shuman ruptcy in mid-July. The roof – though of Strong-Cuevas Foundation conventional Tuscan design – must meet new Eugene & Claire Thaw Charitable Trust William F. & Juliana W. Thompson seismic requirements and therefore be made Katharine Watson to exacting standards. We now must fi nd another company to take on the work. Rosemary F. Weaver We are hoping that we will be able to use the executive drawings that had been Malcolm H. Wiener Foundation approved and that a new contract will be signed sometime in September. Without a roof, however, work inside the building is at a standstill. Instead, a huge amount The new wing is beautifully incor- of work has gone ahead to consolidate the outdoor work space below the Loggiato porated into the Biblioteca Berenson and, and to construct the various garden buildings (see page 11) and we are delighted to as we commemorate the 50th anniversary say that this area will be in use this fall. And the handsome new staircase connecting of Bernard Berenson’s death in October the garden of the Loggiato to the Villa’s monumental gardens should be completed 2009 and celebrate the opening of this new by midwinter. Visitors, staff and workmen, who do not need to be in the Biblioteca library space, we are confi dent that it will Berenson, will use these stairs, thus alleviating the serve scholars and readers for the next fi fty years and beyond. noise and confusion at the library entrance. With profound thanks to all of you We continue to move forward with dogged who have given so generously to keep alive devotion, but beg your continued patience as this the memory of Craig and Barbara Smyth second building site remains open. and to provide for the Renaissance scholars Nelda Ferace, Assistant Director of the future. for Special Projects & Melvin R. Seiden, Susan M. Roberts The beautiful old tiles waiting for the Alexa Mason, Assistant Director & William Hood new Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato roof. for External Relations Campaign Co-Chairs

Autumn 2009 THE BIBLIOTECA BERENSON

he renovation of the wing that will patience, sometimes even good humor Tbe dedicated to Craig and Barbara (jokes about the Berlin Wall abounded), Smyth dominates the Berenson Library’s and it is a pleasure to acknowledge this news this year. Well over a year in the cooperative spirit with gratitude. planning, work fi nally began in October Meanwhile the renovations moved 2008. From then on, the presence of a steadily ahead. Though the space to be bustling, noisy, and dusty construction refurbished was small, the realization site at the very center of the library has of the new wing’s beautiful design by had a predictably large impact, not only architects Francesco Garofalo and Sharon Anna Huber & Laura Giannetti. on the library itself, but also on the life of Miura proved to be complex and arduous, the I Tatti community in general. The due above all to the unexpectedly poor carpenters, electricians, duct workers, 4 normally quiet, studious ambience of and irregular conditions of the site that painters and other craftsmen are working the library, fototeca, reception, and studies were only revealed by early demolitions. at full tilt and in close coordination to around the courtyard, where the staging The roof was dilapidated and precarious deliver a near-ready building before the area was set up next to the new wing, has in spots and had largely to be replaced. August recess: laying the last fl oor tiles, competed ever since with the discordant The load-bearing walls and both fl oors perfecting the HVAC system, mounting sounds of jackhammers, electric saws, had to be thoroughly consolidated and the windows and glass doors, installing cement mixers, trucks and forklifts reinforced with concrete and steel to light fi xtures, and assembling and depositing materials, demolitions and provide support around the new fl oor-to- carefully positioning the custom-made reconstructions, and the lively (often ceiling window openings and to bear the cherry-wood bookshelves, readers’ singing) voices of squads of workmen. extra weight of books, bookshelves, and tables and other furniture. The move The area to be remodeled included the the mechanical equipment housed above of books into the new space, and the crucial passageway between the entrance the fi rst-fl oor ceiling under the roof. consequent reorganization of most of and the New Library, and while it has The greatest challenge was perhaps to the collection – some 110,000 volumes been sealed off , the library and the entire fi t the rigorously symmetrical layout, will be shifted – are scheduled to institution have been divided into two which depends on precise correspon- begin August 10 and will continue for separate parts. Through four seasons dences between structure and furnish- more than two weeks. Carpenters and and the entire range of weather, readers, ings, strong linear perspective, and strict electricians will add fi nishing touches appointees, staff and visitors have vertical alignments between fl oors so as in early September. Barring unforeseen trudged up the specially built external to accommodate the ductwork hidden delays, the new Smyth Wing should be scaff olding stairway, over the giardino behind the bookshelves, into a quirky available to readers by the end of the pensile wall, and then down the other structural shell in which almost no wall month, several weeks before its offi cial side to move back and forth between the is straight, the dimensions of the rooms inauguration to be held on 16 October. main library and study complex to the of the lower and upper fl oors correspond Though disrupted somewhat by north and the Berensonian part of the only vaguely, and there is hardly a single the renovations, the normal activity of library and the villa and administrative right angle between adjoining walls. It the library fl owed on this year with offi ces to the south. Everyone has put up required a special eff ort of teamwork surprising productivity, a tribute to with the inconvenience with Herculean among the architects, the structural, the adaptability and professionalism mechanical and electrical engineers, the of the library staff as they worked in builder, electricians, cabinetmakers, and conditions that were not ideal and often others to coordinate the complicated plan. trying. Heavy loads of books to process As everyone involved acknowledges, the or reshelve were carried every day up friendly professional cooperation that and down the external stairway with characterized the whole eff ort is one of heroic stamina by Donatella Pieracci, the keys to its successful outcome. Manuela Michelloni, Valerio Pacini, As I write, the renovation project has and others, while Kathryn Bosi was reached its fi nal stages. The old building displaced from her offi ce and occupied has been completely transformed, with a makeshift workspace in the cramped very handsome results. Outside, the reading room of the Asian and Islamic Busy working in the library are Chris Tangeman, scaff olding that enveloped the site for collection. My own offi ce seemed (and Library Assistant, Scott Palmer, Serials Librarian, ten months has recently come down, at times was) right in the middle of the Manuela Michelloni, Acquisitions Librarian, and revealing the beautifully restored and building site. Despite all the bother, Valerio Pacini, Head Cataloger. warm yellow façade. Inside, teams of new acquisitions kept up a quick pace,

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mong the sections held in the historical archive, my Aattention this year has been devoted to the organization and description of the Laurence and Isabel Roberts papers. The fi nding aid has been completed and is now waiting to be marked up and published in OASIS (Online Archival Search Information System), the Harvard catalogue for archival resources. I have selected for conversion to digital format, a fi rst group of 8mm fi lms which document the trips organized 5 A spring reception at the Casa Morrill where Bob and Jana Kiely for the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome during were in residence. Roberts’ directorship in the 1950s. Also of special interest in this section are 42 leather-bound albums containing well- as orders were placed this year for over 2,200 titles. We began annotated photographs taken by Isabel Roberts from 1910 to subscriptions to 18 new journals, bringing the number of 1978, for which we are considering a digitization project with periodicals currently received to 617. Between serials and an index of the people and places represented. monographs, the library added over 3,600 volumes to the I have been assisted in the archive this year by: Chris shelves. As usual, many individuals and institutions generously Tangeman who, during the last months of 2008, organized donated books and off prints to the library – a total of 270 this the photographs and negatives from the Roberts’ papers and year and 335 the previous year. Among these many donors I’d reviewed the Bernard and Mary Berenson papers prior to the especially like to thank Marco Spallanzani (VIT’82-’03), who fi nal version of their fi nding aid being sent to be marked up in addition to advising us wisely about special book purchases, and made accessible through OASIS; and Ellie Wawrzaszek and has presented more than 130 books to the library during the Meg MacAvoy, interns from Syracuse University in Florence, past two years. who helped with some microfi lms held in the Fototeca and For nearly fi ve months this spring and early summer, with inserting into the database mapping of the photographic with the aid of a team of specially hired assistants, we also collection the CRIA archival carried out a large initiative to apply bar-codes to all of the section related to the images library’s books, periodicals and many non-print materials – of Florence and Florentine around 150,000 items in all. The bar-coding team included works of art and documen- Laura Fedi, Valentina Lepri, Maurizio Masi, Anne Roger, tation damaged by the 1966 Monica Steletti, Elena Stolfi and Giordano Turchi, all headed fl ood. by library assistant Chris Tangeman, while librarian Angela Ilaria Della Monica Dressen effi ciently managed the whole project. This work Archivist in eff ect provided the fi rst systematic inventory of the entire collection since the reclassifi cation of the books in 1994, and also provided an opportunity to “clean up” many substandard Ilaria Della Monica or duplicate catalog records. But the project’s main scope & was to lay the groundwork for managing internal loans and Louis A. Waldman. circulation of materials in an automated way, through the HOLLIS catalog, which will go into eff ect sometime this fall. Over the last couple of years the library and the community have benefi ted from the work and collegiality of two exceptional Library Assistants, former I Tatti fellow Gian Mario Cao (VIT’03) and young librarian Chris Tangeman (see “Staff Notes” in last year’s Newsletter). Unfortunately both left I Tatti this past summer to pursue other activities elsewhere. Gian Mario is moving to Princeton to take up a three-year research position, while Chris also returns to the U.S. where he hopes to begin a career in librarianship. They’ll both be greatly missed. Our collective thanks go to Gian Mario and Chris for their hard work and decisive contributions to the library, and we all wish them both the very best for the future. Michael Rocke with Charles Brickbauer, architect of the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato. Michael Rocke Nicky Mariano Librarian

Autumn 2009 BOOKS BY FORMER FELLOWS mong the many recent additions to the Library, whether purchased by one of the endowed book funds, from donations given A by the Friends of the Biblioteca Berenson, or given directly, are the following recent publications by former Fellows. Please forgive us if, due to space limitations or an oversight, your volume is not listed.

Jaynie Anderson (VIT’01,’09). Giorgione: The Painter of “Poetic Christopher S. Celenza (VIT’00) & Kenneth Gouwens Brevity” (Paris; New York: Flammarion, 1997). (VIT’98) eds. Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays Matteo Ceriana & Victoria Avery (VIT’05) eds. L’industria in Honor of Ronald G. Witt (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006). artistica del bronzo del Rinascimento a Venezia e nell’Italia settentri- Virginia Cox (VIT’97). Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 onale (Verona: Scripta, 2008). (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2008). Stefano U. Baldassarri (VIT’01) ed. Dignitas et excellentia Brian A. Curran (VIT’06) [et al.] eds. Obelisk: A History 6 hominis: atti del convegno internazionale di studi su Giannozzo (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009). Manetti (Firenze: Le Lettere, 2008). Carlo Del Bravo (VIT’69,’70). Intese sull’arte (Firenze: Le Andrea Barlucchi (VIT’98). La Mercanzia ad Arezzo nel primo Lettere, 2008). Trecento: statuti e riforme, 1341-1347 (Roma: Carocci, 2008). Samuel Y. Edgerton (VIT’72). The Mirror, the Window, and the Ingrid Baumgärtner (VIT’07-’10) & Hartmut Kugler eds. Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision Europa im Weltbild des Mittelalters: Kartographische Konzepte of the Universe (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2009). (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008). Charles Dempsey (VIT’74). Il ritratto dell’amore: la Primavera Francesco Bausi (VIT’94) & Vincenzo Fera eds. Laurentia lau- di Botticelli e la cultura umanistica al tempo di Lorenzo il Magnifi co, rus: per Mario Martelli (Messina: Centro Interdipartimentale di trans. by Giovanna Perini (VIT’88) (Napoli: La Stanza delle Studi Umanistici, 2004). Scritture, 2007). Guido Beltramini (VIT’08) & Howard Burns (VIT’77,’84) eds. Caroline Elam (VIT’82,’05). Roger Fry’s Journey from Primitives Palladio (Venezia: Marsilio, 2008). to the Post-Impressionists (Edinburgh: Margaret Bent (VIT’01) ed. Bologna With many thanks to those of you who sent us National Galleries of Scotland, 2008). Q15: The Making and Remaking of a a copy of your book. This is a wonderful way of Francesco Del Punta & Gianfranco Musical Manuscript (Lucca: LIM, 2008). sharing your work with your I Tatti colleagues and Fioravanti (VIT’86) eds, Aegidii Peter G. Bietenholz (VIT’70). of helping us stretch our acquisitions funding. Romani opera omnia (Firenze: Leo S. Encounters with a Radical Erasmus: Olschki, 1985). Erasmus’ Work as a Source of Radical Thought in Early Modern Chiara Frugoni (VIT’83). L’aff are migliore di Enrico: Giotto e la Europe (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2009). Cappella Scrovegni (Torino: G. Einaudi, 2008). Dóra Bobory (VIT’09). The Sword and the Crucible: Count Lucia Gai (VIT’73). Il Palazzo Puccini a Pistoia: profi lo storico Boldizsár Batthyány and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth-Century (Pistoia: Gli Ori, 2008). Hungary (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2009). Andrea Gáldy (VIT’06). Cosimo I de’ Medici as Collector: Lina Bolzoni (VIT’93-’03) & Silvia Volterrani eds. Con parola Antiquities and Archaeology in Sixteenth-Century Florence (New- brieve e con fi gura: emblemi e imprese fra antico e moderno (Pisa: castle: Cambridge Scholars, 2009). Edizioni della Normale, 2008). Marco Gentile (VIT’06) & Letizia Arcangeli eds. Le signorie Eve Borsook (VIT’82-’10) ed. Fantasia in convento: tesori di car- dei Rossi di Parma tra XIV e XVI secolo (Firenze: Firenze Univ. ta e stucco dal Seicento all’Ottocento (Firenze: Polistampa, 2008). Press, 2007). Molly Bourne (VIT’04). Francesco II Gonzaga: The Soldier- Laura Giannetti (VIT’09) & Guido Ruggiero (VIT’91) Prince as Patron (Rome: Bulzoni, 2008). trans. & eds. Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance (Balti- Cammy Brothers (VIT’02). Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention more: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2003). of Architecture (New Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press, 2008). Catherine M. Goguel (VIT’02). La ligne et la couleur: le dessin à Riccardo Bruscagli (VIT’87-’00). Machiavelli (Bologna: Il Florence au XVIIe siècle: chefs-d’œuvre du Musée du Louvre (Bucureşti: Mulino, 2008). Editura Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României, 2008). Jill Burke (VIT’01) & Michael Bury eds. Art and Identity in Catherine M. Goguel (VIT’02) ed. L’artiste collectionneur de Early Modern Rome (Aldershot; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008). dessin: de Giorgio Vasari à aujourd’hui (Milan: 5 Continents; Paris: Anna Maria Busse Berger (VIT’93,’06). La musica medievale e Société du Salon du Dessin, 2007). l’arte della memoria (Roma: Fogli Volanti, 2008). Richard A. Goldthwaite (VIT’74). The Economy of Renais- Giulia Calvi (VIT’87) & Riccardo Spinelli (VIT’94) eds. sance Florence (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2009). Le donne Medici nel sistema europeo delle corti XVI-XVIII secolo Kenneth Gouwens (VIT’98) ed. The Italian Renaissance: The (Firenze: Polistampa, 2008). Essential Sources (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004). Clizia Carminati (VIT’04). Giovan Battista Marino tra inquisiz- Alberto Grohmann (VIT’79). La città medievale (Roma: ione e censura (Roma; Padova: Antenore, 2008). Laterza, 2003).

Villa I Tatti James Hankins (VIT’89,’93,’07) ed. Aurelio Lippo Brandolini, Adriano Prosperi (VIT’81), Republics and Kingdoms Compared (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Pierangelo Schiera & Gabri- Univ. Press, 2009). ella Zarri eds. Chiesa cattolica James Hankins (VIT’89,’93,’07). La riscoperta di Platone nel e mondo moderno: scritti in Rinascimento italiano, trad. di Stefano U. Baldassarri (VIT’01) onore di Paolo Prodi (Bologna: & Donatella Downey (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2009). Il Mulino, 2007). Peter Humfrey (VIT’88,’91) ed. Venice and the Veneto (New Barbara Furlotti & Guido York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007). Rebecchini (VIT’05). Il Dale V. Kent (VIT’78,’83,’07). Friendship, Love, and Trust in Rinascimento a Mantova Renaissance Florence (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, (Firenze: Giunti: Scala, 2008). Susan Wilson Arcamone, docent of the 2009). José A. Godoy & Silvio Leydi (VIT’97) eds. Armature da Clare Robertson (VIT’93, Berenson Collection. parata del Cinquecento: un primato dell’arte lombarda (Milano: 5 ’96). The Invention ofAnnibale Continents, 2003). Carracci (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 2008). Stuart Lingo (VIT’04). Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Attilio Motta & William Robins (VIT’96) eds. Antonio Pucci, Late Renaissance Painting (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2008). Cantari della Reina d’Oriente (Bologna: Commissione per i Testi 7 Hayden B.J. Maginnis (VIT’73,’74) & Shelley E. Zuraw eds. di Lingua, 2007). The Historian’s Eye: Essays on Italian Art in Honor of Andrew Ladis Peter J. Arnade & Michael Rocke (VIT’91,’99-’10) eds. Power, (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, 2009). Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory Maria Serena Mazzi (VIT’87,’88). Salute e società nel medioevo of Richard C. Trexler (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and (Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1978). Renaissance Studies, 2008). Anthony Molho (VIT’69,’72). Firenze nel Quattrocento (Roma: Livio Pestilli, Ingrid Rowland (VIT’94) & Sebastian Schütze Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2008). eds. Napoli è tutto il mondo: Neapolitan Art and Culture from Caroline P. Murphy (VIT’02). Isabella de’ Medici: The Glorious Life and Humanism to the Enlightenment (Pisa: F. Serra, 2008). Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess (London: Faber & Faber, 2008). Francesco Sberlati (VIT’96). Castissima donzella: fi gure di Lodi Nauta (VIT’08). In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo donna tra letteratura e norma sociale (secoli XV-XVII), Laura Orsi ed. Valla’s Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy (Cambridge, (Bern; New York: P. Lang, 2007). MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2009). Silvana Seidel Menchi (VIT’74,’75,’94-’03). La Réforme en Jonathan K. Nelson (VIT’02) ed. Plautilla Nelli (1523-1588): France et en Italie: contacts, comparaisons et contrastes (Rome: Ecole The Painter-Prioress of Renaissance Florence (Syracuse, NY: Syra- Française de Rome, 2007). cuse Univ. Press, 2008). Silvana Seidel Menchi (VIT’74,’75,’94-’03) ed. Erasmo da Jonathan K. Nelson (VIT’02) & Richard J. Zeckhauser. The Rotterdam, La Moria, ristampa anastatica dell’edizione Venezia Patron’s Payoff : Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art 1539 (Lecce: Conte, 2009). (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2008). Robert A. Pierce & Silvana Seidel Menchi (VIT’74,’75,’94- Mario Ascheri, Gianni Mazzoni, Fabrizio Nevola (VIT’05) ’03) eds. Ritratti: la dimensione individuale nella storia (secoli XV- eds. L’ultimo secolo della Repubblica di Siena: arti, cultura e società XX): studi in onore di Anne Jacobson Schutte (Roma: Edizioni di (Siena: Accademia Senese degli Intronati, 2008). Storia e Letteratura, 2009). Fabrizio Nevola (VIT’05) ed. Pio II Piccolomini: il Papa del Franco Posocco & Salvatore Settis (VIT’85) eds. La Scuola Rinascimento a Siena (Siena: Protagon, 2009). Grande di San Rocco a Venezia (Modena: F.C. Panini, 2008). Patrick Nold (VIT’09). Marriage Advice for a Pope: John XXII Tiziana Bascelli & William R. Shea (VIT’74) eds. Campano da and the Power to Dissolve (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009). Novara, Equatorium planetarum (Conselve: Think ADV, 2007). Monique O’Connell (VIT’07). Men of Empire: Power and Deanna Shemek (VIT’02) & Michael Wyatt (VIT’05) eds. Negotiation in Venice’s Maritime State (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Writing Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives: Essays for Univ. Press, 2009). Franca Petrucci Nardelli and Armando Petrucci (Florence: Leo S. John W. O’Malley (VIT’67,’68). What Happened at Vatican II Olschki, 2008). (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, HUP, 2008). Nicholas Terpstra (VIT’95,’09). The Art of Executing Well: Nuccio Ordine (VIT’87). Contro il vangelo armato: Giordano Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy (Kirksville, MO: Truman Bruno, Ronsard e la religione (Milano: R. Cortina, 2007). State Univ. Press, 2008). Klaus Pietschmann (VIT’09). Kirchenmusik zwischen Tradition Giovanni Agosti & Dominique Thiébaut (VIT’08) eds. Mantegna, und Reform: die päpstliche Kapelle und ihr Repertoire unter Papst 1431-1506 (Milano: Offi cina Libraria; Parigi: Musée du Louvre, 2008). Paul III (1534-1549) (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Nicholas Turner (VIT’77) ed. Guercino: la scuola, la maniera, i Vaticana, 2007). disegni agli Uffi zi (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2008). Dainora PociŪtĖ-AbukeviČienė (VIT’08). Maištininkų Nicholas Turner (VIT’77). Drawn to Italian Drawings: The katedros: ankstyvoji reformacija ir lietuvių-italų evangelikų ryšia Goldman Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven, (Vilnius: Bersus Aureus, 2008). CT; London: Yale Univ. Press, 2009). Adriano Prosperi (VIT’81). Giustizia bendata: percorsi storici di Blake Wilson (VIT’98). Singing Poetry in Renaissance Florence: The “can- un’immagine (Torino: G. Einaudi, 2008). tasi come” Tradition (1375-1550) (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2009).

Autumn 2009 News from the Berenson Fototeca and Collection

ne year has passed since Fiorella tographs has continued in the expert OGioff redi Superbi’s retirement. hands of Carla Gambacorta of Fotocar- It was a privilege and an unforgettable tarestauri. The total number of items experience for me to have worked side restored to date has reached the impres- by side with her for twenty years and sive fi gure of ca. 600. In addition, we to learn so much from her. In the past continue to promote new photographic year, her muse has guided those of us campaigns in order to strengthen the who work in the Berenson Fototeca, unique nature of the collection. Besides 8 with the Berenson Collection and in the ongoing photographic campaign at the Archive. the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence begun some years ago, other smaller but The cataloguing project focusing on In October, Jaynie Anderson (VIT’01,’09), no less important campaigns have been the “homeless” photographs (described Roberto Bellucci (OPD), Keith Christiansen undertaken. The well-established col- in last year’s newsletter and fi nanced by (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Caroline laboration between Villa I Tatti and the a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Elam (VIT’82,’05), Machtelt Israëls Opifi cio delle Pietre Dure has enabled Foundation) has been continued with (VIT’05), Neville Rowley (Académie de the Fototeca to obtain unique images passion, competence and dedication France, Rome), Carl Strehlke, and Ronald de of great masterpieces which are under by Elisabetta Cunsolo with the help of Leeuw (former director of the Rijksmuseum) restoration or undergoing thorough sci- cataloguer Sanne Wellen, who joined met to share impressions of and ideas about entifi c investigation, including a new, Domenico Veneziano’s Madonna in the superb documentation of one of the most Berenson Collection. famous Renaissance mural paintings, the Resurrection by Piero della Francesca at I Tatti. Eve Borsook (VIT’82-’10) at Sansepolcro, which, thanks to the has worked intensively on the process- prompt generosity of Darcy and Treacy ing of this material so that part of it is Beyer, has enriched our collection. A already available for scholars. second project concerns Filippo Lippi’s I Tatti’s collaboration with the Opi- Annunciation in San Lorenzo (Florence), fi cio delle Pietre Dure is proving more which was moved from its original and more precious for the conservation altar site to the laboratory of the Opifi cio and study of the Berenson art collection. Denis Ribouillault, Anne Roger at the Fortezza da Basso for diagnos- The Opifi cio placed at our disposal its & Camilla Russell. tic analysis. The altarpiece was photo- professional staff and equipment for the project in September. More recently, graphed by Antonio Quattrone, who x-ray and infrared refl ectography and a Tiziana Resta from the imaging fi rm was also responsible for the Sansepol- considerable number of paintings in the Centrica has begun the digitalization cro campaign. As a result the Fototeca collection have been analyzed, includ- of the photographic material relating has updated its holdings with fi ne new ing (to mention only the most notable to the project. Invaluable aid has also documentation, including a view of the examples) Giotto’s Entombment, the been provided by Anne Roger (wife back of the wooden support. Another two portraits by Luca Signorelli show- of Fellow Denis Ribouillault) and four major acquisition is of photographs ing Camillo and Vitellozzo Vitelli, and excellent Syracuse University interns: taken after the last restoration (completed Cima da Conegliano’s magnifi cent St. Diana Nitowski, Lydia in 2007) of Filippo Lippi’s murals Sebastian. This took place at the request Johnson, Courtney Masters, in Prato cathedral. of Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt and Alexandra Provo. The A substantial donation to the Israëls (VIT’05), who are working on a increasing number of people Fototeca comprises thousands of new catalogue of the Berenson Collec- involved in the cataloguing images bequeathed by the late tion. They have often been present dur- project made it necessary to Mario Di Giampaolo, which sup- ing the year undertaking research in the redesign the layout of the plement some 3,500 photographs Library, studying the paintings in the Fototeca room in order to acquired from him last year. Thus house, or showing them to art historians from all over the world. provide everyone with their Jaynie Anderson. the entire collection compiled by own working space. this Italian specialist of drawings, Giovanni Pagliarulo The restoration of damaged pho- who died on July 31, 2008, is now kept Andrew W. Mellon Librarian

Villa I Tatti Other collaborative projects have year. The festivities included an elabo- NEWS been a feature of the year. The Morrill rate tournament, balletti, banquets, and FROM THE Music Library has been pleased to music; they concluded with a Mascherata support the Digital Image Archive of della Malinconia et Allegrezza, a spectacle MORRILL MUSIC Medieval Music for their project to staging a polyphonic dialogue madrigal LIBRARY digitize and make available online by Orazio Vecchi, in which the Gods the corpus of Alamire manuscripts in banish Melancholy from the earth by eptember 2008 saw the fourth European libraries. We made a signifi - Syear of our collaboration with cant contribution to the Conservatorio the Department of Historical and di Musica “L. Cherubini” of Florence, 9 Contemporary Performance of the State for the cataloguing of their historic Conservatory of Moscow, in a project library holdings. We have also undertaken which brings talented young keyboard a project with the Archivio Capitolare players to Tuscany to gain experience of Casale Monferrato to produce high- on historic keyboard instruments. This quality digital copies of their corpus of year’s students played a single-manual manuscripts of polyphony and provide English harpsichord with a machine conservation copies. We began with the stop, made by Longman & Broderip exquisitely decorated manuscript cop- Furio Zanasi and La Chimera rehearse in the ca.1785, in the Museo degli Strumenti ied by Francesco Sforza for Septimus Myron & Sheila Gilmore Limonaia. at the Galleria dell’Accademia, and two Borsario, Bishop of Casale Monferrato, fortepianos (a Conrad Graf ca.1830- in 1594, containing Magnifi cats and her conversion to a happy state through 35, and an anonymous Austrian instru- psalms in falsobordone. the power of music and poetry. Florio’s ment from the early 1800s) provided The year’s most interesting acquisi- libretto concludes with a vividly de- by the Laboratorio di Restauro of the tion was a fragment of a breviary con- tailed description of this spectacle and Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori. taining offi ces for Saints Theobald and its text. The Museo degli Organi of Massa Judoc, copied in northern Italy in the We are pleased to have the expert Marittima, a new venue for the pro- late 13th or early 14th centuries. The collaboration of Stefania Gitto, who has ject, off ered access to their historic hermit and pilgrim St. Theobald of catalogued some 1,000 CDs this year. organs and fortepianos. The students Provins was born around 1030. On his Stefania, who studied pianoforte at the also enjoyed the fi ne Steinway grand way to the Holy Land he halted near Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini, La in the Casa Morrill, a model A of Vicenza, where he attracted a group Spezia, has a degree in Musicology from American make dated ca.1911, which of hermits. He died on 30 June 1066, the Scuola di Paleografi a, Cremona, as was expertly restored for us this year by was canonized in 1073, and his relics well as a degree in the History of Music Riccardo Frola. Christoph Hammer, were transferred to Auxerre, which be- and a Master’s in Library Science from director of the Neue Hofkapelle came the center of his cult. Saint Judoc the University of Siena. Baroque orchestra, Munich, joined Ella (ca. 600-668), a Breton saint, was also Kathryn Bosi Sevskaya in tutoring the students. a hermit and pilgrim. His relics were F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill transferred from Brittany to England in Music Librarian 903, from whence his veneration spread through the Low Countries, Germany and Scandinavia. The ten leaves of chant manuscript, with stories from the lives of the saints, has neumatic notation typical of the Veneto, suggesting a link with Vicenza. Another noteworthy acquisition comprised a libretto by Gismondo Flo- rio, the Tomba d'Atlante avventurosa. Feste, Visiting giostre, e tornei bellissimi (Modena, 1604): a Professors detailed description of the wedding fes- Renée Moscow students Liza Miller, Alexandra tivities staged in Modena for the wed- Baernstein Nepomnyaschaya, Yulia Kuznetsova, ding of Duke Cesare’s daughter Laura Olga Paschenko & Daria Borkovskaya & Bram after their recital in the Big Library. to Alessandro Pico della Mirandola that Kempers.

Autumn 2009 Lila Acheson Wallace ~ Reader’s Digest Special Grants ormer I Tatti Appointees are eligible to apply for two kinds of grants to promote Ftheir scholarship. The LILA ACHESON WALLACE - READER’S DIGEST PUBLICA- TIONS GRANTS provide subsidies for scholarly books on the Italian Renaissance. These can be a monograph by a single author or a pair of authors, or a collection of essays by autori varii. Books that grow directly out of research carried out at I Tatti are especially appropriate. Susan Bates & Simonetta Pinto In addition, SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS are occasionally avail- of the administrative staff . able to former Appointees who wish to initiate, promote, or engage in an interdisciplinary project in Italian Renaissance stud- ies such as a conference or workshop. 10 Further information can be found on our web site: http://www.itatti.it/ under the Fellowship page. Max Freeman. The application deadline is 1 November each year.

2008/2009 GRANT RECIPIENTS

Lawrin Armstong (VIT’00) towards the publication of Lawyers and Statecraft: Forty Years On, eds. Lawrin Armstrong and Julius Kirshner (VIT’79,’96) (Univ. of Toronto Press in the Toronto Studies in Medieval Law series). Karen-edis Barzman (VIT’91) and Stephen J. Campbell (VIT ’00) joint award towards the publication of Gifts in Return: Essays in Honor of Charles Dempsey (Univ. of Toronto Press). Maria Luisa Cerron Puga (VIT’97) additional funding towards Catalogo ragionato delle antologie petrarchiste del ’500 (Leo S. Olschki). Giovanni Ciappelli (VIT’94) towards the publication of Fisco e società a Firenze nel Rinascimento (Edizione di Storia e Letterature di Roma). Eric Dursteler (VIT’07) towards the publication of From Florence to the Mediterranean: Essays in Honor of Anthony Molho (Leo S. Olschki). Paul Grendler (VIT’71) towards the publication of The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584-1630 (The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press). John E. Law (VIT’95,’07) towards the completion and publication of Michael Mallett’s The Italian Wars 1494-1559 (Longman-Pearson). Gerry Milligan (VIT’08) towards the publication of The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain (Essays and Studies series of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto). Wlodzimierz Olszaniec (VIT’04) towards the organization of an international conference Volgarizzamenti e traduzioni nell’età del Rinascimento (Warsaw, 7-8 May 2009). A spadeful of those who tend the gardens and Anne Markham Schulz (VIT’84) towards the publication of Woodcarvers and grounds: Alessandro Marziali, Margrit Freivogel, Woodcarving in Venice, 1350-1550 (Centro Di Edizioni, Florence). Andrea Bendoni, Claudio Bresci Sharon Strocchia (VIT’85) towards the publication of Nuns and Nunneries in & Paolo Gasparri. Renaissance Florence (The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press). Blake Wilson (VIT’98) towards the publication of Singing Poetry in Renaissance Florence: L to R: Yulia Ryzhik; Françoise the “Cantasi Come” Tradition, ca. 1375-1550 (Leo S. Olschki). Connors; Julius & Catherine Kovesi at Thanksgiving; & Camilla Russell.

Villa I Tatti Gardens Grounds with support from the Lila Acheson Wallace - Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund.

he past year in the garden has been the garden’s architecture. The fi rst Tquite diff erent from most. Above set of architectural plans threatened and beyond the usual maintenance, to disrupt Cecil Pinsent’s beauti- much thought and work have gone into fully balanced giardino pensile with the planning and building of a garden- new stairways and passages. After related work zone, which is being de- much thought, I came up with an veloped in the area immediately below alternative, more viable solution the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato. This to build the new staircase behind work area is replacing the seriously out- the pensile wall, thus preserving the moded and crumbling installations that original garden and also directing 11 were built, often with cheap materials, traffi c away from the house and in the 1940s and 50s. Due to the con- library. Although photographs of fi guration of the terrain, construction the area make it appear still very was closely tied to the Loggiato’s work much a building site, the fi nishing re-grown out of the stumps left by the touches will soon be added and the new great freeze of 1985) opposite ITatti’s main facilities should be ready for use by the entrance. When this work began, many beginning of the coming winter. neighbors worried that in their place The farm has also seen some a new building, or something equally new developments in the course of disruptive of the landscape, would be the year. Late last summer (2008), the erected. Instead, a new olive grove will area chosen for a new vineyard next to be planted this autumn (2009) in such a the Corbignano farmhouse was deep way as to be able to pick the olives by plowed and a state-of-the-art drainage machine. Newly developed machinery system was put in to ensure that water is slowly taking over from the slow and does not stagnate in the relatively heavy expensive manual labor that is becoming soil. Last spring we planted 2,566 vines harder and harder to fi nd. Up to now of four diff erent varieties – San Giovese, harvesting the olives cost producers at Merlot, Petit Verdot, and Tannat – which least one-third of the fi nal crop, which will be used for our IGT (Indicazione means that most olive groves in Tuscany geografi ca tipica) wine, as opposed to are either running at a signifi cant loss or the Chianti DOC (Denominazione di have been abandoned. An average tree origine controllata) located in the “old” can be harvested by an expert picker in schedule and thus could not start before vineyard. I am pleased to report that roughly one hour and produces at best March when the cement platform was the vines are already over a meter long three or four litres of oil. The mechani- fi nally poured. Since then rapid prog- and still growing despite this summer’s cal pickers require less than fi ve minutes ress has been made. As I write, the new fi erce heat. For the new vineyard, the to be positioned and to shake the tree. greenhouse, the gardeners’ building, fi rst proper wine harvest will take place What used to take all our farmers and a small loggia, and a new staircase are in September 2011. gardeners (with some help from former now 80% complete. The geothermally In February we began to staff ) a month and a half will now take heated greenhouse, which has been remove old olive trees (all of which had little more than a week. The solution is built in a sunnier spot than the old one, certainly less romantic and bucolic but will be used to over-winter the more is probably the only way to save Tus- delicate potted plants. A small offi ce for can olive oil. And to those of us who the head gardener, Margrit Freivogel, a know the genuine product, Tuscan changing room, and a workshop have olive oil remains one of the best in the been created in the new building. The world. staircase is an entirely new feature which Allen Grieco will provide visitors with direct access Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant to the garden. In this part of the proj- Director for Gardens and Grounds ect I was pleased to have been able to and Scholarly Programs propose an original solution in terms of Allen Grieco and head farmer Andrea Laini. ~~~~~~~~~

Autumn 2009 Lectures & Programs

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

Institutional affi liation is not given for members of I Tatti’s 2008/2009 academic community.

ith builders, carpenters, elec- convened in the Big Library during the some of her fi ndings in a paper in last Wtricians, and engineers tearing winter months when Fellows and vis- May’s conference “San Lorenzo: A Flo- apart the old Juliana Wilson Thompson iting scholars presented their work in rentine Church.” Particularly outstand- Reference Room and the other rooms progress. ing was the Fellows’ visit to Vicenza, which will form the new Craig and Study trips and excursions for where they were guided through the 12 Barbara Smyth Library (see pages 3 & the I Tatti community – guided by monumental Andrea Palladio exhibi- 4), the Biblioteca Berenson’s reference experts and in many cases by the Fellows tion by its curators, Howard Burns desk was temporarily moved last year themselves – have been numerous. In (VIT’77,’84) and Guido Beltramini into the Paul E. Geier Library reading Florence the Opifi cio delle Pietre Dure (VIT’08). Just before spring turned room. Reading spaces were also created hosted two spectacular visits: to view into summer, the I Tatti community there which meant that the room could Andrea Mantegna’s San Zeno Altarpiece made a four-day excursion to study not be used as a lecture hall during the after its restoration (accompanied by the art, architecture, and archaeologi- winter months when the lemon trees Paola Marini, Director of the Musei cal sites of Renaissance Naples. This are housed in the Myron and Sheila Civici, Verona) and to witness the tech- trip, organized by Fellow Bianca De

The Fettunta is a wonderful celebration of the new olive oil. The house staff organize a deli- cious barbecue to which everyone on the property is invited, scholars and library readers, all the staff , outside contractors, and even the postman. At left, Catherine Kovesi, Camilla Russell, Yulia Ryzhik, Klaus Pietschmann & Zsolt Török and at right, Gianni Trambusti, Nelda Ferace & Fredrika Jacobs are all enjoying the occasion.

Gilmore Limonaia. Public lectures and nical examination of Fra Filippo Lippi’s Divitiis, featured a stimulating site visit symposia this year were thus held in the Martelli Altarpiece from San Lorenzo. to the ancient and medieval ruins under autumn and spring when the tender The latter was carried out under the the church of Lorenzo Maggiore led plants were in the garden, and in-house supervision of Christa Gardner von by Professor Caroline Bruzelius (Duke shop-talks (some twenty-fi ve) were Teuffel (VIT’94,’06), who presented University). A very special symposium now in FORMER FELLOWS’ U PDATE preparation, “Bernard Berenson at Fifty,” will mark the semi-centennial of the Carol Lansing (VIT’95,’08), pro- in a medieval criminal court and con- passing of I Tatti’s founder this coming fessor of history at the University of tinuing the research she was pursuing October. Fifteen distinguished scholars California, Santa Barbara, is the 2009 as a Visiting Professor at I Tatti in 2008 will present papers on diverse aspects of on elite culture in 13th century Lazio. winner of the Howard R. Marraro the scholarly world that shaped Berenson’s Prize of the American Catholic His- thought and on his relationships with torical Association for her book Passion Allen Grieco (VIT’89-’10), intellectuals of his time from William and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medi- Senior Research Associate and Lila eval Italian Communes (Ithaca: Cornell Acheson Wallace Assistant Director for James to Matisse and Hemingway. Univ. Press, 2008), the culmination of Gardens and Grounds and Scholarly A complete list of shop-talks, her research begun when she was an Programs was the Lauro de Bosis Lec- lectures and concerts can be found in I Tatti Fellow. The annual prize, now turer on the History of Italian Civili- the Calendar section of our web site in its 34th year, honors the author of zation for the spring 2009 semester in at www.itatti.it. Descriptions of many a distinguished scholarly work dealing the Department of History, Faculty of of these events can be found on the with Italian history or Italo-Ameri- Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, following pages. can history or relations. At present, where he taught a course on Renais- Louis A. Waldman Lansing is writing a book on scandals sance food history. Assistant Director for Programs

Villa I Tatti Herbert Horne, ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ including Bernard and Mary Berenson Roger Fry and Roger Fry, who encouraged him in & the Edwardian Art World ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ his quest for connoisseurial glory. But Horne was not simply a connoisseur: Elam successfully demonstrated that Horne’s refi ned visual judgment and n early October I Tatti hosted the and education, to his involvement with understanding of techniques and mate- opening lecture in the conference the English Arts and Crafts movement, up I rials was always combined with meticu- Herbert Horne’s Botticelli: The Scholar and to the two greatest achievements of his lous archival research and an interest in the Painter, organized in collaboration last ten years: the Botticelli monograph, context, making him a pioneer of the with Syracuse University in Florence and published in 1908, and the rebuild- modern contextual approach most art- the Fondazione Horne. In the plenary ing of his palace in Florence, which historians of fi fteenth-century Florence lecture, Caroline Elam (VIT’82,’05) was to become the Museo Horne after now favor. his death in 1916. In so doing, Elam 13 brilliantly accompanied the audience through Horne’s early interest in archi- tecture and book design, and his role as founder, editor, as well as designer, of The Hobby Horse and subsequently The Burlington Magazine. She also revealed the secret corners of Horne’s artistic personality, such as his involvement in the art market. She discussed the Bianca De Divitiis most infl uential fi gures of Horne’s life, Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Fellow considered Horne in the context of the English art world a century ago. The sessions at Syracuse University and at the Fondazione Horne presented new research on Botticelli and explored the revival of interest in the late Quat- trocento among critics, artisans, and collectors in Horne’s Florence. Horne’s life was divided in two halves: the English Horne, a dandy of the Arielle Saiber & Kavi Montanaro took a 1880s, heir of the Pre-Raphaelites and number of the photographs used in this issue, Ruskin, and the Florentine Horne, who including the one of Mario Casari at right. emerged only after moving to Italy in 1905. Taking this distinction as its point FORMER FELLOWS’ U PDATE of departure, Caroline Elam’s lecture fortunes of the ideal human body as drew a colorful picture of Horne’s life, Gian Mario Cao (VIT’03), the index of art in the second half of covering all aspects of this quintessen- who has been working as Reference Librarian in the Biblioteca Berenson the sixteenth century, while Estelle tially Victorian fi gure, from his family for the last two years, has been awarded is working on a book on the Tuscan a coveted Marie Curie Fellowship sculptor Francesco Mochi (1580- fi nanced by the European Research 1654) and issues of religious and Council which takes him to Princeton artistic reform and Florentine identity University for two years with a in seventeenth-century Rome. third year at the Warburg Institute in London. His research project concerns Architecturally inspired photo- skepticism in the sixteenth century. graphs by Ralph Lieberman (VIT’80,’81) are on exhibition at the Estelle (VIT’07) and Stuart Lingo Williams College Museum of Art (VIT’04) have both been appointed as through November 2009. His pho- Gian Associate Professors of Art History at tographs focus attention on the highly Mario Cao the University of Washington. Stuart individual character of unexpected & Roberta is currently investigating the shifting spaces, as well as a range of architec- Mucciarelli. tural forms and styles.

Autumn 2009 Edward Goldberg: Th e Prince and the Kabbalist

Edward Goldberg (left) n 1993 Edward Goldberg (VIT’84) and at right, the Jewish Ifounded the Medici Archive Project, ghetto (with a corner of the dedicated to the preservation, study, adjacent Mercato Vecchio and understanding of the three million visible at lower right), from letters making up the Archivio Mediceo Stefano Bonsignori’s 1584 del Principato at the Florentine State map of Florence. Archives. For many years, Goldberg has painstakingly collected the documents’ protection. In the 1620s, Blanis spent rare and often enigmatic references to three years locked up in a secret jail cell, the Jews of Florence, and on 23 October barred from communicating with the 2008 he presented some of his research Giovanni de’ Medici (1563-1621), outside world, charged with usury, sor- in a lecture entitled “The Prince and illegitimate son of Duke Cosimo I, who cery, and transport of Jewish children to 14 the Kabbalist.” was estranged from his family as a result thwart their conversion. Circumstantial The prince in question was Don of a shady love aff air. For six years Don evidence suggests that Blanis’s perse- Giovanni’s librarian and close personal cutor was the Florentine offi ce of the FORMER confi dant was the Florentine mystic, Inquisition. FELLOWS’ U PDATE rabbi, and moneylender Benedetto Goldberg let Blanis speak for him- self through his letters, which document Edward Goldberg (VIT’84, Blanis (c. 1578-d. by 1647). More than both the rabbi’s intellectual interests and independent scholar) and Megan two hundred surviving letters reveal Holmes (VIT’97, University of how Blanis initiated Giovanni into the the human quality of his relationship Michigan, Ann Arbor) have both been mysteries of the Kabbalah. with his patron. The story of the Medici awarded NEH Fellowships for the The documents reveal how Don prince and his master in the arcane coming year. Goldberg will be working Giovanni de’ Medici put pressure on byways of mystic Jewish wisdom vividly on a critical edition of the letters from Blanis’s debtors, while shielding him evoked the dangers that both men faced Benedetto Blanis to Don Giovanni de’ from prosecution for usury (Tuscan in the fraught political and religious cli- Medici while Holmes will be work- Jews had been technically forbidden to mate of early Seicento Florence. ing on a project entitled “Miraculous lend money since 1569). But even a Louis A. Waldman Images in Renaissance Florence.” Medici prince could off er only so much Assistant Director for Programs

~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ The Old Masters ver the years, the Myron and Sheila Gilmore Limonaia has been used for concerts, lectures, conferences, dinners and even Oas a temporary kitchen in addition to housing the lemon trees and other delicate plants in the winter. Towards the end of last September, it took on the role of playhouse when the Garden Suburb Theatre company performed The Old Masters by Simon Gray. The play takes place at I Tatti in the late spring of 1937. Director Angela Cox provided the background in her program notes: “For many years, Berenson has authenticated Italian Renaissance pictures sold by his long-term business partner, Joseph Duveen, to wealthy American collectors. In the course of one evening, Berenson is forced to face up to issues of personal integrity and an apparently failing professional standing. The climax of the play is the explosive encounter between the two men. At stake is the attribution of a painting, The Adoration of the Shepherds. Duveen wants Berenson to revise his opinion that the painting is by Titian and re-attribute it as a rare Giorgione.” Performing in front of an audience so closely involved with the characters of the play must not have been easy, but the cast and crew pulled it off brilliantly. Rather than a change of scenery, the audience moved from the garden scene on one side of the limonaia to the library on the other and, when Mary Berenson (played by Ashley Collins) or Nicky Mariano (Debbie Lane) announced they were going to bed, it somehow felt as if they actually were going on up to their rooms in the house. The props were certainly genuine. Some liberties with historical fact may indeed have been taken, but the play itself was entertaining and left one thinking about the complicated relationships within I Tatti and between BB (played by Adam Sutcliff e) and Joseph Duveen (Richard Kinder). Alexa Mason Joe, Mary, BB, Nicky & Fowles presented by Assistant Director for External Relations the Garden Suburb Theatre. ~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Villa I Tatti San Lorenzo

s the persistent spring rains almost magically withdrew in necessary to con- Athe closing days of May to reveal the splendid gardens of duct in this mass of I Tatti in their full range of colors and perfumes, the scholarly wonderful, largely community gathered for one of the Villa’s major conferences unpublished docu- of the academic year, “San Lorenzo. A Florentine Church.” mentation on the Staged with customary elegance in the Myron and Sheila history of a major Gilmore Limonaia, this international conference, wholly con- Florentine institu- ceived and developed within I Tatti over the past two years, was tion. The object of the occasion for seventeen scholars to present new research on the conference, held Sonia Puccetti Caruso, Archivist of the Archivio the great Florentine church and its history. The conference at I Tatti on 27-30 Capitolare di San Lorenzo, leafi ng through was the fi rst stage in I Tatti’s San Lorenzo Project, an ambitious May 2009, and of Medieval and Renaissance documents about and probing reassessment of our received knowledge about the I Tatti-sponsored the basilica with conference participants William Day, Robert Gaston, Mauro Mussolin (New 15 the church and its community in Florence. sessions on San York University in Florence, VIT’03), Riccardo Two centuries have passed since Domenico Moreni, a Lorenzo to be held learned canon of San Lorenzo, wrote three remarkable vol- Pacciani (Università di Firenze) & Caroline at the Renaissance Elam. (Photo by Elena Ciletti.) umes on the church’s history from its Early Christian foun- dation to the period of the Napoleonic Society of America’s annual conference invasion of Tuscany. Moreni’s familiarity in Venice, 8-10 April 2010, is to generate with the church’s archive was so intimate scholarship that will fi nd its conclusion and commanding, and his documents in a major monographic study of the so compelling in their selectivity, that history of San Lorenzo, to be published his history has justly been described as in 2011. “matchless.” The intention of I Tatti’s The May 2009 conference amply project is to place Moreni’s research and demonstrated the commitment of the its presuppositions in historical perspec- San Lorenzo Project contributors, of tive, while freeing up the collaborating whom about half are Florentine schol- scholars to conduct new investigations ars, to expand the confi nes of historical Nicholas Terpstra. of the archival evidence at San Lorenzo, analysis defi ned by Moreni. Speakers and in other Florentine archives, along Bram Kempers. noted that Moreni had directed unfl ag- the lines suggested by the research priorities of our current ging attention to the signifi cance of disciplines. Moreni himself thus becomes a subject of analysis Medici and granducal patronage, which stimulated many of and his questions and answers become subjected to a radical the artistic masterpieces commissioned for the church, and in- scepticism that arises from the inquiries that we, today, feel deed the rebuilding of the church itself in the Quattrocento. They showed, however, that the economic, administrative and social life of San Lorenzo and its parishioners could fruitfully be pursued into the modern period, and that areas now of intense interest to us, such as the church’s political position in the city, its caritative functions, its altarpieces, music, and preaching traditions, were worthy of profound study. The academic proceedings culminated in an extraordinarily rich site visit to the church and archive, and an utterly delightful evening concert in San Lorenzo from Ensemble Archidee. The conference was a memorable beginning of what promises to be one of I Tatti’s major contributions to the history of Florence. The full program can be found on I Tatti’s web site. Some of the speakers: John Stinson (La Trobe University), Robert W. Gaston Peter Howard (Monash University, VIT’01,’08), George Dameron (VIT’82,’08) (Saint Michael’s College, VIT’88), William Wallace (Washington La Trobe University University, St. Louis, VIT’91), Caroline Elam (VIT’82,’05), Robert Gaston & David Peterson (Washington & Lee University, VIT’85) & Andrew Morrogh (University of Oregon, Eugene, VIT’78). Judy D’Ombrain.

Autumn 2009 Early Music at I Tatti

L to R: Paola Marini; Wietse his year I Tatti off ered three pro- the instrumentalists of De Boer, Benjamin Brand, Tgrams of late sixteenth- and seven- Stylus Phantasticus. Patrick Nold, Anne Leader; teenth-century music. On 8 October Equally successful John Paoletti & Klaus Pietschmann. 16 the soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr was the Lecture-Recital and the ensemble STYLUS PHANTASTICUS on 20 May, “The Voice concluded with the spir- (early Music at I Tatti, XIII) performed of Orpheus: The Loves ited performance of the of Francesco Rasi” (La voce di Orfeo: Scandinavian ensemble BAROQUE FEVER gli amori di Francesco Rasi). The on 11 June (Early Music at I Tatti, XIV). scene was set by Philippe Canguilhem They treated the audience to a feast of (VIT’06), professor of music history at trio sonatas, one of the most popular the University of Toulouse. He dra- instrumental genres in seventeenth- matically told of the victories and century Italy. Here too composers vicissitudes of the singer, Francesco Rasi, often indulged in cyclic forms: Biagio who is best remembered for his inter- Marini’s “variation” sonata makes pretation of Orpheus in the premier of repeated use of the popular tune “Madre, Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607). Born into non mi far monaca” (“Mom, don’t Soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr with an aristocratic family, Rasi was torn make me become a nun!”). This sonata Stylus Phantasticus. between his class, which shunned pro- “sopra la Monica” in turn belonged to a program of works all featuring fessional musicianship, and the broader a collection of sonatas, which Marini repeating bass lines (or basso ostinato). public, which admired him for his described as “curious and modern inven- Appropriately entitled “Il mondo che unequaled vocal and artistic gifts. These tions” (curiose et moderne inventioni). gira” (the world that turns), it pre- were brought alive by the baritone Indeed, Baroque Fever used the descrip- sented passacaglias, sonatas, Furio Zanasi and the tion as the title for their concert and and chaconnes principally by ensemble LA C HIMERA. Their expertly communicated the sense of Dietrich Buxtehude (1637- virtuosic performance of playfulness and novelty that the genre 1707). More than any com- solo madrigals by Rasi and held for contemporary Italian audiences. poser of the late seventeenth his contemporaries, includ- Far diff erent, however, was their moving century, he exhibited a fond- ing Sigismondo d’India, interpretation of the penultimate work, ness for cyclic forms. These Giulio Caccini, and Claudio the sixth of ten sonatas published by in turn evoked the breathtak- Monteverdi, not only treated Henry Purcell in 1697. With this slow, ing discoveries of a previous the audience to works by melancholic piece, Purcell achieved a generation of astronomers the most prominent Italian remarkable response to the Italian tra- such as Galileo and Kepler, composers of the turn of dition of trio sonatas, having, in his who theorized and calculated Friederike Heumann tuning own words, “faith- her viola da gamba. the rotation of the earth, sun, fully endeavour’d a and entire solar system. Although one the seventeenth just imitation of the of the most gifted composers of his century, but most fam’d Italian generation, Buxtehude rarely appears also provided a Masters.” in programs today. Even more obscure riveting snap- Benjamin Brand today is his fellow German, Philipp shot of the Francesco De Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714), whose music regularly Dombrowski Fellow sacred arias provided a particularly dark sung and cham- & and poignant showcase for a concert pioned by Rasi Klaus both imaginatively programmed and himself. Pietschmann expressively performed by Kiehr and The season Deborah Loeb Brice Baroque Fever. Fellow

Villa I Tatti The Berenson Lectures in the Italian Renaissance

Julian Gardner (VIT’06) Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Warwick Giotto and His Publics: Three Paradigms of Patronage 1. Giotto at Pisa: The Stigmatization for San Francesco (23 April) 2. The Bardi Chapel: Giotto among the Money Changers (28 April) 3. The Lull before the Storm: The Vele in the Lower Church at Assisi (30 April)

n his Berenson Lectures, Professor of Italian Trecento social chapel, and its newly IJulian Gardner directed the interplays. discovered rudimentary numerous members of his audience The Louvre painting, sacristy cupboard also 17 through one of the most fruitful and originally in the church of confi rm this chronology. lasting themes of his academic research, S. Francesco at Pisa, is one of The Vele of the Giotto’s artistic originality and the Giotto’s early works, close Lower Church of Assisi cultural, social and economic world of in style to the Santa Maria depict Francis in Glory, the his patrons. Focusing on members of Novella Cross. It displays Marriage of St. Francis and the social élites of the Italian communes a revolutionary design, in Lady Poverty, the Allegory who were deeply linked with the new which the three smaller of Chastity, and the Allegory mendicant orders, Gardner has clearly scenes in the predella lead of Obedience. These highly assessed the role of the Franciscan order to the stigmatization at sophisticated religious in directing art commissions, an aspect La Verna painted above. personifi cations are based not to be overlooked. Starting from the Gardner reminded us that Charlotte Brown, Joseph Connors on an allegorical method scrutiny of the Stigmatization of St. Francis, for a Pisan hospital church, in & Julian Gardner. in which the decoration now in the Louvre, and proceeding to 1302, Cimabue had painted does not follow chronol- the fresco cycle dedicated to St. Francis the fi rst altarpiece documented with a ogy – the linear biographical structures in the Bardi Chapel in the Florentine predella, and that this development was of the Pisa Stigmatization and the Bardi church of Santa Croce, the lecture taken up and further refi ned by Giotto. Chapel are avoided – but favours an series culminated in a comprehensive The panel was painted for the Cinquina apocalyptic interpretation of the fi gure interpretation of the fresco of the Vele chapel, commissioned by a member of St. Francis, that at the date of the fres- in the Lower Church of San Francesco of a family of bankers, a group which coes’ execution in 1317-1319, was still in Assisi. transformed Pisan trade and society. fully accepted by the whole Order. Each lecture had its clear focus on Each of the works examined These lectures, the fourth in the one of Giotto’s great accomplishments, presented internal stylistic and series, will be published by Harvard and indeed may stand autonomously, yet iconographic specifi city, which are University Press. Caroline Elam will the entire sequence revealed unforeseen intimately related to Giotto’s artistic present the Berenson Lectures in the dynamics of patronage that strongly progress and workshop practice. For spring of 2010. aff ected its artistic creation. Gardner instance, in his second lecture, Gardner Roberto Cobianchi also off ered a magisterial example of amply argued that the Bardi Chapel Ahmanson Fellow his methodological approach to art decoration is earlier in date than the L to R: Steven Rozenski; history, fi rmly connecting his acute Peruzzi Chapel. Its dedication to St. Arielle Saiber; Barbara Deimling; visual analysis to a sound historical Francis, the prominence of the chapel Roberto Cobianchi & Anne Leader. background and a deep knowledge next to the main

Autumn 2009 Giotto & the disaster. Yet, as Skaug pointed out, technical evidence to suggest it was it occasioned major events such as the Giotto himself who introduced the the Florence Flood emergency appointment of Giotto, in method there. Skaug furthermore April 1334, to the offi ce of master of civic presented his very thorough research n 14 May 2009 Visiting Professor works. Giotto may have interrupted his into the use of the titles “pictor” and OErling Skaug of Oslo treated us service to the Neapolitan Kings, Skaug “magister” in Florentine documents to a fascinating lecture on “Giotto and suggested, to return to his hometown as and painting signatures. Suggesting that the Flood of 1333.” After the fl ood of soon as possible after the fl ood. only architects and sculptors used the Florence in 1966, Skaug worked for a The fl ood, Skaug argued, can also title “magister,” he proposed that the year restoring damaged paintings, and be related to changes in Florentine Baroncelli altarpiece (signed “OPUS the experience inspired a life-long painting technique. Skaug is a leading MAGISTRI JOCTI”) and others career as a professor of conservation. expert in the study of punchmarks, the related to it date to the years after April In his talk he described the devastation stamped impressions “punched” on the 1334, that is, after Giotto’s appointment caused by the fl ood of November 1333, gold backgrounds of Early Renaissance as master architect. when the Arno broke its banks, toppling paintings. The fi rst Florentine works to Kathleen Christian 18 bridges and city walls. Art historians make use of punches seem to date to Robert Lehman Fellow have scarcely considered the eff ects of the spring of 1334, and Skaug off ered

Erling & Karen Skaug. John Paoletti & Kathleen Christian. Françoise Connors & Paola Marini.

work and only started on a new block two sculptures he showed the vigor Michelangelo & fi ve years later. In discussing this new of Michelangelo’s Christ and Bernini’s Bernini block Frommel examined characteris- more classicizing version. Bernini’s tics of Michelangelo’s fi gural repertory. Christ appears younger, more androgy- ne of the last lectures of this Michelangelo used the nude fi gure only nous and relaxed. His Christ evinces Oacademic year was delivered by when indicated in the Bible where an accentuated beauty with bodily pro- the former director of the resurrection alone shows portions closely refl ecting the antique the Bibliotheca Hertz- Christ unclothed, His fl esh canon. Frommel maintained that both iana in Rome, Profes- attesting to the resurrection fi gures constitute a splendid example of sor Christoph Frommel of the body. The present gilt how sculpture developed between these who constructed a sculp- loincloth is a later addition. two outstanding artists of the High tural bridge between the With the discovery of a docu- Renaissance and Baroque. works of two towering ment in 1998, scholars have Angela Dreßen artists, Michelangelo and argued that Michelangelo’s Biblioteca Berenson Bernini, by focusing on unfi nished Christ – the fi rst a marble block begun by block – could be the one Michelangelo and com- later set up in the church of S. pleted by the “new Mi- Vincenzo at Bassano Romano, chelangelo” some 100 the property of the marchese Denis Ribouillault & years later (1618 ca.). In Vincenzo Giustiniani, since Wietse De Boer. 1514 a Resurrected Christ this sculpture reveals a similar for a chapel in Santa Maria sopra Mi- fl aw. Frommel linked a docu- nerva in Rome was commissioned ment recording the acquisition of a from Michelangelo. When the marble marble block formerly belonging to block on which he had begun disclosed Michelangelo and to be fi nished by an internal fl aw, Michelangelo stopped Bernini, with the Resurrected Christ in Bassano Romano. By comparing the Joseph Connors & Christoph Frommel.

Villa I Tatti Artful Allies A Conference on Medici Women as The same held true for the Medici toms which Cultural Mediators women who were married off to for- they sought eign courts. The two most prominent to establish examples, Caterina and Maria de’ Medici, met with Dávid Falvay & Dora Bobory. n the sixteenth century, when the had quite a hard time being accepted in approval, IMedici had only just managed to turn their new home country and succeeded others elicited criticism. the republic of Florence into a princi- only partially. As they were socially far From 15 to 17 October 2008, pate, foreign brides from noble families inferior to their husbands, the French the conference “Artful Allies: Medici were not only potential political allies, kings Henry II and Henry IV, their Women as Cultural Mediators (1533– but also important status symbols. Their 19 position was even more diffi cult than that 1743)” explored the contribution of arrival in Florence was staged like a tri- of the foreign brides in Florence. While Medici women to the cultural exchange umphal entry, with sumptuous ephem- some of the Italian fashions and cus- between the courts of Europe. The cho- eral arches framing their way. They rode sen time frame was defi ned by the wed- around the perimeter of the ancient ding of Caterina de’ Medici in 1533 and Roman city as if to take possession of the death of the last woman from the the town. In reality, however, Florence grandducal line, Anna Maria Luisa de’ still remained to be conquered, and the Medici, in 1743, and thus encompassed hard work began only after the wedding. the two centuries of the Medici prin- The foreign brides were courted, but they cipate. Eighteen distinguished speakers also needed to win the lasting esteem of from the USA, Italy, Germany, Britain, the court. They could try to establish cul- France and Austria examined the politi- tural traditions from their country of ori- cal, social and aesthetical dimensions of gin in Florence, but at the same time they the art patronage of Medici women in had to prove their loyalty to their hus- Gene Brucker (University of California, Florence and abroad. band and show their adherence to the Berkeley, VIT’65,’80,’84,’87) & The conference, designed as the Florentine ways of living. Lisa Kaborycha (The Medici Archive Project). concluding event of the three-year research project MEFISTO (Medici- Frauen Interdisziplinär: Soziale Rollen, kultureller Transfer, mäzenatisches Oeu- vre), was sponsored by the Deutsche ...... Forschungsgemeinschaft, but would not have been possible without the gener- ous support from Villa I Tatti and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. The Renaissance villa provided a per- fect setting, and Joseph and Françoise Connors’ famous hospitality contrib- May afternoon’s discussion of uted signifi cantly to the success of the AMantegna after the 2008 Paris conference. exhibition brought Dominique The full program can be found on I Tatti’s Thiébaut (Musée du Louvre, VIT’08) web site. back to I Tatti with Giovanni Agosti Christina Strunck (VIT’08) (Università Statale di Milano) and Luciano Bellosi (Università di Siena, ames Bradburne, Director of the Emeritus). Here she is seen with JFondazione Palazzo Strozzi, ended the (from the left) Marco Tanzi (Università year’s lecture calendar with a magisterial di Lecce), who collaborated on the account of a largely forgotten but exhibition catalogue; Alessandro Cecchi, brilliant scientist of the seventeenth (Galleria Palatina & Museo Giardino di century, Cornelis Drebbel, who Boboli); and Giovanni Agosti, cocurator navigated the world’s fi rst submarine on of the exhibition and speaker that the River Thames in 1620. afternoon. Robert & Jana Kiely.

Autumn 2009 ornament, he is even more dated as early as 1562. Pomeriggio attracted to the inventive- Issues of patronage were ness of individual motifs. addressed by Andrea di Meo Palladiano In conclusion, Burns (Scuola Normale Superiore, stressed that the systematic Pisa) in a paper discussing n October, studiosi of Andrea Palladio character of Palladio’s Palladio’s villa architecture in Icelebrated the 500th anniversary of architecture, which fol- its religious and civil context. his birth and the 50th anniversary of lowed the rules of decorum Di Meo suggested that the the Centro Internazionale di Studi di and expressed graciously Guido Beltramini. religious tendencies of some Architettura (CISA) Andrea Palladio. the physical structure of Palladio’s patrons should Howard Burns (Scuola Normale of the buildings, is underscored by an be reconsidered and that they cannot Superiore, Pisa, VIT’77,’84) opened the unsystematic and subjective appre- be defi ned as merely Lutherans. He afternoon by discussing the concept of ciation of specifi c motifs. argued however that their religious ornamento in the theory and practice of In examining the connections beliefs had an impact on what Rosario Andrea Palladio. He began by compar- between Palladio and Florence, Assunto calls “the sacralisation of pro- 20 ing Palladio’s ideas on ornamento in his Amadeo Belluzzi (Università di Firenze) fane architecture,” manifest in Palladio’s Quattro libri with its more immediate reminded us of the architect’s exceptional use of a religious vocabulary for his villas. sources, Vitruvius and Alberti. Accord- admission to the Accademia del Disegno Finally, Guido Beltramini (CISA ing to Burns, however, only in book in 1563 - Palladio being the fi rst for- Palladio, VIT’08) concluded the four, where 45 plates of details of ancient eigner (i.e., non-Florentine) to be given afternoon with a fascinating paper on buildings are discussed, does Palladio such an honor. Belluzzi then discussed Palladio’s contribution to military his- shows his real attitude a Palladio drawing in tory: an illustrated edition of Julius towards architectural Budapest, which, he Caesar’s commentary published in 1575 details. If he is concerned argued, could rep- and an edition of Polybius’s Historiae, with understanding the resent an early proj- with 43 illustrations, unfi nished at his principles of architectural ect for the chapel of death. Situating Palladio’s contribu- Giovanni Niccolini tion against the growing interest in the at Santa Croce and be representation of the landscape of war in Early Modern Europe, Beltramini showed the profound infl uence Gian L to R: William Wallace & Giorgio Trissino’s History of the Goths William Day; had on Palladio. He also demonstrated Roberto Cobianchi, Max how the rational ‘architecture’ of Freeman & Klaus Pietschmann; ancient battles led theVicentine architect Denis Ribouillault. to use some military diagrams for the FORMER FELLOWS’ U PDATE plans of his villas. Denis Ribouillault Margaret (Peggy) Haines (VIT’76, Millon Architectural History Guest Florence J. Gould Fellow ’88-’10), Senior Research Associate, Scholar at CASVA, Washington, D.C., In conjunction with this conference, a group is editor of the digital archive of where she will work on a comparative of I Tatti Appointees journeyed to Vicenza to the sources of the Opera di Santa examination of the structural and view the magnifi cent exhibition celebrating Maria del Fiore. From the fi rst 5,000 administrative history of the dome of Palladio’s quincentennial which opened in documents accessible via the Internet St. Peter’s. September. Howard Burns and Guido since 2001, a fi nal online edition of Beltramini introduced the splendid draw- “The Years of the Cupola” (1417- Patricia L. Rubin (VIT’87,’90,’93, ings and models and afterwards the Fellows 1436) was formally presented to the ’97,’05) has been appointed the Judy heard architect Rafael Moneo lecture in public on 29 June 2009, with 21,000 and Michael Steinhardt Director the Teatro Olimpico. texts plus analytical and structured of New York University’s Institute indices. Also involved in the project of Fine Arts, starting in September are Rolf Bagemihl (VIT’98), Patrizia 2009. Rubin is moving from the Salvadori (VIT’95), Lucia Sandri Courtauld Institute of Art, London, (VIT’96), Timothy Verdon (VIT’87) where she has been teaching since and Lorenzo Fabbri (VIT’98). The 1979 and was Deputy Director and site can be consulted in both Italian and Head of the Research Forum since English. http://www.operaduomo. 2004. In addition to being a Fellow fi renze.it/cupola/home.html. This and Visiting Professor, Rubin was fall, Haines will be the Ailsa Mellon Acting Director of I Tatti in 1997. Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow and Guido Ruggiero (VIT’91), Carmen Bambach & Laura Giannetti. Villa I Tatti COUNCIL NOTES

he Villa I Tatti Council sponsors a through the splendid Raphael to Tnumber of events each year to pro- Renoir: Drawings from the Collection mote awareness of the Harvard Center, of Jean Bonna exhibition at the increase its constituency and recog- Met. This was the Museum’s nize its supporters, complementing fi rst comprehensive exhibition Joseph Connors with Treacy & Darcy Beyer. I Tatti’s primary objective of fostering from this private Swiss collection of Montage Beverly Hills. Renaissance scholarship. some 120 European Old Master and The spring Council meeting, 21 On 22 October 2008 Denise Allen, 19th-century drawings which included which took place on 24 March in sculpture and Renaissance specialist and works by Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Boston, was chaired by Deborah Loeb Curator at The Frick Collection, guided Parmigianino, Canaletto, Rembrandt, Brice. Joseph Connors, Michael Rocke the I Tatti Council through Andrea Riccio: Manet, Degas, and many others. To view (Nicky Mariano Librarian), and Alexa Renaissance Master of Bronze, the fi rst such a splendid exhibition with its col- Mason (Assistant Director for External monographic exhibition for the artist. lector and curator is the stuff of which Relations) reported on I Tatti’s scholarly The exhibit featured exquisite bronzes dreams are made. The afternoon ended programs, research activities, construc- on classical themes, life-size terra- with a lovely reception at the home of tion projects, library news, and fi nances. cottas and statuettes. Dr. Allen described Council member James Cherry, Jr. and Following the meeting the Council Riccio as one of the his wife Sylvie. To them, members were joined by Lino Pertile, great Renaissance art- Jean Bonna and Carmen Anna Bensted, John and Elizabeth ists, whose inventive Bambach, we extend our Gilmore, and David and Eleanor genius and bronze heartfelt thanks for a Margolis for a private tour of Titian, mastery was inspired memorable afternoon. Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance by the ancient works To coincide with Venice, the fi rst major exhibition of art displayed by the annual meeting of devoted to the Big Three of Renaissance his patrons, the reli- the Renaissance Society Venice at Boston’s Museum of Fine gious and intellectual of America in March, Arts. We thank Frederick Ilchman, leaders of Padua, who sixty guests attended a Mrs. Russell W. Baker Assistant Curator wanted “to see what Alexa Mason, Marco Pompili lecture given by Joseph of Paintings, who twice accompanied [they] read about.” We & Gianni Martilli. Connors,“Florence 1900: friends of I Tatti through his breath- thank Council mem- Bernard Berenson, I Tatti, taking exhibition which underscored ber Virgilia Pancoast Klein for gener- and the Discovery of Early Italian how these Venetian artists endeavored ously hosting lunch at the Cosmopolitan Art.” Among the friends who attended to outdo one another when painting Club afterwards. dinner following the lecture, were the same subject. In January, Council member Jean Council member Robert Erburu, his Graziella Macchetta Bonna and Curator of Prints and wife Lois, and their daughter and son- Development Associate Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum in-law, Susan and George Reardon. of Art Carmen Bambach (VIT’98,’09) We thank Mr. Mark Ivener who made guided a fascinated group of friends it possible to hold the event at the THE 2009 VILLA I TATTI COUNCIL Deborah Loeb Brice, Chairman Joseph Connors, Director Anna Huber with Kathryn Brush Darcy Beyer William Hood Susan M. Roberts (University of Treacy Beyer Walter Kaiser Neil L. Rudenstine Western Ontario) Jean A. Bonna Virgilia Pancoast Klein Sylvia Scheuer who will be talking James R. Cherry, Jr. Frederick S. Koontz Melvin R. Seiden about Berenson & Anne Coffi n Mary Gibbons Landor Sydney R. Shuman Arthur Kingsley Robert F. Erburu Barnabas McHenry William F. Thompson Porter at I Tatti’s Bernard Berenson at 50 Gabriele Geier Joseph P. Pellegrino Rosemary F. Weaver Marilyn Perry conference in October 2009.

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I Tatti records with sorrow the following deaths:

ichael Mallett, OBE (VIT’75), in Law from the University of Rome England (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1957), Memeritus professor of history, “La Sapienza” and attended Harvard he turned to Italy and wrote, Dante University of Warwick, died 2 Septem- Law School in 1951. He created one (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1980); ber 2008 aged 76. Educated at the Uni- of Italy’s most prominent publishing Florence, Rome, and the Origins of the versity of Oxford (BA 1955, MA and groups, Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press; D.Phil 1959), Mallett was Assistant and in 1976 he cofounded the Rome- New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986), Director and Librarian at the British based newspaper, La Repubblica. Dott. and The Florentine Enlightenment, 1400- School at Rome (1962-66) before Caracciolo was a member of I Tatti’s In- 1450 (Oxford: Clarendon; New York: moving to the University of Warwick in ternational Council from 1989 to 1997. Oxford Univ. Press, 1992) among oth- 1967, fi rst as lecturer, then senior lec- ers. He was an I Tatti Visiting Profes- 24 turer (1979), reader (1974), professor iovanna Rabitti (VIT’97), scholar sor in the spring of 1995 when he read (1978), head of department (1980-83), Gof the history of literature and extensively in preparation for his book and chair of the faculty of arts (1985- professor of Italian philology at the Renaissance (New York: St. Martin’s 88). He retired in 1999. Through his University of Sassari, died suddenly on Press, 1996). Later, he edited The involvement in Warwick’s Venice term, 20 December 2008 at the age of 52. Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval which he directed and shaped from She was born in Piacenza but moved Europe (Oxford; New York: Oxford 1970, he became involved in the cultural to Florence and received her laurea Univ. Press, 1988), and more recently was and academic life of Venice. He was a (1979) and her Ph.D. (1987) from the working on a study of the Italian city- corresponding member of the Deputazi- Università degli Studi there. She spe- states in the late-fi fteenth and early-six- one Veneta di Storia Patria, contributed cialized in Italian Renaissance litera- teenth centuries. Holmes was a delegate to the multi-volumed Storia di Venezia, ture and published critical editions of of Oxford University Press, an editor of was active in both the Gladys Krieble works by Chiara Matraini (1515-1604) the English Historical Review (1975-81), Delmas Foundation and Venice in Peril. and Giacomo Zane (1529-1560). The was elected a Fellow of the British His many publications ranged from The former, originally published in 1989, Academy in 1985, and was awarded the Florentine Galleys in the Fifteenth Cen- was translated into English by Elaine Serena Medal for Italian Studies in 1993. tury (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), Maclachlan, Chiara Matraini, Selected through Mercenaries and their Masters: Poetry and Prose (Chicago: University oberto Abbondanza (VIT’65), Warfare in Renaissance Italy (London: of Chicago Press, 2007). Rabitti was Rscholar, administrator and politi- Bodley Head, 1974) to Lorenzo de’ an I Tatti Fellow in 1996/97 when she cian, died 28 April 2009 aged 81. He Medici’s Lettere (Firenze: Giunti Bar- worked on 16th-century female poets. graduated from the University of Flor- bèra) of which he edited volumes 5, 6, Her research interests included autobi- ence in 1949. Although a registered and 7 (1989, 1990, 1998) covering the ography, Boccaccio and humanist writ- solicitor from 1952, he almost never period from 1480 to 1484. Part of the ers, and Leopardi. She was one of the practiced, instead, he worked in the work for these volumes was accom- contributors to Italian Women Writers: Archivio di Stato, Florence, from 1953 plished during his I Tatti fellowship in A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, edited to 1960 when he transferred to Perugia 1974/75. Mallett, who became a Com- by Rinaldina Russell (Westport, CT: as the director of the Archivio di Stato mendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Greenwood Press, 1994). there. During this period, he was a Fel- Republica Italiana in 2000, was grant- low at I Tatti with a project on legal ed fellowships at the Royal Historical eorge Holmes (VIT’95) Chichele humanism and the young Andrea Society and the Royal Society of Lit- GProfessor Emeritus of Medieval Alciato. Abbondanza taught legal history erature in 1998 and received the Brit- History at Oxford University and a Fel- and political science at the University of ish Academy’s Serena Medal for Italian low of All Souls, died 29 January 2009 Perugia, directed the Scuola di Paleo- Studies (1997), an O.B.E. (1998) and an aged 81. Educated in Aberystwyth and grafi a, Diplomatica e Dottrina Archivis- honorary D.Litt from Warwick (2007). St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1954 tica annexed to the Archivio di Stato di he was appointed tutor in medieval his- Perugia, and became the Inspector Gen- arlo Caracciolo, former member tory at St. Catherine’s Society, Oxford, eral of State Archives. In 1975, he was Cof I Tatti’s International Council which later became St. Catherine’s Col- appointed director of the new Ministry and one of Italy’s most important pub- lege. There he was Vice-Master from of Cultural Heritage and was chairman lishers, died 15 December 2008. Born 1969 to 1971 and Emeritus Fellow from of the Umbrian Assemblea Legislativa in Florence in 1925 of the noble fam- 1990. After studies on medieval Eng- and regional assessor from 1975 to 1985. ily of the Princes of Castagneto and the land (his fi rst book was The Estates of In 1979 he was elected president of the Dukes of Melito, Caracciolo graduated the Higher Nobility in Fourteenth-Century Regional Council and assumed the

Villa I Tatti post of head of culture until 1982. His sion of her 65th Birthday, edited by F.T. her many publications was the inaugural administrative experience enabled Coulson and A.A. Grotans (Turnhout: volume in the I Tatti Renaissance Library him to give great impulse to the Brepols, 2008), a collection of essays series, Famous Women by Giovanni Boc- development of the network of libraries, representing the areas of her principal caccio (Cambridge: Harvard University archives and museums of Umbria and scholarly contributions: palaeography, Press, 2001) which she translated and to the restoration and revitalization of the transmission of classical texts, and edited and which started the series off the historic theaters of the region. the study of the Benevantan script, so well, even going into a second, and of which she was the world’s leading a paperback edition in 2003. A collec- ygmunt WaŹbiŃski (VIT’76), expert. Brown was the editor of Mediaeval tion of her essays spanning thirty years ZProfessor of Art History, Nicolaus Studies (1975-1988), a member of innu- of research, Terra Sancti Benedicti: Stud- Copernicus University, Torun, died 7 merable editorial boards including the ies in the Palaeography, History and Liturgy May 2009 at age 76. Educated at the Journal of the History of Ideas, Cambridge of Medieval Southern Italy, was published University of Warsaw (B.A. 1952, Ph.D. Studies in Palaeography, Codicology, Scripta: as volume 219 in Storia e Letteratura in 1966, Dr.Hab.1973) and the Sorbonne’s An International Journal of Paleography and 2005. That same year she delivered the Institut d’Art et d’Archéologie (MA Codicology, and The International Journal Lowe Lectures in Paleography at the 25 1962) Wa´zbi´nski was one of I Tatti’s ear- of the Classical Tradition, and was secre- University of Oxford. Brown was an liest Polish Fellows in 1975/76 when he tary and editor-in-chief of the Catalogus I Tatti Fellow in 1975/76 and a Visiting studied Vasari and Italian art history in translationum et commentariorum. Among Professor in 2006/2007. the fi fteenth and sixteenth centuries. In 1986 he became Associate Professor of FORMER FELLOWS’ U PDATE Humanities and in 1991 full professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Bruce Boucher (VIT’85) be- and Bess: An ‘American Wozzeck’,” In 1998 he founded and was the fi rst came director of the University of which appeared in the Journal of the director of the Department of the His- Virginia Art Museum last March after Society for American Music (2007). This tory of Art and Culture, in the Faculty seven years as curator of European award honors “an article of excep- of Historical Sciences. He published sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. tional merit, published during the in Polish, French and Italian on six- As well as writing on Italian artists such previous year in any language and in teenth- and seventeenth-century Ital- as Donatello and Tintoretto, Boucher any country by a scholar who is past ian art history, Vasari, the Florentine is an expert on the sixteenth-century the early stages of her or his career.” Italian architect Andrea Palladio. Reynolds’ musicological interests Accademia del Disegno, and Cardinal span the centuries and cultures from Dal Monte. His last book, on museum Thomas Martin (VIT’98), profes- Renaissance Italy to twentieth-century, and art collections of the pre-modern sor of art history at Bard High School American music. He is currently age, Muzeum i zbiory artystyczne epoki Early College, has organized a session writing A History of the Answer Song, nowożytnej wiek XV i XVI. Tom 1, was at the national meeting of the Col- which deals with madrigals, operas, published by the Nicolaus Copernicus lege Art Association in February 2010 and popular songs that in one way or University in 2006. that has particular signifi cance for us: another respond to an earlier work. “Fifty Years After Berenson: His Legacy irginia Brown (VIT’76,’07), and Phenomenon.” Carmen Bambach Branko MitroviĆ (VIT’01), professor of architectural history Emeritus Professor of Medieval (VIT’97,’09) is one of the speakers. V and theory at Unitec Institute of Studies at the Center for Medieval Caroline Murphy (VIT’02), Technology, New Zealand, has been Studies, University of Toronto, and assistant professor of art history at awarded a prestigious Humboldt Senior Fellow at the Pontifi cal Institute Salem State College, has won the 2009 Research Award for 2009/2010. The of Mediaeval Studies, died 4 July 2009 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize award is granted in recognition of a aged 68. She joined both institutions in in Italian History for her book Murder researcher’s entire achievements to 1970 and retired in 2006. She earned of a Medici Princess (Oxford; New York: date to academics whose fundamental her A.B. (1962) from Manhattanville Oxford Univ. Press, 2009) awarded by discoveries, new theories, or insights College, her M.A. (1964) from the Uni- the Society for Italian Studies. She is have had a signifi cant impact on their currently working on the fi nal book versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, own discipline and who are expected in her trilogy of Orsini wives, The her Arch. Pal. Vat. (1968) at the Scuola to continue producing cutting-edge Three Queens of Spain, to be published achievements. Mitrović, who has Vaticana di diplomatica e paleografi a, by Oxford Univ. Press. written extensively on Andrea Palladio and her Ph.D. (1969) from Harvard and Leon Battista Alberti among Christopher Reynolds (VIT’89, University. Her many honors include other topics, will be the guest of the ’97), professor of music at the Uni- a distinguished teaching award from the Technische Universität Berlin, where versity of California, Davis, is the Medieval Academy of America in 2005; he will be working on his project winner of the 2008 H. Colin Slim honorary citizenship of Benevento in about the history of Renaissance Award from the American Musico- 2006; and Classica et Beneventana: Essays scholarship in the Weimar era. logical Society for his article “Porgy Presented to Virginia Brown on the Occa-

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utside offi ce hours, a number of February as a part-time librarian on the were the Biblioteca degli Uffi zi, the Othe I Tatti librarians manage to bar-code project. Giordano Turchi, Biblioteca Marucelliana, and the pursue their own scholarship. Last year, another of the bar-coders, will now be Kunsthistorisches Institut. archivist Ilaria Della Monica was one shadowing Donatella Pieracci for a of the contributors to Stravaganti e biz- couple of months before she retires at his was a year of expectant mothers zarri: ortaggi e frutti dipinti da Bartolomeo the end of October when he will take Tand happy arrivals. The extended Bimbi per i Medici, edited by Stefano over her Library duties. I Tatti family welcomes: Casciu and Chiara Nepi (Firenze: Edi- Silvia, born on 9 July 2009 26 fi r Edizione, 2008), the catalogue of nown as a prince of to Molly Bourne (VIT’04) the exhibition held at Poggio a Caiano Kthe royal house, for his and Alessandro Sarzi; Emma, between April and July 2008. The year courage, and for his noble born 26 November 2008 to before, she co-authored, with Andrea and courtly nature, Ettore Alessandro Superbi (staff ) and Pilato and Lanfranco Ravelli, 1582, has greeted all who entered Valeria Beldon; Alessia, born 2 L’ultima cena di Alessandro Allori per As- the Biblioteca Berenson January 2009 to Emiliano Per- tino (Bergamo: Grafi ca & Arte, 2007). for many years. Sadly, his nice (staff ) and Angela Puggelli; long and happy life came Flore, born on 24 January 2009 lisabetta Cunsolo, who has been to a close early last January. to Diane Bodart (VIT’08) Eworking at I Tatti since May 2007, Many were left heartbroken, and Dominique Robin; Tassilo, has recently been promoted to Assistant including Bianchina, who born 11 May 2009, to Patrick Curator of the Fototeca Berenson. She died just a month later. holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Università di Bologna and has extensive he Art Libraries Section of the experience as a photograph cataloguer. TInternational Federation of Library In September 2008, Sanne Wellen Associations and Institutions (IFLA) joined the Library staff as a photograph met in Florence 18 to 21 August cataloguer working on the project 2009. Despite this being the month sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon when the Harvard Center is closed for Foundation to catalogue the Fototeca’s heavy cleaning, maintenance, and the representations of “homeless” works of major book moving associated this year art. She holds a Ph.D. in art history with the opening of the new Smyth from Johns Hopkins University. This Library wing, I Tatti hosted one after- summer she was joined on the project noon session at which Joseph Connors, by Elena Stolfi who has Michael Rocke, Machtelt Israëls been working at I Tatti since (VIT’05), Margaret D’Ambrosio (IRIS consortium), Pietro Baraldi (University of Modena and Patrick Nold & Raphaela Schmid Reggio Emilia), before the arrival of Tassilo. and Christine Nold (VIT’09) and Raphaela Schmid; Kuan (ART- Luca, born 8 August 2009, to Valentina stor) gave and Stefano Pernice (staff ); and, on 19 papers prior August 2009 Gianni Nocentini (staff ) to a visit to and Patrizia became the proud parents the Berenson of Lucrezia, while Anne Roger, wife L to R: Elena Stolfi & Giordano library, collec- of Denis Ribouillault (VIT’09) gave Turchi; Sanne Wellen; Giovanni tion and gar- birth to Paul. We look forward to see- Pagliarulo, Donatella Pieracci & den. The other ing you all at I Tatti! Elisabetta Cunsolo. conference hosts

The I Tatti newsletter is published once a year. Alexa M. Mason, editor, writer, design, & layout; WordTech, printing & distribution. Photographs are by Susan Bates, Nelda Ferace, Kavi Montanaro, Simonetta Pinto, Arielle Saiber, Gianni Trambusti or Alexa Mason, who apologizes to anyone whose photo she has used and whom she has not acknowledged. Former Fellows are indicated in the text with the initials “VIT” after their name followed by the year(s) of their appointment as Fellow, Visiting Scholar or Professor, or Research Associate. Many thanks to all who have contributed.

Villa I Tatti VILLA I TATTI COMMUNITY 2009-2010 Fellows Visiting Professors Amy Bloch, CRIA Fellow, State Uni- Una D’Elia, Robert Lehman Fel- Babette Bohn (2nd sem), Lila Wallace - versity of New York at Albany, Art low, Queen’s University, Art History. Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Texas History. “Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of “Raphael’s Ostrich: Allegory & Ambigu- Christian University, Art History. “Exhi- Paradise and the Renaissance Biblical ity in Cinquecento Rome and Florence.” bition of paintings, drawings, and prints Imaginary.” Anne Dunlop, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Yale by Federico Barocci (St. Louis 2012 and Claudia Bolgia, Rush H. Kress Fellow, University, Art History. “Materials, the National Gallery London 2013).” University of Edinburgh, Art History. Imagined World, and Trecento Artistic Derek Bok (1st sem), Harvard Visiting “The ‘Long’ Trecento: Rome without Change.” Professor, Harvard University, History. the Popes (c. 1305-1420).” Serena Ferente, Francesco De Dom- “The Challenges Facing Universities Suzanne Boorsch (1st sem), Craig browski Fellow, King’s College, Lon- and How to Meet Them.” Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Yale Uni- don, History. “Factions as Passions in Sissela Bok (1st sem), Harvard Visiting versity Art Gallery, Art History. “Exhi- Renaissance Italy.” Professor, Harvard Center for Popula- bition and Accompanying Monograph Francesca Fiorani, Frederick tion & Development Studies, History. 27 on Sienese Painter Francesco Vanni.” Burkhardt Residential Fellow, University “Renaissance Humanism and the Tra- Abigail Brundin, Deborah Loeb Brice of Virginia, Art History. “Leonardo’s dition of Philosophical Dialogues.” Fellow, University of Cambridge, Lit- Shadows. Images of Knowledge in Daniel Bornstein (1st sem), Robert erature. “Rewriting Trent: The Prac- Renaissance Art and Culture.” Lehman Visiting Professor, Washington tice of Poetry in Counter-Reformation Zsombor Jékely (2nd sem), Andrew University in St. Louis, History. “Reli- Florence.” W. Mellon Research Fellow, Museum gion, Culture, and Society in Late Duncan Bull (2nd sem), Craig Hugh of Applied Arts, Budapest, Art History. Medieval and Renaissance Cortona.” Smyth Visiting Fellow, Rijksmuseum, “Italian Painters in the Service of Hun- Martin Kemp (2nd sem), Lila Wallace Amsterdam, Art History. “Catalogue of garian Aristocrats, c. 1330-1430.” - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Italian Paintings in the Rijksmuseum.” Robert La France, Hanna Kiel Fellow, Oxford University, Art History. “Living Gábor Buzási (1st sem), Andrew W. University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- with Leonardo: An Unreliable Memoir Mellon Research Fellow, Pazmany paign, Art History. “Timoteo Viti: from of the Leonardo Business.” Peter Catholic University, History. Bologna to Urbino and Rome.” Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (1st sem), “Neoplatonic Metaphysics of Light in Sarah McNamer (2nd sem), Craig Hugh Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting the Thought of Marsilio Ficino.” Smyth Visiting Fellow, Georgetown Uni- Professor, École des Hautes Études en Lorenzo Calvelli, Deborah Loeb Brice versity, Literature. “A Critical Edition of Sciences Sociales, History. “Confession, Fellow, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, the Meditazioni della vita di Cristo.” Penance, and Punishment in the Euro- History. “Le pietre romane di Venezia Laura Moretti (2nd sem), Craig Hugh pean Representations of the Crucifi x- fra tardo-medioevo e Rinascimento.” Smyth Visiting Fellow, Worcester Col- ion, 13th-17th centuries.” Christopher Carlsmith, Andrew W. lege, Oxford, Art History. “Palladio’s Kate Lowe (2nd sem), Lila Wallace - Mellon Fellow, University of Massachu- Patrons and Music: Connections bet- Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Queen setts-Lowell, History. “To Live and to ween Cultural Interests and Architecture.” Mary, University of London, History. Study: Colleges in Early Modern Italy.” Romano Nanni (2nd sem), Craig “Black Africans in Renaissance Italy.” Claudia Chierichini, Jean-François Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, Biblio- Ann Moyer (2nd sem), Robert Lehman Malle Fellow, Mount Holyoke Col- teca Leonardiana, Art History. “Anal- Visiting Professor, University of Penn- lege, Literature. “E per mostrar ch’ancor isi delle convenzioni del disegno di sylvania, History. “Studies of Florentine ne’ povarelli regna virtù: The Literary Pro- macchine tra Medioevo e Rinascimento.” Cultural Identity in the Era of Cosimo I.” duction of the Congregazione dei Rozzi Marc Schachter, Francesco De Dom- Deborah Parker (1st sem), Lila Wallace - in Siena, 1531-1552.” browski Fellow, Duke University, Litera- Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Univer- Donal Cooper, Hanna Kiel Fellow, ture. “Metamorphoses of the Golden Ass: sity of Virginia, Literature. “Michelangelo University of Warwick, Art History. Apuleius in Word and Image.” and the Art of Letter Writing.” “Images of St. Francis in Tuscany and Carlo Taviani, Melville J. Kahn Fellow, Christine Shaw (1st sem), Lila Wal- Umbria, c.1340-c.1420.” Università di Teramo, History. “Biografi e lace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor, Michael Cuthbert, Ahmanson Fellow, dell’esilio tra Urbino, Roma e Genova: Swansea University, History. “Editing Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ottaviano e Federico Fregoso.” and Completion of Michael Mallett’s Musicology. “Credo Scabioso: Italian Book, The Italian Wars.” Sacred Music during the Age of Plague Readers in Renaissance Studies Joanna Woods-Marsden (1st sem), and Schism.” Jamey Graham (2nd sem), Harvard Lila Wallace - Reader’s Digest Visiting Mary-Michelle DeCoste (2nd sem), Craig University, Literature. Professor, University of California, Los Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow, University of Justin Grosslight (1st sem), Harvard Angeles, Art History. “Visual Rheto- University, History. Guelph, Literature. “Genre, Science, and Lit- Jesse Howell (2nd sem), Harvard Uni- ric of Male Power and Female Beauty: erature in Sixteenth-Century Italy.” versity, History. Gendered Identity in Titian’s Court Anthony D’Elia, Lila Wallace - Reader’s Michael Tworek (1st sem), Harvard Portraits.” Digest Fellow, Queen’s University, History. University, History. “Pagan Culture and the Humanist Portrait Emily Zazulia (2nd sem), University All Research Associates are the same as of Sigismondo Malatesta.” of Pennsylvania, Music. for 2008-2009.

Autumn 2009 (Continued from front page) Senior Research Fellow Eve of his work in Pisa, in Florence, and in old man, in his reading not a self-portrait Borsook (VIT’82-’10) took the the lower church at Assisi. Christoph but rather a portrait of the artist’s uncle community to visit her exhibition, Frommel, Director Emeritus of the and surrogate father, Francesco da Vinci. Fantasia in Convento, which opened in Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, spoke He and Robert Gaston (VIT’82,’08) of November in the Cenacolo di Fuligno. on the fi rst version of Michelangelo’s Melbourne organized one of the largest Many of these exquisite objects were Minerva Christ and its completion and most successful conferences held at made by nuns with a paste that was by Bernini. Dominique Thiébaut I Tatti on the church of San Lorenzo certifi ed as “D.P.S.M.” (“Di Più Santi (VIT’08), Curator of Italian Paintings studied over the longue durée. Martiri,” that is, made from the ground- at the Louvre, returned to I Tatti to A giant crane looms over the up bones of many holy martyrs). speak on the great Mantegna exhibition darkening skyline, as it has all year, Margaret Haines (VIT’76,’87-’10) of 2008 along with her co-curator, serving the construction sites of both led a memorable visit to the Sacrestia Giovanni Agosti, while Luciano Bellosi the Craig and Barbara Smyth Library delle Messe of Florence Cathedral, of the University of Siena joined them and the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato. convincing the sacristan to show us the to explore relations between Mantegna The former will be inaugurated rarely seen medieval reliquary of the and the young Giovanni Bellini. James on 16 October 2009, following a head of San Zanobi. Fellow Bianca De Bradburne, who has brought great conference on the intellectual world of Divitiis guided us through the churches vitality to the cultural life of Florence the Berensons, while the latter will be of her beloved Naples on a wonderful as Director of the Fondazione Palazzo inaugurated in 2010. Both will stand as spring trip. Allen Grieco (VIT’89-’10) Strozzi, wove a fascinating web around testaments to the generosity of Friends supervised the construction of new the inventions of the engineer and and Fellows, even in dramatically diffi cult greenhouses from afar while serving as religious radical Cornelis Drebbel. times, not to mention the formidable the De Bosis Professor of Italian Studies A glance at the I Tatti web site, fund-raising talents of Alexa Mason and at Harvard in the spring semester, under the heading “Calendar,” gives everyone who worked with her. teaching the university’s fi rst course in an idea of the contribution to the As the fi reworks begin to light up the history of food. academic life of the Villa made by Louis the dark, I fi nd my thoughts wandering The fourth series of Berenson Waldman (VIT’06), going into his third ahead to our eighth year in Arcadia, Lectures was given in April by year as Assistant Director for Programs. when so many initiatives in building, Julian Gardner (VIT’06) of Warwick In addition he gave the annual Lettura fellowships and publications will, I hope, University. Focused on Giotto’s patrons Vinciana in Vinci, receiving considerable come to fruition. and their social and fi nancial standing, media coverage for his reassignment of Joseph Connors, Director they also off ered stunning visual analysis Leonardo’s famous Turin drawing of an

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