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rialto ews - News on the Rialto
/ 3*"-50 &84 0/5) & No. 28 2009 Editorial Advisory Committee Patricia Fortini Brown Dept. of Art & Archeology Princeton University Robert C. Davis Department of History The Ohio State University Paul Grendler Emeritus Professor of History University of Toronto Edward Muir Department of History Northwestern University Editor Eric Dursteler Department of History Brigham Young University Published with the support of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Evans Foundation, and the Department of History at Brigham Young University. For information, contact: News on the Rialto Provo, UT 84602 USA Tel. (801) 361-2904 Fax (801) 422-0275 [email protected] or www.newsontherialto.com LIBRARIES AND ARC HIVES ARCHIVIO DI STATO, FRARI S. Polo 3002, tel. 041-5222281; fax 041-5229220 www.archiviodistatovenezia.it/ Monday – Thursday 8:20-18:00 Friday – Saturday 8:20-14:00 ATENEO VENETO CENTRO TEDESCO DI STUDI VENEZIANI Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza S.Polo 2765/a, tel. 041-5206355 www.dszv.it/index.html Monday – Wednesday 8:30-12:30; & Friday 14:30-17:30 Thursday 8:30-12:30 Campo S. Fantin, tel. 041-5224459 Monday – Friday 9:00-12:00; COMUNE DI VENEZIA 16:00-19:00 Castello 2737, tel. 5289261 Saturday 9:00-12:00 (call for information) BIBLIOTECA MARCIANA S. Marco 7, tel. 041-5208788; fax 041-5238803 Monday – Friday 8:10-19:00 Saturday 8:10-13:30 BIBLIOTECA QUERINI STAMPALIA Castello 4778, tel. 041-5225235 Tuesday – Friday 16:00-24:00 Saturday 14:30-24:00 Sundays & Holidays 15:00-19:00 BIBLIOTECA “RENATO MAESTRO” Ghetto Vecchio 1189, tel. 041-715012 Monday, Wednesday. Friday 9:00-13:00 Tuesday, Thursday 13:00-18:00 BIBLIOTECA SAN FRANCESCO DELLA VIGNA CONSORZIO PER LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO E SOCIALE DELLA PROVINCIA DI VENEZIA Corte Pisano, S. Marco 2818, tel. 041-700217 Monday – Friday 9:00-14:00 CURIA PATRIARCALE Castello 4312, tel. 041-5222034 Monday – Friday 9:00-13:00 DEPUTAZIONE DI STORIA PATRIA Biblioteca, S. Croce 1583, tel. 041-5241009 Monday & Wednesday 15:00-18:00 Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-12:30 FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI: S. Giorgio Maggiore, tel. 5289900; fax 5238540 Monday – Friday 9:00-16:30 Castello 2786, tel. & fax 042-523-5341; ISTITUTO ELLENICO e-mail: [email protected] Monday – Friday 9-12:30; S. Giorgio dei Greci tel. 041-5226581 9:00-15:00 13:30-17:30 Monday – Friday Saturday 9:00-13:00 CENTRO DELLE ARTI CONTEMPORANEE tel. 5242062 Monday – Friday ISTITUTO GRAMSCI, EMEROTECA 9:00-13:00 ISTITUTO DI STUDI STORICI S. Sebastiano Monday -- Friday Saturday 8:30-19:00 8:30-13:00 ISTITUTO VENETO DI SCIENZE, LETTERE ED ARTE S. Marco 2945, tel. 041-5210177 www.istitutoveneto.it Monday – Friday 9:00-12:30 15:00-18:00 ISTITUZIONI DI RICOVERO E DI EDUCAZIONE Castello 6691, tel. 041-2601974 Tuesday & Thursday 9:00-13:00 MUSEO CORRER, BIBLIOTECA S. Marco 52, tel. 041-5225625; fax 041-5200935 Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:30-13:30 Tuesday, Thursday 8:30-17:00 SOPRAINTENDENZA PER I BENI ARCHIVISTICI DEL VENETO s. Polo 3002, tel. 041-5222491 UNIVERSITÀ POPOLARE Piazza S. Marco 52, tel. 041-5287544 Segretaria: Monday & Thursday 11:00-12:00 Tuesday & Friday 17:00-18:40 Library: Tuesday & Friday 17:00-18:40 UNIVERSITA’ DI VENEZIA, BIBLIOTECA: Ca’ Bernardo, tel. 041-5232463 Monday – Friday 9:00-20:00 Saturday 9:00-14:00 Cannaregio 1575, tel. 041-717940 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 14:00-20:00 Wednesday, Friday 8:00-14:00 N E WS ON THE RIALTO AnNOUNCEMENTS GRANTS FOR RESEARCH ON VENETIAN CULTURE AND HISTORY: The Trustees of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation announce its annual call for applications for predoctoral and postdoctoral grants for historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire and for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. Disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences are eligibile areas of study, including (but not limited to) archaeology, architecture, art, bibliography, economics, history, history of science, law, literature, music, political science, religion, and theater. The deadline for applications is December 15. Guidelines and application forms are available from the Foundation’s website: www.delmas.org. Delmas Commonwealth GRANTS FOR VENETIAN RESEARCH: The Trustees of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of New York announce that up to £20,000 will be made available in 200/2010 to scholars from Great Britain and the Commonwealth for Research in Venice. The principal areas of research envisaged concern both the past (art, architecture, history, law, language, literature, music) and the present (conservation, culture, environment, politics) of Venice and the territories formerly subject to it. Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary to the Delmas Foundation’s Advisory Committee, Professor Julian Gardner, 44, Foundry House, Eagle Works, Walton Well Road, Oxford OX2 6AQ UK (telephone 01865 511 499 email [email protected]). Applications should reach Professor Julian Gardner by 15th May 2009. ARCHIVIO DI STATO ONLINE: L’Archivio di stato di Venezia annuncia che sono on line sia il Sistema informativo dell’archivio, che descrive tutti i fondi archivistici e gli strumenti di corredo (finding aids) collegati, nonché, per circa la metà di essi, la rispettiva articolazione in serie, sottoserie e - da poco iniziata, e per ora circoscritta a pochi fondi - anche le unità. I soggetti produttori (le istituzioni o le persone o famiglie che hanno prodotto gli archivi) sono presenti, ma ancora in corso di approfondimento. E’ on line anche il Progetto Divenire, che mette a disposizione numerose serie riprodotte come immagine digitale (Registri del Maggior Consiglio Senato e Consiglio di Dieci (fino all’anno 1500), nonché numerosi disegni, mappe e pergamene con regesti. SENATO. DELIBERAZIONI MISTE: The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti is publishing the registers of the Venetian Senate for the period up to the war of Chioggia (1381), in a total of twenty volumes. This will make available documentary material of extraordinary importance for historic research. The Consiglio dei Rogati o dei Pregadi (Consilium Rogatorum), later the Senate, was possibly set up in 1229-1230 as an organ of support to the Great Council. Its function soon moved from that of preliminary inquiry and advice on matters of trade and navigation to decision-making, eventually in every aspect of economic financial and administrative matters and of internal and external policy. Over the years the Consiglio dei Rogati became the most important of the Venetian councils, at the heart of the institutional order. The deliberations (or parti), valid as law, were recorded from the end of the thirteenth century, and have been conserved from register XV onward. The series is published under the patronage of the Senato della Repubblica Italiana and directed by: Maria Francesca Tiepolo, Dieter Girgensohn and Gherardo Ortalli. More information: www.istitutoveneto.it/senato/ or [email protected]. VOLUME 26 2007 ANNOUNCEMENTS MEDITERRANEAN HISTORICAL REVIEW – CALL FOR PAPERS: Mediterranean Historical Review is a bi-annual, refereed journal, published by Routledge. The journal is interested in receiving papers treating the history of the Mediterranean basin, emphasizing contacts, relations and influences within a Mediterranean context, as well as questions of a comparative and comparable nature. For information regarding the submission of manuscripts, please visit our website: www.tau.ac.il/humanities/cmc/mhr/mhr.html. Or contact us at: [email protected]. ITALIAN LANGUAGE COURSES: The Dante Alighieri Institute of Venice announces a series of Italian language courses to be offered throughout 2009. For additional information contact: [email protected], or www.venicedantealighieri.it. CESARE BARBIERI GRANT: The Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture (Trinity College, Connecticut) will award a research grant in modern Italian history. The amount of the grant has been increased to $7,500 and the application procedure is streamlined. You will find all information at the the link below: http://www.cbendowment.org/grant It would be difficult to overrate the value of the lessons which might be derived from a faithful study of the history of this strange and mighty city: a history which, in spite of the labour of countless chroniclers, remains in vague and disputable outline, - barred with brightness and shade, like the far away edge of her own ocean, where the surf and the sandbank are mingled with the sky. John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice N E WS ON THE RIALTO Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has announced an exhibition on the “Big Three” of Venetian sixteenth-century painting for the spring and summer of 2009. This exhibition will be on view in Boston from March 15 to July 19, 2009 and at the Musée du Louvre, Paris from September 14, 2009 to January 5, 2010. Although forty years separate the birth of Titian from that of Paolo Veronese, the careers of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese overlapped for almost four decades of painting in Venice. This exhibition will explore the innovations and achievements of Venetian Renaissance painting by examining the rivalries and mutual influences among these three artists. Through the carefully chosen examples in this exhibition, each painter will emerge as a distinct and compelling personality, who forged his own art by responding to his rivals, recognizing the demands of the market, and offering his own original ideas. Clusters of pictures by these three artists – with specific juxtapositions of subject matter, format, and style – will make clear just how lively and fertile the artistic scene in Venice was. Although famous for their towering altarpieces and expansive church decorations, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese also pioneered the canvas easel picture as an object for collectors; the success of this new and portable format made these artists famous across Europe during their lifetimes. The exhibition will feature important examples of religious, mythological, and allegorical easel pictures intended for col- AnNOUNCEMENTS lectors, as well as large-format works originally destined for churches and palaces. A group of impressive portraits will illustrate new varieties in portraiture and how the Venetian brushstroke could make the sitter palpably present. Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese together created a body of work that defined a “Venetian style” through loose technique, rich coloring, and often sensual subject matter. The exhibition anticipates remarkable loans from the most important European and American museums including the Gallerie dell’Accademia, the Louvre, the Prado, the Uffizi, the Museo di Capodimonte, Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Several paintings will come from the specific sites for which they were commissioned – churches in Venice – and others have never been seen in the United States. Religious narrative paintings, the female nude, portraiture, and late styles will be explored through carefully selected pairings and juxtapositions of works by Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Many pictures have received recent conservation treatment and scientific analysis. Particular care has been taken to avoid duplicating the checklists of recent shows of Venetian painting. With some sixty paintings total, this exhibition will also offer the best display of works by Tintoretto ever assembled in North America, as well as the biggest groups of pictures by Titian and Veronese in this hemisphere in about two decades. The exhibition has been curated by Frederick Ilchman ([email protected]) of the MFA and Jean Habert and Vincent Delieuvin of the Louvre. VENICE LAGOON FOUNDATION: The Forum for the Lagoon, of Venice, and the University of Minnesota have together set up the Venice Lagoon Foundation, a charitable organization intended to promote studies on the condition and preservation of the Venetian Lagoon’s ecosystem. Its first projects will deal with the reclamation of the island of S. Giorgio in Alga, the Forum’s future home, and the opening of an “eco-museum” within the Arsenal of Venice. Website: http://www1.umn.edu/vlf/home.htm UK Venetian Seminar: The annual Venetian Seminar was held 16 May 2009 at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds. For information regarding the 2010 conference, please contact Mary Laven ([email protected]) or Filippo de Vivo ([email protected]). VOLUME 26 2007 ANNOUNCEMENTS AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MARCIANA: As no one knows better than the readers of News on the Rialto, the Marciana Library is one of the world’s great cultural resources, which has been granting public access to its unparalleled collections for half a millennium. For the past nine years grants to the Marciana from The American Friends have been contributing to new projects at the library, and if you have worked there during that time you have been a beneficiary of those grants. For the past few years all the funds from The American Friends have been dedicated to entering the Marciana’s sometimes indecipherable handwritten catalogues of printed books into the on-line data base. These grants made it possible to continue the Golem project, the results of which have been integrated into OPAC (On line Public Access Catalogue), which you can now access from your office. As recent visitors to the Marciana can testify, once they have negotiated their way through the construction dust, they have found vastly improved access to the library’s collections. The Marciana has now become the leader among the Italian state libraries in providing on-line services for its patrons. That leadership role is manifest in the Marciana’s sponsorship of a conference on December 17 of last year at the Palazzo Ducale on “L’evoluzione dell’accessibilità informatica.” The Marciana is setting the example. As one of his final acts as the Marciana’s Director before retiring, Marino Zorzi began a campaign to digitize the catalogue of manuscripts, a project that would parallel what Golem has achieved for printed materials. This is an exciting prospect for researchers in the Marciana, and The American Friends have undertaken the responsibility for helping to finance the costs of the campaign. SCHOLARS NEEDED: Context Travel is currently recruiting scholars, professors, and other specialists to join our network. We organize lectures and walking seminars for corporate clients, institutions, and intellectually curious travelers. We’re looking for serious scholars with a deep understanding of the city and its cultural heritage. You must also be a gifted teacher who can make your material come alive for adult learners. Currently we have the most need for scholars in Venice and the Veneto (Padova, Vicenza, Verona) during Spring/Summer 2009 and Fall 2010 but CVs for all cities are welcome. If you are interested in learning more, check out our website: www.contexttravel.com. Interested candidates should send their CV to Jessica Stewart at jessica@contexttravel. com. ENGLISH WRITERS IN ITALY: English Writers in Italy is an informal association of English and American writers based in various regions of Italy. Our website is www.englishwritersinitaly.com. Our membership includes novelists, poets, journalists, translators and academics. We meet two or three times a year. The next meeting is in Umbria in May. We are currently putting together a proposal for an anthology provisionally entitled Exiles in Paradiso, about living, working and studying in Italy. If you would like to join the association, or you have a piece (300-2,500 words) you’d like to put forward for inclusion in the anthology, please contact Gay Marks [email protected] The American Friends consist of people like you, scholars who work in Venice. Many are not even Americans, but all love the Marciana and have been willing to contribute. We would like to invite all the patrons of the Marciana, but especially the forestieri who have benefited from this magnificent Italian state institution, to join the Friends. Of course, your gifts are tax-deducible. Please send your contribution to: The American Friends of the Marciana Library, Inc. 25 East End Avenue, Suite 15G New York, New York 10028-7052 Many thanks, Edward Muir President N E WS ON THE RIALTO book notices Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Johns Hopkins University Press announces the publication of Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo, edited by Patricia H. Labalme and Laura Sanguinetti White, translated by Linda L. Carroll. When Venice was both a center of Renaissance culture and a gathering place for news from around the world, Marin Sanudo tried to write everything down. He was the finest diarist of his time, with a keen eye for the everyday and the monumental alike. This expertly translated volume offers a broad and engaging introduction to Sanudo’s detailed observations of life in his beloved city and world it knew. Here, the work of the Renaissance’s most assiduous historian is finally given the accessibility it warrants and the merit it is due. Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Johns Hopkins University Press announces the publication of Joanne M. Ferraro’s new book, Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789. With the keen eye of a detective, Ferraro follows the clues in individual cases from the criminal archives of Venice and reconstructs each one as the courts would have done according to the legal theory of the day. Lawmakers relied heavily on the depositions of family members, neighbors, and others in the community to establish the veracity of the victims’ claims. Ferraro recounts this often colorful testimony, giving voice to the field workers, spinners, grocers, servants, concubines, midwives, physicians, and apothecaries. The book also traces shifting attitudes toward illegitimacy and paternity from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Both the Catholic Church and the Republic of Venice tried to enforce moral discipline and regulate sex and reproduction. Unmarried pregnant women were increasingly stigmatized for engaging in sex. Their claims for damages because of seduction or rape were largely unproven, and the priests and laymen they were involved with were often acquitted of any wrongdoing. The lack of institutional support for single motherhood and the exculpation of fathers frequently led to abortion, infant abandonment, or infant death. In uncovering these hidden sex crimes, Ferraro exposes the further abuse of women by both the men who perpetrated these illegal acts and the courts that prosecuted them. The Undrowned Child: Orion Children’s Books announces the publication on July VOLUME 26 2007 2nd 2009 of Michelle Lovric’s historical novel for older child-readers (and adults). It is set in Venice in 1899 and at the time of the Bajamonte Tiepolo conspiracy in 1310. It’s the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of eleven-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go ‘between-thelinings’ to subvert evil and restore order. The Clothing of the Renaissance World: The Clothing of the Renaissance World (Europe, Asia, Africa, America): Cesare Vecellio’s Habiti antichi et moderni, edited and translated by Margaret F. Rosenthal and Ann Rosalind Jones has just been published by Thames and Hudson, London. It includes an introduction, facsimiles of the 420 woodcuts from the 1590 edition and 20 New World prints from 1598, an English translation of Vecellio’s commentary, and an illustrated glossary of textile and clothing terms. La diversa visuale: Le Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura segnalano l’uscita del volume La diversa visuale: Il fenomeno Venezia osservato dagli altri, a cura di Uwe Israel. Ulteriori informazioni si possono avere consultando il sito internet: www.storiaeletteratura.it/ Angelo Beolco, La prima orazione: This volume contains a full transcription and translation with extensive introduction and notes by Linda Carroll of the three extant manuscripts of Angelo Beolco’s Prima oratione, delivered to Cardinal Marco Cornaro in 1521 subsequent to his entrance as bishop of Padua. The peasant orator praises the new bishop and expounds boisterously on the agricultural riches of the Paduan countryside and requests that Cornaro enact laws to improve the lives of his fellow peasants, including allowing both men and women to take four spouses. Masked by the humour, however, are serious considerations on contemporary issues. HOUSING IN VENICE LISTING OF APARTMENTS: A list of housing in Venice recommended by scholars is available from Linda Carroll in e-mail format. [email protected] APARTMENT IN VENICE: Venice Summer Sublet, June 23 through July 20, 2009. Architect’s gorgeous three-bedroom apartment. Great views, 100 meters from the Archivio di Stato. 2100 euro (includes all expenses). Contact: arosenthal92@ hotmail.com APARTMENT IN VENICE: Newly renovated, fully-furnished and modern 2 bedroom/1 bathroom apartment. Located behind the Rialto fish market on Calle Regina, near Campo Maria Mater Domini. Kitchen is furnished with dishwasher, fridge/ freezer, oven, microwave and all modern appliances. Dining table for 6 persons, perfect workspace as well. Washer/dryer combo in bathroom, as well as air-conditioning in the summer. The apartment is equipped with 24-hr ADSL wireless internet and cellular phone to use during your stay. Large bedroom sleeps 2 persons, small bedroom sleeps 1. A very comfortable and cozy apartment in a quiet location. Closest vaporetto stop is San Stae. Map and introduction to the neighborhood (closest shops, atm, etc) will also be provided. If you would like to see photos, please send email request. Minimum stay of one week preferred. For further information contact Daniel DeVicente at [email protected] APARTMENT IN VENICE: Those of you seeking housing in Venice to share will find the home of Elsa Dalla Venezia warm and welcoming to scholars. Elsa offers a bedroom, shared bath, use of kitchen and garden, washing machine, TV, and phone. For further information contact Joanne Ferraro at [email protected] or phone Elsa directly at 041 5267002. APARTMENT IN VENICE: 2nd and 3rd floor apartment in a beautifully restored historic building. High ceilings, fully equipped. Sleeps 2 (+ 2 guests in the livingroom). Second floor: Kitchen with all you need for cooking; livingroom with sofa, easy chair, table, stereo system, phone and wireless connection to Internet, bathroom with shower. Third floor: a huge air conditioned bedroom with a double bed, desk, sofa, TV and DVD player; bathroom with tub and washing machine; plus a small terrace with a great view. The location is at S. Stae: convenient to the archives, in a central though very Venetian neighborhood. Minimum rental period of two months preferred. Monthly rent 1300 Euros + utilities. For more info and pictures contact [email protected] APARTMENT IN VENICE: Fully furnished two-bedroom apartment just off the Strada Nuova near the church of La Maddalena, a ten minute walk to Rialto and a short vaporetto ride to the archives. The first (ground) floor has a bedroom with a queen-size bed, a smaller bedroom with a single bed, and a spacious bathroom with a bathtub and shower. The second floor has a fully-equipped, eat-in kitchen and a sunny living room overlooking a small court. The apartment is 700 sq ft total and includes a refrigerator/freezer, TV, telephone, and washing machine. Available for rent year-round, except during the Christmas Holidays and two weeks in the Spring or the Summer. Minimum rental period of two weeks preferred. Contact: Alessandro.Doria@joslin. harvard.edu APARTMENTS IN VENICE: Two apartments for rent. 1. Smaller mezzanine apt., ideal for one person or couple plus guest, air-conditioning, washing machine, dishwasher. Fully equipped. 2. Large apt., very spacious, beautiful balcony on canal, two bedrooms, dining room, sitting room, kitchen, one bathroom, plus one bathroom with WC and basin, washing machine, entrance hall. Wireless connection in the whole building. Both very central, near Santa Maria Formosa. Contact: [email protected] APARTMENT IN VENICE: Beautiful, one bedroom apartment with all amenities available April 2009, and October 2009 to May 2010; rental for one person or a couple. Large bedroom/study with a double bed and phone line for Internet access; equipped kitchen with washing machine; salon with TV/VCR, stereo system; comfortable bathroom. Area of Greek Community, convenient location: 7 minutes from San Marco, 3 minutes from S. Zaccaria waterbus stop, 10 minutes from the boat-shuttle to the airport. Contact: Matteo Casini or Deborah Walberg [email protected], [email protected]; Castello 3338, 30123 Venezia, Italy, 1 (401) 245 3683 N E WS ON THE RIALTO All Venice is a piece of superb, barbaric patchwork in which the East and the West have an equal share. The lion of St Mark’s, his head and shoulders in one piece, his hindquarters in another, is a symbol of the construction of Venice, just as the bronze horses, which have seen the downfall of Nero, the splendours of Constantinople, and, at Paris, the First Empire, are a symbol of its history. Venice is as near to the East as it is to Italy; you are reminded of the East at every step; yet, after all, its interest is precisely that it is not Eastern, that it is really of the West, and that it has given a new touch of the fantastic to the fantasy which we call Oriental, an arrangement of HOUSING IN VENICE APARTMENT IN VENICE: Spacious flat in Venice available from mid June to the end of August. Located in Sant’Elena, the very green tip of the island, 15 minutes from the sea, 15 minutes from Venice’s wonderful libraries. I prefer to rent to an academic willing to relocate here for the summer, and will charge below market rent. Contact Enrico Palandri: [email protected] APARTMENT IN VENICE: Spacious, first floor, fully furnished apartment, next to the Fontego dei Tedeschi. Two large bedrooms, small study, large dining room with day-bed corner, living room with queen-size sleeper, two bathrooms, fully equipped kitchen, washer/ dryer, telephone. Suitable for 4-5 people. Scholars teaching in Venice or on Sabbatical leave preferred. Flexible dates and rent fees. Contact Marina Karem at (502) 499-0213 or (in Summer) 011-39-041-5236991. [email protected] APARTMENT IN VENICE: Small one-bedroom, 2nd-floor apartment available in the very Venetian neighborhood of Via Garibaldi, a ten-minute walk to Piazza San Marco and a twentyminute vaporetto ride to the State Archives on the express (82) vaporetto. It has windows which overlook a small internal garden and a small balcony off the kitchen which overlooks a small court. It has a trundle bed which can be set up as a double. In addition, it offers a number of amenities not always available in Venetian rentals, including phone, washing machine, dishwasher, portable air conditioner, tv and even a dual Italian- & American-system VCR. We prefer to rent it for the duration of the American academic semester or year (from Sept. to mid-December and then mid-January to mid-May), but will consider other rental periods, including academic breaks, if no long-term academic year renters are available. For information, interested parties can contact Michelle Laughran off list at: [email protected] lines and colours which, in its own country, has a certain air of being at home, but which, out of its country, frankly admits itself barbaric, a bastard. Arthur Symons, Cities of Italy VOLUME 26 2007 HOUSING IN VENICE APARTMENT IN VENICE: Located on the 4th floor of Palazzo Barbarigo alla Maddalena, the palazzo was rebuilt at the beginning of 1500, on the Canal Grande, just in front of the church of S. Stae. It is well known for the external frescoes of the same period, which are the only ones preserved in Venice, and at one time it was the home of Maria Malibran. The apartment has been completely renovated and furnished with antique and modern furniture. From its 7 windows in the front a very large view is open on the Canal Grande, up to S. Marco, Frari, S. Geremia. The apartment is about 75 square meters large, and is composed of an entrance, a large double bedded room, a smaller room with bunk bed, a dining room and a perfectly equipped kitchenette, and a bathroom. A fully equipped laundry is available on the same floor. Children, pets and smokers welcome. No lift. The monthly rent is 1300 Euros. Minimum stay: 3 weeks. Contact: Marina. [email protected] APARTMENT IN VENICE: Second floor apartment near Campo San Polo in newer and quiet building. Ca. 110 sq meters, 2 bathrooms (one with full tub/shower, the other with smaller tub), master bedroom, studio with a very comfortable pull-out double sofa-bed, dining room, living room, and eat-in kitchen. Master bedroom and living room have balconies on the Rio di San Polo with a view of the Grand Canal. House is on a nice campiello with plenty of light and air. Apartment has independent heating system and tankless water heater, washer (no drier), ADSL, TV with VCR and DVD, stereo system. Convenient to the Archivio di Stato. Available Jan. 15, 2009 and later for periods of up to one semester. Photographs of the apartment available upon request. Contact Giulio Ongaro at: ongaro@ usc.edu. 10 APARTMENT IN VENICE: A lovely apartment with a sea view, on the Lido of Venice. Spacious with high ceilings and full of light. On the fourth floor (with a lift), in a very pleasant block of apartments with a nice garden at the entrance. A stone’s throw from the famous Hotel Excelsior and Lido shell-covered, exquisite sandy beaches, perfect for swimming from May on. Safe beaches for small children. Large terrace with awning where you can eat, study, rest and sunbathe. The apartment has beautiful marble floors, chandeliers and two bathrooms (both with tubs and showers). Very comfortable, quiet and relaxing. Ideal for family on sabbatical leave as well as for one or two people. Very nice cafè and bakery one minute away, vegetable and fruit markets, great pizzerias, regular bus service to boat stops, and then 15 minutes to Venice. Available from 1 January 2009 to 31 May 2009 and 15 September onwards open for renting for 1 year or more. Price: 1.300 Euro per month plus utilities. Patricia Weston, Via S.Rosa 4, 30126, LidoVenice, Italy. Tel. 0039-041-5262738 or cell: 0039-3495788527. E-mail: [email protected]. APARTMENT IN VENICE: Spacious bright apartment (110m2, Campo Santo Stefano) beloved by academics: on 2 floors, 2 double bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, modern living room, large kitchen and 3rd bathroom. Adsl, Cd player, lots of art books and guides, very well equipped kitchen, washing machine and desks, lamps and work space, two long tables. Sleeps 6, ideal for couple and guests or 2 academic sharing. References from previous tenants, and lots of suggestions from Venetians. Available from September 09 for short and long lets. View pictures on www.casadolcevista. com and email lolasavini@hotmail. com for more info. APARTMENT IN VENICE: Two minute walk from the Rialto vaporetto stop-- First floor apartment. Two Bedrooms, dining room, living room, two bathrooms, small, Internet-connected office, small (fully equipped) kitchen. Contact Marina Karem ([email protected]) for more information and rental fees. N E WS ON THE RIALTO D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N V E N E T I A N S T U D I E S Dealer, collector, entrepreneur: Daniel Nijs and his impact on the early seventeenth-century European art world Christina M. Anderson, Oxford University Daniel Nijs (1572-1647), a Flemish merchant resident in Venice for most of his life, is the pivotal figure in the greatest art transaction of the seventeenth century: the sale, beginning in 1627, of the Gonzaga collection to Charles I of England. This one event shifted the appreciation and collecting of Italian Renaissance art north, transforming London, if only briefly, into its focal point. Despite his glittering achievement, Nijs has never been the subject of a thorough study, nor have the archives pertaining to his activities in Venice and around the Continent been properly mined, something this thesis addresses. Nijs not only supplied, but also collected art and, long before the Mantua sale, had developed a sophisticated circle of artistic acquaintances including Vincenzo Scamozzi, Odoardo Fialetti, Philipp Esengren and Giulio VOLUME 26 2007 Cesare Gigli. His collection, for example, was described in L’Idea dell’Architettura Universale (1615) by Vincenzo Scamozzi, while he is feted in Giulio Cesare Gigli’s La Pittura Trionfante (also of 1615) for which Odoardo Fialetti created the frontispiece, and in which Nijs’s engraved portrait appears. Nijs was also supremely gifted at making, and keeping, contacts of an elevated social status, among them the Earl of Arundel, the English Ambassador Sir Dudley Carleton, and the official theologian to the Serene Republic, Paolo Sarpi. Explaining how these relationships worked, as well as how Nijs used his collection in developing them (many people visited Nijs’s gallery, Constantijn Huygens and the artist Antony Van Dyck being among the admirers), is one of the areas of importance of this research. Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go. Truman Capote 11 D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N V E N E T I A N S T U D I E S Administrative communication and control: Venice and its trading empire, 1381-1479 Jan Wesseldijk, Leiden University STREETS FULL OF WATER. PLEASE ADVISE. Robert Benchley 12 The republic of Venice built and maintained an extensive trading empire during the later Middle Ages in the Eastern Mediterranean with trading posts and colonies along, and at the terminus of, the important trade routes. At one time or another places like Dürres and Skutari, Kerkyra and Lefkada, Methoni and Koroni, Kythera and Crete, Monemvasia and Nafplio, Naxos and Euboia, Alexandria and Acre were part of this empire. In most places the Venetians ruled their possessions directly. Depending on the size of each settlement, more or fewer Venetian nobili were sent abroad as administrators for limited periods (mostly two years), who performed their governmental tasks according to instructions of the Venetian Senate. Most trading posts were just that: a limited number of buildings and a limited amount of land, used exclusively for purposes of trade and navigation. Only in a few instances an active policy of colonization was pursued. Crete is the clearest example of this: after the conquest in 1211, land confiscated from local monasteries and indigenous noble families was given out to Venetians in feuda to provide them a living. In exchange the feudatories were obligated to make available to the government material means and manpower toward the defense of the island. There was a lively administrative correspondence between Venice and the trading posts, which is reflected in the Venetian archives. The expatriate administrators received detailed instructions about taxes to be collected, galleys to be armed, and repair works to be carried out; they were informed of privileges or tax exemptions granted to visiting merchants or transhipped goods, and they were required to report on the state of their administration and on the crops they expected. In two ways, there were controls on how the colonies were governed. From time to time, provisores were elected by the Senate to be sent to the various outposts to inspect the quality of the administrative work and of the personnel responsible for it. Not seldom they were also charged with the investigation of specific matters, such as suspicions or charges of personal enrichment or neglect of duty by Venetian officers. These provisores had the authority to give binding instructions for improved procedures, and to administer justice on the spot or, if a case turned out to be too serious and sensitive, to prepare a legal case to be brought to court in Venice at a later time. On the other hand, quasi as a mirror image of these investigations, delegations of the inhabitants of the trading posts, representing the Venetians, the indigenous population or both, travelled to Venice to request a hearing by the Senate of their grievances or demands. The hearing was usually granted them; redress of their grievances not in all cases. With the summaries of the relevant documents about the decision making of the Venetian state organs provided by Hippolyte Noiret and Freddy Thiriet1 as a guide, it is found that at least 15 inspection missions were sent out between 1381 and 1479. Also, some two dozen delegations from colonies were heard by the Senate during these years. The terms of reference of the missions and the grievances/requests of the delegations can be retrieved from the archives, as well as the corrective measures the inspections eventually led to and the answers given by the Senate to the delegations from abroad. All relevant documents - some sixty registers of Deliberazioni of the Senate, the Maggior Consiglio and the Consiglio dei Dieci - have not only survived, but can also since recently be consulted via the internet. It is entirely possible that the number of missions and delegations will in the end turn out to be greater, given the fact that questions have been raised over the years about the accuracy and comprehensiveness of in particular Noiret’s work in the Archivio di Stato of Venice. The period covered by Noiret is historically interesting for two reasons. First, its beginning and its ending are marked by the conclusion of two long wars that Venice fought for the hegemony at sea and indeed for its very existence. In 1381 with the treaty of Turin some hundred years of struggle with Genoa was terminated, and in 1479 a protracted war with the Ottoman empire came to an end, even if this war was by N E WS ON THE RIALTO D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N V E N E T I A N S T U D I E S no means the last one these adversaries would engage each other in. Second, during this century Venice gradually changed from being an exclusively maritime power to becoming primarily a ‘normal’ land power, and by consequence it went through a process of reorientation of its commercial, cultural and political outlook and priorities. The study I am about to embark on is intended to achieve two goals: to publish and translate the relevant Senate documents (and those of other governmental agencies, if that would prove necessary) and to derive from this source material a better understanding of the working of the state machinery of the Serenis- sima. Both the way the outposts were governed locally and monitored from the center, and the role of the college of savi agli ordini (the sapientes ad ordinum in the texts) as a preparatory and executive committee of the Senate will be described and analyzed. Important questions to be addressed will be not only how the trading empire was governed, but also why it was done that way and whether the historical context had an influence on this. Has, for instance, the increased and continued attention to the quality of local government in Crete contributed to the relative absence of uprisings on the island after 1363, compared to the 150 preceding years? If so, was this effect intended? The Image of Alexandria in Renaissance Venice Monica Shenouda, University of Virginia From 1496 until 1534, the most important painters of Venice produced two cycles depicting the life of Saint Mark against the backdrop of Alexandria. Among the many Eastern mercantile contacts of Venice, Alexandria held a prime place because of its importance as a trading node and the connection to Mark, the patron saint. Never having been to Egypt, the painters created a vision of first-century Alexandria that was quite removed from the real contemporary city in Egypt, which many Venetians knew from first hand experience. Rather, the painters made a Venetianized Alexandria, balancing exotic elements with recognizable spaces to affirm the links between the two cities. The master example of this phenomenon is Gentile Bellini’s St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria, the first painting for the Scuola Grande di San Marco cycle. Begun in 1504, Bellini’s fictional Alexandria encapsulated the centuries of contact and Venice’s role as heir to its illustrious legacy. My dissertation investigates why these images were created and what they illustrate about the Venetian sense of identity with respect to Alexandria and the East. I argue that the painting cycles invoke a long-standing tradition of depicting St. Mark and Alexandria as a response to the numerous political and economic crises at the turn of the Cinquecento. The paintings propagated the image of Venice as a maritime state whose wealth and influence VOLUME 26 2007 derived from contact with people of diverse ethnic and religious origins. To counteract the reality of diminishing power, the image production emphasized this older identity and the right for Venetians to continue exercising trade in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean. As patrons, the civic institutions participated in the larger narratives of the city and mimicked the State in its concerns and visual production, thus garnering honor for themselves. By reading the images in light of the historical context, I demonstrate how the representations of Alexandria index the Venetian attitude towards Egypt and uphold an important myth and economic system in peril. In addition to the cycle paintings, I use a variety of visual sources to support my argument including mosaics, treasury objects, intarsia panels, and contemporary Venetian and Roman paintings. I compare the visual representations to descriptions in travelers’ journals and diplomatic reports to comprehend the perception of the urban fabric and culture of Egypt. From my research in Venice, I have gathered primary and secondary source materials to discuss the political and cultural vicissitudes of these critical years. 13 D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N V E N E T I A N S T U D I E S Il collezionismo poetico: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and the Formation of Collecting Practices in Venice and Rome in the Early Sixteenth-Century Susan Nalezyty, Temple University Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) owned a substantial art collection and library. This dissertation seeks to explore Bembo as an agent of cultural exchange through an examination of the objects he sought, owned, lent and gifted. Approaching this poet and linguist as a collector provides access to his intellectual activities and considers the role visual art played in his thinking. A highly visible proponent of imitation and the vernacular, he once described antique coins as “images of ancient memory”. These artifacts embodied meaning, an unmediated dialog with those worthy of emulation. He installed his collection in a house in the university town of Padua, a center for cultural consumption singular for its scholarly ambient. This casa aperta became a meeting place, an academic court of sorts, and a valuable resource for scholars, with special exhibitions even being held for prominent visitors. Bembo’s letters, which survive in abundance, are crucial to a portrayal of his musaeum because no inventory survives. This approach has the advantage of contextualizing their acquisition and display, and thus reveals that the collection was not static, and nor was he. Bembo lent works and gifted others. He installed objects at the family villa outside Padua, and in the house in town, and he sent for artifacts when he lived away. In each case he sought to create an appropriate space for them, whether it was a bed canopy for his rooms in the Vatican, a statue of Priapus for his garden at the villa, or frescoes by Giovanni da Udine in the townhouse. These previously unknown items no longer survive, but their recovery places them and Bembo against a background as varied and as rich as his career, thus illustrating that his wide-ranging ambitions were intimately intertwined. Whereas the works of previous scholars have identified components of Bembo’s holdings, each starting and ending with Michiel’s well-known passage, none have approached the collection as evidence for an intersection of familial legacy and cultural repository, as I propose to do. Here the art object is a means by which the social and political motivations for owner14 ship are considered via the material setting for display. The Renaissance interior is a unifying framework for studying not only fine arts, but also for considering objects typically overlooked: those that no longer survive or those that are categorized as decorative arts, which often fall out of the scope of traditional art historical inquiry. The methodology and debates of studying collections have been eloquently outlined in the work of Paula Findlen and Richard Goldthwaite, who explore the complex relationship between the urge to own material remains and the desire to possess the immaterial knowledge they contain. Challenging many assumptions about decorative strategies in the Renaissance, this study combines primary research with a new approach to the complex heritage of humanism. This dissertation offers a catalog of Bembo’s objects and explores the theoretical implications of those works, which have foundations in the classical, but also look forward to the goals and motivations of the next century’s collectors. A study of the mobility of Bembo’s material goods highlights the cyclical nature of ownership. These objects were re-purposed, and thus do not illustrate a single moment in the historical record, but rather are sites for the re-working of ideas. The careful selection, acquisition and display of objects from the past connects cultural consumption to history writing, a task Bembo took up for the Republic late in life. Thus a consideration of Bembo’s collecting of material culture accesses his thinking. He is thus revealed as a mediator of the distinctive changes we connect to Renaissance culture. N E WS ON THE RIALTO D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N V E N E T I A N S T U D I E S Venetian Interior Decorations, 1680-1730: Representation of the Old and the “New” Nobilty Annika Höeppner, Philipps-Universität Marburg My thesis analyses the visual-artistic repre- sentation of the Venetian nobility, focusing on the interior decoration of noble palaces of the period 1700-1730. A social historical event had a significant effect on the nature of visual artistic interior decoration: The Turkish-Venetian war consumed almost all state funds. Therefore, Venice had been trying to raise money by selling its own title of nobility since 1646. By 1718, 125 families had taken advantage of that opportunity. As a consequence a rivalry of status between the old and the new elite developed which extended into the field of arts. However, The old establishment did not recognise the new nobility as its equal, even though they had the same title. Therefore, an equivalent lifestyle was paramount to the new elite. They attempted this through a visual demonstration of their wealth. Magnificence should disguise their common birth. The old nobility tried to uphold their traditional status by focusing on features which the new nobility – despite their equivalent title – could never achieve: dynastic age together with traditional virtues. Research has never before analyzed the influence of that social context on visual art. The main focus of my thesis is whether this event influenced interior decoration around 1700 and if so, how. It also analyses other variables that might explain the unusual splendor of Venetian private interior decoration in this period, such as the expanding diplomatic relations of the Venetian Republic. The thesis analyzes the different visual media and manifestations of interior decoration in Venetian palaces, as well as the patrons’ objectives in choosing these. My focus point is the interior decoration of the “new nobility”. Thereby, I would like to contribute to the comprehension of social mobility conflicts as an explanatory variable of art patronage. Furthermore, my thesis gives an overview of still existing Venetian interior decorations. This is not only iconographically-iconologically, but also (and principally) an analysis based on art historical methods that focus on functional and perceptional questions and those related to visual culture studies. Contemporary visitors have rarely visited a palace because of its interior decoration, but rather for other reasons like diplomatic conferences, festivals or other social events. They hardly appreciate the whole iconographic program and above all aesthetic values, the splendor and magnificence of these decorations. Though the flood or ebb of the salt water bee small, yet with that motion it carrieth away the filth of the City, besides that, by the multitude of fiers, and the situation open to all the windes, the ayre is made very wholesome, whereof the Venetians bragge that it agrees with all strangers .and preserveth them in their former health. . . . I never in any place observed more old men, or so many senators venerable for their grey haires and aged gravity. Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary, 1617 VOLUME 26 2007 15 D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N V E N E T I A N S T U D I E S “As sailors and merchants, town-builders and politicians, the Venetians were the forerunners and the youth of today’s civilization.” Le Corbusier 16 Profit and Commitment – Economic Agency Relations in Venetian Mediterranean Trade, 1350-1450 Franz-Julius Morche, University of Heidelberg This research examines the institutional basis of Venetian relations in the Eastern Mediterranean. The century between 1350 and 1450 saw a rise in Venetian naval supremacy resulting in considerable political and economic power. The Venetian monopoly on trade with the Islamic Levant, which was buttressed by a papal permission dating from 1345, reinforced the extensive economic, political, and cultural contacts between the Venetian Republic and the Eastern powers. In the course of this interaction, the Venetian Diaspora grew rapidly, concentrating primarily on the major trade hubs of the Eastern Mediterranean, such as Nicosia, Byzantium, and Mamluk Alexandria. My primary objective is to integrate a historiography of late medieval European trade to an institutionalist framework of cultural dispositions, thereby analyzing the degree of endogeneity of formal economic institutions with respect to informal institutional determinants. In order to conceptualise the institutional interrelation of perceived separate cultural areas, the philosophical notion of transculturality shall be applied. This suggests a constitutive interdependence of commercial practices and behavioral dispositions across cultural entities, leading to the formation of transcultural economic areas that generate universally valid informal means of contract enforcement. The transcultural concept lends itself well to integration with institutional frameworks of economic exchange. Cultural determinants of economic behavior have been described as exogenous sets of informal institutions that constitute the most basic elements of economic interaction. The formation of private-order institutions and their specific organizational character is therefore linked to the cultural beliefs of economic actors. The structure of economic agency relations in cross-cultural trade (as much as in mono-cultural agency networks) results from cultural dispositions that determine form and scope of informal enforcement mechanisms. In Venetian long-distance trade, we can observe a historical development towards the deployment of commission agents, who acted as trade representatives by selling and acquiring goods on behalf of other merchants, thus lowering transaction costs by reducing the necessity of costly (and risky) travel. This development was buttressed by a gradual concentration of Venetian trade in a small number of Eastern Mediterranean port cities, which ensured a constant stream of letters and thus facilitated the monitoring of agents. The elaborate Venetian financing tools of previous centuries (debt contracts, risk-sharing contracts, pooling contracts), which were designed to secure investments in hazardous environments, became increasingly insignificant. Yet despite the relative transparency of business relations through informational spill-overs from shipping traffic, the exclusive reliance on formal means of contract enforcement was an inefficient way of organizing trade. In having to choose trustworthy agents, resident merchants faced the challenge of generating strong social bonds without the explicit threat of legal sanctions in case of deviation. Agents, in return, had to gain a reputation to be worthy of this trust. In order to investigate the institutional foundations of these trust-relationships, I suggest the use of both merchant letters and judicial documents from various collections. My main sources come from the bequest of the Venetian merchant and Consul Biago Dolfin (c. 1370 - 1420), which is preserved in two buste at the Archivio di Stato di Venezia and contains both several types of commercial letters and legal documents, the vast majority of which are notarial letters. The latter do not constitute the primary subject of this investigation, yet they underline the significance of the legal system to Venetian business organization. The predominant type of commercial letter is the Recordatio, which was frequently used as a substitute for a notarial contract. The Recordatio also had legal significance and is therefore distinct from ordinary merchant letters. The letters display a high degree of structural congruence featuring personal news, trade-specific information and transaction-specific instructions. Thus, they allow for conclusions regarding the personal relationships between merchants, the basis of their mutual commitment, and the economic significance of commercial agency. The textual analysis is guided by a number of initial ques- N E WS ON THE RIALTO D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N V E N E T I A N S T U D I E S tions. First, the problem of generating trust shifts the focus to social networks. Second, the source material shall be linked to institutional trade models, emphasizing the potential role of reputation and monitoring mechanisms. Hence, particular attention will be devoted to the social status of agents, their relationships with their business associates, and the enforcement mechanisms that seem to have been in place. The theoretical framework known as historical and comparative institutional analysis provides the methodological grounding for this exercise. In the course of the textual analysis, particular attention will be given to the following properties: (1) Public-order institutions that structured the documented trade relationships. This includes institutions regulating the provision of capital, legal allowances and restrictions, as well as political institutions pertinent to transcultural trade, e.g. the office of Consul. (2) Private-order institutions that formed the basis of (commercial) interaction between non-state actors, either embedded in formal institutional settings (i.e. legal frameworks) or generated by informal social bonds (kinship, religion, ethnicity). Private-order institutions VOLUME 26 2007 occur as social networks with either finite or infinite horizons, one-time bilateral or multilateral exchanges, etc. (3) Public- and private-order institutions are guided by a variety of social mechanisms. These are given by formal regulations, such as laws, as well as by informal arrangements, such as reputation mechanisms. Identifying these mechanisms will reveal the potential “engines” and impediments of economic development. In particular, informal institutional mechanisms can be compared across cultural entities in order to assess their respective economic efficiencies. (4) Finally, the true impact of cultural dispositions on informal institutional arrangements needs to be assessed. If mechanisms of contract-enforcement are primarily informal in character and stem from religious, ethical, or kinship-based behavioral obligations, their operational efficacy is likely to differ between cultural entities. This may increase the costs of transcultural transactions, while at the same time explaining developmental gaps between different sub-regions of the Mediterranean. 17 D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N V E N E T I A N S T U D I E S Refiguring the Palladian Legacy: Architectural Reform in 18th-Century Venice Daniel McReynolds, Princeton University My dissertation examines the critical recep- tion and interpretation of the architectural and literary works of the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) by eighteenth-century architects and theorists of the Veneto. In contrast to its counterpart in Great Britain, NeoPalladianism in and around Venice may seem a misnomer, for it did not constitute a revival as such; indeed, Palladio’s works, both built and in print, continuously provided a touchstone for architectural practice in the Veneto for over two centuries. Yet, it was only in the mid-eighteenth century that the discourse surrounding Palladian architecture reached its crescendo as theorists sought to provide a fundamental reevaluation of Palladio’s oeuvre in accordance with newly established criteria of judgment associated with Enlightenment thought. The dissertation is organized in three parts. Part 1 provides a discussion of the rise of functionalism and the threat it posed to the continued relevance of Palladio’s oeuvre for contemporary architectural practice. In his philosophical enquiry regarding the origins and principles of architecture the Venetian friar, Carlo Lodoli, called into question the very nature of the discipline itself. Lodoli insisted that only reason — construed in terms of functionalism and truth to materials — could provide the proper foundation for modern architectural theory and practice. Given that the ancient orders of architecture were thought to have originated from wooden structures, Lodoli held that their subsequent rendering in stone constituted a violation of truth to materials and thus of reason. As such, Lodoli condemned not only the architects of Antiquity but their later interpreters, such as Andrea Palladio, as well. Despite his intentions, Lodoli never published a textual account of his theories; rather, they are known only through the conflicting descriptions provided by two of his contemporaries. The existence of these differing versions of Lodoli’s theories has led scholars to speculate as to which is representative of the true Lodoli. I wish to pose the question differently—that is, I seek to examine why each author sought to appropriate Lodoli’s ideas for his own ends. 18 Part 2 provides a discussion of issues related to authorship and authorial intent through an examination of two polemics that played fundamental roles in the forging of a new interpretation of Palladio’s legacy in the late Enlightenment. It begins with Palladio’s Bridge of Bassano and the quarrel that erupted in the wake of its rebuilding subsequent to severe flooding of the River Brenta in 1748. Those officially charged with the bridge’s reconstruction advocated that the bridge be rebuilt exactly as before, not wishing to alter a structure that, in their minds, admitted of no improvement. Despite their protestations, however, the bridge was rebuilt with slight yet significant modifications. These deviations from Palladio’s putatively original design led to the eruption of a particularly acrimonious quarrel in which his authorship of the bridge was ultimately called into question. Issues of authorship were necessarily intertwined with the establishment of authorial intent in the struggle to control the Palladian legacy. Indeed, discerning Palladio’s original intentions remained a matter of contention as amply demonstrated by the polemic that raged in the wake of the Accademia Olimpica’s decision to renovate the ceiling of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza according to the design provided by Palladio. The project, however, would languish for the next sixty years, for as soon became apparent no drawing of the theater’s ceiling by Palladio’s hand survived. Given this lack of evidence, the academicians were forced to speculate regarding his original intentions. The quandary soon divided the academy into two factions, whose stances were informed by very different interpretations of Palladio’s legacy and its relevance for contemporary architectural practice. Although ostensibly concerned with the establishment of authorial intent, their disagreement unleashed a broader polemic, whose ramifications extended beyond the confines of Vicenza. Indeed, their struggle to interpret Palladio’s legacy pitted the sanctity of Antiquity against the exigencies of modernity in a manner that would prove significant not only for the reception of Palladio’s work, but moreover, for the development of theater architecture in the latter half of the N E WS ON THE RIALTO D I S S E R TAT I O N S I N V E N E T I A N S T U D I E S eighteenth century. Part III examines the critical reception of Palladio’s church of the Redentore in Venice and the polemics that raged in the 1750s and 1760s regarding the validity of harmonic proportion in architecture. The first of these debates concerned who deserved credit for the invention of harmonic proportion as a principle of architectural design. Certainly, Venetian theorists were well aware that Palladio had already provided a discussion of harmonic proportion along with two other systems almost two centuries earlier in his treatise, The Four Books on Architecture; yet, in their eyes, had Palladio known of the method’s universality, he would not have fallen into the error of counseling architects to choose freely among the three systems. Citing Galileo’s study of isochroneity in pendulums, these theorists maintained that of the three systems of proportion, only the harmonic had a fundamental basis in nature. It was Palladio’s failure to recognize this eternal truth, they alleged, that had led him to err in his design of the Redentore. Seeking to defend Palladio’s work, the Venetian architect and engineer, Tommaso Temanza, protested that practical demands frequently constrained architects to stray from the strictures of theory, just as he himself sought to demonstrate in his own design of the church of S. Maria Maddalena in Venice. Yet, what began VOLUME 26 2007 as an amicable debate soon degenerated into an acrimonious conflict of manifestly broader import, for in two published letters the Brescian engineer-cum-philosopher, Girolamo Francesco Cristiani, not only ridiculed Temanza as Contrarmonico but also publicly denounced him as a heretic for advocating the existence of innate ideas. This neglected quarrel, which ensued within the Republic of Letters and in print, revolved not only around Temanza’s alleged apostasy in matters of architecture and faith, but furthermore called into question Palladio’s own understanding of the significance of proportion. Although the architects discussed here built much in the Veneto, it is the debates in which they fought and the discourse they unleashed that constitute their most lasting contribution. The questions they posed regarding reason and tradition, imitation and invention, and the nature of proportion, have fundamentally influenced the way in which subsequent interpreters have come to view Palladio’s work and legacy. Indeed, their debates shed light not only on the contested nature of Palladio’s legacy in theory and practice in the Late Enlightenment, but on the manner in which our own views regarding Palladio and Palladianism have been conditioned by a unique and enduring view of the past. 19 researching venice and the veneto Coming of Age in the Shadow of Marco Polo. I was born in the shadow of the Rialto bridge. My childhood experience of the world was confined to an area circumscribed between my narrow Calle, the nearby Campo Malibran, Corte del Milion and Campo San Giovanni Grisostomo. The pathways in my brain were formed by the sounds of water lapping on slippery, algae-covered steps, by pigeons cooing in the early morning hours, by the mournful Ooohee of the gondolier at the corner of the canal and by the myriad peculiarities of Venetian life. I My experiences of nature were limited to potted plants and flowers and the scant grass of the Giardinetti, which was only meant for the eyes to behold. I knew pigeons, cats, a few breeds of dogs and pantegane (rats). However, I did experience nature in Venice, albeit in a different way. For example, I developed the ability to identify the passage of time and the changing of the seasons with Druidical accuracy simply by evaluating the quality of light penetrating the narrow, dark calle in the back of my apartment. And even before getting out of bed in the morning, I knew when it had rained because of the difference in the sounds people made in the salizada below my windows. My meadows were in the colors of the water and in the sounds and scents of the paved streets and bricks of ancient buildings. In Venice the experience of winter was harsher half a century ago than it is today. Most people had no central heating and relied on wood stoves for comfort. Still, the northern Bora easily penetrated through the warped frames of old windows. My memories of winter are sprinkled with the scents of roasted chestnuts and of the pears and apples baked in portable braziers and sold by itinerant merchants at the corner of the church of San Giovanni Grisostomo. The thick winter fogs made life difficult in Venice but I 20 enjoyed the eerie feeling caused by the changes in the perception of sounds and light. In the cocoon of fog, the wet pavement sparkled in a phantasmagoric display of reflected lights, and voices were muffled by the density of the atmosphere. Winter in Venice meant a visit to the church of the “Madonna della Salute” on November 21. Despite the cold, the atmosphere was festive, much as we now imagine a Medieval Fair, with stands selling souvenirs (I would usually get a silver ring with a colorful image of the Virgin) and sweets crowding the sacrato, while countless candles illuminated the cavernous interior of the church in dramatic, Caravaggesque effects. The celebration was a rare opportunity for me to access areas outside of my immediate neighborhood and to cross the “Canalazzo” on the makeshift bridge built for the occasion. Still, winter was harsh and, like all Venetians I felt the same joy the sparrows must have felt as they greeted spring while screaming in riotous circles in the soft blue sky, because spring meant the rebirth of social activities. Venice truly came alive in the spring. Children were allowed to go outside and play in the campi. Windows were left open for long periods and I could resume sitting on the narrow ledge of my windowsill (protected by a century-old iron grid) and interact with my friends across the calle. Interestingly, while the open windows eliminated any possibility of privacy (since the visual, olfactory and auditory clues starkly revealed all family activities) children were not allowed to visit their friends’ homes. However, we did not feel deprived since the whole neighborhood was our common meeting ground. The younger children were only allowed in the calle, where mothers could keep an eye on them. There, underneath my windows, are my earliest memories of lazy summer days playing hopscotch (Campanon) with rubber shoe heels. The adult sons of the owners of Rizzo pasta store and Zanon (now Ballarin) bar, young enough to forget their decorum, would often jump and skip with us. As I got older, I was allowed to go out of the calle. “Vado in campo,” I would announce. My mother knew the “campo” really meant the space around the Teatro Malibran, Campo San Giovanni Grisostomo and the Corte del Milion, just around the corner from my house. Most of my friends lived in that neighborhood. Valerio, Roberto and Elisabetta, the children of the owner of the bar AAi Pesci Rossi@ at the corner of the Corte del Milion, lived just across the campo in the house which, as a plaque on the façade proclaimed, had belonged to Marco Polo (The plaque has been removed since the original Polo dwellings were found - during the last restoration - to be on the location of the Teatro Malibran). Carla, the daughter of the shoemaker, whose shop was a busy little cubicle in the corner of the Campo Malibran, was my partner in caring for the stray cats of the neighborhood. We stored bowls and food supplies, cheap cuts of meat and scraps purchased with savings from our “merendina” (snack) money inside an opening on a wall, a space about four or five feet deep set high above the pavement in the dark space of the Sotoportego (under-passage) between the Campi Malibran and San Giovanni Grisostomo. This was our secret space. When we climbed-up into that dark interstice in the wall, we could not be seen by anyone walking below. We occupied that space with an unquestioningly proprietary attitude. We knew each exposed brick, each crack on the plaster, each sound, each scent and all of the atmospheric variations which impacted our territory. N E WS ON THE RIALTO researching venice and the veneto All the children of the neighborhood, and there were many, considered the campi an extension of their apartments. In it, without a need for formal appointments, we met every day. We played games. We gossiped. We joked. We teased and commiserated. In the lingering presence of the past we confronted the future and came to age, finding our distinctive identities through the sharing of our lives. Marina Del Negro Karem University of Louisville Trends in Venice-set Fiction. Trends in Venice-set fiction unsurprisingly seem to follow the trends in the wider world of fiction publishing, which has in recent years seen the focus move from the contemporary to the historical and from the realistic to the fantastic. Authors like Evelyn Waugh, Barry Unsworth, Daphne DuMaurier and Ian McEwan kept things modern in the mid-to-late part of the 20th Century, but lately there’s been a certain falling off of “serious” contemporary fiction set in Venice and a swing towards the past, particularly the 18th Century. And even those that have set the action in the Venice of the 20th Century have rarely dared to contemplate a plot that doesn’t involve art history. Fiction set in Florence is dominated by the renaissance, but Venice’s renaissance history is oddly mostly dealt with through the exploits of modernday art historians, who come across as somewhat unlovable individuals in David Adams Cleveland’s With a gem-like flame and Juan Manuel de Prada’s The Tempest. The few novels actually set during the renaissance period tend to concentrate on a strong woman’s experience during repressive times, which is far from being a trend confined to Venice-set fiction. For a strong localised phenomenon VOLUME 26 2007 we look to Casanova and Vivaldi, and the 18th Century they share. Novels (and two Hollywood films) featuring Casanova and his world of debauchery and masked intrigue have only recently given way to a slew of fictional accounts of the life of Vivaldi (also including two films). You’ll need both hands to count the number of recent novels, plays and films dealing with speculation regarding what one might politely call Vivaldi’s domestic arrangements. Not much is actually known about Vivaldi’s life, and so the scope to invent, particularly with regard to his relationship with his young protégé’s at the Pietà (and Anna Giro in particular) is wide. The best of these novels have been The Four Seasons by Laurel Corona, which features Vivaldi as something of a secondary, though charismatic, character whilst exploring the lives of two sisters left at the Pietà, and Hidden harmonies: the Secret Life of Antonio Vivaldi by André Romijn, which concentrates on the composer and makes some wild guesses at the nature of his relationship with Anna Giro, but also deals deeply and revels in the music. But deciding to write about Casanova’s Venice and Vivaldi means that an author isn’t exactly choosing to set their work in Venice – the choice has been made for them. An author choosing to set the life of one of these two in New York or Jamaica, say, would run the severe risk of penalty points on his or her poetic license. No, it’s in the act of choosing to set a novel in Venice that more interest lies because the making of such a choice, and the type of story then written, can tell us more about the contemporary attitudes towards the place. But that’s not to deny that the recent upsurge in works about on the one hand a perceived libertine and on the other the underage lustobjects of a composer who was also a priest don’t tell us something about the concerns of our time. The association of Venice with decline and decay is almost a cliché, and Louis Begley’s Mistler’s exit and Robert Dessaix’s Night letters are characteristic of this in having their central characters going to Venice to die. (In the process the latter novel reinforces one’s joie de vivre, whilst the former saps one’s will to live.) With the strength of this association it’s not surprising that murder mysteries set in Venice load down the shelves in the English language sections of Venetian bookshops. The Commissario Brunetti books of Donna Leon are a Venetian fiction phenomenon to a degree that her easy evocations of real lives and 21 researching venice and the veneto the real Venice are almost never criticised, and lovers of Venice are almost always lovers of Brunetti too. There are also some very efficient Germanmade TV adaptations of the series and rumours of BBC interest. Donna Leon is the dominant force in Venice-set crime fiction, but Edward Sklepowich’s unfrantic Urbino Macintyre mysteries evoke warm memories of The Thin Man’s Nick and Norah Charles, with David Hewson catering for grittier tastes. Michael Dibdin’s detective Aurelio Zen was born in Venice but his only documented visit is in the novel Dead lagoon. His visit is off-season and makes for one of the truly essential Venice reads. Donna Leon and Edward Sklepowich’s characters so effortlessly inhabit the campi and calli of their home city that they almost justify the use of the cliché about the city being a character in itself. There are however novels where the city is such a hazy backdrop one wonders if the author has even visited Venice, or has merely spent time virtually visiting on the internet. By far the most common rookie mistake is to mention the many beautiful piazzas of Venice. Everyone knows that there’s only one piazza in Venice, so the making of this mistake is always a bad omen. I suppose that it’s possible for a novel that does not give good Venice to still be worth reading, but examples do not readily spring to mind. There’s logic in setting crime novels in a city so associated with death and decline, despite the city’s low crime rate. The post-Harry Potter need for stories for young adults, full of the 22 fantastic and the mysterious is a less obvious source, but has a logic to it too. Cornelia Funke’s playful The Thief Lord and Mary Hoffman’s moving City of Masks both make magic of the more sinister side of Venice’s reputation for the entertainment of younger (and older) readers. And then there’s Michelle Lovric’s The Undrowned Child, a dark and warm tale set in a dank Venice where mermaids cook curries and books change lives. More related works are the strange science fiction novels set in a pseudo-Venice by Tanith Lee. This affinity between Venice and darkness makes it even more surprising that relatively little Venice-set fiction has been set during the Second World War. The original Jewish ghetto is sited in Venice as a gift location, almost, to novelists, but only H. S. Bhabra’s Gestures and Joseph Kanon’s Alibi have really grasped the nettle of 20th Century anti-Semitism and Nazism in Venice. The former like a good oldfashioned novel of intersecting lives, the latter as a gripping thriller. It would seem, though, that it takes a brave author to buck trends and tackle such dark times. If for comparison we look at novels set in London, then the Victorian era is seen to dominate recent fictional output and, along with the tendency for Florenceset fiction to be set during the Renaissance, we can comfortably conjecture that the fiction of a city will tend to get set during its perceived heyday. And if we define these golden times as periods of global dominance and fame, and of artistic prominence and the emergence of singular talents, then the Venice of the 18th Century (along with Victorian London and Renaissance Florence) fits the bill amply. With the added bittersweet element of this prime time for Venice also being its last gasp, with beauty in decline being a strong Venetian theme in itself. The post-millennial obsession with post-apocalyptic scenarios in fiction and films would seem to suggest that the fascination with ruin and decay that seems to inform the sensibility of many of us lovers of Venice is not about to wane as an influence on imaginations. A related narrative side-canal I’ll quickly mention and flag for later exploration is the fascination of Venice for the makers of Japanese comics and animation. Creators of these cartoons have long had a thing for ‘old’ Europe as a setting and so there’s often a strong, if confused, flavour of the Italian in the settings, but there’s also a solid body of work emerging with manga like Forget-me-not and the popular anime Aria set in versions of Venice that are both familiar and strange. It’s just left to wonder whether the trends identified, and their wider echoes, are the result of contemporary concerns or merely the influence of publishers and agents salivating for, say, a mega-selling novel about a choir of female wizards from a Venetian girl’s orphanage. The lack of any Venice-set knock-offs of The Da Vinci Code is cause for optimism in this regard, and in many others. Jeff Cotton N E WS ON THE RIALTO retrospective review Peter Miller. Peiresc’s Europe. New Haven: Yale, 2000; and Cecilia Rizza. Peiresc e L’Italia. Turin: Giappichelli, 1965. The next time I walk down the Strada Nova, I will make my customary mental bow to Fra Paolo Sarpi’s statue and say: Now I understand why you didn’t answer the door to Peiresc in 1602. This all arises from reading, inter alia, Peiresc’s Europe by Peter Miller and Peiresc e L’Italia by Cecilia Rizza. Their subject, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, was one of Europe’s most famous humanist antiquaries, scholars who devoted themselves to the rescue and precise description of relics of earlier societies. The books are quite different in scope and purpose. Miller describes to those with non-specialist interests the intellectual Europe of the age which came after the Renaissance and joined with the birth of modern science. It was within this framework that Peiresc tried to integrate historical erudition with his notion of the political, social, and Christian good. The Peiresc we meet here is described as a sociable man with a vast knowledge of philology, literature, the arts, history, science, and philosophy. Cecilia Rizza’s effort is more pointed, focusing broadly on Peiresc’s relationships in Italy, especially on Sarpi and Galileo. Both are valuable books and were received favorably by reviewers. Born in 1580 in Provence, Peiresc was educated by Jesuits, obtained a doctorate of law in 1604, and was named (absentee) abbot of a Benedictine Abbey near Bordeaux. He traveled widely in his early years, mainly to meet, study, and converse with other scholars. In 1599-1602, he went to Italy and afterwards to Paris, England, and the Low Countries. Beginning in 1607 he took the family seat in parlement, held it for thirty years and settled down in Provence to write and VOLUME 26 2007 study. Peter Miller (p. 42) underscores Peiresc’s erudition and his sociability, how friends and correspondents were devoted to him as he was to them, praising his open-mindedness and universal interests. Though his economic circumstances were secure, he worked incessantly, in itself an admirable trait. In his Chapter 2 (Constancy, Conversation, and Friendship: The ‘Civil Life of Private Men’), Miller describes the role civility and sociability played in the world of European scholars and emphasizes the warm characterization of Peiresc by Gassendi who commended Peiresc for his beneficence and generosity towards other scholars. However, we must not forget that Gassendi was Peiresc’s disciple and was uncritical in the biography of his mentor, as was Miller himself. But, mainly, Peter Miller and Cecilia Rizza cast him as an awesomely erudite figure alerting us to the caution, when you stand in awe you lay down your arms. As we argue below, Fra Paolo did not do that. In 1599 the nineteen year old Peiresc and a small group left Aix to study jurisprudence in Padua. There, he was taken into Giovanni Vincenzo Pinelli’s circle, which included Galileo, Sarpi, Baronio, Tasso, and Gerolamo Aleandro il Giovane who became Peiresc’s life-long friend. On his way home to Aix in 1602, Peiresc stopped in Venice to take his leave-taking from Sarpi and to arrange shipping for the collection of books and archeological artifacts acquired in Italy. However, Peiresc did not in fact see Sarpi. In a letter to Sarpi after he returned to Montpelier he stated he felt the need to go “tre or quattro volte al suo convento per salutarlo e non avendovelo trovato” (Rizza, Tavola III and p. 168). And despite the subsequent events that would seem to have occasioned correspondence from Peiresc to Sarpi, Peiresc never wrote to Sarpi again, they never saw each other afterward, and Sarpi neither replied to Peiresc’s letter nor corresponded further with him; otherwise, the unfaltering Cecilia Rizza and Peter Miller would have included such exchanges in their book. Of course, it is easy to detect a disregard of questions that with hindsight seem to jump off the page but two thoughts intrude here: why didn’t Fra Paolo at least leave a message at the door for Peiresc when he went “tre o quattro volte” to bid farewell or, failing that, answer Peiresc’s civil letter? After all, Fulgenzio Micanzio (Vita del padre Paolo) noted that Fra Paolo conversed with other scholars in the Servite monastery and he had many French correspondents (Lettere ai Gallicani). Some clarification can be inferred from Peiresc’s evaluations of Sarpi’s writings, none of which came to Peiresc through Sarpi himself. According to Rizza (p. 169), he probably read the Lettere ai Gallicani around 23 retrospective review 1607. And Peiresc described Sarpi’s History of the Council of Trent, published anonymously in London (in a letter of thanks to Camden for sending it) “as a very beautiful work, which will have a great effect and a great run” (Rizza, pp. 170). However, in Cecilia Rizza’s book (but not in Peter Miller’s) there is this quote from a letter Peiresc sent to Monsignor Aleandro concerning Sarpi’s History: “…giudicando che importebbe al bene della Santa Chiesa che coteste opere pernittiose venghino in mano di persone di valore accio vi s’interponga l’autorita loro per farle supprimere o per farle confutare” (Rizza, pp. 172). Though it was not unusual to urge suppression of a book in that period, one can question that a scholar of such wide interests as Peiresc would counsel censorship of Sarpi’s History. Neither Peter Miller nor Cecilia Rizza note whether Peiresc urged the censorship of other books. But Rizza (p.172) argues that Peiresc really meant the second option (“o per farle confutare “): encouraging a critical reading of texts to get to the truth. Yet, this is dubious since on the same page, she quotes an earlier part of Peiresc’s letter to Monsignor Aleandro in which Peiresc believes that Sarpi’s History could damage the Santa Chiesa because it cast doubt on the veracity of the prelates votes and the minutes of the Council of Trent, thus greatly undermining “… l’authorita et il credito delle risolutioni sanctissime vi furono prese”. I infer from this --- pace Cecilia Rizza --- that it was not research methodology that prompted Peiresc to praise Sarpi’s History to the Protestant Camden, while to his life-long friend in the Roman Church he recommended the book either be refuted or suppressed (as was indeed done by the Congregatione del S.to Officio (Rizza, p. 173)). In addition, Peiresc’s criticism of Sarpi to Monsignor Aleandro, as well as Rizza’s attempt to justify Peiresc in this matter, completely overlooked the substantive contribution of the History --- namely, Sarpi’s philosophical, theological, and political arguments for the appropriate jurisdictions of civil and Church authority. Though Peter Miller does summarize Sarpi’s substantive arguments, he does not provide evidence that Peiresc himself was in agreement with them; moreover, one looks in vain for any clarification of Peiresc’s divergent views of Sarpi’s History to Camden and Aleandro here. As Lewis Beilin argues, Peireskean scholars like Miller (and to a lesser extent, I would add Rizza) are not comfortable with scholarly disagreements as a means of strengthening constructs. Could Fra Paolo have known already in 1602 that Peiresc was what the Venetians would have called a papalisto? After all, he had observed the close relationship between Peiresc and Monsignor Aleandro in Pinelli’s Padua. Though he did not know Peiresc would defend Galileo at that point, nor did he know in 1602 that two decades later Peiresc would counsel suppression of the History, perhaps he was sufficiently prescient to grasp the extent to which Peiresc would go to defend the Roman Church. Deep-seated differences in attitudes toward Rome might explain in some degree Sarpi’s curt treatment of Peiresc in 1602? There was another way in which Sarpi, already in 1602, could have been prescient. Peter Miller (pp. 151 ff.) describes the Enlightenment’s view of Peiresc’s antiquary scholarship, acquiring universal historical knowledge, as old-fashioned. Sarpi was trained in mathematics and judging from his writing, he offered analytical, original, and constructive resolutions --- more in keeping with the Enlightenment’s approach. All told, from his standpoint Fra Paolo had good reason not to answer the door when Peiresc came to his monastery in 1602. Murray Brown SUNY at Buffalo 24 N E WS ON THE RIALTO DIRECTORY OF Howard Adelman Director, Jewish Studies Program Queen’s University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 613-533-6000 x 79139 Fax: 613-533-3338 Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D 217 Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 CURRENT RESEARCH: A Biography of Leon Modena, 17th c. Venetian Rabbi RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Virginity: Women’s Body as a State of Mind: Destiny becomes Biology,” in The Jewish Body in the Early Modern Period, eds, M. Diemling and G. Veltri (Leiden, 2008), 179-213 “Benvenida Abravanel,” “Debora Ascarelli,” “Fioretta (Batsheva) Modena,” “Leon Modena,” “Rachel Morpurgo,” “Shehitah, Women,” in Encyclopedia Judaica ed. F. Skolnick (Detroit, 2007) • “Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy,” “Deborah Ascarelli,” “Sara Coppia Sullam,” “Benvenida Abravanel,” in Jewish Women: a comprehensive historical encyclopedia, eds. P. Hyman and D. Ofer (Jerusalem, 2006) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • The Lives of Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy: The Struggle for Ambiguity Richard J. Agee Professor & Chair Colorado College CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Music Department Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO 80903 CURRENT RESEARCH: VOLUME 26 2007 SCHOLARS The transmission of Plainchant in the Early Modern Period RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “The Printed Transmission of the Roman Gradual in Italy During the Early Modern Period,” Music Library Association Notes 64 (2007) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Ideological Clashes in a Renaissance Edition of Plainchant,” in Ingrid Brainard Gedenkschrift (Western Michigan University Press) Christina Anderson Oxford University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] 1 Milverton Drive Ickenham, Middlesex UB10 8PP UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Collector, Dealer, Entrepreneur: Daniel Nijs, a Flemish merchant in early seventeenth-century Venice, and his impact on the European art world RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “The Furnishing of Fort Augustus Abbey, Scotland,” Regional Furniture 21 (2007) Karl Appuhn Assistant Professor New York University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Department of History 53 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Forest Management, 13501797; Vincenzo Coronelli and Venetian Science; Epizootics in eighteenth-century Venice FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “A Forest on the Sea.” Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice (Baltimore, 2009) Benjamin Arbel Professor Tel Aviv University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 972-3-6409785 Fax: 972-3-6406229 Department of History 69978 Tel Aviv Israel CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian maritime trade; Venetian colonies; Venice and the Levant; Animals in History; Jews in the Early-Modern Mediterranean; Intercultural Contacts in the Early-Modern Mediterranean RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • [with M. Rozen] “Great Fire in the Metropolis: The Case of the Istanbul Conflagration of 1569 and its Description by Marcantonio Barbaro,” in Mamluks and Ottomans. Studies in Honour of Michael Winter, eds. A. Ayalon and D. Wasserstein (London, 2006), 134-165 • “The Attitude of Orientals to Animals in Renaissance Eyes,” in Human Beings and Other Animals in Historical Perspective, eds. B. Arbel, J. Terkel and S. Menache (Carmel, Jerusalem, 2007), 277-292 [in Hebrew] • Venetian Letters (1354-1512) from the Archives of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and other Cypriot Collections (Nicosia, 2007) • “Trade and International Relations in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean: The Case of the Ship Ghirarda (1575-1581),” in Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Community. Essays in Honour of Suraiya Faroqhi, eds. V. Costantini and M. Koller (Leiden, 2008), 391-408 • “The ‘Jewish Wine’ of Crete,” in Monemvasios oinos–Monemvasia-Malvasia (Athens, 2008), 81-88 • “Operating Trading Networks in 25 directory of scholars Times of War: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian Patrician Between Public Service and Levant Trade,” in Merchants in the Ottoman Empire, eds. S. Faroqhi & G. Veinstein (Leuven, 2008), 23-33 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “The Treatment of Animals in the Islamic Orient as Perceived by Western Observers of the Renaissance,” in Animals and people in the Ottoman Empire, ed. S. Faroqhi (Istanbul). • “Aspects of Renaissance Studies: 1985-2005,” in Historiography in the Last Twenty Years, ed. G. Harlaftis (University of Corfu) • “Cyprus on the Eve of the Ottoman Conquest,” in Ottoman Cyprus, eds. M. Kappler and M. Michael (Mesoeios, 2007) • “The Venetian Domination of Cyprus: Cui Bono?,” in Venice in Cyprus and Cyprus in Venice (University of Cyprus,) • “Calendar, Time and Holiday in the World of a Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean Merchant,” in Calendar, Time and Holiday in Society, Culture and Consciousness (Jerusalem) [in Hebrew] • “Venice and Kytherian Falcons: Ecological Aspects of Renaissance Colonialism,” in Acts of the 8th International Congress of Pan-Ionian Studies • “Famagusta during the Venetian Period,” in Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta (University of Cyprus) • “L’elezione dei prelati greci a Cipro durante la dominazione veneziana,” in I Greci durante la Venetocrazia: uomini, spazio, idee (Venezia) • “Between Segregation and Integration: Cretan Jews during the Sixteenth Century,” in “Interstizi” : culture ebraico-cristiane a Venezia e nei domini veneziani tra basso medioevo e prima epoca moderna (Venezia) 26 Lilian Armstrong Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Art, Emerita Wellesley College CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 781-235-6434 107 Dover Road, Wellesley, MA 02482 CURRENT RESEARCH: The career of the Paduan miniaturist Benedetto Bordon (ca. 1450-1530) including his manuscript and printed book illuminations, woodcut designs, and publishing activities; Iconography of Petrarch’s De viris illustribus, 14th-16th centuries;Hand-Illumination and Woodcut Design in early printed books. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Two Cycles of Uomini famosi Illuminated by the Pico Master in 1476,” Rivista di Storia della Miniatura 12 (2008): 23-33 • (with P. Scapecchi, and F. Toniolo), “Gli incunaboli illustrate con xilografie nella Biblioteca del Seminario a Padova”; and annotations to incunabula illustrated with woodcuts, in Gli Incunaboli della Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Padova: Catalogo e Studi, eds. P. Gios and F. Toniolo (Padova, 2008), 171-228 • “Triumphal Processions in Italian Renaissance Book Illumination and Further Sources for Andrea Mantegna’s Triumph of Caesar,” Manuscripta (2008): 1-63 • “Woodcuts in Classical Texts Printed in Venice, 1490-1520, and the Role of Benedetto Bordon as a Designer,” in Seven Perspectives on the Woodcut: Presentations from “A Heavenly Craft” Exhibition and Symposium, April 2005, ed. D. De Simone (Washington, DC, 2008), 41-63 • “The Triumph of Caesar Woodcuts of 1504 and Triumphal Imagery in Venetian Renaissance Books” in Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Durer and Titian, exhib. cat. eds. L. Silver and E. Wyckoff (Wellesley College, Yale University, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2008-2009), (Seattle and New Haven, 2008), 53-71 • “Venetian Incunables in Cambridge Collections: Modes of Hand-Illumination,” in The Cambridge Illuminations: Conference Volume, ed. S. Panayotova (London, 2006), 233-43 • “A North Italian Drawing of Hercules and Antaeus in a German Incunable: Marco Zoppo (?) and Drawings in Renaissance Books,” in Tributes to Jonathan J. G. Alexander: The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Art and Architecture, eds. Susan L’Engle and Gerald B. Guest (London, 2006), 5-20 • “Un poco noto manoscritto del De viris illustribus di Francesco Petrarca miniato da Nicolò di Giacomo da Bologna”, and catalogue nos. IV.22 – IV.23, in Petrarca e il suo tempo, eds. Elisa Bagnoni and Silvio Parini (Milan, 2006), 81-86, 433-439 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Petrarch, Pesellino, and Triumphal Images for Renaissance Cassoni and Manuscripts,”in The Triumph of Marriage: papers from the Symposium (Boston, 2009) • “Information from Illumination: Learning from the Decoration of Incunabula in the 1470s”, in Papers from Early Printed Books as Material Objects: Principles, Problems, Perspectives, IFLA-preconference, Munich, 19-21 August 2009 (2010) Victoria Avery Dr Department of History of Art, University of Warwick CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars Tel: 00 44 2476 523 007 Fax: 00 44 2476 523 006 The Department of History of Art University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL UK CURRENT RESEARCH: The production of bronze objects (artillery, bells, functional domestic and liturgical artefacts and works of art) in Venice ca. 1300-1700; Venetian Renaissance Sculpture (commissioning, production, collection, display and reception); The life and work of Alessandro Vittoria (1524/5-1608); British perceptions of Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Virtue, Valour, Victory: The Making and Meaning of Bronze Equestrian Monuments (ca. 1440- ca. 1640),” in Praemium Virtutis III: Reiterstandbilder von der Antike bis zum Klassizismus. Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme. Schriftenreihe des Sonderforschungsbereichs 496; vol. 22, eds. J. Poeschke, T. Weigel and B. Kusch-Arnhold (Münster, 2008), 199-233 • “Alessandro Vittoria’s Socles: Shaping and Naming” in Display and Displacement: Sculpture and the Pedestal from Renaissance to PostModern, ed. A. Gerstein (London, 2007), 16-32 • “The Production, Display and Reception of Bronze Heads and Busts in Renaissance Venice and Padua: Surrogate Antiques” in Kopf / Bild. Die Buste in Mittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit, eds. J. Kohl and R. Muller (Munich and Berline, 2007), 75-112 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Dalle bocche da fuoco alle vere da pozzo: la produzione artistica dei fonditori d’artiglieria di stato nella Venezia del Rinascimento,” in L’Industria Artistica del Bronzo nella Venezia e nell’Italia settentrionale del Rinascimento, eds. M. VOLUME 26 2007 Ceriana and V. Avery (Venice) • “The Production of Sea Ordnance in Sixteenth-Century Venice by the Alberghetti and di Conti Dynasties,” for the proceedings of Navi e Cannoni: Le artiglierie navali a Venezia e in Europa tra il XV e il XVII secolo (Venice) • Vulcan’s Forge in Venus’ City: The Bronze Industry in Renaissance Venice (London, 2009) Alexandra Bamji University of Leeds CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] School of History University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Religion and disease in Venice, 16201700; Death in early modern Venice and Nuremberg RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “The control of space: dealing with diversity in early modern Venice,” Italian Studies 62:2 (2007): 175-188 William Barcham Professor Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 732-545-3227 (h) / 212-217-4644 218 Harrison Avenue Highland Park, New Jersey 08904 CURRENT RESEARCH: Man of Sorrows in Venetian art. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Rosalba Carriera e Antonio Maria Zanetti tra Venezia e Parigi nella prima metà del secolo XVIII,” in Acts of the Giornata di studio in occasion of the exhibition on Rosalba Carriera Murray Baumgarten Professor University of California, Santa Cruz CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 831-459-2566 Fax: 832-459-1924 Humanities 1 Kresge College University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 CURRENT RESEARCH: The cultural imprint and afterlife of the Venetian Ghetto; Thomas Coryat, Leone Modena, Charles Dickens, Caryl Phillips, and modern and contemporary Israeli poets RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “What new happens to me:” Leone Modena, Herman Broder, and the Construction of Modern Jewish Identity,” The Venetian Jewish Anthology, UCSC Jewish Studies Website ( http://jewishstudies.ucsc. edu) John Bernasconi Director of Fine Art University of Hull CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +44(0)1482 465035 Department of History University of Hull Hull HU6 7RX UK • (with C. Puglisi), “Bernardino da CURRENT RESEARCH: Feltre, the Monte di Pieta’ and the Scuole patronage and art Man of Sorrows: Activist, Microcredt and Logo,” artibus et historiae Christopher Black 57 (2008): 35-63 Professor Glasgow University 27 directory of scholars CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] 12 Crown Terrace Glasgow G12 9ES Scotland UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Inquisitions in early modern Italy. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (eds. with Pamela Gravestock), Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas (Aldershot & Burlington VT, 2006), with “Introduction: the Confraternity Context,” and “Confraternities under Suspicion in the Early modern Period: A Venetian Case Study” FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • The Inquisitions in Early Modern Italy (New Haven, 2009) • “Confraternite e L’Inquisizione,” in Dizionario dell’Inquisizione, Vol. 1, ed. A. Prosperi Douglas Biow Professor University of Texas at Austin CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 512-853-0674 Fax: 512-471-8492 Department of French and Italian 1 University Station B7600 University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 CURRENT RESEARCH: Leonardo Fioravanti, Tintoretto, Pietro Bembo RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (Ithaca and London, 2006) • “Diplomacy: Castiglione and the Art of Being Inconspicuously Conspicuous,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38 (2008): 35-55 • “Food: Pietro Aretino and the Art of Conspicuous Consumption,” in The 28 Renaissance World, ed. J. Martin (Oxford, 2007). FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Stanford) • “Beards in Cinquecento Italy,” in The Body in Early Modern Italy, ed. J. Hairston and W. Stephens (Baltimore) Murray Brown Professor Emeritus SUNY at Buffalo CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 716-838-1941 80 Fairlawn Dr. Amherst, NY 14226 CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Politics and Culture, early 17th Century RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “The Myth of Antonio Foscarini’s Exoneration,” Renaissance and Reformation 25/3 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • In Preparation: “A Venetian Apology” Patricia Fortini Brown Professor Princeton University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 609-683-4076 Fax: 609-683-9640 54 Humbert St Princeton, NJ 08542 CURRENT RESEARCH: Research for two books: (1) a book on the artistic and cultural geography of the Venetian empire, tentatively entitled Venice Outside Venice. (2) a book, tentatively entitled The Venetian Wife, a microhistory of the marriage of the daughter of a Venetian senator to a Friulian noble. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “The Venetian Casa: A Panoramic View,” “Education and Children in the House,” and “The Restello,” in At Home in Renaissance Italy, eds. M. Ajmar and F. Dennis (London, 2006), 50-65, 136-43, 188-89 • “Le antichità,| in Commercio e cultura mercantile, vol. IV, Il Rinascimento italiano e l’Europa, eds. F. Franceschi, R. Goldthwaite and R. Mueller (Treviso, 2007), 309-337 • “The Exemplary Life of Giulia Bembo Della Torre,” in Philanagnostes:. Studi in onore di Marino Zorzi, eds. C. Maltezou and P. Schreiner (Bari, 2008), 155-174; • “Veronese’s Patrons,” in Paolo Veronese and San Sebastiano, supplement Save Venice (2008), 78-83; • “Where the Money Flows: Art Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” in Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, ed. F. Ilchman (Boston 2009), 11-29 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Legendary origins of Venice and the chronicle tradition,” in Venice Before San Marco: Recent Studies on the Origins of the City, ed. A. Ammerman (Baltimore) • “Venice,” in The Classical Tradition, eds. A. Grafton, G. Most and S. Settis (Cambridge, MA, in press) Anja Brug M.A. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0049 (0)30 2151548 Elßholzstraße 19 10781 Berlin Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: “Artisti fiorentini a Venezia e in terraferma. Andrea del Castagno e le sue opere a San Zaccaria e San Marco” N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars (tesi di dottorato); Le prime opere di Leonardo da Vinci; Arte contemporanea in Europa e USA; Redazione e editing Ersie Burke Dr. Monash University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] CURRENT RESEARCH: Greek immigration, settlement and community; Establishing the Greek church of San Giorgio dei Greci; Elite Greek and patrician marriages RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Francesco di Demetri Litino, the Inquisition and the Fondaco dei Turchi,” Thesaurismata (2006): 79-96 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Coming to Venice: Immigration and the forging of new ties. The Greek experience 1498-1600 • “A concise history of the Greek church: the 16th c.,” in The History of the Venetian Church, ed. A. Rigo Isabella Campagnol Curator Rubelli Historical Collection and Archive CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +39-0412417329; +393337430994 Cannaregio 3456 C 30121 Venezia Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: Dress in Venetian Convents from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth century. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Laces and Documents: the IRE Collections in Venice,” in Atti del convegno “Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the links between archival and object-based research,” (Archetype Books, 2007), 76-79. VOLUME 26 2007 • “La moda “a tavola”. Relazioni tra figurini di moda e oggetti d’arte applicata nella seconda metà del Settecento,” Filoforme (Dec. 2007): 23-26 • “Costume in the Italian Renaissance,” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through World History, 3 vols. (Greenwood Publishers, 2007), 3-61. • “Invisible Seamstresses. Needlework in Venetian Convents from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth century,” in Women and Things: The Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1650-1950, vol. 2 eds. M. Daly Goggin, B. Fowkes Tobin (Ashgate, 2008) • “Venice 1870 – 1930: the Rediscovery of the Arts and Crafts,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, the Journal of the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Pilgrim costume,” in Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, ed. L. Taylor, (Leiden) • Invisible Luxuries. Forbidden Fashions in Venetian Monasteries from the 15th to the 18th century (Texas Tech University Press, 2009) Andrea Caracausi Research Fellow Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche - Università Ca’ Foscari CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873 30121 Venice Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: Merchant Networks in Early Modern Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Dentro la bottega. Culture del lavoro in una città d’età moderna (Venezia, 2008) • “Procedure di giustizia in età moderna. I tribunali corporativi,” Studi storici 2 (2008): 325-360 • “Mercanti e tele di lino nella Repubblica veneta del ‘700 (il caso padovano),” Saccisica. Studi e ricerche (2008) • “Identité urbaine, fiscalité d’État et corporations: Venise et ses ville entre XVe et XVIIe siècle,” Memini – Revue d’histoire medieval du Quebec 9-10 (2005-2006): 145-177 • “Capitali e mercanti-imprenditori in età moderna (Italia settentrionale, secc. XVII-XVIII),” Annali di storia dell’impresa 18 (2007): 283-299 • “Glossary,” in At the Centre of the Old: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland (1400-1800), ed. P. Lanaro (Toronto, 2006): 377-389 Christopher Carlsmith Associate Professor (History) Univ. of Massachusetts-Lowell CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 978-934-4277 / + 39 333 730.7677 (Italy cell) UML History Department 850 Broadway Street Lowell, MA 01854-3099 Villa I Tatti via dei Vinciglita, 26 50135 Florence Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: History of Education, 1450-1650; History of Childhood; History of Colleges and Universities RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “A Peripatetic Pedagogue: G.B. Pio in Bergamo, 1505-1507,” in Ritratti: La dimensione individuale nella storia (secoli XV-XX), ed. S. Seidel Menchi and R. Pierce (Rome, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: 29 directory of scholars • “A Renaissance Education: Schooling in Bergamo and the Venetian Republic, 1500-1650,” (Toronto, 2009) Jill Carrington Associate Professor of Art History Stephen F. Austin State University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (936) 468-4351 Fax: (936) 468-4041 Department of Art P. O. Box 13001, SFA Station Nacogdoches TX 75962-3001 CURRENT RESEARCH: The terrestrial and celestial globes of the funerary monument of Tommaso Rangone on the facade of San Giulano; The Sacra conversazione relief panel from the Roccabonella Tomb in S. Francesco Grande, Padua; Tombs and chapel of Captain General Erasmo da Narni (Gattamelata) and his son Gianntonio in the Basilica of St. Anthony, Padua Linda L. Carroll Professor, Italian Tulane University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 504.865.5115 Fax: 504.865.5367 Department of French and Italian Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 CURRENT RESEARCH: Theater in early-sixteenth-century Venice, especially that of Angelo Beolco (Il Ruzante); Beolco’s relations with the Venetian patriciate RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (trans.) Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo, eds. P. Labalme and L. Sanguineti White (Baltimore, 2008) • (ed. and trans.) Angelo Beolco (Il 30 Ruzante), La prima oratione, Modern Humanities Research Association Critical Texts, vol. 16 (London, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (with M. Marshall, K. McIver) Sexualities, Textualities, Art & Music in Early Modern Italy • “‘(El) ge sa bon laorare’: Female Wealth, Male Competition, Musical Festivities, and the Venetian Patriciate in Ruzante’s Pavan,” Sexualities, Textualities Isabella Palumbo Fossati Casa Professore Université di Amiens CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0415222275 28, rue Gay Lussac 75005 Paris France S.Maria del Giglio 2597 30124 Venezia Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: La casa e la società veneziana (dal Cinquecento al Settecento); Venezia e il mediterraneo orientale: aspetti storici, economici, linguistici; Venezia e la Terrasanta RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Venise, Porte du Levant: aspects linguistiques et Echos d’Orient à travers les objets presents dans la maison vénitienne au XVIè siècle,” in Contacts des langues dans l’espace arabo- turco- persan, 2 vols. ed. M.Bozdemir (IstanbulParis, 2006) • “La straordinaria avventura in Turchia dei fratelli Fossati,architetti e pittori,” in Venezia e Istanbul. Incontri,confronti,scontri, ed. E. Concina (Udine, 2006) • “Maisons et ateliers vénitiens(XVIèXVIIIè siècles),” in La maison de l’artiste (Rennes, 2007) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Venise polychrome: reflets d’Orient et interférences linguistiques dans les recits de pelerins, voyageurs et de marchands (Paris, 2008) Pamela Cartwright Principal Michael Winstanley Architects Planners CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 703-519-8081 Fax: 703-519-8082 1635 13th Street NW Washington, DC 20009 Matteo Casini Suffolk University, Boston, MA CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +1 401-245-3683 (US) / +39 041 5239373 (IT) Castello 3338 30122 Venezia 31 Baker St. Warren, RI 02885 CURRENT RESEARCH: Political and Social Culture, Renaissance and Baroque Venice Ruth Chavasse Kings College London (retired) CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0044(0)2392631362 The Old Orchard Forestside Rowlands Castle Hampshire PO9 6EE UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian humanism: M.A.Sabellico (1436?-1506) and edition of his Letters (Venice, 1502) RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Humanist Educational and Emotional Expectations of Teenagers N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy,” in Emotions in the Household, 12001900, ed. S. Broomhall (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 69-84 Ian Chessell Dr University of South Australia CONTACT INFORMATION: Interaction and Dissent, eds. J. Osmond and A. Cimadina (Pisa, 2006), 33-51 • “A Newsletter in 1419? Antonio Morosini’s Chronicle in the Light of Commercial Correspondence between Venice and Alexandria,” Mediterranean Historical Review 20 (2005): 35-66 [email protected] Tel: +61884316054 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: CURRENT RESEARCH: Paula Clarke PO Box 347 Kensington Park SA 5068 Australia History of the Ionian Islands, particularly 1750-1830 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Britain’s Ionian Consul: Spiridion Foresti and Intelligence Collection, (1793-1805),” Journal of Mediterranean Studies 16 (2006): 45-61 Georg Christ Dr. phil. Universität Heidelberg CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +49(0)6221/54-7852 Fax: +49(0)6221/54-786210 Untere Str. 31 69117 Heidelberg Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetians in Alexandria (Egypt); Cross cultural trade; Smuggling, customs and maritime police in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Hanseatic area; Merchant Diasporas in the Eastern Mediterranean; News and News-Management in the Later Middle Ages; Maritime History of the Eastern Mediterranean RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Masking Cooperation with the Infidel: The Venetian Commercial Privileges, Political power and Legal Culture in Mamluk Egypt,” in Power and Culture: Hegemony, VOLUME 26 2007 • Conflicts at the intersection of Orient and Occident: A Venetian consul in Mamlûk Alexandria at the beginning of the 15th century (Leyden) Associate Professor McGill University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 514-3983881 Fax: 514-3988365 4335 Montclair Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B2J4 CURRENT RESEARCH: Book on Women, Work and Business in Renaissance Venice; Florentine Commerce, Florentines in Venice and Florentine/Venetian relations, 13811451 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Fax: 972-9-7421454 5 Hamiyasdim St. Ramot Hashavim, Israel 45930 CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian painting, animals in Venetian and Sienese iconography RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art (Leiden, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • ”An Aldine Volume of Petrarch Illuminated for a Prestigious Patron,” Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte (2009) • “Changing Functions of the Canine Image in Venetian Religious Paintings of the Sixteenth Century,” Journal of Iconographic Studies (2009) • ”Dogs in the Religious Paintings of Tintoretto,” Iconographia (2009) Eleanor A. Congdon Assoc. Professor of Medieval History Youngstown State University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (330) 941-3454 Department of History Youngstown State University 1 University Plaza Youngstown, OH 44555 • (with E. Barile & G. Nordio) Cittadini veneziani del ‘400: i due Giovanni Marcanova, il mercante e l’umanista (Venezia, 2006) • “The Villani Chronicles”, in Chronicling History in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, eds. S. Dale, A. Levin & D. Osheim (Penn State, 2007) CURRENT RESEARCH: Simona Cohen [email protected] Tel: 215-204-7837 / 347-449-3747 (IT) Fax: 215-204-6951 Phd. Tel-Aviv University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 972-9-7429458 Venetian merchants working in Muslim markets in the 1470s and 1480s; Venetians in the Western Mediterranean c. 1400 Tracy Cooper Professor Temple University CONTACT INFORMATION: 81 Lamb Hope Rd Hopewell, NJ 08525 31 directory of scholars CURRENT RESEARCH: Visual culture of Renaissance and early modern Venice; Patronage and collecting practices; Ritual and urbanism RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Palladio ed i suoi amici veneziani,” in Palladio 1508-1580. Il simposio del cinquecentenario, ed. F. Barbieri et al. (Venice, 2008), 316-321. • “Libraries Legacies Lost,” in Miscellanea Zorzi, eds. C. Maltezou and P. Schreiner (Venice and Köln, 2008), 105-118 • “Patricians and Citizens,” in Venice, ed. P. Humfrey, vol. 2 of Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance, ed. M. Hall (Cambridge, 2008), 151-197 • “Singers and Setting: choir and furnishing in an age of reform. The example of San Giorgio Maggiore,” in Architettura e musica nella Venezia del rinascimento, ed. D. Howard and L. Moretti (Milan, 2006), 95-106 Alexander Cowan Reader in History. Northumbria University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +44 191 227 3732 Fax: +44 191 227 3189 Politics and History Division School of Arts and Social Sciences Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Gossip and street culture in early modern Venice; Social derogation among the early modern patriciate RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “‘Looking in and looking out’. Gossip in early modern Venice,” Journal of Early Modern History (2008), in book form (Leiden, 2009) • “Lusty widows and chaste widows in seventeenth-century Venice,” in 32 • “Social derogation and political irresponsibility in early modern Venice,” in Proceedings of the conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentray Institutions, Alghero, July 2008 • Les villes vivantes. Italie. XIIIe-XVe siècle • “La cité communale en quête d’elle-même : la fabrique des grands espaces publics,” in La Costruzione della civiltà communale (Pistoia, 2007) • “Venise-Florence. Pour une histoire comparée des lieux du vivre ensemble,” in La convivencia en las ciudades medievales (Najera, 2007) Elizabeth Crouzet-Pavan David D’Andrea CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: 38 bis Avenue René Coty Paris 75014 France Department of History 501 Life Sciences West Stillwater, OK 74078-3054 Famiglie e poteri in Italia tra Medioevo et età moderna, eds. A. Bellavitis and I. Chabot (Rome, 2009) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Professeur d’histoire du Moyen Age Université de Paris-Sorbonne [email protected] Tel: 01 43 20 60 04 CURRENT RESEARCH: Histoire de Venise. XIIIe-XVe siècles; Histoire de l’Italie communale et rennaissante RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Renaissances italiennes (Paris, 2007) • (with J. Verger, eds.) La Dérision. De la pratique sociale au rituel politique (Paris, 2007) • (with E. Lecuppre-Desjardin) Villes de Flandre et d’Italie : les leçons d’une comparaison (Brepols, 2008) • “Problématique des arts à Venise à la fin du Moyen Age,” in Tra economica e politica : le corporazioni nell’Europa medievale (Pistoia, 2007), 39-61 • “Entre nécessités économiques et logiques anthropologiques : le marché immobilier vénitien,” in Colloque d’Estella, XXXIII Semana de Estudios Medievales, Mercado immobiliario y paisajes urbanos en el Occidente Europeo (siglos XI-XV) (Pamplona, 2007), 269-300 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Associate Professor Oklahoma State University [email protected] Tel: (405) 744-8195 Fax: (405) 744-5400 CURRENT RESEARCH: History of Venetian Charity; Popular Religion RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy: The Hospital of Treviso, 14001530 (Rochester, 2007) Margaret D’Evelyn Associate Professor of Art History Principia College CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 618-374-5268 1506 Glen Vista Drive Godfrey, IL 62035 CURRENT RESEARCH: History of 16th century architecture and architectural theory in Venice Robert Davis Professor of History The Ohio State University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (614) 784-1909 N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars Department of History 106 Dulles Hall Ohio State University Columbus, OH, 43210-1367 [email protected] Tel: 212.989.1327 CURRENT RESEARCH: CURRENT RESEARCH: Bandits in Lazio and Umbria, 15501650; Mediterranean slavery RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean (New York, 2009) • “Geography and the Traffic in Slaves in the Early-modern Mediterranean,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37 (2007): 57-74 • “The Renaissance Goes Up in Smoke,” in The Renaissance World, ed. J. Martin (Routledge, 2007), 398-411 • (with G. Marvin) “Turismo e città d’arte. Quali costi sociali a Venezia?” in Turismo e città d’arte, ed. G. Ortalli (Venice, 2007), 15-20 Blake de Maria Assistant Professor Santa Clara University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (408) 554-5482 1027 Sherman Street Santa Clara, CA 95050-4323 CURRENT RESEARCH: Cittadino patronage; Immigrant visual culture in Venice; Artistic interchange between Venice & the Levant; Galileo’s activities in Venice FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Becoming Venetian: Immigrants and the Arts in Early Modern Venice (New Haven, 2009) Cara De Silva Writer/Scholar Independent CONTACT INFORMATION: VOLUME 26 2007 311 West 24th Street, 16D New York, NY 10011 Humanists; Intellectual life Julia DeLancey Associate Professor Truman State University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (660)785.4430 Fax: (660)785.7463 Department of Art OP1101 Truman State University Kirksville MO 63501 CURRENT RESEARCH: Comparative art historical work on pigments and the pigment trade in Florence and Venice, mainly fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. In particular, vendecolori in Venice including issues of wealth, social status, and shop location in Venice FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Shipping Colour: valute, pigments, trade, and Francesco di Marco Datini ,” in Trade in Artists’ Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700, eds. J. Kirby Atkinson, S. Nash, J. Cannon (London) Rudolf Dellermann Dr. des., Scientific Research Assistant Technische Universität München CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0049 (0)9132 735305 Dorfstr. 23 D-91085 Weisendorf-Buch CURRENT RESEARCH: Doge Andrea Dandolo (1343-1354) and San Marco; Building history of San Marco; Restoration of San Marco during 19/20th century RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “L’arredo e le sculture della cappella: un linguaggio antico veneziano per l’arca di sant’Isidoro,” Quaderni della Procuratoria. Arte, storia, restauri della Basilica di San Marco a Venezia 3 (2008): 35-47 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Iussu ducis - auf Befehl des Dogen. Die Cappella di Sant’Isidoro in San Marco. Kunst und Heiligenpräsentation unter dem Dogen Andrea Dandolo (1343-1354) Roger Downey CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 206-285-4888 2146 9th Avenue West, #1 Seattle, WA 98119-2843 CURRENT RESEARCH: Venice in 1642, the year of the birth of modern opera Eric Dursteler Associate Professor Brigham Young University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 801-422-5260 2129 JFSB Provo, UT 84602 CURRENT RESEARCH: Early modern Mediterranean; Women and conversion; Mediterranean foodways; Dragomans RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Women in the Ottoman Empire,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, 4 vols., ed. B. Smith (Oxford, 2008) • “Roman Catholics in Constantinople/Istanbul,” in Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World (Foundation of the Hellenic World, 2008) • Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean 33 directory of scholars (Baltimore, 2006) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (Turkish translation of Venetians in Constantinople) Constantinople’da Venedikliler: Ilk Çaǧdaş Akdeniz Milliyet, Kimlik ve Bir Arada Varoluş (Istanbul, 2009) • (with D. Curto, J. Kirshner and F. Trivellato), From Florence to the Mediterranean: Studies in Honor of Anthony Molho (Florence, 2009) • “Power and Information: The Venetian Postal System in the Mediterranean, 1573-1645,” in From Florence to the Mediterranean: Studies in Honor of Anthony Molho, (Florence, 2009) • “Fernand Braudel,” in French Historians, 1900-2000, ed. P. Daileader (Oxford, 2009) • Handbook of Venetian History, 1400-1797 (Leiden, 2011) Robert Echols Independent Scholar CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 207-833-7869 Fax: 207-833-7869 9 Barker Point Road Bailey Island, ME 04003 CURRENT RESEARCH: Reconsideration of Jacopo Tintoretto catalogue RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (with F. Ilchman), “Toward a New Tintoretto Catalogue: Checklist of Revised Attributions and a New Chronology,” Jacopo Tintoretto: Proceedings of the International Symposium, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, February 26-27, 2007 (Madrid, 2009) • Catalogue entries in Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivials in Renaissance Venice, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, 2009) • “Tintoretto the Painter,” and other entries in Tintoretto, exh. cat., 34 Museo del Prado (Madrid, 2007) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Systematic Catalogue, 16th Century Italian Paintings (Tintoretto and followers) (Washington D.C.) Sabine Engel Ph.D. Candidate CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: ++ 49.30.6877003 Kirchstr. 19 II 10557 Berlin Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Dissertation: “Christ and the Adulteress,” a Venetian cinquecento paintingsubject. FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Limitare la libertà di una nobile donna e consolidare i valori conservatori veneziani tramite il potere della pittura: ‘Cristo e l’Adultera’ di Nicolò de’ Barbari,” in Storia di Venezia (http://www.storiadivenezia. it/rivista) Fabien Faugeron Membre en Histoire médiévale Ecole Française de Rome CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +390498766619 Via Boccalerie, 27 3° piano, int. 10 35139 Padova Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: Histoire économique de la Terre Ferme vénitienne à la fin du Moyen Âge (réseaux urbains et espaces économiques); Ravitaillement, métiers et marchés alimentaires à Venise dans les derniers siècles du Moyen Âge. Histoire de la cuisine et des pratiques gastronomiques vénitiennes. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “De la commune à la capitale du Stato di Terra : la politique annonaire et la constitution de l’Etat de Terreferme vénitien (1ère moitié du XVe siècle),” dans Les villes capitales au Moyen Âge. XXXVIe Congrès de la SHMESP (Paris, 2006), 97-111 • “Nourrir la ville : l’exemple de la boucherie vénitienne à la fin du Moyen Âge,” Histoire Urbaine 16 (2006): 53-70 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Le marché de Rialto à la fin du Moyen Age: le centre d’un espace de ravitaillement sans frontière,” in Actes du colloque de Bologne de l’IEHCA (déc. 2003) (Paris) • “Au cœur de l’annone vénitienne : le fondaco delle farine de Rialto à la fin du Moyen Âge,” Mélanges de l’Ecole Française de Rome Irmgard Fees Prof. Dr. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0049-89-2180-5688 Fax: 0049-89-2180-2084 Historisches Seminar der LMU München Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 D-80539 München Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Venezianische Urkunden des 10. bis 13. Jh. FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Eine Urkunde des venezianischen Dogen Pietro Polani von 1138/1139,” Archiv für Diplomatik 55 (2009) Ronnie Ferguson Professor of Italian and Head of the School of Modern Languages University of St Andrews CONTACT INFORMATION: N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars [email protected] Tel: (01334) 463668 Fax: (01334) 463677 Department of Italian School of Modern Languages University of St Andrews St Andrews Fife KY16 9PH Scotland, UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Linguistic history of Venice; The origins of Venetian; Venetian/Veneto etymology; Sixteenth century Venetian theatre; Ruzante RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Luba Freedman Associate Professor The Hebrew University of Jerusalem CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Fax: 972-2-5815-399 Department of the History of Art The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mount Scopus 91905 Jerusalem Israel CURRENT RESEARCH: Mythological narratives in Renaissance art; Titian and Antiquity • A Linguistic History of Venice (Florence, 2007) • “Ruzante and Venetian Renaissance Theatre,” in A History of Italian Theatre, eds. P. Brand, J. Farrell and P. Puppa (Cambridge, 2006), 61-71 • “From proto-language of state to urban dialect: The impact on Venetian of long-term contact with Italian,” in Language Contact and Minority Languages on the Littorals of Europe, eds. S. Ureland, A. Lodge and S. Pugh (Berlin, 2007), 161-173 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Alison Frazier 60 Argyle Street Rochester NY 14607 Associate Professor University of Texas at Austin CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 512 475 6375 History B7000 1 Mail Station University of TX at Austin Austin TX 78712-0220 CURRENT RESEARCH: Candiano Bollani, Commentary on Genesis RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Machiavelli, Trauma, and the Scandal of The Prince” in History in the Comic Mode, eds. Fulton and Holsinger (2007) • “The Vainly Imploring Goddess in Titian’s Venus and Adonis” in Titian: Materiality, Likeness, Istoria, ed. J. Woods-Marsden (Turnhout, 2007), 83-96 Esther Brummer Gabel Doctoral Candidate University of Cambridge CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 617 680 5460 Fax: 617 680 5460 CURRENT RESEARCH: The Development of the Nuptial Allegory in Early Modern Venice Martin Gaier Dr. phil. Department of History of Art, University of Basel CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0041 (0)61 206 63 80 Fax: 0041 (0)61 206 62 97 Kunsthistorisches Seminar St. Alban-Graben 8 CH-4010 Basel Switzerland CURRENT RESEARCH: Relations between Germany and VOLUME 26 2007 Italy 1871-1900 in the field of art history and art politics; Art, identity and politics in early modern Venice; Quattrocento villas in the Veneto; Palazzo Soranzo van Axel in Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “«ius imaginis nihil esse aliud, quam ius nobilitatis». Bildpolitik und Machtanspruch im Patriziat Venedigs,” in Integrität und Fragment. Kopf / Bild. Die Die Büste in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, eds. J. Kohl and R, Müller (Berlin, 2007), 255-82 • “Terribilità,” in Art Historical Mythologies – Mythen der Kunstwissenschaft. Ein Antilexikon, ed. T. Weddigen (Kritische Berichte 3, 2007), 18-22 • “Hölzerne Pferde – Goldene Kälber. Zu den Reitermonumenten in venezianischen Kirchen,” in Praemium Virtutis III: Reitermonumente von der Antike bis zum Risorgimento – Form, Funktion, Symbolgehalt, eds. J. Poeschke and B. Kusch-Arnhold (Münster, 2008), 179-198 • “La fortuna di Palladio a Venezia tra Seicento e Settecento: le facciate delle chiese,” in Architettura delle facciate. Le chiese di Palladio a Venezia. Nuovi rilievi, storie, materiali, eds. A. Guerra and P. Modesti (Venice, 2009) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “«Architettura Venetiana». Antonio da Ponte, Leonardo Fioravanti e la rinascenza dello stile repubblicano alla fine del Cinquecento,” in Celebrazione e autocritica. La Serenissima e la ricerca dell’identità veneziana nel tardo Cinquecento, eds. B. Paul and G. Tagliaferro (2009) • (with L. Bader and F. Wolf, eds.) Vergleichendes Sehen (München, 2009) John Garton Dr. Clark University 35 directory of scholars CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 508.490.5797 120 Deerfoot Road Southborough, MA 01772 CURRENT RESEARCH: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, 16th-century Italian portraiture, Leonardo da Vinci RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Grace and Grandeur: The Portraiture of Paolo Veronese (Turnhout & London, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Co-author of the portraiture section of the exh. cat.: Venice 1540-1580: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese - Emulation, Rivalry, Influence (Boston, 2009) Ruthy Gertwagen Senior lecturer, and professor of Modern Hellenic Studies Haifa University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 04-8712767 30 Ranas St. Qiriat Motzkin, PB 117 26317 Israel CURRENT RESEARCH: Venice and its maritime empire up to 1500; Medieval and early modern Mediterranean trade, navigation routes, ships, ports and port towns and naval warfare; History of Mediterranean and Black Sea marine environment and ecology since medieval period up to the twenties century; Project Leader of the History of marine environment in the Venetian Lagoon and the Venetian Lagoon since the Middle Ages RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Does Naval Activity – Military and commercial – need Artificial Ports? The Case of Venetian Harbours and Ports in the Ionian and Aegean till 1500,” Graeco Arabica Festschrift for Professor Christides 9-10 36 (2005): 163-181 • “Harbours and Port Facilities along the Sea Lanes to the Holy Land,” in How They made War in the Crusader Period, ed. J. Pryor (Ashgate, 2006), 95-111 • “The Emergence of the Cult of Saint Mary, the Virgin, as a Marine Patron” Journal of Mediterranean Studies (2006): 149-162 • (ed. with C. Vassalo), “Making waves in the Mediterranean/sulle onde Mediterraneo,” Journal of Mediterranean Studies (2006) • “The Contribution of Venice’s colonies to its naval warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Fifteenth century,” Rivista Mediterranea. Ricerche storiche 4 (2007): 113-173 • “Corfu and its port in the Venetian policy in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (14th and 15th centuries),” Journal of International Maritime History 19/1 (2007): 181210 • (ed.) Il mare. Come’era. Le interazioni tra humo ed ambiente nel Mediterraneo dall’Epoca Romana al XIX secolo: una visione storica ed ecologica delle attività di pesca, Supplemento ai Quaderni ex ICRAM • “Approccio Multidisciplinare allo studio dell’ambiente marino e della pesca nel Medioevo Mediterraneo orientale,” in Il mare. Come’era, 144-182 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Acre,” “Ascalon,” and “Tyre,” in Dictionaires des orders militaries au Moyen Âge (2008) • Review article of History of Marine Animal Popualtion (HMAP) and the Mediterranean (December 2009) • “Venice’s policy towards the Defense of its Maritime Empire against the Ottomans in the fifteenth century,” Thesaurismata Dieter Girgensohn CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 49/551/55200 Fax: 49/551/4888613 Brüder-Grimm-Allee 42 37075 Göttingen Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Ecclesiastical and social history in the later Middle Ages; concerning Venice: promissioni dogali, testaments of doges and dogaresse, the Foscari family; Padua in the 14th-15th cent.: university, canon law teaching, especially Francesco Zabarella RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Alencon (d’) Filippo, patriarca di Aquileia”; “Caetani Antonio, patriarca di Aquileia”; “Pancera Antonio, patriarca di Aquileia”; “Teck (di) Ludovico, patriarca di Aquileia,” in Nuovo Liruti. Dizionario biografico dei Friulani 1: Il Medioevo, ed. C. Scalon (Udine 2006), 1:97-106, 182-189, 2:628-641, 811-821 • “Sui rapporti fra autorità civile e Chiesa negli Stati italiani del Quattrocento,” in L’Italia alla fine del Medioevo: i caratteri originali nel quadro europeo, ed. F. Salvestrini (Firenze 2006), 117-142 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Kehrs Regesta pontificum Romanorum: Entstehung - wissenschaftlicher Ertrag - organisatorische Mängel,” in Das Papsttum und das vielgestaltige Italien. Hundert Jahre Italia pontificia, ed. K. Herbers • Le promissioni dei dogi di Venezia nel basso Medioevo • I Foscari. L’ascesa di una famiglia nobile nella Venezia del basso Medioevo Susan Grange Open University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars Tel: 07974 000291 Fax: 0115 9251516 Pasture House 8 Linden Grove Beeston Nottingham NG9 2AD UK Contexts and Contestations, eds. R. Delph, M. Fontaine, and J. Martin (Kirksville, 2006), 135-50 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Music in Venetian Renaissance Art • The University of Mantua, The Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584-1630 (Baltimore, 2009) • Articles on Ballplaying in Italian Universities, other topics Paul F. Grendler Giuseppe Gullino CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: CURRENT RESEARCH: Professor of History Emeritus University of Toronto [email protected] Tel: 919-929-9505 Fax: 919-929-5773 110 Fern Lane Chapel Hill, NC 27514 CURRENT RESEARCH: Jesuit Higher Education in Italy 15501700 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Italian Biblical Humanism and the Papacy, 1515-1535,” in Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus, ed. E. Rummel (Leiden, 2008), 227-76 • “The Life and Death of the University of Mantua, 1624-1630,” The Journal of the Historical Society 8 (2008): 601-626. • “Continuity and Change in Italian Universities Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” in Renaissance Medievalisms, ed. K. Eisenbichler (Toronto, 2009), 33-51 • “Giacomo Antonio Marta: Antipapal Lawyer and English Spy, 16091618,” The Catholic Historical Review 93 (2007): 789-814 • “Humanism: Ancient Learning, Criticism, Schools and Universities,” in Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism, ed. A. Mazzocco (Leiden, 2006), 73-95 • “Gasparo Contarini and the University of Padua,” in Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: VOLUME 26 2007 Professor University of Padua [email protected] Tel: +393497105582 Via F. Parri, 5 30126 Lido di Venezia (VE) Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: Atlante della Repubblica Veneta, dalle origini alla caduta RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Atlante della Repubblica Veneta 1790 (Sommacampagna, 2007) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Da Como a Venezia: economia e politica dei Rezzonico,” in Atti del Convegno su Carlo Rezzonico (Clemente XIII) Padova, 12 novembre 2008 Linda Guzzetti Dr. CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Prinzenalle 58E 13359 Berlin Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Women and law courts in late Middle Ages; Dowries in Venice and Treviso FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Testamentsforschung in Europa seit den 70er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts,” in Seelenheil und irdischer Besitz. Testamente als Quellen für den Umgang mit den “letzten Dingen”, eds. M. Herzog and C. Holberg (Konstanz, 2007), 17-33 • “Caratteristiche dei testamenti degli immigrati a Venezia e a Creta nel secolo XIV,” in ‘Oltre la morte’. Testamenti di Greci e Veneziani redatti a Venezia o in Grecia durante la venetocrazia nei sec. XIV-XIXª (Venice, 2008) • “Donne, denaro e navi: i contratti di ‘colleganza’;” “I mestieri delle donne;” “Le donne e le scuole di devozione,” in Storia di Venezia, città delle donne. Guida ai tempi, luoghi e presenze femminili. ed. T. Plebani (Venezia, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Women in Court in Early Fourteenth-Century Venice,” in Gender, Kinship, and Property in the Wider Mediterranean, eds. S. Kelly and J. Sperling (Routledge) Jason Hardgrave Assistant Professor of History University of Southern Indiana CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 812-465-1221 Department of History 8600 University Boulevard Evansville, IN 47712 CURRENT RESEARCH: Law, gender, and education Johanna Heinrichs Princeton University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 516.712.9095 Department of Art & Archaeology 105 McCormick Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 CURRENT RESEARCH: Dissertation, “Between City and Country: The Residential Suburb in Renaissance Italy” 37 directory of scholars Paul Hills Professor Courtauld Institute of Art CONTACT INFORMATION: • [email protected] Tel: 0044 020-7848-2777 Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R ORN UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Curtains, veils and drapes in Renaissance Venice • • RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Titian’s Fire: Pyrotechnics and Representations in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” Oxford Art Journal 30.2 (July 2007): 185-204 • “Tintoretto and Venetian Gothic,” in Jacopo Tintoretto: Proceeeding of the International Symposium, ed. M. Falomir (Madrid, 2009), 13-18 • Jean-Claude Hocquet Directeur de recherche émérite Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique • CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 33 3 20129245 3/33 rue Chambre des Comptes 59000 Lille France CURRENT RESEARCH: Venise au Moyen Age; Histoire maritime et financière; Relations avec la Terraferma. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Venise et la Mer, XIIe-XVIIIe siècles (Paris, 2006) • “Relaciones marítimas y navegaciones mediterráneas en el siglo,” in Ibn Jaldún. El Mediterráneo en el siglo XIV: Auge y declive de los Imperios (Sevilla, 2006), 204-09 • “Due risorse maritime associate, il sale e il pesce. Profilo storico,” in Ricchezza del mare. Ricchezza dal 38 • mare, secc. XIII-XVIII, 2 vols., ed D. Cavaciocchi (Florence 2006), 235-65. “Venise et le monde turc,” in Venise et l’Orient, Catalogue de l’Exposition, ed. S. Carboni (Paris, 2006), 36-51 Venise et l’Islam, un film de Robert Pansard-Besson, présenté par Brahim Alaoui, Arkab Productions, Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Oct. 2006) “The Cultural and Historical Context. Venice and the Turks,” in Venice and the Islamic World (New Haven, 2007), 35-51 “La pisciculture dans les valli de la lagune de Venise et de Comacchio : élevage, commercialisation, consommation de l’anguille,” in Les Nourritures de la mer de la criée à l’assiette. Conservation, commerce et pratiques alimentaires des produits de la mer, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, eds. É. Ridel, É. Barré et A. Zysberg (Caen, 2007), 91-102 “Le crédit dans l’économie du sel à Venise à la fin du Moyen Age : crédit à la consommation, investissement et crédit public,” Studi Veneziani 51-52 (2006): 133-144 “Giacomo Badoer et le commerce de l’alun et des cendres à Constantinople au XVe siècle,” Thesaurismata 37 (2007): 87-100 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Le Sel et la fortune de Venise, III – Etat, marchés, finance (Paris 2009) • “Exploitation salinière et immigration à Torcello à la fin du XIIe siècle,“ in Gli orizzonti di un tempo antico, Miscellanea di Studi e Memorie Torcellane, Quaderni Torcellani 3 • “Les relations entre Venise et la Flandre et le commerce des draps de laine à la fin du Moyen Âge,” Bulletin de la Commission Historique du Nord, Histoire – Archéologie • “I porti di Venezia alla fine del Medioevo,” in Mediterraneo. Archeo-logia navale e storia marittima dall’Antichità al XX secolo • “Le sel dans une économie coloniale : Venise et les sels grecs ,” in Le paysage du sel portugais – entre la tradition technologique et l’industrialisation Leofranc Holford-Strevens Dr CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +44 1865 552808 Fax: +44 1865 512237 67 St Bernard’s Road Oxford OSX 6EJ UK Annika Höeppner Magister Atrium Philipps-Universität Marburg CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +49 (0) 6421 28-22186 Fax: +49 (0) 6421 28-28951 Kunstgeschichtliches Institut der Philipps-Universität Marburg Biegenstr. 11 35032 Marburg Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Interior decorations of Venetian palaces in the period of 1680-1730; Comparison of the representation of the old and the new nobility FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Repräsentation des venezianischen Adels am Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Bildzyklen in den Saloni der Ca’Dolfin und der Ca’Sandi,” in Herrschaft – Architektur – Raum, eds. S. Hahn and M. Sprenger (Berlin, 2008) Liz Horodowich Assistant Professor of History N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars New Mexico State University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 505-646-1515 History Department, MSC 3H New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 CURRENT RESEARCH: Foul Language and Obscenity in Sixteenth-Century Venice; Venice and the New World RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge, 2008) • “Cecilia Ferrazzi and the Pursuit of Sanctity in the Early Modern World,” in Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe, eds. M. King and A. Rabil Jr. (Chicago and London, 2006), 176-82 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • A Brief History of Venice (London, 2009) April Hough University of Nottingham CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 07515893444 Flat 2 88 Tilehouse Street Hitchin Hertfordshire SG5 2DU UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Tintoretto’s paintings for the Venetian parish churches Deborah Howard Professor of Architectural History University of Cambridge CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +44 1223 332975/339360 Fax: +44 1223 740399 Faculty of Architecture & VOLUME 26 2007 History of Art 1 Scroope Terrace Cambridge CB2 1PX UK CURRENT RESEARCH: 16th-century Venetian architecture Cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean; Architecture & Music in Renaissance Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Cultural transfer between Venice and the Ottomans in the 15th and 16th centuries,” in Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, vol. IV, Forging European identities 1400 - 1700, ed. H. Roodenburg (Cambridge, 2007), 138-177 • “Venice and the Mamluks,”and “Venice as an ‘Eastern City,’” in Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797, ed. S. Carboni, exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum (New York, 2007), 58 – 71, 72-89 • “Venice and Islam in the Middle Ages: Some Observations on the Question of Influence,” (reprint of article first published in Architectural History in 1991), in Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World, ed. E. Hoffman (London, 2007), 398-404 • “Venezia città “orientale”’ in Venezia e l’Islam 827-1979, ed. S. Carboni, exh. cat., Palazzo Ducale (Venice, 2007), 79-105 • “The State’ in Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance: Venice and the Veneto, ed. P. Humfrey (Cambridge, 2007), 33-91 • “Memories of Egypt in Medieval Venice’ in Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East, eds. A. Akasoy, J. Montgomery and P. Pormann (Exeter, 2007), 119-134 • “Architectural Politics in Renaissance Venice,” in Proceedings of the British Academy (2008) • “Palladio and Venetian Republicanism,” in Palladio: 1508-2008. Il simposio del cinquecentenario, eds. F. Barbieri, D. Howard, et al. (Venice, 2008), 294-299 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “The Great Rialto Bridge Debate,” in Public Buildings in early Modern Europe (16th-18th Century), part I: Government, Justice and Economy, ed. K. Ottenheym (Paris) • (with L. Moretti) Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics (New Haven, 2009) • “Power and practicality at Palmanova: the role of Marc’Antonio Barbaro,” in Celebrazione e autocritica: la Serenissima e la ricerca dell’identità veneziana nel tardo Cinquecento, eds. B. Paul and G. Tagliaferro Lyle Humphrey Independent Scholar CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 919-608-9599 1606 Craig Street Raleigh, NC 27608 CURRENT RESEARCH: The production, illumination, and use of Venetian confraternity rule books (mariegole); manuscript illumination from the Veneto; history of the Venetian confraternities and guilds. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Cristoforo Cortese’s Signed Frontispieces in the Museo Civico Amedeo Lia, La Spezia and the Mariegola of the Scuola dei Milanesi of Venice,” Rivista di Storia della Miniatura 12 (2008): 81-94 Holly Hurlburt Associate Professor, History/Women Southern Illinois University, Carbondale CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (618) 453-7867 39 directory of scholars Fax: (618) 453-5440 Department of History Mailcode 4519 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 CURRENT RESEARCH: Caterina Corner; Gender and Venetian Empire RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “A Renaissance for Renaissance Women?” (review essay) Journal of Women’s History 19 (2007) • The Dogaressa of Venice, 12001500: Wife and Icon (Palgrave, 2006) • “Gender and Rulership: The Italian Case,” History Compass 4 (2006) (www.history-compass.com) • “Dogaresse,” and “Caterina Corner,” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2006) David Jacoby Professor Emeritus Hebrew University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 972-2-5860380 (home) Fax: 972-2-5865526 (home) Department of History Hebrew University Jerusalem 91905 Israel CURRENT RESEARCH: Economy and society in Byzantium, the former territories of Byzantium after the Fourth Crusade, the Crusader states of the Levant and Egypt; Intercultural exchanges between the West and the eastern Mediterranean in the 11th-15th centuries; Medieval silk production and trade in the Mediterranean region (a book in progress) RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Byzantium, the Italian Maritime Powers, and the Black Sea before 1204,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 100 (2007): 677-699 40 • “Multilingualism and Institutional Patterns of Communication in Latin Romania (Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries),” in Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000-1500. Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication, eds. A. Beihammer, M. Parani and C. Schabel (Leiden, 2008), 27-48 • “The Jews in Byzantium and the Eastern Mediterranean: Economic Activities from the Thirteenth to the Mid-Fifteenth Century,” in Wirtschaftsgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Juden: Fragen und Einschätzungen, eds. Michael Toch unter Mitarbeit von Elisabeth Müller-Luckner (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Kolloquien 71) (München, 2008), 25-48 • “Marino Sanudo Torsello on Trade Routes, Commodities, and Taxation,” in Philanagnostes. Studi in onore di Marino Zorzi, eds. C. Maltezou and P. Schreiner (Venezia, 2008), 185-197 • “Die Kreuzfahrerstadt Akko,” in Burgen und Städte der Kreuzzugszeit, ed. M. Piana (Petersberg, 2008), 242-251 • “Silk Production,” in The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, eds. E. Jeffreys, J. Haldon and R. Cormack (Oxford, 2008), 421-428 • “The Greeks of Constantinople under Latin Rule, 1204-1261,” in The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions, ed. T. Madden (Farnham, 2008), 53-73 • “After the Fourth Crusade,” in The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500-1492, ed. J. Shepard (Cambridge, 2008), 731-758 • “Caviar Trading in Byzantium,” in Mare et Litora. Essays presented to Sergei Karpov, ed. R. Shukurov (Moscow, 2009), 349-364 • “Benjamin of Tudela and his ‘Book of Travels,”” in Venezia incrocio di culture. Percezioni di viaggiatori europei e non europei a confronto, eds. K. Herbers and F. Schmieder, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Ricerche 4 (Rome, 2008), 135-164. Claire Judde de Lariviere PhD Lecturer, Université Toulouse II Honorary research fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0033610894735/00447910389203 Département d’Histoire Université Toulouse II5, allées Antonio Machado 31058 Toulouse cedex France CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Society: social relations and interactions, 15th-16th centuries; The ‘popolani’: forms of sociability; Public and Private in Venice; The economic practices of the Venetian patricians, 15th-16th centuries RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Naviguer, commercer, gouverner. Économie maritime et pouvoirs à Venise (XVe-XVIe siècles) (Leiden, 2008) • “La decima vénitienne (XVe-XVIe siècles) : reflet d’une société en mutation,” in De l’estime au cadastre en Europe (Paris, 2007), 497-511 • Il naufragio della Querina. Veneziani nel circolo polare artico, Postfazione (Rome, 2007) • “De l’impossible discours aux formes de l’action. La fidélité politique à Venise, XVe-XVIe siècles,” Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée 118 (2006): 217-225 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “La frontière rapprochée : conflits au sein de la société vénitienne au temps de la ligue de Cambrai (15081516),” in Las sociedades fronterizas del Mediterráneo al Atlántico (ss. XVI-XVII), Actes du colloque N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars organisé par la Casa de Velázquez et Framespa Paul Kaplan Professor of Art History Purchase College, SUNY CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 914-251-6581 Fax: 914-251-6559 87 Maple St. Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 CURRENT RESEARCH: Images of black Africans in Venice; Old Testament subjects in Venetian art; Giorgione RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Old Testament Heroes in Venetian High Renaissance Art,” in Beyond the Yellow Badge: New Approaches to Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture, ed. M. Merback (Leiden, 2008), 277-303 • “Giorgione’s Assault: War and Rape in Renaissance Venice,” in Early Modern Visual Allegory: Embodying Meaning, eds. C. Baskins and L. Rosenthal (Aldershot, 2007), 77-90 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Italian Art,” in vol. 3, and “Introduction,” in vol. 2, in The Image of the Black in Western Art (Cambridge, MA, 2010) • “Black Turks: European Artists and the Ethnicity of Ottoman Subjects,” in The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, ed. J. Harper (Ashgate, 2008) • “Blacks in European Art;” “Blacks in European Heraldry;” “Frederick II of Hohenstaufen;” “Blacks and the Holy Roman Empire,” in Encyclopedia of Blacks in European Civilization, ed. E. Martone (Westport, CT, 2009) Marina Del Negro Karem Adjunct Professor VOLUME 26 2007 Spalding University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 502-499-0213 3011 Weather Way Louisville, Kentucky 40220 CURRENT RESEARCH: Ongoing study on the representation of Jewish figures in Venetian art. Title: Venice and the Jews: A Reflection in the Visual Arts. Preliminary studies published on website: Venetian Jewish Anthology FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “The Merchants of Venice: A View of the Serenissima from the Northern Perspective,” (2008) Evelyn Karet Research Fellow Clark University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 508-798-3011 15 Denison Road Worcester, MA 01609 CURRENT RESEARCH: Early North Italian drawings; Antonio II Badile album of early Renaissance drawings (c. 1500); miniature cuttings from the circle of Stefano da Verona; Patronage situation in Verona; Michelino da Besozzo; Lodovico Moscardo Collection RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (with P. Windows), “The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings,a reconstruction of an early sixteenth century collection,” Arte Lombarda 145/3 (2005): 23-56 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings (c. 1500) and the Origins of Collecting in Verona (Ashgate) • “Felice Feliciano, 1433-1480;” “Lodovico Moscardo, 1611-1681;” “Francesco Conte Miniscalchi Erizzio, 1810-1875;” “Mario Conte Minisclchi Erizzio, 1881-1957;” in Die Italianischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Generalverzeichnis Bd. 5 (Vienna, 2009-10) Margaret King Professor Brooklyn College & Grad Center, CUNY CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 718-224-5066 Fax: 718-428-5516 324 Beverly Road Douglaston, NY 11363 CURRENT RESEARCH: Mothers and Sons, a history of the maternal role in the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological formation of successful or powerful sons RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “The Emergence of Mother as Teacher in Early Modern Europe,” in The Renaissance in the Streets, Schools, and Studies: Essays in Honour of Paul F. Grendler, eds. K. Eisenbichler and N. Terpstra (Toronto, 2008), 41-86 • “Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go,” (review essay), Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2007): 371-407 • (with A. Rabil, Jr., eds.) Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe (Chicago, 2007) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: “Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies,” in A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance, eds. W. Bynum and L. Kaloff (London, 2009) Michael Knapton Associate Professor Dipartimento di scienze storiche e documentarie, Università di Udine CONTACT INFORMATION: 41 directory of scholars [email protected] Tel: 0444-523146 (h) Via Valsugana 10 36051 Creazzo (VI) Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: a) (with J. Law, G. Mazzi, G.M. Varanini) edition of Marin Sanudo’s Itinerario per la terraferma (1483). b) (with P. January) conference paper on the impact of Venetian military organization on terraferma society at the time of the war of Gradisca. c) discussion of the results so far obtained in the Fondazione Benetton’s research project on “Le campagne trevigiane”. d) the history of the mountain community of Durlo (northwest Vicentino) in the early modern centuries. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (with P. January) “Terraferma Society and Venetian Demands For Defence: the Provision of Lodgings in the Early Seventeenth Century,” in «Venezia non è da guerra». L’Isontino, la società friulana e la Serenissima nella guerra di Gradisca (1615-1617), eds M. Gaddi and A. Zannini (Udine, 2008), 293-320. • (with P. January), ”The Demands Made on Venetian Terraferma Society For Defence in the Early Seventeenth Century,” Ateneo Veneto 194, 3a s., 6/II (2008): 25-115 [email protected] Tel: +49-(0)391-5354818 Fax: +49-(0)391-5354824 Guerickestr. 35 D-10587 Berlin Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Social history of the artist in mediaeval and Renaissance Venice; Art, identity and politics of the citizen in early modern Venice; The impact of Italian art on Northern Germany in the thirteenth century RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Künstler als Mitglieder venezianischer Bruderschaften im 14. und frühen 15. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der Scuola di Santa Maria della Misericordia,” in Verwandtschaft, Freundschaft, Bruderschaft. Soziale Lebens- und Kommunikationsformen im Mittelalter, ed. G. Krieger, Berlin 2009): 151-175 • “Künstler und ihre Brüder. Maler, Bildhauer und Architekten in den venezianischen Scuole Grandi (bis ca. 1600),” Berliner Schriften zur Kunst 22 (Berlin, 2008) • “Der venezianische Karneval zwischen Tradition und Neubeginn,” in Tagungsband „Fest- und Feiertagskulturen in Europa,” ed. R. Fikentscher (Halle, 2007), 55-78 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (with J. Law) Introductory essay in critical edition of Marin Sanudo’s Itinerario per la terraferma (1483), ed. G.M. Varanini (Diabasis, 2009). • “Venezia,” in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. R. Bjork (Oxford, 2010) • “In besonderer Mission. Der griechische Kardinal Bessarion wird Venezianer und erklärt die Venezianer zu Griechen,” in Fremde in der Stadt. Ordnungen, Repräsentationen und Praktiken (13.-15. Jahrhundert), (Internationale Tagung Trier 15.-16. Febr. 2008), eds. G. Wolf, P. Bell, D. Suckow (2009) Gabriele Koester Benjamin Kohl FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg CONTACT INFORMATION: 42 Professor of History Emeritus Vassar College CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 410-348-5858 PO Box 166 1 Bayview Road, N. 8 Betterton MD 21610 CURRENT RESEARCH: Database: Rulers of Venice, with Monique O’Connell and Andrea Mozzato, for RSA website, spring 2009; Book: Governance of Late Medieval Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Two Humanist Accounts of the Carrara Dynasty in Padua,” in Chronicling History, Chroniclers and Historians in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, eds. S. Dale et al. (Penn State, 2007), 223-48 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Venezia - Senato, Vols. 4-12 (20048), “ (review essay) Studi Veneziani (2008) • “The Myth of the Renaissance Despot,” in Philip Jones Memorial Volume (Ashgate, 2009). • Ruler of Venice, 1332-1524, online RSA website (2009) Catherine Kovesi Dr University of Melbourne CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +61 03 8344 8160 Fax: +61 03 8344 7894 School of Historical Studies University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria, 3010 Australia CURRENT RESEARCH: Luxury discourses and consumption in Renaissance Italy RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Engendering Lust in Early Modern Italy: Pisanello’s Luxuria,” in Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. M. Cassidy-Welch and P. Sherlock (Turnhout, 2008) N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars • (with L. Polizzotto), Memorie di Casa Valori (Florence, 2007) • “Sumptuary Law,” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. M.C. Schaus (London, 2006), 784-5 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Regulating Consumption and Ritual Behaviour,” in A Medieval Reader, eds. F. Andrews, K. Jansen, and J. Drell (Philadelphia, 2009) Heiner Krellig Dr. CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +39 (0) 30 3927547 Wittstocker Str. 21 10553 Berlin Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Virtual reconstruction of the collection of Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg; Artistic Relations between Venice and the “Northern” Countries, especially Prussia and Britain; Venetian art in 18th Century Prussian collections (Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Frederic the Great, Sigismund Streit), Venetian Townscape Painting; Italian Landscape Painting before 1800 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Das ganze Leben. Zur Figurenstaffage in Canalettos frühen Venedig-Ansichten,” in Canaletto. Ansichten vom Canal Grande,” in Venedig, Kat. Kabinettausstellung anlässlich der Restaurierung zweier Gemälde von Giovanni Antonio Canal, genannt Canaletto, eds. A. Henning, A. Börner and A. Dehmer (Dresden, 2008), 29-37 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Arte veneziana nelle collezioni del area di lingua Tedesca nel Settecento,” in Il collezionismo d’arte a Venezia. Il Settecento, eds. L. Borean and S. Mason • “Il feldmaresciallo Johann Matthias VOLUME 26 2007 von der Schulenburg, collezionista promotore della scuola veneziana di pittura?,” in Akten des Internationalen Kongresses Venezia mercato delle arti, Venedig 9.-11.10.2008 • “Der Feldmarschall Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg in Venedig und die Bedeutung seiner Kunstsammlung,” in Tagungsband: Mathias und Werner von der Schulenburg, Corfù, Ionian University • “Francesco Guardi: Der Brand im Öllager von San Marcuola, Venedig 1789,” in Urbs incensa. Ästhetische Transformationen der brennenden Stadt von der Antike bis in die frühe Neuzeit, in Tagungsband Selbständige Nachwuchsgruppe Das wissende Bild, Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut) Eve-Marie Lampron M.A. Université de Montréale CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 514-272-4784 8055 Lajeunesse, appartement 306 Montréal (Québec) Canada H2R 2J7 CURRENT RESEARCH: Ph. D. thesis (in process): “Construire des solidarités: le réseautage intellectuel et politique des femmes de lettres en France et en Italie (1770-1830)” Paola Lanaro Full Professor of Economic History Università di Venezia CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0412349154 Fax: 0412349176 Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche San Giobbe 30121 Venezia CURRENT RESEARCH: Storia economica urbana dell’Europa preindustriale; Storia dell’impresa e degli imprenditori in età preindustriale; Il ruolo economico della dote fra medioevo ed età moderna; La proprietà in età moderna; Storia economica della Repubblica di Venezia RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Gino Luzzatto,” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 66 (Rome) • “Periferie e spazi periferici nella città europea del medioevo e dell’età moderna ( secoli XIV – XIX) : le trasformazioni indotte dall’economia,” Società e Storia (2006) • “Struttura e organizzazione economica nella Verona della seconda metà del Quattrocento,” in Andrea Mantegna e le arti a Verona, ed. P. Marini (Venezia, 2006) • (with G. Favero), “Teaching urban history in Italian Universities,” in Teaching Urban History in Europe / L’enseignement de l’historie urbane en Europe, eds. R. Rodgers and D. Menjot (Leicester, 2006), 79-86 • “All’interno dell’attività di credito: il ruolo dei Monti di Pietà,” in Prestare ai poveri. Il credito su pegno e i Monti di Pietà in area mediterranea (secoli XV-XIX), ed. P. Avallone (Napoli, 2007), 43-54 • “Il mercante e l’imprenditore: l’evoluzione storica attraverso il lessico,” Annali di storia dell’impresa 18 (2007): 209-216 • (ed.) At the Centre of the Old World. Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland (Toronto, 2006) • “At the Center of the Old World: Reinterpreting Venetian Economic History,” in At the Center of the Old World, ed. P. Lanaro (Toronto, 2006) • “Corporations et confréries : les étrangers et le marché du travail à Venise (XVe-XVIIIe siècles),” Histoire urbaine 21 (2008): 31-48 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Flexibilité et diversification comme réponse au risque : les investisse43 directory of scholars ments du patriciat vénitien et de la « Terraferma » aux débuts de l’époque moderne, in Acte du Colloque, Rome, mai 2005, ed. B. Marin • “Le officine dei luoghi pii: l’esempio di Venezia,” in Istituzioni formative e agenti di sviluppo nell’Italia settentrionale (secc. XIX-XX), ed. G. Fontana (Milan, 2006) • (with P. Marini) “Un museo della città per Verona,” Città e storia (2008) John Law Dr Swansea University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 01792 205678 10 Penlan Crescent Uplands, Swansea SA2 0RL UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Venice and the Veneto in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance; The ‘despots’ of late medieval and renaissance Italy; Nineteenth century views of late medieval and renaissance Italy - and Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “The Da Varano lords of Camerino as condottiere princes,” in Mercenaries and Paid Men, ed. J. France (Leiden, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Editing a new edition of Marino Sanudo’s Itinerario • A collection of essays in memory of Philip Jones • A study of the ‘despots’ of late medieval and renaissance Italy • A study on the British view of the communal phase in Italian history from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries 44 Anna Laura Lepschy Professor of Italian University College London CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Department of Italian University College London Gower St. London WC1 E6BT UK 5 Winchester Wharf 4 Clink Street London SE1 9DL UK CURRENT RESEARCH: 18th-century Victorian Venice; Bajamonte Tiepolo conspiracy; Napoleonic Venice: portraiture, convents, the manicomio on San Servolo RECENT PUBLICATIONS: CURRENT RESEARCH: • “Venice: the islands of the mad,” Hidden Europe 17 (November 2007) Andrea Lermer FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Renaissance travellers in Venice Dr. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 49.(0)173/4881064 Fax: 49.(0)94.06 958152 Regensburger Str. 17 93098 Moosham Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: The “Prato della Valle” in Padova; The shaping of an urban space in the late Settecento RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Giotto’s Virtues and Vices in the Arena Chapel: The Iconography and the Possible Mastermind behind it,” in Out of the Stream. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Mural Painting, ed. L. Afonso (London, 2007), 291-317 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Besiegelung des Rathauses – der Veneçia-Tondo am Dogenpalast in Venedig,” in Siegel – Bild – Gruppe. Visualisierungsstrategien korporativer Siegel im Spätmittelalter, ed. M. Späth (in press) Michelle Lovric CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +44 207 357 8757 • The Undrowned Child (London, 2009) • The Book of Human Skin (London, 2010) Kate Lowe Professor Queen Mary, University of London CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Black Africans in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Venice; Knowledge of sub-Saharan Africa in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Power and institutional identity in Renaissance Venice: the female convents of S. M. delle Vergini and S. Zaccaria,” in The Trouble with Ribs: Women, Men and Gender in Early Modern Europe, eds. A. Korhonen and K. Lowe, COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2 (Helsinki, 2007) • “‘Representing’ Africa: ambassadors and princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402-1608,” Transactions of the N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars Royal Historical Society 17 (2007): 101-28 Cristian Luca Lecturer “Dunarea de Jos” State University of Galati CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (00 40) 236 41 56 41 int. 69 Fax: (00 40) 236 47 21 01 “Dunarea de Jos” State University Faculty of History and Philosophy Department of History Str. Garii nr. 63-65 RO–800003 Galati Romania CURRENT RESEARCH: Political, commercial and cultural relations between Venice, the Rumanian principalities and the eastern European area during the XVIth and the XVIIth centuries; The relations of the Venetian bailo in Constantinople with the Rumanians Rulers; The levantine trade during the Seicento RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Alcuni ordini sultanali con riferimento alla politica mercantile della Repubblica Veneta nell’area del Mar Nero negli ultimi decenni del XVII secolo,” in Enjeux politiques, économiques et militaires en Mer Noire (XIVe-XXIe siècles). Études à la mémoire de Mihail Guboglu, eds. F. Bilici, et al (Braila, 2007), 171–183 • “Échos européens des campagnes anti-ottomans au Bas-Danube: quelques avvisi italiens moins connus (1595-1596),” Istros 14 (2007): 427–446 • “Quelques notes et documents concernant la participation de la Transylvanie à la Guerre de Trente ans pendant la principauté de Gabriel Bethlen (1613-1629),” Revue Roumaine d’Histoire 46/1-4 (2007): 161–173 VOLUME 26 2007 • Dacoromano–Italica. Studi e ricerche sui rapporti italo-romeni nei secoli XVI-XVIII (Cluj-Napoca, 2008) • “Contributi alla biografia dei medici Jacopo Pylarino (1659-1718) e Bartolomeo Ferrati (?-1738),” in Vocatia istoriei. Prinos Profesorului Serban Papacostea, eds. O. Cristea and G. Lazar (Braila, 2008), 635–652 • “Documentary notes relative to the kinships of Levantines and Venetians with the Princely Families from Wallachia and Moldavia (16th–17th Centuries),” in Romanii in Europa medievala (intre Orientul bizantin si Occidentul latin). Studii in onoarea Profesorului Victor Spinei, eds. D. Teicu and I. Candea (Braila, 2008), 653–675 • (with A. Simon) “Documentary Perspectives on Stephen the Great and Matthias Corvinus,” Transylvanian Review 17/3 (2008): 85–113 • “Il regime giuridico dei mercanti stranieri in Valacchia e in Moldavia nel Cinque–Seicento,” in L’eredità di Traiano. La tradizione istituzionale romano-imperiale nella storia dello spazio romeno. ed. A. Castaldini (Bucharest, 2008), 195–208 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (ed. with V. Sirbu) Miscellanea Historica et Archaeologica in Honorem Professoris Ionel Candea (Braila, 2009) • “The Vlachs/Morlaks in the Hinterlands of Traù (Trogir) and Sebenico (Šibenik), Towns of the Venetian Dalmatia, during the 16th Century,” in Miscellanea Historica et Archaeologica, eds. V. Sirbu and C. Luca (Braila, 2009) • (ed. with I. Pop, F. Ciure) Documenti veneziani riguardanti i romeni e l’Europa Centro–Orientale nei secoli XVI-XVIII (Bucharest, 20092010) Alison Luchs Curator of Early European Sculpture National Gallery of Art CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 202-842-6096 Fax: 202-842-6933 Sculpture Department National Gallery of Art 2000-B South Club Drive Landover, MD 20785 CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Renaissance Sculpture and Decorative Arts; Italian Renaissance Sculpture RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Lo Scalpello e la pagina: I Lombardo e l’illustrazione del libro a Venezia,” in I Lombardo: architettura e scultura a Venezia tra ‘400 e ‘500, eds. A. Guerra, M. Morresi and R. Schofield (Venice, 2006), 136-159 • “Il mare e la salvezza: il repertorio di immagini marine nella tomba di Andrea Vendramin,” in Tullio Lombardo. Scultore e Architetto nella Venezia del Rinascimento, eds. M. Ceriana and A. Scapin (Venice, 2007), 2-14 • “Two Hercules Sculptures by Cristoforo Solari,” Burlington Magazine 149 (2007): 844-846 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • The Mermaids of Venice: Hybrid Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art • Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture (exh, cat.) Richard Mackenney Professor SUNY Binghamton CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 607 777 4421 Fax: 607 777 2896 Department of History 45 directory of scholars SUNY Binghamton PO Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 CURRENT RESEARCH: Public and Private in Renaissance Venice Thomas Madden Professor of History Saint Louis University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 314-977-7810 Fax: 314-977-1603 Department of History Saint Louis University 3800 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63108 CURRENT RESEARCH: Piety and Identity in Medieval Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (ed.) The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions (Brookfield, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Alexander III and Venice,” in Pope Alexander III (1159-1181), ed. D. Smith (Ashgate) • “Crusades” in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Oxford) Arnold E. Maurer 12047 Berlin Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: La Biennale di Venezia. History of an Art Institution; The Anglo-German colony in Venice in the 19th century; Russian Artists in Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “A terrible impressionist mania now prevails - against modern art in Venice around 1900,” in Prendergast in Italy, eds. N. Mathews and E. Kennedy, exh. cat., Williams College Museum of Art, Boston; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, (London/New York, 2009), 34-49 • “La Biennale di Venezia. Eine Ausstellungsinstitution im Wandel der Zeit,” in Die deutschen Beiträge auf der Biennale Venedig (1895-2007) (Köln/Stuttgart, 2007), 17-30 • “Queen of the Arts – Exhibitions, Festivals and Tourism in Fascist Venice 1922-1945,” in Creative Urban Milieus: Historical Perspectives on Culture, Economy, and the City, eds. M. Heßler and C. Zimmermann (Frankfurt a. M., 2008), 213-232 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • La Biennale di Venezia. Kontinuität und Wandel in der venezianischen Ausstellungspolitik 1895-1948 (Berlin, 2009) CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 413-534-7332 7 Cedar Ridge South Hadley, MA 01075 CURRENT RESEARCH: Biondo Flavio and renaissance thought RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Riflessioni storiche per Roma in eta’ rinascimentale: Il contributo del mondo anglofono,” Roma nel Rinascimento (2008): 1-27 • Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism (Brill, 2006) • “Kristeller and the Italian Vernacular” in Kristeller Reconsidered, ed. J. Monfasani (Italica Press, 2006) • “Un’idea politica italiana in Petrarca?” in Petrarca politico. Atti del Convegno (Roma-Arezzo, 19-20 marzo 2004) (Rome, 2006), 9-26 • “The Antiquarianism of Francesco Petrarca,” reprinted in The Renaissance: Critical Concepts and Historical Studies, vol. 1, ed. R. Black (London and New York, 2006), 322-341 Nan McElroy CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 340 341 3448 Daniel Maze Cannaregio 3427 30121 Venice Italy Im Krausfeld 17 D-53111 Bonn CONTACT INFORMATION: • Italy: Instructions for Use • France: Instructions for Use Jan Andreas May 438 S. Cloverdale Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036 Cav. Dr. M.A. CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +49(0)228 657194 Fax: +49(0)228 657194 Dr. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +49-(0)151-11834340 Weserstr. 217 46 Graduate Student UCLA [email protected] Tel: 2133044853 CURRENT RESEARCH: Gentile Bellini Angelo Mazzocco Professor Emeritus Mount Holyoke College RECENT PUBLICATIONS: FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Greece: Instructions for Use Sarah Blake McHam Professor Rutgers University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 732-932-0122 x15 Fax: 732-932-1261 N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars 81 Pheasant Hill Road Princeton, NJ 08540 CURRENT RESEARCH: Influence of Pliny the Elder on Italian Renaissance art and theory RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “La tomba del doge Giovanni Mocenigo: politica e culto dinastico,” in Tullio Lombardo, scultore e archtetto nella Venezia del rinascimento, Atti del convegno di studi, Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 4-6 aprile 2006, ed. M. Ceriana (Verona, 2007), 81-98 • “Now and Then: Recovering a Sense of Different Values,” in Depth of Field, The Place of Relief in the Time of Donatello, eds. D. Cooper and M. Leino (Bern, 2007), 305-50 • “Padua, Bassano, and Treviso,” in Venice and the Veneto, ed. P. Humfrey (Cambridge, 2007), 207-51 • “La Bottega dei Lombardo alla Cappella di Sant’Antonio e la teoria di Pomponio Gaurico,” in I Lombardo. Architettura e scultura a Venezia tra ‘400 e ‘500, eds. A. Guerra, M. Morresi, and R. Schofield (Venice, 2006), 224-39 • “Erudition on Display: The ‘Scientific’ Illustrations in Pico della Mirandola’s Manuscript of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History,” in Visualizing Medieval Medicine, 12001550, eds. J. Givens, K. Reeds, and A. Touwaide, (Aldershot, 2006), 83-114 • “Structuring Communal History through Repeated Metaphors of Rule. The Interior Decoration of the Palazzo della Signoria,” in Renaissance Florence: A Social History, eds. R. Crum and J. Paoletti (Cambridge, 2006; paperback edition, 2008), 104-37 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Tomba come testamento: Il monumento funerario di Andrea Bregno,” in Andrea Bregno: Il senso della forma, eds. C. Strinati and C. Cres- VOLUME 26 2007 centini (Rome, 2007) • “Reflections of Pliny in Giovanni Bellini’s Woman with a Mirror,” Artibus et Historiae (2009) • “Oedipal Palimpsest,” Source. Notes in the History of Art (2008) Daniel McReynolds Doctoral candidate Princeton University The Chronicle and Diary of Antonio Morosini; Venetians at Constantinople 1450-55 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Venice and Thessalonica 1423-1430: the Greek Accounts (Padua, 2006) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Venice and Constantinople 14501455 (2009) CONTACT INFORMATION: Sharon Michalove 206 Salem Ct. Apt. 11 Princeton, NJ 08540 CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 303-359-7599 CURRENT RESEARCH: Dissertation: Palladianism and architectural reform in 18th-century Venice. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Restoring the Teatro Olimpico: Palladio’s Contested Legacy,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 53 (2008): 153-212 Alexandra Melita Royal Holloway University of London CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] 51, Filikon Street Zakynthos 29100 Greece CURRENT RESEARCH: Magical Healing and the Greeks in Seventeenth Century Venice Adjunct Assistant Professor, Program in Medieval Studies University of Illinois [email protected] Tel: 217-377-2183 307 South McKinley Avenue Champaign, IL 61821 CURRENT RESEARCH: Travel writing, early printing, court culture, cultural exchange Heather Minor Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 217-333-1331 1014 W. University Ave. Champaign, IL 61821 CURRENT RESEARCH: G.B. Piranesi John Melville-Jones Mary Momdjian CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: Classics and Ancient History (M205) University of WA Crawley 6009 Western Australia 16641 Oldham Place Encino, CA 91436 Professor University of Western Australia [email protected] Tel: 61.(0)8.6488.2164 Fax: 61.(0)8.6488.1182 CURRENT RESEARCH: Graduate student UCLA [email protected] Tel: 818-981-9635 Fax: 818-981-0824 CURRENT RESEARCH: I am researching the Levantine merchants who travelled from Venice and 47 directory of scholars Florence and worked and sometimes stayed in the city of Aleppo/Syria during the 17th - 19th centuries. Julius Morche Mr University of Heidelberg CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +49 6221 547858 Fax: +49 6221 547862 University of Heidelberg Transcultural Studies Speyererstrasse 4-6 69115 Heidelberg Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian economic history, trade history, institutional economics Laura Morreale Dr. CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 202-237-6315 3210 Patterson St., NW Washington, DC 20015 CURRENT RESEARCH: Northern Italian vernacular historiography; website on the French of Italy Andrea Mozzato Dottore di ricerca in storia medievale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Elssholzstr. 19 10781 Berlin Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Storia del commercio e della manifattura (tessuti e spezie), Venezia XIV-XV secc.; Mobilità ed integrazione di artigiani forestieri, Venezia XIV-XV secc.; Edizione di fonti e banche dati RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Una preziosa materia prima. La 48 lana spagnola a Venezia fra Tre e Quattrocento,” Archivio Veneto Serie V, 170 (2008): 25-57 • “The production of Woolens in the 15th and 16th Centuries Venice,” in At the Center of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland (14001800), ed. P. Lanaro (Toronto, 2006) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Luxus und Tand: Der internationale Handel mit Rohstoffen, Farben, Brillen und Luxusgütern im Venedig des 15. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel des Apothekers Agostino Altucci,” in Luxusgegenstände und Kunstwerke in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (Irsee 14-16 marzo 2008), ed. M. Häberlein et al. (2009). • “Uno speziale aretino a Venezia nel secondo Quattrocento,” Annali Aretini (2009). • “Strategie produttive e di mercato di drappieri veneziani in area adriatica e levantina nel XV secolo,” in Acque, terre e spazi dei mercanti. Istituzioni, gerarchie, conflitti e pratiche dello scambio nel Mediterraneo dall’Età antica alla modernità, ed. D. Andreozzi, et. al. (Napoli, Trieste, Atene, 2008) Mara Mueller CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0041 78710 24 68 cism in 17th Century Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (with B. Levack, M. Maas, and M. Veldman), The West: Encounters and Transformations, 2d ed. (New York, 2007) • The Culture Wars of Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera (Cambridge, 2007) • “The Eye of the Procession: Ritual Ways of Seeing in the Renaissance,” in Ceremonial Culture in the Pre-Modern World, ed. N. Howe (Notre Dame, 2007) • “In Some Neighbors We Trust: On the Exclusion of Women from the Public in Renaissance Italy,” in Essays in Honor of John M. Najemy, ed. D. Peterson. Toronto, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Trexleriana: An Introduction,” in Power and Public Behaviors: Essays in Honor of Richard C. Trexler, edS. P. Arnade and M. Rocke (Toronto, 2008) Susan Nalezyty Ph.D. Candidate Temple University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 301.864.7998 6000 39th Pl. Hyattsville, MD 20782 CURRENT RESEARCH: Edward Muir “Il collezionismo poetico: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and the Formation of Collecting Practices in Venice and Rome in the Early Sixteenth Century,” dissertation, Temple University CONTACT INFORMATION: FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Department of History 1881 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208 Christiane Neerfeld Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor Northwestern University [email protected] Tel: 847-491-3653 Fax: 847-467-1393 CURRENT RESEARCH: Book project: The Culture of Skepti- • “Giovanni Bellini’s Feast of the Gods and Banquets of the Ancient Ritual Calendar.” Sixteenth Century Journal Dr. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars der Vereinigung zur Erforschung der Neueren Geschichte e.V., Bonn CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +49 - (0)228 - 686280 Hellstrasse 100 D-53332 Bornheim Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Diari veneziani; Pietro Dolfin RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • ‘Historia per forma di Diario.’ La cronachistica veneziana contemporanea a cavallo tra il Quattro e il Cinquecento (Venezia, 2006) Gabriele Neher Dr University of Nottingham CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (+44) 115 951 3184 Fax: (+44) 115 846 7778 Department of Art History, Lakeside Arts Centre The University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Cultural relations between Venice and the terraferma in the 15th and 16th centuries with particular focus on Brescia and Verona. I am in the process of finishing off a monograph for Ashgate on Brescia, Venice and Verona, with plans to look again at Romanino and Moretto after that. RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Verona and Vicenza,” in Venice and the Veneto, ed. P. Humfrey (Cambridge, 2008), 252-284 Tom Nichols Dr University of Aberdeen CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 01224 273783 VOLUME 26 2007 Department of History of Art King’s College Aberdeen AB24 3UB Scotland UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Renaissance painting; Imagery of poverty RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • The art of poverty: Irony and ideal in sixteenth-century beggar imagery (Manchester, 2007) • (ed.) Others and outcasts in early modern Europe: Picturing the social margins (Ashgate, 2007) • “Secular charity, sacred poverty: Picturing the poor in Renaissance Venice,” Art History 30.2 (April 2007): 139-69 • “Images of almsgiving and poverty in Venetian art of the sixteenth century,” in Armut und Armenfürsorge in der italienischen Stadtkultur zwischen 13. und 16. Jahrhundert, eds. P. Helas and G. Wolf (Frankfurt, 2006), 349-70 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Understanding Tintoretto’s ‘prestezza’: Literary and other approaches to the contested artistic culture of mid-Cinquecento Venice,” in Officine del nuovo: Sodalizi fra letterati, artisti ed editori nella cultura italiana fra Riforma e Controriforma, eds. H. Hendrix and P. Procaccioli (Rome, 2008) • “Defining genres: the survival of mythological painting in CounterReformation Venice,” in Forms of Faith in Sixteenth Century Italy, eds. A. Brundin and M. Treherne (Ashgate) • “False gods: Tintoretto’s mythologies as anti-poesie,” in Tintoretto: Actas del Congresso, ed. M. Falomir (Madrid, 2008) • “Saint Barnabé guérissant un malade de Paolo Véronèse et les images vénitiennes de la pauvreté et de la maladie,” in Venice et Paris 1500- 1700: La peinture vénitienne de la Renaissance et sa reception en France, ed. M. Hochmann (Paris, 2008) J. Mark Nicovich William Carey University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 601-447-7187 119 Short Bay Street Hattiesburg, MS 39401 CURRENT RESEARCH: The Poverty of Grado and the Chrysobull of 1082; Naval Crusading as a State Enterprise: Venice, Genoa and Pisa Rebecca Norris MPhil Student University of Cambridge CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 07531579278 26780 Kalmia Avenue Moreno Valley, CA 92555 Newnham College Sidgewick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DF UK Christopher Nygren PhD Candidate Johns Hopkins University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 443-600-4481 268 Mergenthaler Hall Baltimore, MD 21218 CURRENT RESEARCH: Titian’s religious paintings Dr Simon P. Oakes Executive Director The New Renaissance Project CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] 49 directory of scholars St. John’s College Oxford, OX1 3JP UK The Venetian maritime state; Venetian political culture and office-holding; Gender and empire CURRENT RESEARCH: FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Sixteenth-century Venetian and transalpine painting and drawing, especially the work of Bellini, Dürer, Giorgione, Sebastiano, and Titian RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Venetians in vogue,” Apollo 168, no. 560 (December 2008): 104-06 • “Venice’s golden age?,” Apollo 168, no. 559 (November 2008): 133-34 • “The attribution and sitter of the Munich ‘Portrait of a Young Man in a Fur Coat’,” Renaissance Studies 22.2 (2008): 143-53 • “Dürer e l’Italia,” Renaissance Studies 22.1 (2008): 116-28 • “The ghost of Giorgione,” Apollo (January 2008): 102-03 • “Dürers Antwort auf die Renaissance-Architektur Venedigs,” in Das Dürer-Haus: Neue Ergebnisse der Forschung, eds. G.U. Großmann and F. Sonnenberger (Nuremberg, 2007), 241-60 • “Bellini and The East,” Renaissance Studies 21 (2007): 422-32 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “‘Hieronymo Thodesco’ and the Fondaco dei Tedeschi: A reappraisal of the sources and documents relating to a German ‘architect’ in early Renaissance Venice,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte ( 2009) • “A note on Titian’s Doria Pamphilj ‘Judith’,” Apollo Monique O’Connell Assistant Professor of History Wake Forest University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 336-758-4711 Dept. of History, Box 7806 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7806 CURRENT RESEARCH: 50 • (with A. Mozzato and B. Kohl), Rulers of Venice, 1332-1524, (electronic edition of the Segretario alle Voci election registers with additions) • • Giulio Ongaro Professor University of Southern California CONTACT INFORMATION: • [email protected] Tel: (213) 740-3214 Fax: (213) 821-5686 8400 Day St. Sunland, CA 91040 CURRENT RESEARCH: Music in Early Modern Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “La composizione del coro e dei gruppi strumentali a San Marco dalla fine del Quattrocento al primo Seicento: indicazioni per la prassi esecutiva del repertorio marciano,” in Architettura e Musica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, eds. L. Moretti and D. Howard (Milano, 2006) • “Italy, 1520-1560,” in European Music, 1520-1640, ed. J. Haar (Boydell & Brewer, 2006) • • • Gherardo Ortalli Professore Università Ca’ Foscari • CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Dipt. di Studi Storici Dorsoduro, 3484/D I-30123 Venice Italy • RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Luoghi e messaggi per l’esercizio del potere negli anni delle sperimentazioni istituzionali,” in Pensiero e sperimentazioni istituzionali nella • ‘Societas Christiana’ (1046-1250) (Milano, 2007), 761-800 “Marco Polo and Europe: the discovery of the East,” in La via della seta e la civiltà cinese. Gengis Khan e il tesoro dei Mongoli (Treviso, 2007), 49-63 “The administrative choices and difficulties of the city centre,” in A Future for Venice? Considerations 40 years after the 1966 flood (TurinLondon, 2008), 19-27 “Božji sud u dalmatinskim i istarskim područjima i međusobna statutarna povezanost mletaka i općina pod njihovom vlašću (L’ordalia in terra dalmata e istriana e la dialettica statutaria fra Venezia e le comunità del Dominio),” Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci 28 (2007): 905-930 “Colpire la fama e garantire il credito tra legge e propaganda. Il ricorso all’immagine,” in La fiducia secondo i linguaggi del potere, ed. P. Prodi (Bologna, 2007), 325-357 “Nascere sull’acqua. La lunga genesi di Venezia,” in L’acqua nei secoli altomedievali, Spoleto 2008 (Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, LV), 141-182 “At the origins of the idea of Europe,” in Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti. Annual Meeting 2007-2008 Academic Year (Venezia, 2008), 29-39 “Venezia allo specchio. Costruire la propria immagine,” in La diversa visuale. Il fenomeno Venezia osservato dagli altri (Roma-Venezia, 2008), 200-219 “La Chiesa di Roma, Costantinopoli e l’idea di Europa al tempo del Piccolomini,” in L’Europa dopo la caduta di Costantinopoli: 29 maggio 1453, Atti del XLIV Convegno storico internazionale (Spoleto, 2008), 435-466 “Grandi opere anti-Venezia,” Italia N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars Nostra Bollettino 436 (giugno 2008) • “Politica e festa: un risvolto nell’ambito dell’universo ludico,” in Festa e politica della festa nel medioevo (Roma, 2008), 207-230 • “Il mito di Venezia: mezzo secolo dopo,” in L’eredità culturale di Gina Fasoli. Atti del convegno di studi per il centenario della nascita (1905-2005) (Roma, 2008), 91-106 Duane Osheim Professor University of Virginia CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 434-977-6952` Fax: 434-924-7891 Department of History University of Virginia PO Box 400180 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4180 CURRENT RESEARCH: Responses to epidemic disease in Renaissance Italy RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Politics and Public Life in Renaissance Venice,” in Ritratti: La dimensione individuale nella storia (secoli xv-xx), festschrift for Anne Jacobson Schutte, eds. S. Seidel Menchi and R. Pierce (Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2008) • “Chronicles and Civic Life in Sercambi’s Lucca” in Chronicling History in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, eds, D. Osheim, S. Dale and A. Lewin (Penn State, 2008) CURRENT RESEARCH: History of the classical tradition, including the editing and publishing program of Antonio Moretto, Brescian humanist active in Venice c.1470-1513 (in collaboration with Ennio Sandal) RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (with E. Sandal), “La bottega del libraio-editore Antonio Moretto a Venezia: editoria e commercio librario, c.1480-1518,” in he Books of Venice. Il libro veneziano, eds. L. Pon and C. Kallendorf Miscellanea Marciana 20 (2005-2007), 231-50 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Pomponio Leto e Diano: un’eredità ambivalente,” in Atti della Conferenza “L’Assedio di Diano del 1497,” (Salerno). • “Testimonianze di ricerche antiquarie tra i fogli di Sallustio,” in Atti della Conferenza “Pomponio Leto: tra identità locale e cultura internazionale,” (Rome) • “Sallust,” in The Classical Tradition, eds. A. Grafton, G. Most, S. Settis (Cambridge, MA) • “Lectiones Sallustianae. Pomponio Leto’s annotations on Sallust: a commentary for the Academy?,” in From the Roman Academy to the Danish Academy in Rome (ARID, Supplementum), eds. M. Pade and C. Plessner (Rome) Gerassimos Pagratis Assistant Professor University of Athens, Department of Italian and Spanish Language and Literature Patricia Osmond CONTACT INFORMATION: CONTACT INFORMATION: Bouboulinas 13, Ano Ilioupoli 16345, Athens Greece Dr. (Visiting Assoc. Prof.) Iowa State University [email protected] Tel: (39) 06 68808552 Via Beato Angelico 23, int. 1 00186 Rome Italy VOLUME 26 2007 [email protected] Tel: 003.06972755311 Fax: 003.02107277494 CURRENT RESEARCH: Shipping Enterprises in the Venetian “Stato da Mar”: 15th-18th century; Social and Economic Prosopography of Corfu in the 16th century; Latin Missionaries in the Venetian Levante RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “‘Le fortune di mare’. accidenti della navigazione mercantile nei mari Ionio e Adriatico (1611-1795),” in Ricchezza del mare. Ricchezza dal mare, Secc. XIII-XVIII, ed. S. Cavaciocchi (Florence, 2006), 841-861. • “Merchants and Shipowners in Venetian Corfu in the first half of the Sixteenth Century,” in Following the Nereids. Sea routes and maritime business, 16th-20th centuries, eds. M. Chatziioannou and G. Harlaftis (Athens 2006), 31-43 • “The Ionian Islands under British Protection (1815-1864),” in The Anglosaxons in the Mediterranean, eds. C. Vassallo and M. D’ Angelo (Malta, 2007), 131-50 • “I Consolati della Repubblica Settinsulare (1800-1807) in Sicilia,” in 2nd Mediterranean Maritime History Network Conference, Messina/Taormina (3-7 May 2006), eds. M. d’Angelo, C. Vassallo (Messina 2008), 393-408 • The Reports of the Venetian Baili and Provveditori of Corfu (16th century) (Athens, 2008), 1-493. • Church and State in the Venetian Islands of the Ionian Sea. Documents regarding the activity of Italian Franciscan Missionaries from the Archive of the Sacra Congregazione de Propaganda Fide, 17th century (Athens, 2009), 1-311 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • The Maritime Enterprise of Corfu in the first half of the 16th century Seth Parry Dr. Emmanuel College CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (706) 245-7226 51 directory of scholars P.O. Box 425 Franklin Springs, GA 30639 CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Humanism and the Ottoman Turks Debra Pincus Independent Scholar / Art Historian CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 202-547-6916 619 Massachusetts Ave., NE Washington, D.C. 20002 CURRENT RESEARCH: Baptistery of San Marco; Tomb of Dante in Ravenna; Benedetto da Maiano and Verrocchio RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Giovani Bellini’s Humanist Signature. Pietro Bembo, Aldus Manutius and Humanism in Early SixteenthCentury Venice,” Artibus et Historiae 29 (Fall 2008): 89-119 • “Lo scorrere del tempo: Antonio Rizzo, Pietro e Tullio Lombardo e Michelangelo,” in Tullio Lombardo: Scultore e architetto nella Venezia del Rinascimento, ed. M. Ceriana, Atti di Convegno di Studi, Venezia, Fondazione Cini, 4-6 aprile 2006 (Venice, 2007), 279-290 • “La tomba di Dante a Ravenna: Le epigrafi e la lara storia,” in I Lombardo. Architettura e scultura a Venezia tra ‘400 de ‘500, eds. A. Guerra, M. Morresi and R. Schofield (Venice, 2006), 121-135 • (with B. Shapiro Comte), “A Drawing for the Tomb of Dante Attributed to Tullio Lombardo,” Burlington Magazine 148 (Autumn 2006): 734-746 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Venice and its Doge in the Grand Design: Andrea Dandolo and the Fourteenth-Century Mosaics of the Baptistery,” in Dumbarton Oaks Papers, essays from symposium, “From Enrico to Andrea Dandolo, 52 Imitation, Appropriation and Meaning a San Marco in Venice” • “The Turn Westward: Stylistic Lines in Fourteenth-Century Venetian Sculpture,” in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque: A Cat’s Cradle for Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, eds. D. Levine and J. Warren Freiberg Lisa Pon Assistant Professor Southern Methodist University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 214-768-2068 Fax: 214-768-3998 PO Box 750356 Dallas TX 75275-0356 CURRENT RESEARCH: Santini in the Scuole; History of the book in Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Do Art Historians in the 21st Century Have a Renaissance?,” in The Renaissance: The Art Seminar, eds. J. Elkins and R. Williams (London, 2008) • “Prints,” in International Encyclopedia of Communications (London, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (with C. Kallendorf and M. Zorzi) “The Books of Venice/Il Libro Veneziano,” Miscellanea Marciana • “Place, Print, and Miracle: Forlì’s Madonna of the Fire as Functional Site,” Art History (June 2008) Claudio Povolo Professore ordinario Dipartimento di Studi storici, Università di Venezia CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0444-321460 Contrà borghetto, 40 36100 Vicenza Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: Zanzanù: Storia, epopea e mito di un bandito del Seicento RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “La piccola comunità e le sue consuetudini,” in Tra diritto e storia. Studi in onore di Luigi Berlinguer promossi dalle Università di Siena e Sassari, II (Catanzano, 2008), 591-642 • “La virtù segreta. La presidenza di Bartolomeo Bressan al Liceo “A. Pigafetta (1866-1877),” in La navicella dell’ingegno. I duecento anni del Liceo Ginnasio “Antonio Pigafetta” 1807/8-2007/8 (Vicenza, 2008), 39-51 • “Giovan Maria Bertolli: l’ascesa di un giurista nella Venezia della seconda metà del Seicento,” in 300 anni di Bertoliana. Dal passato un progetto per il futuro, I (Iohannes Maria Bertolius Serenissimae Reipublicae Venetae Iuris Consultor) (Vicenza, 2008), 19-51 • “Pravni sistem Beneške republike: Benetke in njihov teritorij (XV.-XVIII. stol.),” Annales. Serie Historia et Sociologia 17.2 (2007): 241-276 • “Presentazione,” in La marina militare attraverso l’8 settembre 1943. Il senso dell’onore tra dimensione storica e dimensione retorica, by Concetta Ricottilli (Venezia, 2007), 7-10 • (ed.), Processo e difesa penale in età moderna (Bologna, 2007), con presentazione e saggio “Dall’ordine della pace all’ordine pubblico,” 15-107 • (ed. with G. Chiodi), Amministrazione della giustizia penale e controllo sociale nel Regno Lombardo-Veneto (Verona, 2007), con un saggio “Ritorno alla selva incantata,” 379-389 • “Uno sguardo rivolto alla religiosità popolare: l’inchiesta promossa dal Senato veneziano sulle festività religiose (1772-1773),” in Il culto N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars • • • • • dei santi e le feste popolari nella Terraferma veneta, ed. S. Marin (Venezia, 2007), XIX-LXIV “Retoriche della devianza. Criminali, fuorilegge e devianti nella storia (ideologie, storia, letteratura, iconografia...),” Acta Histriae 15 (2007), 1-51 La selva incantata. Delitti, prove, indizi nel Veneto dell’Ottocento. Saggio di etnografia giudiziaria (Verona, 2006) “Un sistema giuridico repubblicano: Venezia e il suo stato territoriale (secoli XV-XVIII),” in Il diritto patrio. Tra diritto comune e codificazione (secoli XVI-XIX), eds. I. Birocchi and A. Mattone (Roma, 2006), 297-353 “Il processo a Ottavio Trento, cartina di tornasole dei conflitti sociali (Lo stato delle cose),” in Storia economica e sociale di Bergamo. Il tempo della Serenissima. Settecento, età del cambiamento, eds. M. Cattini and M. A. Romani (Bergamo, 2006), 249-295 “Un rapporto difficile e controverso: Paolo Sarpi e il diritto veneto,” in Ripensando Paolo Sarpi, ed. C. Pin (Venezia, 2006), 395-416 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “A Political Laboratory: The Serenissima, its history and its constitution in XIX and XXth centuries,” in Nineteenth-Century Nationalism and the use of Mediaeval History, Manchester (13-14 march 2009) Theodore Rabb Emeritus Professor of History Princeton University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] History Dept. Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 CURRENT RESEARCH: Book on artists’s views of warfare VOLUME 26 2007 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Edition and translation of A Sixteenth-Century Book of Trades: Das Ständebuch by Hans Sachs, with woodcuts by Jost A mman Benjamin Ravid Professor Brandeis University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 617-969-9599 497 Ward Street Newton Centre, MA 02459-1108 CURRENT RESEARCH: Jews of Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Biblical Exegesis a la Mercantilism and Raison d`état in Seventeenth Century Venice: The Discorso of Simone Luzzatto,” in Bringing the Hidden to Light: the Process of Interpretation. Studies in Honor of Stephen A. Geller, eds. K. Kravitz and D. Sharon (Eisenbrauns, 2007), 169-186 • “How Other Really Was the Jewish Other? The Evidence from Venice,” in Acculturation and its Discontents: The Jews of Italy, eds. P. Reill et al. (Toronto, 2008), 19-55 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “All Ghettos Were Jewish Quarters but not all Jewish Quarters Were Ghettos, “ Jewish History and Culture 10: 2-3 (2008) • “Popular Religion in the Early-Modern Ghetto of Venice,” in Festschrift in Honor of Tzvi Abusch, eds. D. Wright, B. Porter and J. Stackert. • “Cum Nimis Absurdum and the Ancona Auto-da-Fé Revisited: Their Impact on Venice and Some Wider Reflections” in Festschrift in Honor of Kenneth Stow, eds. A. Teller, J. Chayes and F. Francesconi. • “The ‘Translator of the Hebrew Language’ of the Venetian Repub- lic and the Venetian Government as Preserver of Documents of the Venetian Jewish Community,” in Festschrift for Robert Bonfil, eds. E. Baumgarten et al. • Il Governo Veneziano e gli Ebrei,” in Venice and the Religious Experience Elizabeth Rodini Associate Director, Program in Museums and Society, and Senior Lecturer, History of Art The Johns Hopkins University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 410-653-6166; 410-516-4827 (w) Fax: 410-516-7502 6217 Sareva Drive Baltimore, Maryland 21209 CURRENT RESEARCH: Article “Marriage and Politics in Carpaccio’s St. Ursula Cycle” and a book-length study of Gentile Bellini’s London portrait of the Sultan focusing on the moment on its arrival in the collection of the National Gallery; Issues of mobility and migration as related to the visual culture of later 15th and 16th-century Venice and its connections with the Levant FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “The Sultan’s True Face? Gentile Bellini, Mehmet II, and the Value of Verisimilitude” in The ‘Turk’ and Islam in the Western Eye (1453-1832), ed. J. Harper (Ashgate, 2009) Dennis Romano Professor of History and Fine Arts Syracuse University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 315-443-5456 Fax: 315-443-5876 Department of History 145 Eggers Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244 53 directory of scholars CURRENT RESEARCH: Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy, c. 1100 to c. 1350 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari, 13731457 (New Haven, 2007) • “City-State and Empire: Historical Overview,” in Venice and its Empire, ed. P. Humfrey, in series Art Centers of the Renaissance (Cambridge, 2008), 9-30 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Equality in Fifteenth-Century Venice,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History Jan-Christoph Rößler Dr.-Ing. Fondazione Cini CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Castello 3331 I-30122 Venezia CURRENT RESEARCH: Architettura civile a Venezia e nel Veneto dal Trecento al Settecento RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Precisazioni su palazzo Barbarigo a San Polo e la sua collezione di quadri,” Arte veneta 64 (2007): 234-243 E Natalie Rothman Assistant Professor University of Toronto CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 416-287-7159 Department of Humanities University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail Toronto, ON M1C 1A4 Canada CURRENT RESEARCH: Cultural mediation in the early modern Mediterranean; The Venetian and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth and 54 seventeenth centuries; Dragomans; Converts; Commercial brokers; Historical anthropology; Alterity RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Becoming Venetian: Conversion and Transformation in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean,” Mediterranean Historical Review 21 (2006): 39-75 • “Self-Fashioning in the Mediterranean Contact Zone: Giovanni Battista Salvago and his Africa overo Barbaria (1625),” in Renaissance Medievalisms, ed. K. Eisenbichler (Toronto, 2008), 123-43 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Interpreting Dragomans: Boundaries and Crossings in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” Comparative Studies in Society and History • “Genealogies of Mediation: ‘Culture Broker’ and Imperial Governmentality,” in Anthro-History: Transforming the Disciplines, ed. D. Cohen (Michigan, 2009) • Between Venice and Istanbul: TransImperial Subjects in the Early Modern Mediterranean (in progress) • The Dragoman Renaissance: Venetian-Ottoman Diplomatic Interpreters in the Early Modern Mediterranean (in progress) Susannah Rutherglen Ph.D. candidate Princeton CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 609-933-9258 c/o Diane Schulte Dept. of Art & Archaeology 105 McCormick Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 Bruno Sabaila Universités Pantheon Assas & Sorbonne, Paris CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0033662542676 131 Bd de Grenelle 75015 PARIS France CURRENT RESEARCH: Birth of Venice : Facts and Legends; Venetian life in the XIIth and earlier centuries; The Venetian political and institutional system FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Les institutions vénitiennes au XIIe siècle : une ébauche de l’État moderne au Moyen Age • “Influence of the figure of Saint Mark Evangelist upon the Venetian political system formation” Rosa Salzberg PhD Candidate European University Institute CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] c/- 7/655 Victoria St. Abbotsford VIC 3067 Australia CURRENT RESEARCH: The dissemination of cheap print in Cinquecento Venice; Peddlers and street sellers in Venice and Florence FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “The Lyre, the Pen and the Press: Performers and Cheap Print in Cinquecento Venice,” Miscellanea Marciana, special issue “The Books of Venice,” eds. C. Kallendorf and L. Pon • “‘The richest man in Italy’: Aldo Manuzio and the value of male friendships,” in Practices of Gender in late medieval and early modern Europe, eds. P. Sherlock and M. Cassidy-Welch (Brepols, 2008) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Per le piaze & sopra il ponte: Reconstructing the Geography of Popular Print in Early SixteenthCentury Venice,” in Geographies of the Book, eds. C. Withers and M. Ogborn (2009) N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars Jennifer Scappettone Assistant Professor University of Chicago CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Dept. of English Walker 413 1115 E. 58th St. Chicago IL 60637 CURRENT RESEARCH: This Amphibious City: Venice and the Digressive Invention of the Modern, a critical manuscript on Venice’s role as a crucible for modern and postmodern aesthetic experimentation; Studies in contemporary poetry and poetics, including the work of Amelia Rosselli RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Utopia Interrupted: Archipelago as Structure in A Draft of XXX Cantos,” PMLA 22 (2007): 105-123; Reprinted in Miasto w Sztuce—Sztuka w Miescie (City in Art—Art in City), ed. E. Rewers • Guest Editor, Aufgabe 7 (2008): dossier on emergent Italian poetry and poetics. • “’Più mOndo i: tUtti!’: Traffics of Historicism in Jackson Mac Low’s Contemporary Lyricism,” Modern Philology 105 (2007): 185-212 • (with E. Adnan and L. Hejinian) Belladonna Elders Series # 5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse (Belladonna Books, 2009) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Versus Seamlessness: Tan Lin and the Poetics of Virtual and Junk Space,” boundary 2 36:3 (Fall 2009), special issue on poetry after 1975 Anne Markham Schulz Visiting Scholar Brown University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Fax: 401-863-7790 VOLUME 26 2007 Brown University Department of History of Art and Architecture Box 1855 Providence, RI 02912 CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Renaissance Sculpture RECENT PUBLICATIONS: FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Precisazioni su Giambattista e Lorenzo Bregno,” Arte veneta 64 (2007): 6-27 • “The Choir Stalls in the Venetian Church of Santo Stefano and Related Works by Leonardo Scalamanzo,” Burlington Magazine 150 (2008): 656-663 • Ten entries in La Scuola Grande di San Rocco a Venezia, (Miraliblia Italiae), eds. F. Posocco and S. Settis (Modena, 2008), 1: 212-16, 228-29, 348-49 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “La scultura di Sante di Tullio Lombardo,” Arte veneta • “I rilievi della facciata di San Zaccaria,” in La facciata della Chiesa di San Zaccaria a Venezia, ed. E. Zucchetta • “La scultura lignea in area lagunare fra Tre e Cinquecento,” in Doradori e Intagliator, ed. G. Caniato • “Ancora su Paolo Campsa,” Saggi e memorie di storia dell’arte Anne Jacobson Schutte Professor of History, Emerita University of Virginia CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 041-740272 Cannaregio 3314/E 30121 Venezia Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: Monks, friars, and nuns who petitioned the Congregation of the Council for release from their vows, mainly on the ground that they had been compelled by force and fear to take them (1668-1798) ; Edition and translation of the “autobiography on command” of Caterina Paluzzi (1572-1645) for the series “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Untitled comment on the achievements of Elissa B. Weaver, Modern Philology 106 (2009) • “Between Venice and Rome: The Dilemma of Involuntary Nuns,” Sixteenth Century Journal Sally Scully Professor of History, emerita San Francisco State University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 415 552 1784 / 349 453 7309 (IT) 1247 waller street San Francisco, CA 94117 loc. Giogalto, 66 52014 Poppi (AR) Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: A 17th century Venetian woman; Greeks in Venice; Witchcraft; Popular medicine; Food history in Venice FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Unholy Feast: Carnality and the Venetian Inquisition” • “Policing Desire: Meat Consumption and its Constraints in Renaissance Venice” Eleanor Selfridge-Field Consulting Professor, Music Stanford University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: (408) 732-1586; (650) 725-9242 Fax: (650) 725-9290 867 Durshire Way Sunnyvale, CA 94087 CURRENT RESEARCH: 55 directory of scholars Vivaldi in the Veneto RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Ritual, Liturgy, and the Venetian Theatrical Calendar,” in L’opéra italien en Europe à l’époque de Haendel: Transmission, circulation et reception d’un genre international, eds. D. Colas, et al. (Tours, 2008), 15-27. • (with L. Stella) “Scuole della musica a Venezia da 1500 al 1797,” Recercare (2007) [posthumous completion of work of Gastone Vio] • Song and Season: Science, Culture, and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venice (Stanford, 2007) • A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres (16601760) (Stanford, 2007) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Musical Commerce and the Fiera della Sensa, 1720-1760,” in proceedings of Venezia mercato delle arti (2008) • “Dating Venetian Operas: Implications and Quandaries for Vivaldi Studies,” in online proceedings of Vivaldi conference, Fondazione Cini in 2007 Monica Shenouda PhD Candidate University of Virginia CONTACT INFORMATION: 11 Fairview Place Ossining, NY 10562 CURRENT RESEARCH: The Nexus of wealth and power in Medieval Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Zecca: La Zecca di Venezia nell’eta medioevale (Rome, 2008) Italian eition of Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages • “Coin and Punishment in Medieval Venice,” in Law and the Illicit in Medieval Society, eds. R. Mazo Karras, J. Kaye, A. Matter (Philadelphia, 2008): 164-79 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Zecca di Venezia,” in Guida per lo studio delle zecche italiane medievali e moderni, ed. L. Travaini (2009) • “The Venetian Mint after the Black Death,” in Medieval Italy: A Documentary History, eds. K. Jansen et al (2009) • “Michael of Rhodes, Mariner in Service to Medieval Venice,” in The Book of Michael of Rhodes, eds. P. Long, D. McGee and A. Stahl, 3 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 2009) • “The circulation of medieval Venetian coinage in the Balkans,” in Coinage in the Balkans, 9th to 14th Centuries, eds. J. Baker and E. Oberländer-Târnoveanu (2008) [email protected] Tel: 434-227-1427 Teresa Fava Thomas CURRENT RESEARCH: CONTACT INFORMATION: Alan Stahl Miller Hall #4 - History Dept. Fitchburg State College 160 Pearl Street Fitchburg, MA 01420 506B 2nd Street NE Charlottesville, VA 22902 Images of Alexandria, Egypt in Renaissance Venice Curator of Numismatics Princeton University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 914-945-0674 56 Associate Professor Fitchburg State College [email protected] Tel: 978-665-4587 Fax: 978-665-4530 CURRENT RESEARCH: Venezia and emigration from the Veneto 1880-1920; Italian immigration to the US; Italian-American experience in the 20th century Maartje van Gelder Dr. University of Amsterdam CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +31-20-525 4489 Fax: +31-20-525 4429 Leiduinstraat 39-1 1058 SH Amsterdam The Netherlands CURRENT RESEARCH: The Netherlandish merchant community in early modern Venice; Diplomatic and cultural exchange between Venice, England, and the Dutch Republic; Cultural brokerage RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Trading places: the Netherlandish merchant community in Venice, 1590-1650 (Leiden - Boston 2009) • “Daniel Nijs;” “Giovanni Reynst;” “Luca van Uffel,” in Il collezionismo d’arte a Venezia. Il Seicento, eds. S. Mason and L. Borean (Venice, 2008), 295-296, 304, 320-321 • “Changing tack: the versatile allegiances of Daniel Nijs, a Netherlandish merchant and information broker in early modern Venice,” Dutch Crossing. A Journal of Low Countries Studies 30.2 (2006): 243-51 • “At home in early modern Venice: the homes and lifestyle of Netherlandish merchants in the Serenissima,” in Incontri: rivista europea di studi italiani (2006/2):163-74 [in Dutch] FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Acquiring artistic expertise: the agent Daniel Nijs and his contacts with artists in Venice” in Agency in early modern Europe, eds. M. Keblusek and B. Noldus (Leiden - Boston) N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars Raymond B. Waddington Professor Emeritus University of California, Davis CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 530-662-0703 English Department University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8581 CURRENT RESEARCH: Aretino; Renaissance medals; Milton’s poetry RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Pietro Aretino, Religious Writer,” Renaissance Studies 20 (2006): 277-92 • “Una maschera per Aretino,” in Utreumque Paratus: Aretino e Arezzo, Aretino a Arrezzo. In Margine Al Ritratto Di Sebasiano Del Piombo (Rome, 2008), 167-80 • “Paradise Lost: Memories are Made of This,” Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture (Toronto, 2008), 213-30 • “Breaking News: Representing the Islamic Other on Renaissance Medals,” The Medal 53 (2008): 6-20 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Aretino, Titian and La Humanità di Cristo,” in Forms of Faith (2009) • Italian translation of Aretino’s Satyr: Sexuality, Saire, and SelfProjection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art (Rome, 2009) John Malcolm Wagstaff Professor Emeritus University of Southampton Jonathan Walker Senior Research Fellow University of Sydney CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] c/o Dept. of History University of Sydney Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia CURRENT RESEARCH: Spies and diplomats as storytellers; The institutional history and the archives of the Council of Ten and Inquisitors of State; Historical novels and films. I am currently working on parallel (if rather unconventional) biographies of the diplomat Antonio Foscarini and the spy who accused him of treason, Gerolamo Vano. FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (with F. de Vivo and J. Shaw) “A Dialogue on Spying in 17th-Century Venice,” Rethinking History 10 (2006), 323-44 • “Let’s Get Lost: On the Importance of Itineraries, Detours and DeadEnds,” Rethinking History 10 (2006): 573-97 • Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy (Melbourne, 2007) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: Robin B. Walton Senior Lecturer, retired University of the Witwatersrand CONTACT INFORMATION: 16 Oakmount Avenue Highfield, Southampton, S017 1DR UK P.O. Box 1113 Hilton 3245 South Africa CURRENT RESEARCH: The Morea in the 18th Century; The Territorio di Vostizza, 1700 VOLUME 26 2007 CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 212-579-0369 Fax: 212-579-1946 186 West 80th Street, Ph2 New York, NY 10024 CURRENT RESEARCH: The trecento pictorial program of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio; Civic imagery in trecento Italy; Guariento del Arpo FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Merging Heavenly Court and Earthly Council in Trecento Venice,” in Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, eds. A. Walker and A. Lyster (Ashgate, 2009) Elissa Weaver Professor of Italian, emerita University of Chicago CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 773-667-4081 Fax: 773-834-1095 1419 E. 56th St., #2 Chicago, Illinois 60637 CURRENT RESEARCH: Italian Women Writers (for Venice, • American edition of Pistols! Treaespecially Arcangela Tarabotti) son! Murder! (Baltimore, 2009) RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (with D. Hallett) Five Wounds, an “illuminated novel,” (London, 2010) • (ed.) Arcangela Tarabotti, a Literary Nun in Baroque Venice, (Ravenna, 2006) CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Caroline A. Wamsler [email protected] CURRENT RESEARCH: Late 17th century Venetian opera and sacred music FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Scenes from Italian Convent Life: An Anthology of convent Theatrical Texts and contexts,” (Ravenna, 2009) Saundra Weddle Associate Professor Drury University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] 57 directory of scholars Tel: 417-873-7437 Fax: 417-873-7446 926 S. Weller Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Convents, 15th and 16th centuries, particularly Santa Maria dei Miracoli and San Sepolcro; Pilgrimage; Monuments that recall the Holy Land in Venice and the Veneto RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Saints in the City and Poets at the Gates: The Codex Rustici as a Devotional and Civic Chronicle,” in Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy. Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy, eds. D. Peterson and D. Bornstein (Toronto, 2008), 213-33 • “Identity and Alliance: Urban Presence, Spatial Privilege and Florentine Renaissance Convents,” in Renaissance Florence: A Social History, eds. R. Crum and J. Paoletti, (Cambridge, 2006), 394-414 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (ed., trans.) The Chronicle of the Florentine Convent of Le Murate, Written by Suora Giustina Niccolini, 1597, in The Other Voice (Chicago) Morris Weiss Amateur Historian CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] 1306 Willow Ave Louisville, KY 40204 CURRENT RESEARCH: Fumigated mail and the plague and cholera epidemics in Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • In Search of the Ancient Etruscan • The Mystery of the Tuscan Hills FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • The Symbolic Heart 3400 BC to 1628 Jan Willem Wesseldijk 58 Independent scholar/Ph.D. candidate Leiden University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: ++ 31 71 5315685 Moerbeistraat 33 2321 DJ Leiden Netherlands CURRENT RESEARCH: The Venetian administration of Crete in the 15th century; Venetian and Frankish Greece Lynn Westwater Assistant Professor of Italian George Washington University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 202.994.3104 The George Washington University 801 22nd St. NW, #509B Washington DC 20052 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “‘Le false obiezioni de’ nostri calunniatori’: Lucrezia Marinella Responds to the Misogynist Tradition,” Bruniana & Campanelliana 12.1 (2006) • “Sara Copio Sullam,” and “Lucrezia Marinella,” in Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, England (Santa Barbara, 2007) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Petrarch’s Lettere disperse,” in The Complete Petrarch: A Life’s Work (1304-1374), eds. V. Kirkham and A. Maggi (Chicago) • (with M. Ray) English edition and translation of Arcangela Tarabotti’s Lettere familiari e di complimento John Whenham Professor University of Birmingham, UK CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +44 0121 414 3726 Fax: +44 0121 414 5668 Dept. of Music University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT UK CURRENT RESEARCH: Sacred music of Monteverdi; Editing madrigals of Giovanni Rovetta RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (with R. Wistreich, eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi (Cambridge, 2007) • (ed.) Giovanni Rovetta, “Madrigali concertati a 2, 3, 5, 6, 8. Et nel fine una cantata à 4, libro secondo Op. 6 (Venice, 1640),” (www.ascima. bham.ac.uk) Nick Wilding Dr Georgia State University CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 646-753-1248 Department of History Georgia State University P.O. Box 4117 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4117 CURRENT RESEARCH: Gianfrancesco Sagredo; Galileo; Natural philosophy; Pseudonymity RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “The Return of Thomas Salusbury’s ‘Life of Galileo’,” The British Journal for the History of Science 41 (June 2008): 241 - 265 • “Galileo’s Idol,” Galilaeana: Journal of Galilean Studies (2006) • “Graphic Technologies,” in Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies, ed. M. Hunter and M. Cooper (Ashgate, 2006) FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (trans. and intro.) Dialogue of the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei (Penguin Classics, 2007) • “Galilean Angels,” in Conversations with Angels: Essays Towards a N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars History of Spiritual Communication, 1100 – 1700, eds. J. Raymond and L. Kassell (Palgrave Macmillan) Carolyn C. Wilson Dr. Independent Scholar CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 713-666-2414 Fax: 713-666-8629 2222 Goldsmith St. Houston, TX 77030-1119 CURRENT RESEARCH: Pre-Tridentine cult and iconography of St. Joseph; Coronation of the Virgin in Renaissance Art RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Giovanni Bellini e il dipinto d’altare. Solennità dell’intento, ‘pièta’ necessaria e devozione assoluta: la Natività e la Trasfigurazione,” Giovanni Bellini, eds. M. Lucco and G. Villa, exh. cat. Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, 30 September 2008- 11 January 2009 (Cinisello Balsamo, 2008), 116-129. • five entries in A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, ed. E. Olszewski, 2 vols (Turnhout, 2008), 42-44, nos. 36-38 (Bassano family, attributed); 197-199, no. 159 (Cesare Franchi, il Pollino); 302-303, no. 244 (Bartolomeo Passarotti) • “Some Further Evidence of St. Joseph’s Cult in Renaissance Italy and Related St. Joseph Altarpieces,” in Die Bedeutung des hl. Josef in der Heilsgeschichte. Akten des IX. Internationalen Symposions über den hl. Josef, FE-Medienverlag GmbH, vol. 2 (Kisslegg, 2006), 903-33 Peter Windows Dr. Birmingham City University CONTACT INFORMATION: VOLUME 26 2007 [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)121-331-7804 School of Theoretical and Historical Studies Birmingham Inst. of Art and Design Birmingham City University Birmingham B4 7DX UK CURRENT RESEARCH: The Badile-Moscardo Album of Drawings; Early collections of drawings in north Italy; Catalogue raisonné of the drawings of Bernardino Parenzano RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (with E. Karet) The Antonio II Badile album of Drawings (c. 1500): The Origins of Collecting in Early Modern Verona (Ashgate, 20112012) Carolin Wirtz Dr. phil. CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 0228-8504576 Kölnstraße 368 53117 Bonn Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Abraham Spillieurs (1613-1656). Die Handelsbeziehungen zwischen Venedig und Köln im 17. Jahrhundert; Kardinal Giovanni Battista Zen und das Bonner Stift St. Cassius und Florentius um 1500 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Der Buchdrucker Johannes Manthen von Gerresheim in Venedig (1474-1484),” Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch 77 (2007): 17-40 • “Köln und Venedig. Wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Beziehungen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 57),” Diss. phil. (Köln/Weimar/Wien, 2006) • “‘Mercator in fontico nostro’. Mercanti tedeschi fra la Germania e il Fondaco dei Tedeschi a Venezia,” in Presenze tedesche a Venezia, ed S. Winter, 1-48. FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (with A. Mozzato) “Die Anziehungskraft der Metropolen: Deutsch(sprachig)e Kaufleute und Handwerker im Venedig des Spätmittelalters,” in Stadt und Land in Mittelalter und Renaissance in der Romania, Veröffentlichung der Tagung in Regensburg 27.-28.9.08 Wolfgang Wolters Prof. Dr. CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 004930 3053352 Fax: 004930 3053352 Brixplatz 4 D-14052 Berlin Germany CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Renaissance art and architecture FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Fragmente vom Grabmal der Dogen Marco und Agostino Barbarigo in der Villa Valmarana ai Nani bei Vicenza,” in Miscellanea in memoriam di Terisio Pignatti, eds. M.A. Chiari Moretto Wiel and A. Gentili (Padova, 2008), 79-84; 458-59 • “Appunti sulla decorazione ornamentale di S.Zaccaria I a Venezia,” in Miscellanea in memoriam di Sandro Sponza, Arte nelle Venezie. Scritti di amici per Sandro Sponza (Saonara, 2007), 49-53; 280-81 • “Pavimenti, volte e soffitti a Venezia. Alla ricerca di Tullio Lombardo,” in Tullio Lombardo scultore e architetto nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Atti del Convegno di Studi, Venezia 2006, ed. M. Ceriana (Venezia, 2007), 148-167 • “Schiebetüren und Schiebefenster im Odeo Cornaro in Padua,” Architectura (2007), 2: 217-221 • “The restoration of Venetian Build59 directory of scholars ings,” in A future for Venice. Considerations 40 years after the 1966 flood, Atti del convegno dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Torino, 2008), 51-55 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • “Una storia dei bronzi veneziani senza le campane?” in L’Industria del bronzo del Rinascimento a Venezia e nell’ Italia settentrionale, Atti del convegno alla Fondazione Cini, Venezia 2007 • “Weltkulturerbe Venedig. Ein Blick von außen,” in Atti del convegno ICOMOS a Hildesheim 2007 • “‘Al modo veneziano’ und nicht ‘alla moderna’. Zu den Anfängen einer venezianischen Renaissancebaukunst,” Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana • “Bauaufnahmen des Tommaso Temanza von Bauwerken des Giangiacomo de Grigi in Venedig,” Architectura (2008) Joanna Woods-Marsden Professor UCLA CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 310-206-6975 Fax: 310-106-1903 Art History 100 Dodd UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 CURRENT RESEARCH: Titian; Renaissance Portraiture; Court art RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “Theorizing Renaissance Portraiture,” in Renaissance Roundtable, eds. J. Elkins and R. Williams (2008), 360-66 • (ed.) Titian: Materiality, Likeness, Istoria (Turnhout, 2007) • “The Mistress as ‘Virtuous’: Titian’s Portrait of Laura Dianti,” in Titian: Materiality, Likeness, Istoria, ed. J. 60 Woods-Marsden (Turnhout, 2006), 53-69 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • Visual Rhetoric of Power and Beauty: Gendered Identity in Titian’s Court Portraits Diana Wright CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 917-476-1453 5643 20th Avenue NE Seattle, WA 98105-2434 CURRENT RESEARCH: Fifteenth-century Morea; Crete 1500; Stato da mar, particularly Nauplion; Venetian-Ottoman war of 1463-1478; Venetian-Ottoman diplomatics RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • The Greek Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio, vol. 1: Dispacci from Nauplion, 1479-1483 (Padua, 2008) • (with P. MacKay), “When the Serenissima and the Gran Turco Made Love: The Peace Treaty of 1478,” Studi Veneziani (2007) • “The First Venetian Love Letter? The Testament of Zorzi Cernovich,” http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/anpt/ ejos/EJOS-IX.2-text.htm FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: • (with P. MacKay) “Pavane for a Dead Princess: a love poem for Kleope Malatesta by her husband, Theodoros II Palaiologos,” Rhetorica • “Rubies, Parrots, and No Wine: Letters from Giovanni Dario at the Court of Beyazid II,” (translations of selected letters and commentary) Journal of the Turkish Studies Association (2007) • (with J. Melville-Jones) The Greek Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio: Volume II: Dispacci from Crete, 1500-1502 • “The Knight and Death: The Kladas Affair and the Fifteenth-Century Morea” Andrea Zannini Professore di Storia moderna Università di Udine CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: +3990432556664 Fax: +3990432556669 Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e documentarie via T. Petracco, 8 33100 Udine Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: Venetian Society and Economy (15th19th c.) RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • (ed. with M. Folin) La storia come esperienza umana. Gaetano Cozzi: sei conversazione, una lezione inedita, la bibliografia (Treviso, 2006) • “La logica della distinzione. I Borghesaleo, una casata di Terraferma al servizio della Serenissima (XVIXVIII sec.),” Ateneo Veneto 193, terza serie, 5/II (2006): 63-126 • “Introduzione,” in «Venezia non è da guerra». L’Isontino, la società friulana e la Serenissima nella Guerra di Gradisca (1615-1617), Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi storici, Gradisca d’Isonzo, 2627 ottobre 2007, eds. M. Gaddi and A. Zannini (Udine, 2008), 13-31 Giovanni Zanovello Dr. Indiana University - Jacobs School of Music CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Indiana University Jacobs School of Music 1201 East Third Street Bloomington, IN 47405 CURRENT RESEARCH: N E WS ON THE RIALTO directory of scholars Music in Late-15th-Century Florence; Musical Institutions in Veneto Cathedrals, 1450-1530 Rosella Mamoli Zorzi Professor of American Literature University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] Tel: 39-041-2349401 Fax: 39-041-2349481 Castello 6119 30122 Venice Italy CURRENT RESEARCH: Venice in 20th century Canadian poetry; Henry James and Venice RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • “A Knock-down Insolence of Talent”: Sargent, James and Venice, in Sargent’s Venice (New Haven, 2006) • (with G. Dowling) gondola signore gondola. Venice in 20th century American Poetry (Venice, 2007) • “Henry James and Italy,” in A Companion to Henry James, d. G. Zacharias (London, 2008) VOLUME 26 2007 61 62 N E WS ON THE RIALTO VOLUME 26 2007 63 64 Department of History Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 USA. Tel. (801) 422-5260; Fax (801) 422-0275 N E WS ON THE RIALTO NEWSLETTER FOR VENETIAN STUDIES 2007 VOL. 26 VOLUME 26 2007 65