ANN-Early Modern Rome, 1341-1667 conference, Rome, Italy, 13-15 May 2010

EARLY MODERN ROME, 1341-1667


Thursday, May 13

9-9:30 am

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Welcoming Remarks

Portia Prebys, President, Association of American College and University Programs in Italy

Julia L. Hairston, Associate Academic Director, University of California, Rome Study Center

Massimo Miglio, Presidente, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Luca Codignola-Bo, Direttore, CNR, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea

Gianni Venturi, Direttore, Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, Ferrara

Thursday, May 13

9:30-11 am

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Petrarch

Chair: Serena Sapegno, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Margaret Brose, University of California, Santa Cruz

“Familiarizing the Ruins of Rome: Petrarch’s Familiares”

Thomas E. Peterson, University of Georgia

Rome as Physical Absence and Symbolic Presence in Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta

Alexander Lee, Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Petrarch, Rome and the “Dark Ages”

9:30-11 am

University of California, Rome Study Center

Sisto V

Chair: Patrizia Cavazzini, The British School at Rome

Dalma Frascarelli, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli

Luogo del sapere. La costruzione e la decorazione della Biblioteca Vaticana nella politica

culturale di Sisto V

Mauro Sarnelli, Università degli Studi di Sassari

Il tardo Umanesimo nella Roma di Sisto V (e del Tasso)

Valentina Prosperi, Università degli Studi di Sassari

Gli affreschi del Salone Sistino tra tradizione classica e Controriforma

11-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 am-1 pm

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Diplomacy and Diplomats

Chair: Thomas V. Cohen, York University

Thursday, May 13

2

Massimo Miglio, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo/Università degli Studi della Tuscia

I legati pontifici nel XV secolo: ruolo diplomatico e strategie politiche

Catherine Fletcher, Open University/British School at Rome

The City of Rome as a Space for Diplomacy

Paola Farenga, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” and Anna Modigliani,

Università degli Studi della Tuscia

Le lettere degli ambasciatori: una fonte significativa per la storia di Roma nel XIV secolo

11:30 am-1 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Anatomies of Bodies and Spaces

Chair: Yvonne Dohna, Gregorian University

David Packwood, University of Warwick

From Bramante To Cortona: Structuring Anatomical Knowledge and Display in Rome, 1502-

1619

Maurizio Caperna, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Sviluppi e caratteri dell’area urbana di via della Lungara dalla metà del Cinquecento alla

metà del Seicento.

Harula Economopoulos, Saint Mary’s College, Rome

Morte e rinascita della scultura a Roma nell’età della Controriforma

1-3 pm Lunch Break

3-4:30 pm

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Gender, Magic, and Esotericism

Chair: Renata Ago, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Mariateresa Guerra Medici, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Streghe a Roma e dintorni

Tessa Storey, Royal Holloway, University of London

Cosmetics, Poisons and Alchemy: The Gendering of Domestic Recipe Making in

Seventeenth-Century Rome

Marjorie Roth, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY

Opportunity Lost: Christian Prophecy, Musical Magic, and the Road Not Taken in Counter-

Reformation Rome

3-4:30 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Culture in the Papal Court

Chair: Paolo Alei, University of California, Rome

Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, University of Stavanger, Norway

Thursday, May 13

3

Greek Mathematics in Rome and the Aesthetics of Geometry in Piero della Francesca

Raphaële Mouren, École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des

bibliothèques, Lyon

Rome, Center of European Humanism, From Paul III to Marcellus II

Chiara Cassiani, Università degli Studi della Calabria

Pierio Valeriano e la corte di Roma

4:30-5 pm Coffee Break

5-6:30 pm

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Nuns & Saints

Chair: Carolyn Valone, Saint Mary’s College, Rome

Mícheál Mac Craith, National University of Ireland, Galway

Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s Roman Narrative, 1608

Kimberlyn Montford, Trinity University

Female Presentation and Agency in Nuns’ Music of Early Modern Rome

5-6:30 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Ritual Space and Rhetoric

Chair: Rose Marie San Juan, University College, London

Lucinda Byatt, Edinburgh

Sant’Agata dei Goti on the Quirinal: An Early 16th-Century Fulcrum For Politics And

Learning Under Cardinal Ridolfi

Genevieve Warwick, University of Glasgow

Ritual Form and Urban Space in Early Modern Rome

Katherine M. Bentz, Saint Anselm College

The Rhetoric of the Garden Gate in Early Modern Rome

6:30-8 pm Reception at the University of California, Rome Study Center

Hosted by ACCENT

Friday, May 14

9:30-11 am

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Rome and Foreigners

Chair: Antonella De Michelis, University of California, Rome

Matteo Sanfilippo, Università degli Studi della Tuscia

Una città d’immigranti: dalla fine della cattività avignonese alla guerra dei Trent’anni

Irene Fosi, Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti Pescara

Friday, May 14

4

L’Inquisizione e gli stranieri a Roma in età moderna

James Nelson Novoa, Villanova University

The Portuguese New Christian Lobby in Rome: 1532-1555

9:30-11 am

University of California, Rome Study Center

Music, Art, and Dance

Chair: Cristiana Filippini, University of California, Rome

Noel O’Regan, University of Edinburgh

What Can Music History Tell Us About Patterns Of Cultural Production In Early Modern

Rome?

Paul Arthur Anderson, California State University, Los Angeles

Between Architect and Artisan: The Role of Professional Guilds and Confraternities in Early

Modern Rome

Barbara Sparti, Rome

The Danced Moresca: From the Papal Court to the Streets of Rome

Amy Brosius, New York University

Leonora Baroni Cantatrice: The Roman Virtuosa as Courtier

11-11:30 am Coffee Break

11:30 am-1 pm

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Strategies

Chair: Marina D’Amelia, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Katherine A. McIver, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Moving About: Women in the Urban Fabric of Sixteenth-Century Rome

P. Renée Baernstein, Miami University

Roma Caput Italiae: Elite Marriage and the Making of an Italian Ruling Class

Julia L. Hairston, University of California, Rome

Mastro Pasquino’s Lament to Tullia d’Aragona

11:30 am-1 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Performance

Chair: Luca Marcozzi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Raimondo Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Feste, luoghi e rituali d’incoronazione poetica nell’Accademia Romana

Eric Nicholson, Syracuse University in Florence

Waxing Poetic: a Literary “Contest” and the Quest for Fame in Late Cinquecento Rome

Friday, May 14

5

Valeria De Lucca, University of Southampton

Antonio Cesti’s Orontea in Rome (1661): Visual Splendor of Aristocratic Entertainment

1-3 pm Lunch Break

3-4:30 pm

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Physicians/Bodies

Chair: Federica Favino, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Elisa Andretta, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University

“A Medical Spanish Rome”? Circulation of Medical Knowledge and Practices Between

Spain and the Eternal City

Bradford A. Bouley, Stanford University

Holy Bodies: Anatomy and Sanctity in Post-Tridentine Rome

John Christopoulos, University of Toronto

Framing “Abortion” in Early Modern Rome: Confessors, Jurists, Popes

3-4:30 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Culture and Foreigners in Rome

Chair: Eric Nicholson, Syracuse University in Florence

JoAnn DellaNeva, University of Notre Dame

An Early Modern Frenchman Reads Rome: “Les Souspirs” of Olivier de Magny

Nancy D’Antuono, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN

Spanish Golden Age Drama in Papal Rome: The Adaptations of Giulio Cardinal Rospigliosi

Peter Leech, Swansea University

“Spent too soon for so long a preparation”: Late Seventeenth-Century Celebrations in Rome

for King James II of England

3-4:30 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Art and Myth

Chair: Laurie Kalb, Temple University, Rome

Ayana Smith, Indiana University

From the Palazzo Farnese Gallery to Arcadia: How Art in Early Modern Rome Shaped Later

Aesthetics and Music

Paolo Alei, University of California, Rome

Meaning and Attribution: A New Narcissus in the School of Caravaggio

Wendy Heller, Princeton University

“Un maggiore diletto”: Staging Ovidian Fantasies in Early Modern Rome

Friday, May 14

6

4:30-5pm Coffee Break

5-6:30 pm

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Religious Life

Chair: P. Renée Baernstein, Miami University

Emily Michelson, University of St. Andrews

Preaching Across Rome in the 16th Century

Andrew R. Casper, Miami University

Icons, Guidebooks, and the Religious Topography of Sixteenth-Century Rome

Querciolo Mazzonis, Rome

Women’s Semi-Religious Life in Rome (1550-1650)

5-6:30 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

The Long Arm of Rome

Chair: Anne Wingenter, University of California, Rome

Daniele V. Filippi, Milan

The Master and the Soundscape. Palestrina and the Musical Image of Rome Between the 16th

and 17th centuries

Anu Raunio, University of Turku, Finland

L’Ospizio dei convertendi, storie di conversioni miracolose e l’assistenza romana

caratterizzata dallo spirito post-tridentino

Luca Codignola-Bo, CNR, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea

Re-configuring and Re-organizing the New American Worlds: Big Dreams, Tentative

Steps, Small Achievements

Saturday, May 15

9:30-11 am

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Humanism & Humanists

Chair: Patricia Osmond, Rome

Patrick Baker, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

A Renaissance translatio studii: Eloquence’s Return to Rome from Exile

Kenneth Gouwens, University of Connecticut

Romanitas and Italianità in Paolo Giovio’s “Ischian” Dialogue

Angela Quattrocchi, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria

Da S. Francesca Romana agli spirituali moderati. Origini e continuità dell’umanesimo

religioso di Latino Giovenale de’ Manetti

Saturday, May 15

7

9:30-11 am

University of California, Rome Study Center

Urbanism

Chair: Antonella De Michelis, University of California, Rome

Andrea Branchi, Saint Mary’s College, Rome

Alexander VI’s Plans for Rome

Katherine Rinne, California College of the Arts

Angling for Acqua: Topography, Technology, and Water Lust in Rome from 1572-1581

Lauren Jacobi, New York University

The Banchi in the Rione di Ponte: Architecture and Urbanism

11-11:30 am Coffee Break

11:30-1pm

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Gender & Antagonism

Chair: Mariateresa Guerra Medici, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University

Hierarchies of Masculinity in Baroque Rome

Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University

La Romana Agonistes: Broomsticks and Fighting Words c. 1600

Thomas V. Cohen, York University

Bartolomeo Camerario—Legist, Polemicist, Chief of the Annona, Collector of Young Girls

11:30-1pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Church and Antiquity

Chair: Carolyn Smyth, John Cabot University

Brenda Deen Schildgen, University of California, Davis

Rome and the Papal Defense of Art and Architecture: A Tradition Reinforced During the

Renaissance

Jill E. Blondin, University of Texas, Tyler

Space, Memory, and Sixtus IV at SS. Vito e Modesto

Minou Schraven, Leiden University

Founding Rome Anew: Pope Sixtus IV and the Foundation of Ponte Sisto (1473)

1-3 pm Lunch Break

3-4:30 pm

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

News and Knowledge

Saturday, May 15

8

Chair: Nick Wilding, Georgia State University and the American Academy in Rome

Paul M. Dover, Kennesaw State University

“News of the world”: The Papal Court as a Clearing-House for International News in the

Second Half of the 15th Century

Giovanni Pizzorusso, Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti Pescara

La quinta parte del mondo: missioni e conoscenze a Roma in età moderna

Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame, Rome

The Friendship of Alexander VII and Athanasius Kircher, 1637-1667

3-4:30 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Violence Real and Rhetorical

Chair: Julia L. Hairston, University of California, Rome

Costanza Gislon Dopfel, St. Mary’s College of California

Reshaping Rome’s Narrative: The Curious Case of Sigismondo Malatesta’s Execution

Nancy E. Goldsmith, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio (1504-1573) and the Sack of Rome

John M. Hunt, University of Louisville

The Consumption of Violence: Carriage Culture in Early Modern Rome, ca. 1550-1650

3-4:30 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Renaissance Individuals

Chair: Paolo Alei

Luca Marcozzi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Bembo in Rome: From Passion to Disenchantment

Paolo Carloni, Temple University, Rome and Monica Grasso, Università degli Studi di

Urbino

Michelangelo, Petrarca e la figura della vergine nel Giudizio Sistino

Costanza Barbieri, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli

Il cardinal Alessandro de’ Medici diplomatico e riformatore ritratto da Scipione Pulzone

4:30-5 pm Coffee Break

5-6:30 pm

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo

Spain in Italy

Chair: James Nelson Novoa, Villanova University

Anna Maria Oliva, CNR, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea

Gli oratori spagnoli a Roma tra fine Quattrocento e primo Cinquecento

Saturday, May 15

9

Rose Marie San Juan, University College, London

The Transformation of Bernini’s Rio de la Plata

Piero Ventura, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

L’arciconfraternita dei napoletani a Roma tra XVI e XVII secolo

5-6:30 pm

University of California, Rome Study Center

Strategies of the Nobility

Chair: Marcello Fantoni, Università degli Studi di Teramo and Kent State University,

Florence

Eleonora Canepari, CNRS, Paris

How to Become Illustre? Civic Nobility and Neighborhoods in the Renaissance and Baroque

Rome

Jennifer Mara DeSilva, Eastern Connecticut State University

Red Hat Strategies: Elevating Cardinals, 1471-1549

Antonella De Michelis, University of California, Rome

The Maestri di Strade: Political Strategies and Social Mobility in Farnese Rome

8 pm Closing Dinner at the Hotel Tiziano

Hosted by AACUPI