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
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
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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
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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