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Published with the support of the
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Foundation, and the Department of History at
Brigham Young University.
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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
Northwestern University
EDITOR
Eric Dursteler
Brigham Young University

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LI BRARI ES AND ARCHI VES
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
Campo S. Fantin, tel. 041-5224459
Monday Friday 9:00-12:00;
16:00-19:00
Saturday 9:00-12:00
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
Castello 2786, tel. &
fax 042-523-5341;
e-mail: biblosanfrancesco@libero.it
Monday Friday 9-12:30;
13:30-17:30
CENTRO DELLE ARTI
CONTEMPORANEE
tel. 5242062
ISTITUTO DI STUDI STORICI
S. Sebastiano
Monday -- Friday 8:30-19:00
Saturday 8:30-13:00
ISTITUTO VENETO DI SCIENZE,
LETTERE ED ARTE
S. Marco 2945, tel. 041-5210177
www.istitutoveneto.it
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
UNIVERSIT 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
Saturday 9:00-14:00
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
COMUNE DI VENEZIA
Castello 2737, tel. 5289261
(call for information)
CONSORZIO PER LO SVILUPPO
ECONOMICO E SOCIALE DELLA
PROVINCIA DI VENEZIA
Corte Pisano, S. Marco 2818,
tel. 041-700217
CURIA PATRIARCALE
Castello 4312, tel. 041-5222034
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
ISTITUTO ELLENICO
S. Giorgio dei Greci tel. 041-5226581
Saturday 9:00-13:00
ISTITUTO GRAMSCI, EMEROTECA
Cannaregio 1575, tel. 041-717940
Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday 14:00-20:00
Wednesday, Friday 8:00-14:00
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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 contempo-
rary 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 Foundations 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 Foundations Advisory Committee, Professor Julian
Gardner, 44, Foundry House, Eagle Works, Walton Well Road, Oxford OX2 6AQ UK (telephone 01865 511 499 e-
mail julian.gardner@warwick.ac.uk). Applications should reach Professor Julian Gardner by 15th May 2009.
ARCHIVIO DI STATO ONLINE:
LArchivio di stato di Venezia annuncia che sono on line sia il Sistema informativo dellarchivio, che descrive tutti
i fondi archivistici e gli strumenti di corredo (fnding aids) collegati, nonch, per circa la met di essi, la rispettiva
articolazione in serie, sottoserie e - da poco iniziata, e per ora circoscritta a pochi fondi - anche le unit. 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 (fno allànno 1500), nonch 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 ex-
traordinary 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 fnancial 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 amministrazione@istitutoveneto.it.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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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 infuences within
a Mediterranean context, as well as questions of a compara-
tive 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: mhrtau@post.tau.ac.il.
It would be diffcult to overrate
the value of the lessons which
might be derived from a faith-
ful study of the history of this
strange and mighty city: a his-
tory 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
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: info@venicedantealigh-
ieri.it, or www.venicedantealighieri.it.
CESARE BARBIERI GRANT:
The Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture (Trin-
ity 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 stream-
lined. You will fnd all information at the the link below:
http://www.cbendowment.org/grant
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
TITIAN, TINTORETTO, VERONESE: RIVALS IN
RENAISSANCE VENICE:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has announced an exhibi-
tion on the Big Three of Venetian sixteenth-century paint-
ing 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 Muse 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 examin-
ing the rivalries and mutual infuences among these three
artists. Through the carefully chosen examples in this exhi-
bition, 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 specifc juxtapositions of subject matter, for-
mat, and style will make clear just how lively and fertile
the artistic scene in Venice was.
Although famous for their towering altarpieces and expan-
sive 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-
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 defned 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 dellÀccademia, the Louvre, the Prado, the Uffzi,
the Museo di Capodimonte, Viennas Kunsthistorisches Mu-
seum, the Metropolitan Museum, and the National Gallery
of Art in Washington. Several paintings will come from the
specifc 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 care-
fully selected pairings and juxtapositions of works by Titian,
Tintoretto, and Veronese. Many pictures have received re-
cent conservation treatment and scientifc analysis. Particu-
lar 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 Ilch-
man (flchman@mfa.org) 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 Founda-
tion, a charitable organization intended to promote studies
on the condition and preservation of the Venetian Lagoons
ecosystem. Its frst projects will deal with the reclamation of
the island of S. Giorgio in Alga, the Forums 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 (mrl25@cam.ac.uk) or Filippo de Vivo
(f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk).
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SCHOLARS NEEDED:
Context Travel is currently recruiting scholars, profes-
sors, and other specialists to join our network. We organize
lectures and walking seminars for corporate clients, institu-
tions, and intellectually curious travelers. Were 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/Sum-
mer 2009 and Fall 2010 but CVs for all cities are welcome.
If you are interested in learning more, check out our web-
site: 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 aca-
demics. We meet two or three times a year. The next meet-
ing 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) youd like to put forward for inclusion in
the anthology, please contact Gay Marks g.marks@alice.it
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 worlds 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 benefciary of those grants. For the past few years all
the funds from The American Friends have been dedicated
to entering the Marcianas sometimes indecipherable hand-
written 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 offce. 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 librarys 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 Marcianas
sponsorship of a conference on December 17 of last year
at the Palazzo Ducale on 'Lèvoluzione dellàccessibilit
informatica. The Marciana is setting the example.
As one of his fnal 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 fnance the costs of the campaign.
The American Friends consist of people like you, schol-
ars 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 benefted from this mag-
nifcent 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
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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VENICE, CIT EXCELENTISSIMA:
Johns Hopkins University Press announces the publication
of Venice, Cit Excelentissima: Selections from the Renais-
sance Diaries of Marin Sanudo, edited by Patricia H. La-
balme and Laura Sanguinetti White, translated by Linda L.
Carroll. When Venice was both a center of Renaissance cul-
ture and a gathering place for news from around the world,
Marin Sanudo tried to write everything down. He was the
fnest diarist of his time, with a keen eye for the everyday
and the monumental alike. This expertly translated vol-
ume offers a broad and engaging introduction to Sanudos
detailed observations of life in his beloved city and world it
knew. Here, the work of the Renaissances most assiduous
historian is fnally given the accessibility it warrants and the
merit it is due.
NEFARIOUS CRIMES, CONTESTED JUSTICE:
Johns Hopkins University Press announces the publica-
tion of Joanne M. Ferraros 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 accord-
ing 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 feld workers, spinners, grocers, servants, con-
cubines, 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 ac-
quitted of any wrongdoing. The lack of institutional support
for single motherhood and the exculpation of fathers fre-
quently 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 Childrens Books announces the publication on July
BOOK NOTI CES
2nd 2009 of Michelle Lovrics 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 scientifc
progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A confer-
ence 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 fuidly 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-the-
linings to subvert evil and restore order.
THE CLOTHING OF THE RENAISSANCE
WORLD:
The Clothing of the Renaissance World (Europe, Asia, Af-
rica, America): Cesare Vecellios 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 Vecellios com-
mentary, and an illustrated glossary of textile and clothing
terms.
LA DIVERSA VISUALE:
Le Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura segnalano luscita 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.storiaelet-
teratura.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 Beolcos 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.
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LISTING OF APARTMENTS:
A list of housing in Venice recom-
mended by scholars is available from
Linda Carroll in e-mail format.
lincar@tulane.edu
APARTMENT IN VENICE:
Venice Summer Sublet, June 23
through July 20, 2009. Architects
gorgeous three-bedroom apartment.
Great views, 100 meters from the
Archivio di Stato. 2100 euro (includes
all expenses). Contact: arosenthal92@
hotmail.com
Newly renovated, fully-furnished
and modern 2 bedroom/1 bathroom
apartment. Located behind the Rialto
fsh 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 sum-
mer. 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 neighbor-
hood (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 ddevicente@gmail.com
Those of you seeking housing in Ven-
ice to share will fnd 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 ferraro@mail.sdsu.edu or
phone Elsa directly at 041 5267002.
2nd and 3rd foor apartment in a
beautifully restored historic building.
High ceilings, fully equipped. Sleeps 2
(+ 2 guests in the livingroom). Second
foor: 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 foor: a
huge air conditioned bedroom with a
double bed, desk, sofa, TV and DVD
player; bathroom with tub and wash-
ing 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 mariolinatt@fastwebnet.it
Fully furnished two-bedroom apart-
ment 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 frst
(ground) foor 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 foor has a fully-equipped,
eat-in kitchen and a sunny living room
overlooking a small court. The apart-
ment 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-condition-
ing, 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, wash-
ing machine, entrance hall. Wireless
connection in the whole building. Both
very central, near Santa Maria For-
mosa. Contact: mamoli@unive.it
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 ac-
cess; 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 mattcasini@yahoo.com, dwal-
berg1@yahoo.com; Castello 3338,
30123 Venezia, Italy, 1 (401) 245 3683
HOUSI NG I N VENI CE
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All Venice is a piece of superb,
barbaric patchwork in which the East
and the West have an equal share.
The lion of St Marks, his head and
shoulders in one piece, his hind-
quarters 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
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
Spacious fat in Venice available from mid June to the end of August. Located in
SantElena, 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: ucljpal@ucl.ac.uk
Spacious, frst foor, 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 Sab-
batical leave preferred. Flexible dates and rent fees. Contact Marina Karem at
(502) 499-0213 or (in Summer) 011-39-041-5236991. mpkare01@louisville.edu
Small one-bedroom, 2nd-foor apartment available in the very Venetian neigh-
borhood of Via Garibaldi, a ten-minute walk to Piazza San Marco and a twenty-
minute 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: mlaughra@sjcme.edu
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Located on the 4th foor 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 apart-
ment 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 foor. Children,
pets and smokers welcome. No lift.
The monthly rent is 1300 Euros. Mini-
mum stay: 3 weeks. Contact: Marina.
Schenkel@uniud.it
Second foor apartment near Campo
San Polo in newer and quiet build-
ing. 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 bed-
room 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. Conve-
nient to the Archivio di Stato. Avail-
able 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.
A lovely apartment with a sea view,
on the Lido of Venice. Spacious with
high ceilings and full of light. On the
fourth foor (with a lift), in a very
pleasant block of apartments with a
nice garden at the entrance. A stones
throw from the famous Hotel Excel-
sior 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 beauti-
ful marble foors, chandeliers and
two bathrooms (both with tubs and
showers). Very comfortable, quiet and
relaxing. Ideal for family on sabbati-
cal leave as well as for one or two
people. Very nice caf 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 rent-
ing for 1 year or more. Price: 1.300
Euro per month plus utilities. Patricia
Weston, Via S.Rosa 4, 30126, Lido-
Venice, Italy. Tel. 0039-041-5262738
or cell: 0039-3495788527. E-mail:
patricia.weston@virgilio.it.
Two minute walk from the Rialto
vaporetto stop-- First foor apart-
ment. Two Bedrooms, dining room,
living room, two bathrooms, small,
Internet-connected offce, small (fully
equipped) kitchen. Contact Marina
Karem (mpkare01@louisville.edu) for
more information and rental fees.
Spacious bright apartment (110m2,
Campo Santo Stefano) beloved by
academics: on 2 foors, 2 double bed-
rooms 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 sugges-
tions 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.
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Dealer, collector, entrepreneur: Daniel Nijs and his impact on the early seventeenth-century Euro-
pean art world
Christina M. Anderson, Oxford University
Venice is like
eating an entire box
of chocolate liqueurs
at one go.
Truman Capote
DI SSERTATI ONS I N VENETI AN STUDI ES
Daniel Nijs (1572-1647), a Flemish merchant
resident in Venice for most of his life, is the
pivotal fgure 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 apprecia-
tion and collecting of Italian Renaissance art
north, transforming London, if only briefy, into
its focal point. Despite his glittering achieve-
ment, Nijs has never been the subject of a
thorough study, nor have the archives pertain-
ing 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
Cesare Gigli. His collection, for example, was
described in LIdea dellArchitettura Univer-
sale (1615) by Vincenzo Scamozzi, while he
is feted in Giulio Cesare Giglis La Pittura
Trionfante (also of 1615) for which Odoardo
Fialetti created the frontispiece, and in which
Nijss 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 Ambas-
sador Sir Dudley Carleton, and the offcial
theologian to the Serene Republic, Paolo Sarpi.
Explaining how these relationships worked, as
well as how Nijs used his collection in develop-
ing them (many people visited Nijss gallery,
Constantijn Huygens and the artist Antony Van
Dyck being among the admirers), is one of the
areas of importance of this research.
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STREETS FULL OF
WATER. PLEASE
ADVISE.
Robert Benchley
charges of personal enrichment or neglect of
duty by Venetian offcers. 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 griev-
ances not in all cases.
With the summaries of the relevant docu-
ments about the decision making of the Vene-
tian 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/re-
quests of the delegations can be retrieved from
the archives, as well as the corrective mea-
sures 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 Noirets
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 hege-
mony 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
Administrative communication and control: Venice and its trading empire,
1381-1479
Jan Wesseldijk, Leiden University
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 Drres 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 gov-
ernmental 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 confs-
cated 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 cor-
respondence between Venice and the trad-
ing posts, which is refected 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 investiga-
tion of specifc matters, such as suspicions or
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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 conse-
quence it went through a process of reorienta-
tion 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 sapi-
entes 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 infuence 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 depict-
ing the life of Saint Mark against the back-
drop 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 frst-century Alex-
andria that was quite removed from the real
contemporary city in Egypt, which many Vene-
tians knew from frst hand experience. Rather,
the painters made a Venetianized Alexandria,
balancing exotic elements with recognizable
spaces to affrm the links between the two
cities. The master example of this phenom-
enon is Gentile Bellinis St. Mark Preaching
in Alexandria, the frst painting for the Scuola
Grande di San Marco cycle. Begun in 1504,
Bellini`s fctional Alexandria encapsulated the
centuries of contact and Venices 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 infuence
derived from contact with people of diverse
ethnic and religious origins. To counteract the
reality of diminishing power, the image produc-
tion 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 histori-
cal context, I demonstrate how the representa-
tions 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 de-
scriptions 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 criti-
cal years.
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Il collezionismo poetico: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and the Formation of Col-
lecting 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 collec-
tor provides access to his intellectual activi-
ties 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 unmedi-
ated 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 be-
ing held for prominent visitors.
Bembos letters, which survive in abun-
dance, are crucial to a portrayal of his mu-
saeum 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 illus-
trating that his wide-ranging ambitions were
intimately intertwined. Whereas the works of
previous scholars have identifed components
of Bembos holdings, each starting and ending
with Michiels 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 owner-
ship are considered via the material setting for
display. The Renaissance interior is a unifying
framework for studying not only fne arts, but
also for considering objects typically over-
looked: those that no longer survive or those
that are categorized as decorative arts, which
often fall out of the scope of traditional art his-
torical 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 immate-
rial 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 Bembos
objects and explores the theoretical implica-
tions of those works, which have foundations
in the classical, but also look forward to the
goals and motivations of the next centurys
collectors. A study of the mobility of Bembos
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 Bembos
collecting of material culture accesses his
thinking. He is thus revealed as a mediator of
the distinctive changes we connect to Renais-
sance culture.
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Though the ood or
ebb of the salt water
bee small, yet with
that motion it carrieth
away the flth of the
City, besides that, by
the multitude of fers,
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
Venetian Interior Decorations, 1680-1730: Representation of the Old and the
New Nobilty
Annika Heppner, Philipps-Universitt 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 signifcant effect on the nature of visual ar-
tistic interior decoration: The Turkish-Venetian
war consumed almost all state funds. There-
fore, 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 sta-
tus between the old and the new elite developed
which extended into the feld 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. Magnifcence should disguise their
common birth. The old nobility tried to uphold
their traditional status by focusing on features
which the new nobility despite their equiva-
lent title could never achieve: dynastic age
together with traditional virtues. Research has
never before analyzed the infuence of that so-
cial context on visual art. The main focus of my
thesis is whether this event infuenced 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 decora-
tion in Venetian palaces, as well as the patrons
objectives in choosing these. My focus point
is the interior decoration of the new nobil-
ity. Thereby, I would like to contribute to the
comprehension of social mobility conficts
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 visi-
tors 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 magnifcence of these
decorations.
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As sailors and
merchants,
town-builders and
politicians, the
Venetians were the
forerunners and the
youth of todays
civilization.
Le Corbusier
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nean Trade, 1350-1450
Franz-Julius Morche, University of Heidelberg
This research examines the institutional basis
of Venetian relations in the Eastern Mediterra-
nean. 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 cul-
tural 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 determi-
nants. In order to conceptualise the institutional
interrelation of perceived separate cultural
areas, the philosophical notion of transcultural-
ity shall be applied. This suggests a constitutive
interdependence of commercial practices and
behavioral dispositions across cultural enti-
ties, 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 specifc 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 enforce-
ment mechanisms.
In Venetian long-distance trade, we can ob-
serve 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 lower-
ing 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 Vene-
tian fnancing tools of previous centuries (debt
contracts, risk-sharing contracts, pooling con-
tracts), which were designed to secure invest-
ments in hazardous environments, became
increasingly insignifcant.
Yet despite the relative transparency of busi-
ness relations through informational spill-overs
from shipping traffc, the exclusive reliance on
formal means of contract enforcement was an
ineffcient 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 sanc-
tions in case of deviation. Agents, in return, had
to gain a reputation to be worthy of this trust.
In order to investigate the institutional foun-
dations 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 Dolfn (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 signifcance of the legal system to
Venetian business organization. The predomi-
nant type of commercial letter is the Recorda-
tio, which was frequently used as a substitute
for a notarial contract. The Recordatio also had
legal signifcance and is therefore distinct from
ordinary merchant letters. The letters display a
high degree of structural congruence featuring
personal news, trade-specifc information and
transaction-specifc instructions. Thus, they
allow for conclusions regarding the personal
relationships between merchants, the basis of
their mutual commitment, and the economic
signifcance of commercial agency. The textual
analysis is guided by a number of initial ques-
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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 his-
torical 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 follow-
ing 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 offce 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
occur as social networks with either fnite or
infnite horizons, one-time bilateral or multilat-
eral 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 ef-
fciencies.
(4) Finally, the true impact of cultural disposi-
tions on informal institutional arrangements
needs to be assessed. If mechanisms of con-
tract-enforcement are primarily informal in
character and stem from religious, ethical, or
kinship-based behavioral obligations, their
operational effcacy 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.
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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 Palladios 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
fooding of the River Brenta in 1748. Those
offcially charged with the bridge`s reconstruc-
tion 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 signifcant modifca-
tions. These deviations from Palladios puta-
tively 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 Olimpicas
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
theaters ceiling by Palladios hand survived.
Given this lack of evidence, the academi-
cians were forced to speculate regarding his
original intentions. The quandary soon divided
the academy into two factions, whose stances
were informed by very different interpreta-
tions of Palladios legacy and its relevance for
contemporary architectural practice. Although
ostensibly concerned with the establishment of
authorial intent, their disagreement unleashed a
broader polemic, whose ramifcations extended
beyond the confnes of Vicenza. Indeed, their
struggle to interpret Palladios legacy pitted the
sanctity of Antiquity against the exigencies of
modernity in a manner that would prove sig-
nifcant not only for the reception of Palladio`s
work, but moreover, for the development of
theater architecture in the latter half of the
My dissertation examines the critical recep-
tion and interpretation of the architectural and
literary works of the Renaissance architect An-
drea Palladio (1508-1580) by eighteenth-cen-
tury architects and theorists of the Veneto. In
contrast to its counterpart in Great Britain, Neo-
Palladianism in and around Venice may seem a
misnomer, for it did not constitute a revival as
such; indeed, Palladios 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-eigh-
teenth century that the discourse surrounding
Palladian architecture reached its crescendo
as theorists sought to provide a fundamental
reevaluation of Palladios oeuvre in accordance
with newly established criteria of judgment as-
sociated 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 Palladios 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 pub-
lished a textual account of his theories; rather,
they are known only through the conficting
descriptions provided by two of his contempo-
raries. The existence of these differing ver-
sions of Lodolis theories has led scholars to
speculate as to which is representative of the
true Lodoli. I wish to pose the question dif-
ferently-that is, I seek to examine why each
author sought to appropriate Lodolis ideas for
his own ends.
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eighteenth century.
Part III examines the critical reception of
Palladios church of the Redentore in Ven-
ice and the polemics that raged in the 1750s
and 1760s regarding the validity of harmonic
proportion in architecture. The frst 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 methods universality, he
would not have fallen into the error of counsel-
ing architects to choose freely among the three
systems. Citing Galileos 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 Palladios failure to recognize this eternal
truth, they alleged, that had led him to err in his
design of the Redentore.
Seeking to defend Palladios work, the Vene-
tian architect and engineer, Tommaso Temanza,
protested that practical demands frequently
constrained architects to stray from the stric-
tures 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
as an amicable debate soon degenerated into
an acrimonious confict of manifestly broader
import, for in two published letters the Brescian
engineer-cum-philosopher, Girolamo Francesco
Cristiani, not only ridiculed Temanza as Con-
trarmonico 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 Temanzas alleged
apostasy in matters of architecture and faith,
but furthermore called into question Palladios
own understanding of the signifcance of pro-
portion.
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 infu-
enced the way in which subsequent interpreters
have come to view Palladios work and legacy.
Indeed, their debates shed light not only on the
contested nature of Palladios legacy in theory
and practice in the Late Enlightenment, but on
the manner in which our own views regarding
Palladio and Palladianism have been condi-
tioned by a unique and enduring view of the
past.
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I was born in the shadow of the Rialto
bridge. My childhood experience of
the world was confned to an area cir-
cumscribed 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-cov-
ered 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 pecu-
liarities of Venetian life. I
My experiences of nature were
limited to potted plants and fowers
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 Druidi-
cal accuracy simply by evaluating the
quality of light penetrating the narrow,
dark calle in the back of my apart-
ment. 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 diffcult in Venice but I
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 phantas-
magoric display of refected lights, and
voices were muffed 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 im-
mediate 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 scream-
ing 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 hop-
scotch (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 own-
er 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 faade pro-
claimed, 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 fve feet deep set
high above the pavement in the dark
space of the Sotoportego (under-pas-
sage) 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 varia-
tions which impacted our territory.
Coming of Age in the Shadow of Marco Polo.
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All the children of the neighbor-
hood, and there were many, considered
the campi an extension of their apart-
ments. In it, without a need for for-
mal 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, fnding 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 fction unsurpris-
ingly seem to follow the trends in the
wider world of fction 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 theres
been a certain falling off of serious
contemporary fction 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 doesnt involve
art history.
Fiction set in Florence is dominated
by the renaissance, but Venices re-
naissance history is oddly mostly dealt
with through the exploits of modern-
day art historians, who come across
as somewhat unlovable individuals
in David Adams Clevelands With a
gem-like ame and Juan Manuel de
Pradas The Tempest. The few novels
actually set during the renaissance
period tend to concentrate on a strong
womans experience during repressive
times, which is far from being a trend
confned to Venice-set fction.
For a strong localised phenomenon
we look to Casanova and Vivaldi,
and the 18th Century they share.
Novels (and two Hollywood flms)
featuring Casanova and his world of
debauchery and masked intrigue have
only recently given way to a slew of
fctional accounts of the life of Vivaldi
(also including two flms). You`ll need
both hands to count the number of
recent novels, plays and flms dealing
with speculation regarding what one
might politely call Vivaldis domestic
arrangements. Not much is actually
known about Vivaldis life, and so the
scope to invent, particularly with re-
gard to his relationship with his young
protg`s at the Piet (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 Piet,
and Hidden harmonies: the Secret Life
of Antonio Vivaldi by Andr 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 Casa-
novas Venice and Vivaldi means that
an author isnt exactly choosing to set
their work in Venice the choice has
been made for them. An author choos-
ing 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, its 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 to-
wards the place. But thats not to deny
that the recent upsurge in works about
on the one hand a perceived libertine
and on the other the underage lust-
objects of a composer who was also a
priest dont tell us something about the
concerns of our time.
The association of Venice with
decline and decay is almost a clich,
and Louis Begleys Mistlers exit and
Robert Dessaixs Night letters are
characteristic of this in having their
central characters going to Venice to
die. (In the process the latter novel re-
inforces ones joie de vivre, whilst the
former saps ones will to live.) With
the strength of this association its 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
fction phenomenon to a degree that
her easy evocations of real lives and
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the real Venice are almost never criti-
cised, and lovers of Venice are almost
always lovers of Brunetti too. There
are also some very effcient German-
made TV adaptations of the series and
rumours of BBC interest. Donna Leon
is the dominant force in Venice-set
crime fction, but Edward Sklepow-
ichs unfrantic Urbino Macintyre mys-
teries evoke warm memories of The
Thin Mans Nick and Norah Charles,
with David Hewson catering for grit-
tier tastes. Michael Dibdins 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 Sklepow-
ichs characters so effortlessly inhabit
the campi and calli of their home city
that they almost justify the use of the
clich 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 vis-
ited 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 theres
only one piazza in Venice, so the mak-
ing 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.
Theres logic in setting crime novels
in a city so associated with death and
decline, despite the citys low crime
rate. The post-Harry Potter need for
stories for young adults, full of the
fantastic and the mysterious is a less
obvious source, but has a logic to it
too. Cornelia Funkes playful The Thief
Lord and Mary Hoffmans moving
City of Masks both make magic of the
more sinister side of Venices reputa-
tion for the entertainment of younger
(and older) readers. And then theres
Michelle Lovrics 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
fction novels set in a pseudo-Venice
by Tanith Lee.
This affnity between Venice and
darkness makes it even more surprising
that relatively little Venice-set fction
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. Bhabras
Gestures and Joseph Kanons Alibi
have really grasped the nettle of 20th
Century anti-Semitism and Nazism in
Venice. The former like a good old-
fashioned 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 fctional output and,
along with the tendency for Florence-
set fction to be set during the Renais-
sance, we can comfortably conjecture
that the fction of a city will tend to
get set during its perceived heyday.
And if we defne 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) fts 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-mil-
lennial obsession with post-apocalyptic
scenarios in fction and flms 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 infuence on imaginations.
A related narrative side-canal I`ll
quickly mention and fag 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 Eu-
rope as a setting and so theres often
a strong, if confused, favour 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 identifed, and their wider
echoes, are the result of contemporary
concerns or merely the infuence of
publishers and agents salivating for,
say, a mega-selling novel about a choir
of female wizards from a Venetian
girls 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
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Peter Miller. I^bk^l\l>nkhi^.
New Haven: Yale, 2000; and
Cecilia Rizza. I^bk^l\ÊBmZebZ.
Turin: Giappichelli, 1965.
The next time I walk down the
Strada Nova, I will make my custom-
ary mental bow to Fra Paolo Sarpis
statue and say: Now I understand why
you didnt answer the door to Peiresc
in 1602.
This all arises from reading, inter
alia, Peirescs Europe by Peter Miller
and Peiresc e LItalia by Cecilia
Rizza. Their subject, Nicolas-Claude
Fabri de Peiresc, was one of Europes
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 pur-
pose. 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 Rizzas 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 Benedic-
tine 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
study.
Peter Miller (p. 42) underscores
Peirescs erudition and his sociability,
how friends and correspondents were
devoted to him as he was to them,
praising his open-mindedness and uni-
versal interests. Though his economic
circumstances were secure, he worked
incessantly, in itself an admirable trait.
In his Chapter 2 (Constancy, Conversa-
tion, and Friendship: The Civil Life of
Private Men), Miller describes the role
civility and sociability played in the
world of European scholars and em-
phasizes the warm characterization of
Peiresc by Gassendi who commended
Peiresc for his benefcence and gener-
osity towards other scholars. However,
we must not forget that Gassendi was
Peirescs 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 fgure 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
Pinellis circle, which included Galileo,
Sarpi, Baronio, Tasso, and Gerolamo
Aleandro il Giovane who became
Peirescs 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 Peirescs letter nor corresponded
further with him; otherwise, the unfal-
tering Cecilia Rizza and Peter Miller
would have included such exchanges
in their book.
Of course, it is easy to detect a dis-
regard of questions that with hindsight
seem to jump off the page but two
thoughts intrude here: why didnt 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 Peirescs 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 clarifcation can be inferred
from Peirescs evaluations of Sarpis
writings, none of which came to
Peiresc through Sarpi himself. Ac-
cording to Rizza (p. 169), he probably
read the Lettere ai Gallicani around
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1607. And Peiresc described Sarpis
History of the Council of Trent, pub-
lished 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
Rizzas book (but not in Peter Millers)
there is this quote from a letter Peiresc
sent to Monsignor Aleandro concern-
ing Sarpis History: giudicando che
importebbe al bene della Santa Chiesa
che coteste opere pernittiose venghino
in mano di persone di valore accio vi
sinterponga lautorita loro per farle
supprimere o per farle confutare (Riz-
za, 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 Sarpis History.
Neither Peter Miller nor Cecilia Rizza
note whether Peiresc urged the censor-
ship 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
Peirescs letter to Monsignor Aleandro
in which Peiresc believes that Sarpis
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 lauthorita 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 Sarpis History to the Protestant
Camden, while to his life-long friend
in the Roman Church he recommended
the book either be refuted or sup-
pressed (as was indeed done by the
Congregatione del S.to Offcio (Rizza,
p. 173)).
In addition, Peiresc`s criticism of
Sarpi to Monsignor Aleandro, as well
as Rizzas attempt to justify Peiresc in
this matter, completely overlooked the
substantive contribution of the History
--- namely, Sarpis philosophical, theo-
logical, and political arguments for the
appropriate jurisdictions of civil and
Church authority. Though Peter Miller
does summarize Sarpis substantive ar-
guments, he does not provide evidence
that Peiresc himself was in agreement
with them; moreover, one looks in
vain for any clarifcation of Peiresc`s
divergent views of Sarpis 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 pa-
palisto? After all, he had observed the
close relationship between Peiresc and
Monsignor Aleandro in Pinellis 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 suffciently
prescient to grasp the extent to which
Peiresc would go to defend the Roman
Church. Deep-seated differences in at-
titudes toward Rome might explain in
some degree Sarpis 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 Enlightenments view
of Peirescs antiquary scholarship, ac-
quiring 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 Enlightenments
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
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Howard Adelman
Director, Jewish Studies Program
Queens University
CONTACT INFORMATION:
adelman@queensu.ca
Tel: 613-533-6000 x 79139
Fax: 613-533-3338
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D 217
Queens University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
CURRENT RESEARCH:
A Biography of Leon Modena, 17th c.
Venetian Rabbi
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Virginity: Womens 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. Skol-
nick (Detroit, 2007)
Jewish Women in Early Modern
Italy, 'Deborah Ascarelli, 'Sara
Coppia Sullam, Benvenida
Abravanel, in Jewish Women: a
comprehensive historical encyclo-
pedia, 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
ragee@ColoradoCollege.edu
Music Department
Colorado College
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The transmission of Plainchant in the
Early Modern Period
The Printed Transmission of the
Roman Gradual in Italy During
the Early Modern Period, Music
Library Association Notes 64 (2007)
'Ideological Clashes in a Renais-
sance Edition of Plainchant, in In-
grid Brainard Gedenkschrift (West-
ern Michigan University Press)
Christina Anderson
Oxford University
cm.anderson@usa.net
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
The Furnishing of Fort Augustus
Abbey, Scotland, Regional Furni-
ture 21 (2007)
Karl Appuhn
Assistant Professor
New York University
appuhn@nyu.edu
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian Forest Management, 1350-
1797; Vincenzo Coronelli and Venetian
Science; Epizootics in eighteenth-cen-
tury Venice
A Forest on the Sea. Environmen-
tal Expertise in Renaissance Venice
(Baltimore, 2009)
Benjamin Arbel
Professor
Tel Aviv University
arbel@post.tau.ac.il
Tel: 972-3-6409785
Fax: 972-3-6406229
69978 Tel Aviv
Israel
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian maritime trade; Venetian col-
onies; Venice and the Levant; Animals
in History; Jews in the Early-Modern
Mediterranean; Intercultural Contacts
in the Early-Modern Mediterranean
[with M. Rozen] Great Fire in
the Metropolis: The Case of the
Istanbul Confagration of 1569 and
its Description by Marcantonio
Barbaro, in Mamluks and Otto-
mans. Studies in Honour of Michael
Winter, eds. A. Ayalon and D. Was-
serstein (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 Cy-
priot Collections (Nicosia, 2007)
'Trade and International Relations
in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterra-
nean: The Case of the Ship Ghirarda
(1575-1581), in Living in the Ot-
toman Ecumenical Community. Es-
says in Honour of Suraiya Faroqhi,
eds. V. Costantini and M. Koller
(Leiden, 2008), 391-408
The Jewish Wine of Crete, in
Monemvasios oinosMonemvasia--
Malvasia (Athens, 2008), 81-88
Operating Trading Networks in
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Times of War: A Sixteenth-Century
Venetian Patrician Between Public
Service and Levant Trade, in Mer-
chants in the Ottoman Empire, eds.
S. Faroqhi & G. Veinstein (Leuven,
2008), 23-33
The Treatment of Animals in the
Islamic Orient as Perceived by
Western Observers of the Renais-
sance, 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. Har-
laftis (University of Corfu)
Cyprus on the Eve of the Ottoman
Conquest, in Ottoman Cyprus, eds.
M. Kappler and M. Michael (Me-
soeios, 2007)
The Venetian Domination of
Cyprus: Cui Bono?, in Venice in
Cyprus and Cyprus in Venice (Uni-
versity of Cyprus,)
Calendar, Time and Holiday in the
World of a Sixteenth-Century Medi-
terranean Merchant, in Calendar,
Time and Holiday in Society, Cul-
ture and Consciousness (Jerusalem)
[in Hebrew]
Venice and Kytherian Falcons:
Ecological Aspects of Renaissance
Colonialism, in Acts of the 8th In-
ternational Congress of Pan-Ionian
Studies
Famagusta during the Venetian Pe-
riod, in Medieval and Renaissance
Famagusta (University of Cyprus)
Lelezione dei prelati greci a Cipro
durante la dominazione veneziana,
in I Greci durante la Venetocrazia:
uomini, spazio, idee (Venezia)
'Between Segregation and Inte-
gration: 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)
Lilian Armstrong
Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of
Art, Emerita
Wellesley College
larmstrong@wellesley.edu
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; Iconogra-
phy of Petrarchs De viris illustribus,
14th-16th centuries;Hand-Illumination
and Woodcut Design in early printed
books.
Two Cycles of Uomini famosi
Illuminated by the Pico Master in
1476, Rivista di Storia della Min-
iatura 12 (2008): 23-33
(with P. Scapecchi, and F. Toniolo),
Gli incunaboli illustrate con
xilografe nella Biblioteca del
Seminario a Padova; and annota-
tions 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
Mantegnas 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 Univer-
sity, and Philadelphia Museum of
Art, 2008-2009), (Seattle and New
Haven, 2008), 53-71
'Venetian Incunables in Cambridge
Collections: Modes of Hand-Illumi-
nation, in The Cambridge Illumi-
nations: Conference Volume, ed. S.
Panayotova (London, 2006), 233-43
'A North Italian Drawing of Her-
cules and Antaeus in a German
Incunable: Marco Zoppo (?) and
Drawings in Renaissance Books, in
Tributes to Jonathan J. G. Alexan-
der: The Making and Meaning of
Illuminated Medieval and Renais-
sance Manuscripts, Art and Archi-
tecture, eds. Susan LEngle and Ger-
ald B. Guest (London, 2006), 5-20
Un poco noto manoscritto del De
viris illustribus di Francesco Petrar-
ca miniato da Nicol 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
Petrarch, Pesellino, and Triumphal
Images for Renaissance Cassoni
and Manuscripts,in The Triumph of
Marriage: papers from the Sympo-
sium (Boston, 2009)
'Information from Illumination:
Learning from the Decoration of
Incunabula in the 1470s, in Papers
from Early Printed Books as Mate-
rial Objects: Principles, Problems,
Perspectives, IFLA-preconference,
Munich, 19-21 August 2009 (2010)
Victoria Avery
Dr
Department of History of Art,
University of Warwick
victoria.avery@warwick.ac.uk
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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 (commission-
ing, production, collection, display and
reception); The life and work of Ales-
sandro Vittoria (1524/5-1608); British
perceptions of Venice
Virtue, Valour, Victory: The Mak-
ing and Meaning of Bronze Eques-
trian Monuments (ca. 1440- ca.
1640), in Praemium Virtutis III:
Reiterstandbilder von der Antike
bis zum Klassizismus. Symbolische
Kommunikation und gesellschaftli-
che Wertesysteme. Schriftenreihe
des Sonderforschungsbereichs 496;
vol. 22, eds. J. Poeschke, T. Weigel
and B. Kusch-Arnhold (Mnster,
2008), 199-233
Alessandro Vittorias Socles: Shap-
ing and Naming in Display and
Displacement: Sculpture and the
Pedestal from Renaissance to Post-
Modern, ed. A. Gerstein (London,
2007), 16-32
The Production, Display and Re-
ception 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
Dalle bocche da fuoco alle vere
da pozzo: la produzione artistica
dei fonditori dartiglieria di stato
nella Venezia del Rinascimento,
in LIndustria Artistica del Bronzo
nella Venezia e nellItalia setten-
trionale del Rinascimento, eds. M.
Ceriana and V. Avery (Venice)
The Production of Sea Ordnance
in Sixteenth-Century Venice by the
Alberghetti and di Conti Dynas-
ties, for the proceedings of Navi
e Cannoni: Le artiglierie navali a
Venezia e in Europa tra il XV e il
XVII secolo (Venice)
Vulcans Forge in Venus City: The
Bronze Industry in Renaissance
Venice (London, 2009)
Alexandra Bamji
University of Leeds
a.bamji@leeds.ac.uk
School of History
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Religion and disease in Venice, 1620-
1700; Death in early modern Venice
and Nuremberg
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
william_barcham@ftnyc.edu
Tel: 732-545-3227 (h) / 212-217-4644
218 Harrison Avenue
Highland Park, New Jersey 08904
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Man of Sorrows in Venetian art.
(with C. Puglisi), Bernardino da
Feltre, the Monte di Pieta and the
Man of Sorrows: Activist, Micro-
credt and Logo, artibus et historiae
57 (2008): 35-63
Rosalba Carriera e Antonio Maria
Zanetti tra Venezia e Parigi nella
prima met del secolo XVIII, in
Acts of the Giornata di studio in oc-
casion of the exhibition on Rosalba
Carriera
Murray Baumgarten
Professor
University of California, Santa Cruz
dickens@ucsc.edu
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, Ca-
ryl Phillips, and modern and contem-
porary Israeli poets
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
j.g.bernasconi@hull.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)1482 465035
University of Hull
Hull HU6 7RX
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Scuole patronage and art
Christopher Black
Professor
Glasgow University
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C.Black@history.arts.gla.ac.uk
12 Crown Terrace
Glasgow G12 9ES
Scotland UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Inquisitions in early modern Italy.
(eds. with Pamela Gravestock),
Early Modern Confraternities in
Europe and the Americas (Alder-
shot & Burlington VT, 2006), with
'Introduction: the Confraternity
Context, and Confraternities un-
der Suspicion in the Early modern
Period: A Venetian Case Study
The Inquisitions in Early Modern
Italy (New Haven, 2009)
'Confraternite e LÌnquisizione, in
Dizionario dellInquisizione, Vol. 1,
ed. A. Prosperi
Douglas Biow
Professor
University of Texas at Austin
biow@mail.utexas.edu
Tel: 512-853-0674
Fax: 512-471-8492
Department of French and Italian
1 University Station B7600
Austin, Texas 78712
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Leonardo Fioravanti, Tintoretto, Pietro
Bembo
The Culture of Cleanliness in Re-
naissance Italy (Ithaca and London,
2006)
Diplomacy: Castiglione and the Art
of Being Inconspicuously Con-
spicuous, Journal of Medieval and
Early Modern Studies 38 (2008):
35-55
Food: Pietro Aretino and the Art of
Conspicuous Consumption, in The
Renaissance World, ed. J. Martin
(Oxford, 2007).
In Your Face: Professional Im-
proprieties 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
mbrown@buffalo.edu
Tel: 716-838-1941
80 Fairlawn Dr.
Amherst, NY 14226
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian Politics and Culture, early
17th Century
The Myth of Antonio Foscarinis
Exoneration, Renaissance and
Reformation 25/3
In Preparation: 'A Venetian Apol-
ogy
Patricia Fortini Brown
Professor
pfbrown2@cs.com
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.
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 antichit,| in Commercio e
cultura mercantile, vol. IV, Il Rinas-
cimento italiano e lEuropa, eds. F.
Franceschi, R. Goldthwaite and R.
Mueller (Treviso, 2007), 309-337
The Exemplary Life of Giulia Bem-
bo Della Torre, in Philanagnostes:.
Studi in onore di Marino Zorzi, eds.
C. Maltezou and P. Schreiner (Bari,
2008), 155-174;
Veroneses Patrons, in Paolo Ve-
ronese and San Sebastiano, supple-
ment Save Venice (2008), 78-83;
Where the Money Flows: Art Pa-
tronage in Sixteenth-Century Ven-
ice, in Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese:
Rivals in Renaissance Venice, ed. F.
Ilchman (Boston 2009), 11-29
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. Set-
tis (Cambridge, MA, in press)
Anja Brug
M.A.
Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz
anja.brug@web.de
Tel: 0049 (0)30 2151548
Elholzstrae 19
10781 Berlin
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
'Artisti forentini a Venezia e in ter-
raferma. Andrea del Castagno e le sue
opere a San Zaccaria e San Marco
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(tesi di dottorato); Le prime opere di
Leonardo da Vinci; Arte contempo-
ranea in Europa e USA; Redazione e
editing
Ersie Burke
Dr.
Monash University
Ersie.Burke@arts.monash.edu.au
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Greek immigration, settlement and
community; Establishing the Greek
church of San Giorgio dei Greci; Elite
Greek and patrician marriages
Francesco di Demetri Litino, the
Inquisition and the Fondaco dei Tur-
chi, Thesaurismata (2006): 79-96
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
i.campagnol@rubelli.com
Tel: +39-0412417329; +39-
3337430994
Cannaregio 3456 C
30121 Venezia
Italy
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Dress in Venetian Convents from the
Fifteenth to the Eighteenth century.
'Laces and Documents: the IRE
Collections in Venice, in Atti del
convegno Textiles and Text: Re-es-
tablishing the links between archival
and object-based research, (Arche-
type Books, 2007), 76-79.
La moda a tavola. Relazioni tra
fgurini di moda e oggetti dàrte
applicata nella seconda met del
Settecento, Filoforme (Dec. 2007):
23-26
'Costume in the Italian Renais-
sance, in The Greenwood En-
cyclopedia of Clothing through
World History, 3 vols. (Greenwood
Publishers, 2007), 3-61.
'Invisible Seamstresses. Needle-
work 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 Rediscov-
ery of the Arts and Crafts, Studies
in the Decorative Arts, the Jour-
nal of the Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts
(2008)
Pilgrim costume, in Encyclope-
dia of Medieval Pilgrimage, ed. L.
Taylor, (Leiden)
Invisible Luxuries. Forbidden Fash-
ions in Venetian Monasteries from
the 15th to the 18th century (Texas
Tech University Press, 2009)
Andrea Caracausi
Research Fellow
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
- Universit Ca` Foscari
caracausi@unive.it
San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873
30121 Venice
Italy
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Merchant Networks in Early Modern
Venice
Dentro la bottega. Culture del
lavoro in una citt det moderna
(Venezia, 2008)
'Procedure di giustizia in et mod-
erna. 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)
'Identit urbaine, fscalit d`tat
et corporations: Venise et ses ville
entre XVe et XVIIe sicle, Memini
Revue dhistoire medieval du Que-
bec 9-10 (2005-2006): 145-177
Capitali e mercanti-imprenditori
in et moderna (Italia settentrionale,
secc. XVII-XVIII), Annali di storia
dellimpresa 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
Christopher_Carlsmith@uml.edu
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 Col-
leges and Universities
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)
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A Renaissance Education: School-
ing in Bergamo and the Venetian
Republic, 1500-1650, (Toronto,
2009)
Jill Carrington
Associate Professor of Art History
Stephen F. Austin State University
jcarrington@sfasu.edu
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 Gi-
anntonio in the Basilica of St. Anthony,
Padua
Linda L. Carroll
Professor, Italian
Tulane University
lincar@tulane.edu
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 Ven-
ice, especially that of Angelo Beolco
(Il Ruzante); Beolco`s relations with
the Venetian patriciate
(trans.) Venice, Cit Excelentissima:
Selections from the Renaissance
Diaries of Marin Sanudo, eds. P.
Labalme and L. Sanguineti White
(Baltimore, 2008)
(ed. and trans.) Angelo Beolco (Il
Ruzante), La prima oratione, Mod-
ern Humanities Research Associa-
tion Critical Texts, vol. 16 (London,
2008)
(with M. Marshall, K. McIver)
Sexualities, Textualities, Art & Mu-
sic in Early Modern Italy
(El) ge sa bon laorare: Female
Wealth, Male Competition, Musical
Festivities, and the Venetian Patrici-
ate in Ruzantes Pavan, Sexualities,
Textualities
Isabella Palumbo Fossati Casa
Professore
Universit di Amiens
ipalumbo@club-internet.fr
Tel: 0415222275
28, rue Gay Lussac
75005 Paris
France
S.Maria del Giglio 2597
30124 Venezia
Italy
CURRENT RESEARCH:
La casa e la societ veneziana (dal
Cinquecento al Settecento); Venezia
e il mediterraneo orientale: aspetti
storici, economici, linguistici; Venezia
e la Terrasanta
Venise, Porte du Levant: aspects
linguistiques et Echos dÒrient
travers les objets presents dans la
maison vnitienne au XVI sicle,
in Contacts des langues dans
lespace arabo- turco- persan, 2
vols. ed. M.Bozdemir (Istanbul-
Paris, 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 vnitiens(XVI-
XVIII sicles), in La maison de
lartiste (Rennes, 2007)
Venise polychrome: reets d'Orient
et interfrences linguistiques dans
les recits de pelerins, voyageurs et
de marchands (Paris, 2008)
Pamela Cartwright
Principal
Michael Winstanley Architects Plan-
ners
psc@michaelwinstanley.com
Tel: 703-519-8081
Fax: 703-519-8082
1635 13th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
Matteo Casini
Suffolk University, Boston, MA
mattcasini@yahoo.com
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, Renais-
sance and Baroque Venice
Ruth Chavasse
Kings College London (retired)
ruthchavasse@tiscali.co.uk
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)
Humanist Educational and Emo-
tional Expectations of Teenagers
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in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy, in
Emotions in the Household, 1200-
1900, ed. S. Broomhall (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008), 69-84
Ian Chessell
Dr
University of South Australia
chessell@bigpond.net.au
Tel: +61884316054
PO Box 347
Kensington Park SA 5068
Australia
CURRENT RESEARCH:
History of the Ionian Islands, particu-
larly 1750-1830
'Britain`s Ionian Consul: Spiridion
Foresti and Intelligence Collection,
(1793-1805), Journal of Mediter-
ranean Studies 16 (2006): 45-61
Georg Christ
Dr. phil.
Universitt Heidelberg
georgchrist@gmail.com
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-Man-
agement in the Later Middle Ages;
Maritime History of the Eastern Medi-
terranean
Masking Cooperation with the
Infdel: The Venetian Commercial
Privileges, Political power and
Legal Culture in Mamluk Egypt,
in Power and Culture: Hegemony,
Interaction and Dissent, eds. J.
Osmond and A. Cimadina (Pisa,
2006), 33-51
A Newsletter in 1419? Antonio
Morosinis Chronicle in the Light
of Commercial Correspondence
between Venice and Alexandria,
Mediterranean Historical Review 20
(2005): 35-66
Conicts at the intersection of Ori-
ent and Occident: A Venetian consul
in Mamlk Alexandria at the begin-
ning of the 15th century (Leyden)
Paula Clarke
Associate Professor
McGill University
paula.clarke@mcgill.ca
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, 1381-
1451
(with E. Barile & G. Nordio) Cit-
tadini veneziani del 400: i due
Giovanni Marcanova, il mercante e
lumanista (Venezia, 2006)
The Villani Chronicles, in
Chronicling History in Medieval
and Renaissance Italy, eds. S. Dale,
A. Levin & D. Osheim (Penn State,
2007)
Simona Cohen
Phd.
Tel-Aviv University
simona_1@netvision.net.il
Tel: 972-9-7429458
Fax: 972-9-7421454
5 Hamiyasdim St.
Ramot Hashavim, Israel 45930
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian painting, animals in Venetian
and Sienese iconography
Animals as Disguised Symbols in
Renaissance Art (Leiden, 2008)
An Aldine Volume of Petrarch Il-
luminated for a Prestigious Patron,
Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte
(2009)
Changing Functions of the Ca-
nine 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
eacongdon@ysu.edu
Tel: (330) 941-3454
Youngstown State University
1 University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 44555
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian merchants working in Mus-
lim markets in the 1470s and 1480s;
Venetians in the Western Mediterra-
nean c. 1400
Tracy Cooper
Professor
Temple University
t.cooper@temple.edu
Tel: 215-204-7837 / 347-449-3747 (IT)
Fax: 215-204-6951
81 Lamb Hope Rd
Hopewell, NJ 08525
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CURRENT RESEARCH:
Visual culture of Renaissance and early
modern Venice; Patronage and collect-
ing practices; Ritual and urbanism
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 Mis-
cellanea Zorzi, eds. C. Maltezou
and P. Schreiner (Venice and Kln,
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 Vene-
zia del rinascimento, ed. D. How-
ard and L. Moretti (Milan, 2006),
95-106
Alexander Cowan
Reader in History.
Northumbria University
A.cowan@unn.ac.uk
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 mod-
ern Venice; Social derogation among
the early modern patriciate
Looking in and looking out. Gos-
sip in early modern Venice, Jour-
nal of Early Modern History (2008),
in book form (Leiden, 2009)
Lusty widows and chaste widows
in seventeenth-century Venice, in
Famiglie e poteri in Italia tra Me-
dioevo et et moderna, eds. A. Bel-
lavitis and I. Chabot (Rome, 2009)
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
Elizabeth Crouzet-Pavan
Professeur dhistoire du Moyen Age
Universit de Paris-Sorbonne
elisabeth.crouzet_pavan@paris.sor-
bonne.fr
Tel: 01 43 20 60 04
38 bis Avenue Ren Coty
Paris 75014
France
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Histoire de Venise. XIIIe-XVe sicles;
Histoire de lÌtalie communale et ren-
naissante
Renaissances italiennes (Paris,
2007)
(with J. Verger, eds.) La Drision.
De la pratique sociale au rituel
politique (Paris, 2007)
(with E. Lecuppre-Desjardin) Villes
de Flandre et dItalie : les leons
dune comparaison (Brepols, 2008)
'Problmatique des arts Venise la
fn du Moyen Age, in Tra eco-
nomica e politica : le corporazioni
nellEuropa medievale (Pistoia,
2007), 39-61
'Entre ncessits conomiques
et logiques anthropologiques : le
march immobilier vnitien, in
Colloque dEstella, XXXIII Semana
de Estudios Medievales, Mercado
immobiliario y paisajes urbanos en
el Occidente Europeo (siglos XI-XV)
(Pamplona, 2007), 269-300
Les villes vivantes. Italie. XIIIe-XVe
sicle
'La cit communale en qute
dèlle-mme : la fabrique des grands
espaces publics, in La Costruzione
della civilt communale (Pistoia,
2007)
Venise-Florence. Pour une his-
toire compare des lieux du vivre
ensemble, in La convivencia en las
ciudades medievales (Najera, 2007)
David DAndrea
Associate Professor
Oklahoma State University
david.dandrea@okstate.edu
Tel: (405) 744-8195
Fax: (405) 744-5400
501 Life Sciences West
Stillwater, OK 74078-3054
CURRENT RESEARCH:
History of Venetian Charity; Popular
Religion
Civic Christianity in Renaissance
Italy: The Hospital of Treviso, 1400-
1530 (Rochester, 2007)
Margaret DEvelyn
Associate Professor of Art History
Principia College
Margaret.DEvelyn@Prin.edu
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
davis.711@osu.edu
Tel: (614) 784-1909
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106 Dulles Hall
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, 43210-1367
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Bandits in Lazio and Umbria, 1550-
1650; Mediterranean slavery
Holy War and Human Bondage:
Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery
in the Early-Modern Mediterranean
(New York, 2009)
'Geography and the Traffc in
Slaves in the Early-modern Mediter-
ranean, 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 citt
darte. Quali costi sociali a Vene-
zia? in Turismo e citt darte, ed.
G. Ortalli (Venice, 2007), 15-20
Blake de Maria
Assistant Professor
Santa Clara University
bdemaria@scu.edu
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; Galil-
eos activities in Venice
Becoming Venetian: Immigrants and
the Arts in Early Modern Venice
(New Haven, 2009)
Cara De Silva
Writer/Scholar
Independent
cara_cara@earthlink.net
Tel: 212.989.1327
311 West 24th Street, 16D
New York, NY 10011
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Humanists; Intellectual life
Julia DeLancey
Associate Professor
Truman State University
delancey@truman.edu
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 ffteenth,
sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
In particular, vendecolori in Venice in-
cluding issues of wealth, social status,
and shop location in Venice
Shipping Colour: valute, pigments,
trade, and Francesco di Marco Da-
tini , 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., Scientifc Research Assistant
Technische Universitt Mnchen
rudolf.dellermann@web.de
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
Larredo e le sculture della cappel-
la: un linguaggio antico veneziano
per làrca di santÌsidoro, Quaderni
della Procuratoria. Arte, storia,
restauri della Basilica di San Marco
a Venezia 3 (2008): 35-47
Iussu ducis - auf Befehl des Dogen.
Die Cappella di SantIsidoro in San
Marco. Kunst und Heiligenprsen-
tation unter dem Dogen Andrea
Dandolo (1343-1354)
Roger Downey
ozmirage@speakeasy.net
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
ericd@byu.edu
Tel: 801-422-5260
2129 JFSB
Provo, UT 84602
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Early modern Mediterranean; Women
and conversion; Mediterranean food-
ways; Dragomans
Women in the Ottoman Empire, in
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women
in World History, 4 vols., ed. B.
Smith (Oxford, 2008)
Roman Catholics in Constantino-
ple/Istanbul, in Encyclopedia of the
Hellenic World (Foundation of the
Hellenic World, 2008)
Venetians in Constantinople: Na-
tion, Identity and Coexistence in
the Early Modern Mediterranean
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(Baltimore, 2006)
(Turkish translation of Venetians in
Constantinople) Constantinopleda
Venedikliler: Ilk ada Akdeniz
Milliyet, Kimlik ve Bir Arada
Varolu (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 Vene-
tian Postal System in the Mediterra-
nean, 1573-1645, in From Florence
to the Mediterranean: Studies in
Honor of Anthony Molho, (Florence,
2009)
Fernand Braudel, in French His-
torians, 1900-2000, ed. P. Daileader
(Oxford, 2009)
Handbook of Venetian History,
1400-1797 (Leiden, 2011)
Robert Echols
Independent Scholar
echols@suscom-maine.net
Tel: 207-833-7869
Fax: 207-833-7869
9 Barker Point Road
Bailey Island, ME 04003
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Reconsideration of Jacopo Tintoretto
catalogue
(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, Tintoret-
to, Veronese: Rivials in Renaissance
Venice, exh. cat., Museum of Fine
Arts (Boston, 2009)
Tintoretto the Painter, and
other entries in Tintoretto, exh. cat.,
Museo del Prado (Madrid, 2007)
Systematic Catalogue, 16th Century
Italian Paintings (Tintoretto and fol-
lowers) (Washington D.C.)
Sabine Engel
Ph.D. Candidate
sabine.engel@berlin.de
Tel: ++ 49.30.6877003
Kirchstr. 19 II
10557 Berlin
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Dissertation: Christ and the Adulter-
ess, a Venetian cinquecento painting-
subject.
'Limitare la libert di una nobile
donna e consolidare i valori con-
servatori veneziani tramite il potere
della pittura: Cristo e lAdultera
di Nicol de Barbari, in Storia di
Venezia (http://www.storiadivenezia.
it/rivista)
Fabien Faugeron
Membre en Histoire mdivale
Ecole Franaise de Rome
fabien.faugeron@efrome.it
Tel: +390498766619
Via Boccalerie, 27
3 piano, int. 10
35139 Padova
Italy
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Histoire conomique de la Terre
Ferme vnitienne la fn du Moyen
ge (rseaux urbains et espaces
conomiques); Ravitaillement, mtiers
et marchs alimentaires Venise dans
les derniers sicles du Moyen ge.
Histoire de la cuisine et des pratiques
gastronomiques vnitiennes.
'De la commune la capitale du
Stato di Terra : la politique an-
nonaire et la constitution de lEtat
de Terreferme vnitien (1re moiti
du XVe sicle), dans Les villes
capitales au Moyen ge. XXXVIe
Congrs de la SHMESP (Paris,
2006), 97-111
Nourrir la ville : lexemple de la
boucherie vnitienne la fn du
Moyen ge, Histoire Urbaine 16
(2006): 53-70
'Le march de Rialto la fn du
Moyen Age: le centre dun espace
de ravitaillement sans frontire, in
Actes du colloque de Bologne de
lIEHCA (dc. 2003) (Paris)
'Au cour de lànnone vnitienne :
le fondaco delle farine de Rialto
la fn du Moyen ge, Mlanges de
lEcole Franaise de Rome
Irmgard Fees
Prof. Dr.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt
Mnchen
irmgard.fees@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Tel: 0049-89-2180-5688
Fax: 0049-89-2180-2084
Historisches Seminar der LMU
Mnchen
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
D-80539 Mnchen
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venezianische Urkunden des 10. bis
13. Jh.
Eine Urkunde des venezianisch-
en Dogen Pietro Polani von
1138/1139, Archiv fr Diplomatik
55 (2009)
Ronnie Ferguson
Professor of Italian and Head of the
School of Modern Languages
University of St Andrews
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rgf@st-and.ac.uk
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
A Linguistic History of Venice (Flor-
ence, 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 ur-
ban dialect: The impact on Venetian
of long-term contact with Italian,
in Language Contact and Minority
Languages on the Littorals of Eu-
rope, eds. S. Ureland, A. Lodge and
S. Pugh (Berlin, 2007), 161-173
Alison Frazier
Associate Professor
akfrazier@mail.utexas.edu
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
Machiavelli, Trauma, and the
Scandal of The Prince in History
in the Comic Mode, eds. Fulton and
Holsinger (2007)
Luba Freedman
Associate Professor
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Luba.Freedman@huji.ac.il
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
'The Vainly Imploring Goddess
in Titians Venus and Adonis in
Titian: Materiality, Likeness, Istoria,
ed. J. Woods-Marsden (Turnhout,
2007), 83-96
Esther Brummer Gabel
Doctoral Candidate
University of Cambridge
Esther.Gabel@gmail.com
Tel: 617 680 5460
Fax: 617 680 5460
60 Argyle Street
Rochester NY 14607
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The Development of the Nuptial Al-
legory in Early Modern Venice
Martin Gaier
Dr. phil.
Department of History of Art, Univer-
sity of Basel
martin.gaier@unibas.ch
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
Italy 1871-1900 in the feld of art his-
tory and art politics; Art, identity and
politics in early modern Venice; Quat-
trocento villas in the Veneto; Palazzo
Soranzo van Axel in Venice
ius imaginis nihil esse aliud, quam
ius nobilitatis. Bildpolitik und
Machtanspruch im Patriziat Vene-
digs, in Integritt und Fragment.
Kopf / Bild. Die Die Bste in Mit-
telalter und Frher Neuzeit, eds. J.
Kohl and R, Mller (Berlin, 2007),
255-82
'Terribilit, in Art Historical
Mythologies Mythen der Kunst-
wissenschaft. Ein Antilexikon, ed.
T. Weddigen (Kritische Berichte 3,
2007), 18-22
Hlzerne Pferde Goldene Klber.
Zu den Reitermonumenten in vene-
zianischen Kirchen, in Praemium
Virtutis III: Reitermonumente von
der Antike bis zum Risorgimento
Form, Funktion, Symbolgehalt,
eds. J. Poeschke and B. Kusch-Arn-
hold (Mnster, 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, mate-
riali, eds. A. Guerra and P. Modesti
(Venice, 2009)
Architettura Venetiana. Antonio
da Ponte, Leonardo Fioravanti e la
rinascenza dello stile repubblicano
alla fne del Cinquecento, in Cel-
ebrazione e autocritica. La Serenis-
sima e la ricerca dellidentit vene-
ziana nel tardo Cinquecento, eds. B.
Paul and G. Tagliaferro (2009)
(with L. Bader and F. Wolf, eds.)
Vergleichendes Sehen (Mnchen,
2009)
John Garton
Dr.
Clark University
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jgarton@clarku.edu
Tel: 508.490.5797
120 Deerfoot Road
Southborough, MA 01772
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, 16th-cen-
tury Italian portraiture, Leonardo da
Vinci
Grace and Grandeur: The Portrai-
ture of Paolo Veronese (Turnhout &
London, 2008)
Co-author of the portraiture section
of the exh. cat.: Venice 1540-1580:
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese - Emu-
lation, Rivalry, Inuence (Boston,
2009)
Ruthy Gertwagen
Senior lecturer, and professor of Mod-
ern Hellenic Studies
Haifa University
ruger@macam.ac.il
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
Does Naval Activity Military and
commercial - need Artifcial Ports?
The Case of Venetian Harbours
and Ports in the Ionian and Aegean
till 1500, Graeco Arabica Fest-
schrift for Professor Christides 9-10
(2005): 163-181
Harbours and Port Facilities along
the Sea Lanes to the Holy Land, in
How They made War in the Cru-
sader 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 Venices
colonies to its naval warfare in
the Eastern Mediterranean in the
Fifteenth century, Rivista Mediter-
ranea. Ricerche storiche 4 (2007):
113-173
Corfu and its port in the Venetian
policy in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean in the Late Medieval and
Early Modern Period (14th and 15th
centuries), Journal of International
Maritime History 19/1 (2007): 181-
210
(ed.) Il mare. Comeera. Le in-
terazioni tra humo ed ambiente nel
Mediterraneo dallEpoca Romana
al XIX secolo: una visione storica
ed ecologica delle attivit di pesca,
Supplemento ai Quaderni ex ICRAM
Approccio Multidisciplinare allo
studio dellambiente marino e della
pesca nel Medioevo Mediterraneo
orientale, in Il mare. Comeera,
144-182
Acre, Ascalon, and Tyre, in
Dictionaires des orders militaries au
Moyen ge (2008)
Review article of History of Marine
Animal Popualtion (HMAP) and the
Mediterranean (December 2009)
Venices policy towards the Defense
of its Maritime Empire against the
Ottomans in the ffteenth century,
Thesaurismata
Dieter Girgensohn
d.girgensohn@t-online.de
Tel: 49/551/55200
Fax: 49/551/4888613
Brder-Grimm-Allee 42
37075 Gttingen
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Ecclesiastical and social history in the
later Middle Ages; concerning Ven-
ice: promissioni dogali, testaments
of doges and dogaresse, the Foscari
family; Padua in the 14th-15th cent.:
university, canon law teaching, espe-
cially Francesco Zabarella
Alencon (d) Filippo, patriarca di
Aquileia; Caetani Antonio, patri-
arca di Aquileia; Pancera Antonio,
patriarca di Aquileia; Teck (di)
Ludovico, patriarca di Aquileia, in
Nuovo Liruti. Dizionario biografco
dei Friulani 1: Il Medioevo, ed. C.
Scalon (Udine 2006), 1:97-106,
182-189, 2:628-641, 811-821
'Sui rapporti fra autorit civile e
Chiesa negli Stati italiani del Quat-
trocento, in L'Italia alla fne del
Medioevo: i caratteri originali nel
quadro europeo, ed. F. Salvestrini
(Firenze 2006), 117-142
'Kehrs Regesta pontifcum Roma-
norum: Entstehung - wissenschaftli-
cher Ertrag - organisatorische
Mngel, in Das Papsttum und das
vielgestaltige Italien. Hundert Jahre
Italia pontifcia, ed. K. Herbers
Le promissioni dei dogi di Venezia
nel basso Medioevo
I Foscari. Lascesa di una fami-
glia nobile nella Venezia del basso
Medioevo
Susan Grange
Open University
susangrange@hotmail.com
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Tel: 07974 000291
Fax: 0115 9251516
Pasture House
8 Linden Grove
Beeston
Nottingham NG9 2AD
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Music in Venetian Renaissance Art
Paul F. Grendler
Professor of History Emeritus
paulgrendler@gmail.com
Tel: 919-929-9505
Fax: 919-929-5773
110 Fern Lane
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Jesuit Higher Education in Italy 1550-
1700
'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 Univer-
sity 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, 1609-
1618, The Catholic Historical
Review 93 (2007): 789-814
Humanism: Ancient Learning,
Criticism, Schools and Universi-
ties, in Interpretations of Renais-
sance Humanism, ed. A. Mazzocco
(Leiden, 2006), 73-95
Gasparo Contarini and the Univer-
sity of Padua, in Heresy, Culture,
and Religion in Early Modern Italy:
Contexts and Contestations, eds. R.
Delph, M. Fontaine, and J. Martin
(Kirksville, 2006), 135-50
The University of Mantua, The Gon-
zaga, and the Jesuits, 1584-1630
(Baltimore, 2009)
Articles on Ballplaying in Italian
Universities, other topics
Giuseppe Gullino
Professor
University of Padua
giuseppe.gullino@unipd.it
Tel: +393497105582
Via F. Parri, 5
30126 Lido di Venezia (VE)
Italy
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Atlante della Repubblica Veneta, dalle
origini alla caduta
Atlante della Repubblica Veneta
1790 (Sommacampagna, 2007)
Da Como a Venezia: economia e
politica dei Rezzonico, in Atti del
Convegno su Carlo Rezzonico (Cle-
mente XIII) Padova, 12 novembre
2008
Linda Guzzetti
Dr.
linda.guzzetti@TU-berlin.de
Prinzenalle 58E
13359 Berlin
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Women and law courts in late Middle
Ages; Dowries in Venice and Treviso
Testamentsforschung in Europa seit
den 70er Jahren des 20. Jahrhun-
derts, in Seelenheil und irdischer
Besitz. Testamente als Quellen
fr 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 re-
datti a Venezia o in Grecia durante
la venetocrazia nei sec. XIV-XIX
(Venice, 2008)
Donne, denaro e navi: i contratti
di colleganza`; 'I mestieri delle
donne; Le donne e le scuole di de-
vozione, in Storia di Venezia, citt
delle donne. Guida ai tempi, luoghi
e presenze femminili. ed. T. Plebani
(Venezia, 2008)
Women in Court in Early Four-
teenth-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
jhardgrave@usi.edu
Tel: 812-465-1221
8600 University Boulevard
Evansville, IN 47712
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Law, gender, and education
Johanna Heinrichs
jdheinrichs@gmail.com
Tel: 516.712.9095
Department of Art & Archaeology
105 McCormick Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Dissertation, Between City and Coun-
try: The Residential Suburb in Renais-
sance Italy
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Paul Hills
Professor
Courtauld Institute of Art
paul.hills@courtauld.ac.uk
Tel: 0044 020-7848-2777
Courtauld Institute of Art,
Somerset House, Strand,
London WC2R ORN
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Curtains, veils and drapes in Renais-
sance Venice
Titians Fire: Pyrotechnics and
Representations in Sixteenth-Cen-
tury 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 mrite
Centre National de la Recherche Sci-
entifque
jc-hocquet@wanadoo.fr
Tel: 33 3 20129245
3/33 rue Chambre des Comptes
59000 Lille
France
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venise au Moyen Age; Histoire mari-
time et fnancire; Relations avec la
Terraferma.
Venise et la Mer, XIIe-XVIIIe sicles
(Paris, 2006)
Relaciones martimas y navega-
ciones mediterrneas en el siglo,
in Ibn Jaldn. El Mediterrneo en
el siglo XIV: Auge y declive de los
Imperios (Sevilla, 2006), 204-09
Due risorse maritime associate, il
sale e il pesce. Proflo storico, in
Ricchezza del mare. Ricchezza dal
mare, secc. XIII-XVIII, 2 vols., ed
D. Cavaciocchi (Florence 2006),
235-65.
Venise et le monde turc, in
Venise et lOrient, Catalogue de
lExposition, ed. S. Carboni (Paris,
2006), 36-51
Venise et lIslam, un flm de Rob-
ert Pansard-Besson, prsent 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 Comac-
chio : levage, commercialisation,
consommation de languille, in Les
Nourritures de la mer de la crie
lassiette. Conservation, commerce
et pratiques alimentaires des produ-
its de la mer, de lAntiquit nos
jours, eds. . Ridel, . Barr et A.
Zysberg (Caen, 2007), 91-102
'Le crdit dans l`conomie du sel
Venise la fn du Moyen Age :
crdit la consommation, inves-
tissement et crdit public, Studi
Veneziani 51-52 (2006): 133-144
Giacomo Badoer et le commerce de
làlun et des cendres Constantino-
ple au XVe sicle, Thesaurismata
37 (2007): 87-100
Le Sel et la fortune de Venise, III
- Etat, marchs, fnance (Paris
2009)
Exploitation salinire et im-
migration Torcello la fn du
XIIe sicle,' 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 la fn du Moyen ge, Bul-
letin de la Commission Historique
du Nord, Histoire Archologie
'I porti di Venezia alla fne del
Medioevo, in Mediterraneo. Ar-
cheo-logia navale e storia marittima
dallAntichit al XX secolo
'Le sel dans une conomie colo-
niale : Venise et les sels grecs ,
in Le paysage du sel portugais
entre la tradition technologique et
lindustrialisation
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Dr
aulus@gellius.demon.co.uk
Tel: +44 1865 552808
Fax: +44 1865 512237
67 St Bernards Road
Oxford OSX 6EJ
UK
Annika Heppner
Magister Atrium
Philipps-Universitt Marburg
hoeppner@fotomarburg.de
Tel: +49 (0) 6421 28-22186
Fax: +49 (0) 6421 28-28951
Kunstgeschichtliches Institut der
Philipps-Universitt 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
Reprsentation des venezianischen
Adels am Anfang des 18. Jahrhun-
derts: Die Bildzyklen in den Saloni
der Ca`Dolfn und der Ca`Sandi, in
Herrschaft Architektur Raum, eds.
S. Hahn and M. Sprenger (Berlin,
2008)
Liz Horodowich
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New Mexico State University
lizh@nmsu.edu
Tel: 505-646-1515
History Department, MSC 3H
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Foul Language and Obscenity in Six-
teenth-Century Venice; Venice and the
New World
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
A Brief History of Venice (London,
2009)
April Hough
University of Nottingham
adxah1@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel: 07515893444
Flat 2
88 Tilehouse Street
Hitchin
Hertfordshire SG5 2DU
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Tintorettos paintings for the Venetian
parish churches
Deborah Howard
Professor of Architectural History
djh1000@cam.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1223 332975/339360
Fax: +44 1223 740399
Faculty of Architecture &
History of Art
1 Scroope Terrace
Cambridge CB2 1PX
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
16th-century Venetian architecture
Cultural exchange in the eastern Medi-
terranean; Architecture & Music in
Renaissance Venice
Cultural transfer between Venice
and the Ottomans in the 15th and
16th centuries, in Cultural Ex-
change 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 Infuence, (reprint of
article frst published in Architectur-
al History in 1991), in Late Antique
and Medieval Art of the Mediter-
ranean World, ed. E. Hoffman
(London, 2007), 398-404
'Venezia citt 'orientale` in
Venezia e lÌslam 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 Crosspollina-
tions: Interactions in the Medieval
Middle East, eds. A. Akasoy, J.
Montgomery and P. Pormann (Ex-
eter, 2007), 119-134
Architectural Politics in Renais-
sance Venice, in Proceedings of the
British Academy (2008)
Palladio and Venetian Republican-
ism, in Palladio: 1508-2008. Il
simposio del cinquecentenario, eds.
F. Barbieri, D. Howard, et al. (Ven-
ice, 2008), 294-299
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: Architec-
ture, Music, Acoustics (New Haven,
2009)
Power and practicality at Pal-
manova: the role of MarcAntonio
Barbaro, in Celebrazione e auto-
critica: la Serenissima e la ricerca
dellìdentit veneziana nel tardo
Cinquecento, eds. B. Paul and G.
Tagliaferro
Lyle Humphrey
Independent Scholar
jh234@nyu.edu
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 Vene-
tian confraternities and guilds.
Cristoforo Corteses Signed
Frontispieces in the Museo Civico
Amedeo Lia, La Spezia and the
Mariegola of the Scuola dei Mila-
nesi of Venice, Rivista di Storia
della Miniatura 12 (2008): 81-94
Holly Hurlburt
Associate Professor, History/Women
Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
hurlburt@siu.edu
Tel: (618) 453-7867
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Fax: (618) 453-5440
Mailcode 4519
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Caterina Corner; Gender and Venetian
Empire
A Renaissance for Renaissance
Women? (review essay) Journal of
Womens History 19 (2007)
The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-
1500: 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 (Rout-
ledge, 2006)
David Jacoby
Professor Emeritus
Hebrew University
jacobgab@mscc.huji.ac.il
Tel: 972-2-5860380 (home)
Fax: 972-2-5865526 (home)
Hebrew University
Jerusalem 91905
Israel
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Economy and society in Byzantium,
the former territories of Byzantium
after the Fourth Crusade, the Cru-
sader 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 Mediterra-
nean region (a book in progress)
'Byzantium, the Italian Maritime
Powers, and the Black Sea before
1204, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 100
(2007): 677-699
'Multilingualism and Institutional
Patterns of Communication in Latin
Romania (Thirteenth-Fourteenth
Centuries), in Diplomatics in the
Eastern Mediterranean 1000-1500.
Aspects of Cross-Cultural Com-
munication, 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 mit-
telalterlichen Juden: Fragen und
Einschtzungen, eds. Michael Toch
unter Mitarbeit von Elisabeth Ml-
ler-Luckner (Schriften des Histo-
rischen Kollegs, Kolloquien 71)
(Mnchen, 2008), 25-48
Marino Sanudo Torsello on Trade
Routes, Commodities, and Taxa-
tion, in Philanagnostes. Studi in
onore di Marino Zorzi, eds. C.
Maltezou and P. Schreiner (Venezia,
2008), 185-197
Die Kreuzfahrerstadt Akko, in
Burgen und Stdte der Kreuzzug-
szeit, ed. M. Piana (Petersberg,
2008), 242-251
Silk Production, in The Oxford
Handbook of Byzantine Studies, eds.
E. Jeffreys, J. Haldon and R. Cor-
mack (Oxford, 2008), 421-428
The Greeks of Constantinople un-
der 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, Universit Toulouse II
Honorary research fellow, Birkbeck
College, University of London
judde@univ-tlse2.fr
Tel: 0033610894735/00447910389203
Dpartement d`Histoire
Universit Toulouse II5,
alles 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
Naviguer, commercer, gouverner.
conomie maritime et pouvoirs
Venise (XVe-XVIe sicles) (Leiden,
2008)
'La decima vnitienne (XVe-XVIe
sicles) : refet dùne socit en mu-
tation, in De lestime au cadastre
en Europe (Paris, 2007), 497-511
Il naufragio della Querina. Vene-
ziani nel circolo polare artico,
Postfazione (Rome, 2007)
De limpossible discours aux
formes de làction. La fdlit poli-
tique Venise, XVe-XVIe sicles,
Mlanges de lcole franaise de
Rome. Italie et Mditerrane 118
(2006): 217-225
'La frontire rapproche : confits
au sein de la socit vnitienne au
temps de la ligue de Cambrai (1508-
1516), in Las sociedades fronteri-
zas del Mediterrneo al Atlntico
(ss. XVI-XVII), Actes du colloque
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organis par la Casa de Velzquez
et Framespa
Paul Kaplan
Professor of Art History
Purchase College, SUNY
paul.kaplan@purchase.edu
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
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
Giorgiones Assault: War and Rape
in Renaissance Venice, in Early
Modern Visual Allegory: Embody-
ing Meaning, eds. C. Baskins and L.
Rosenthal (Aldershot, 2007), 77-90
'Italian Art, in vol. 3, and 'Intro-
duction, in vol. 2, in The Image
of the Black in Western Art (Cam-
bridge, MA, 2010)
Black Turks: European Artists and
the Ethnicity of Ottoman Sub-
jects, in The Turk and Islam in the
Western Eye, ed. J. Harper (Ashgate,
2008)
Blacks in European Art; Blacks
in European Heraldry; Freder-
ick II of Hohenstaufen; 'Blacks
and the Holy Roman Empire, in
Encyclopedia of Blacks in European
Civilization, ed. E. Martone (West-
port, CT, 2009)
Marina Del Negro Karem
Adjunct Professor
Spalding University
mpkare01@louisville.edu
Tel: 502-499-0213
3011 Weather Way
Louisville, Kentucky 40220
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Ongoing study on the representation
of Jewish fgures in Venetian art. Title:
Venice and the Jews: A Refection in
the Visual Arts. Preliminary studies
published on website: Venetian Jewish
Anthology
The Merchants of Venice: A View of
the Serenissima from the Northern
Perspective, (2008)
Evelyn Karet
Research Fellow
Clark University
evelynkaret@charter.net
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; Micheli-
no da Besozzo; Lodovico Moscardo
Collection
(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
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
marglking@gmail.com
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, spiri-
tual, and psychological formation of
successful or powerful sons
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 Quar-
terly 60 (2007): 371-407
(with A. Rabil, Jr., eds.) Teaching
Other Voices: Women and Religion
in Early Modern Europe (Chicago,
2007)
Renaissance Selves, Renaissance
Bodies, in A Cultural History of
the Human Body in the Renais-
sance, eds. W. Bynum and L. Kaloff
(London, 2009)
Michael Knapton
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di scienze storiche e
documentarie, Universit di Udine
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mknapto@tin.it
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 Sanudos
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 Benettons
research project on Le campagne
trevigiane.
d) the history of the mountain commu-
nity of Durlo (northwest Vicentino) in
the early modern centuries.
(with P. January) Terraferma
Society and Venetian Demands For
Defence: the Provision of Lodgings
in the Early Seventeenth Century,
in Venezia non da guerra.
LIsontino, la societ friulana e la
Serenissima nella guerra di Gradis-
ca (1615-1617), eds M. Gaddi and
A. Zannini (Udine, 2008), 293-320.
(with P. January), The Demands
Made on Venetian Terraferma Soci-
ety For Defence in the Early Seven-
teenth Century, Ateneo Veneto 194,
3a s., 6/II (2008): 25-115
(with J. Law) Introductory essay in
critical edition of Marin Sanudos
Itinerario per la terraferma (1483),
ed. G.M. Varanini (Diabasis, 2009).
Venezia, in Oxford Dictionary
of the Middle Ages, ed. R. Bjork
(Oxford, 2010)
Gabriele Koester
Dr.
Kulturhistorisches Museum Magde-
burg
gabrielekoester@gmx.de
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 mod-
ern Venice; The impact of Italian art
on Northern Germany in the thirteenth
century
Knstler als Mitglieder vene-
zianischer Bruderschaften im
14. und frhen 15. Jahrhundert
am Beispiel der Scuola di Santa
Maria della Misericordia, in Ver-
wandtschaft, Freundschaft, Bruder-
schaft. Soziale Lebens- und Kommu-
nikationsformen im Mittelalter, ed.
G. Krieger, Berlin 2009): 151-175
Knstler und ihre Brder. 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 Neube-
ginn, in Tagungsband Fest- und
Feiertagskulturen in Europa, ed.
R. Fikentscher (Halle, 2007), 55-78
'In besonderer Mission. Der
griechische Kardinal Bessarion wird
Venezianer und erklrt die Vene-
zianer zu Griechen, in Fremde in
der Stadt. Ordnungen, Reprsenta-
tionen und Praktiken (13.-15. Jah-
rhundert), (Internationale Tagung
Trier 15.-16. Febr. 2008), eds. G.
Wolf, P. Bell, D. Suckow (2009)
Benjamin Kohl
Professor of History Emeritus
Vassar College
kohlinmd@dmv.com
Tel: 410-348-5858
PO Box 166
1 Bayview Road, N. 8
Betterton MD 21610
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Database: Rulers of Venice, with Mo-
nique OConnell and Andrea Mozzato,
for RSA website, spring 2009; Book:
Governance of Late Medieval Venice
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
Venezia - Senato, Vols. 4-12 (2004-
8), (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
c.kovesi@unimelb.edu.au
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
Engendering Lust in Early Modern
Italy: Pisanello`s Luxuria, in Prac-
tices of Gender in Late Medieval
and Early Modern Europe, eds.
M. Cassidy-Welch and P. Sherlock
(Turnhout, 2008)
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(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
Regulating Consumption and Ritual
Behaviour, in A Medieval Reader,
eds. F. Andrews, K. Jansen, and J.
Drell (Philadelphia, 2009)
Heiner Krellig
Dr.
Heiner.Krellig@Berlin.de
Tel: +39 (0) 30 3927547
Wittstocker Str. 21
10553 Berlin
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Virtual reconstruction of the collection
of Johann Matthias von der Schulen-
burg; Artistic Relations between Ven-
ice and the Northern Countries, es-
pecially 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
Das ganze Leben. Zur Figu-
renstaffage in Canalettos frhen
Venedig-Ansichten, in Canaletto.
Ansichten vom Canal Grande, in
Venedig, Kat. Kabinettausstellung
anlsslich der Restaurierung zweier
Gemlde von Giovanni Antonio
Canal, genannt Canaletto, eds. A.
Henning, A. Brner and A. Dehmer
(Dresden, 2008), 29-37
Arte veneziana nelle collezioni
del area di lingua Tedesca nel
Settecento, in Il collezionismo
darte a Venezia. Il Settecento, eds.
L. Borean and S. Mason
'Il feldmaresciallo Johann Matthias
von der Schulenburg, collezionista
promotore della scuola veneziana di
pittura?, in Akten des Internatio-
nalen Kongresses Venezia mercato
delle arti, Venedig 9.-11.10.2008
Der Feldmarschall Johann Mat-
thias von der Schulenburg in
Venedig und die Bedeutung seiner
Kunstsammlung, in Tagungsband:
Mathias und Werner von der Schul-
enburg, Corf, Ionian University
Francesco Guardi: Der Brand im
llager von San Marcuola, Venedig
1789, in Urbs incensa. sthetische
Transformationen der brennenden
Stadt von der Antike bis in die frhe
Neuzeit, in Tagungsband Selb-
stndige Nachwuchsgruppe Das
wissende Bild, Kunsthistorisches In-
stitut Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut)
Eve-Marie Lampron
M.A.
Universit de Montrale
evemarielampron@yahoo.ca
Tel: 514-272-4784
8055 Lajeunesse, appartement 306
Montral (Qubec) Canada
H2R 2J7
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Ph. D. thesis (in process): Construire
des solidarits: le rseautage intellec-
tuel et politique des femmes de lettres
en France et en Italie (1770-1830)
Paola Lanaro
Full Professor of Economic History
Universit di Venezia
lanaro@unive.it
Tel: 0412349154
Fax: 0412349176
San Giobbe
30121 Venezia
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Storia economica urbana dellEuropa
preindustriale; Storia dellimpresa e
degli imprenditori in et preindus-
triale; Il ruolo economico della dote fra
medioevo ed et moderna; La propriet
in et moderna; Storia economica della
Repubblica di Venezia
Gino Luzzatto, in Dizionario Bio-
grafco degli Italiani 66 (Rome)
Periferie e spazi periferici nella
citt europea del medioevo e
dellèt moderna ( secoli XIV
- XIX) : le trasformazioni indotte
dalleconomia, Societ e Storia
(2006)
Struttura e organizzazione eco-
nomica nella Verona della seconda
met 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 /
Lenseignement de lhistorie urbane
en Europe, eds. R. Rodgers and D.
Menjot (Leicester, 2006), 79-86
'Allìnterno dellàttivit di credito:
il ruolo dei Monti di Piet, in Pre-
stare ai poveri. Il credito su pegno e
i Monti di Piet in area mediterra-
nea (secoli XV-XIX), ed. P. Avallone
(Napoli, 2007), 43-54
'Il mercante e lìmprenditore:
levoluzione storica attraverso il les-
sico, Annali di storia dellimpresa
18 (2007): 209-216
(ed.) At the Centre of the Old World.
Trade and Manufacturing in Venice
and the Venetian Mainland (To-
ronto, 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 confrries : les
trangers et le march du travail
Venise (XVe-XVIIIe sicles), His-
toire urbaine 21 (2008): 31-48
'Flexibilit et diversifcation comme
rponse au risque : les investisse-
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ments du patriciat vnitien et de la
Terraferma aux dbuts de l`poque
moderne, in Acte du Colloque,
Rome, mai 2005, ed. B. Marin
'Le offcine dei luoghi pii: lèsempio
di Venezia, in Istituzioni forma-
tive e agenti di sviluppo nellItalia
settentrionale (secc. XIX-XX), ed.
G. Fontana (Milan, 2006)
(with P. Marini) Un museo della
citt per Verona, Citt e storia
(2008)
John Law
Dr
Swansea University
j.e.law@swansea.ac.uk
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 renais-
sance Italy; Nineteenth century views
of late medieval and renaissance Italy
- and Venice
The Da Varano lords of Camerino
as condottiere princes, in Merce-
naries and Paid Men, ed. J. France
(Leiden, 2008)
Editing a new edition of Marino
Sanudos Itinerario
A collection of essays in memory of
Philip Jones
A study of the despots of late medi-
eval 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
Anna Laura Lepschy
Professor of Italian
University College London
a.lepschy@ucl.ac.uk
Department of Italian
University College London
Gower St.
London WC1 E6BT
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Renaissance travellers in Venice
Andrea Lermer
Dr.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt,
Munich, Germany
andrea.lermer@web.de
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
Giottos 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
Besiegelung des Rathauses der
Veneia-Tondo am Dogenpalast in
Venedig, in Siegel Bild Gruppe.
Visualisierungsstrategien korporati-
ver Siegel im Sptmittelalter, ed. M.
Spth (in press)
Michelle Lovric
michelle@lovric.demon.co.uk
Tel: +44 207 357 8757
5 Winchester Wharf
4 Clink Street
London SE1 9DL
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
18th-century Victorian Venice; Baja-
monte Tiepolo conspiracy; Napole-
onic Venice: portraiture, convents, the
manicomio on San Servolo
Venice: the islands of the mad,
Hidden Europe 17 (November
2007)
The Undrowned Child (London,
2009)
The Book of Human Skin (London,
2010)
Kate Lowe
Professor
Queen Mary, University of London
k.j.p.lowe@qmul.ac.uk
Department of History,
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Black Africans in ffteenth and six-
teenth-century Venice; Knowledge of
sub-Saharan Africa in ffteenth and
sixteenth-century Venice
Power and institutional identity in
Renaissance Venice: the female con-
vents 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 Humani-
ties and Social Sciences 2 (Helsinki,
2007)
Representing Africa: ambassadors
and princes from Christian Africa
to Renaissance Italy and Portugal,
1402-1608, Transactions of the
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Royal Historical Society 17 (2007):
101-28
Cristian Luca
Lecturer
Dunarea de Jos State University of
Galati
cristiluca@hotmail.com
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
Str. Garii nr. 63-65
RO800003 Galati
Romania
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Political, commercial and cultural rela-
tions between Venice, the Rumanian
principalities and the eastern European
area during the XVIth and the XVIIth
centuries; The relations of the Vene-
tian bailo in Constantinople with the
Rumanians Rulers; The levantine trade
during the Seicento
Alcuni ordini sultanali con riferi-
mento alla politica mercantile della
Repubblica Veneta nellarea del
Mar Nero negli ultimi decenni del
XVII secolo, in Enjeux politiques,
conomiques et militaires en Mer
Noire (XIVe-XXIe sicles). tudes
la mmoire de Mihail Guboglu,
eds. F. Bilici, et al (Braila, 2007),
171183
'chos europens des campagnes
anti-ottomans au Bas-Danube:
quelques avvisi italiens moins con-
nus (1595-1596), Istros 14 (2007):
427446
Quelques notes et documents
concernant la participation de la
Transylvanie la Guerre de Trente
ans pendant la principaut de Ga-
briel Bethlen (1613-1629), Revue
Roumaine dHistoire 46/1-4 (2007):
161173
DacoromanoItalica. Studi e
ricerche sui rapporti italo-romeni
nei secoli XVI-XVIII (Cluj-Napoca,
2008)
'Contributi alla biografa dei medici
Jacopo Pylarino (1659-1718) e
Bartolomeo Ferrati (?-1738), in
Vocatia istoriei. Prinos Profeso-
rului Serban Papacostea, eds. O.
Cristea and G. Lazar (Braila, 2008),
635652
Documentary notes relative to
the kinships of Levantines and
Venetians with the Princely Fami-
lies from Wallachia and Moldavia
(16th17th 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), 653675
(with A. Simon) Documentary Per-
spectives on Stephen the Great and
Matthias Corvinus, Transylvanian
Review 17/3 (2008): 85113
'Il regime giuridico dei mercanti
stranieri in Valacchia e in Mol-
davia nel CinqueSeicento, in
Leredit di Traiano. La tradizione
istituzionale romano-imperiale
nella storia dello spazio romeno.
ed. A. Castaldini (Bucharest, 2008),
195208
(ed. with V. Sirbu) Miscellanea His-
torica et Archaeologica in Honorem
Professoris Ionel Candea (Braila,
2009)
The Vlachs/Morlaks in the Hinter-
lands of Tra (Trogir) and Sebenico
(ibenik), Towns of the Venetian
Dalmatia, during the 16th Century,
in Miscellanea Historica et Archae-
ologica, eds. V. Sirbu and C. Luca
(Braila, 2009)
(ed. with I. Pop, F. Ciure) Docu-
menti veneziani riguardanti i romeni
e lEuropa CentroOrientale nei
secoli XVI-XVIII (Bucharest, 2009-
2010)
Alison Luchs
Curator of Early European Sculpture
National Gallery of Art
a-luchs@nga.gov
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
'Lo Scalpello e la pagina: I Lom-
bardo e lillustrazione del libro a
Venezia, in I Lombardo: architet-
tura e scultura a Venezia tra 400
e 500, eds. A. Guerra, M. Morresi
and R. Schofeld (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 Cris-
toforo Solari, Burlington Magazine
149 (2007): 844-846
The Mermaids of Venice: Hybrid
Sea Creatures in Venetian Renais-
sance Art
Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High
Renaissance Sculpture (exh, cat.)
Richard Mackenney
Professor
SUNY Binghamton
rmackenn@binghamton.edu
Tel: 607 777 4421
Fax: 607 777 2896
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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
maddentf@slu.edu
Tel: 314-977-7810
Fax: 314-977-1603
Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Piety and Identity in Medieval Venice
(ed.) The Fourth Crusade: Event,
Aftermath, and Perceptions (Brook-
feld, 2008)
'Alexander III and Venice, in Pope
Alexander III (1159-1181), ed. D.
Smith (Ashgate)
Crusades in The Oxford Diction-
ary of the Middle Ages (Oxford)
Arnold E. Maurer
Cav. Dr. M.A.
Dr.Maurer.Bonn@t-online.de
Tel: +49(0)228 657194
Fax: +49(0)228 657194
Im Krausfeld 17
D-53111 Bonn
Jan Andreas May
Dr.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
janmay@gmx.de
Tel: +49-(0)151-11834340
Weserstr. 217
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
A terrible impressionist mania now
prevails - against modern art in
Venice around 1900, in Prender-
gast in Italy, eds. N. Mathews and
E. Kennedy, exh. cat., Williams Col-
lege 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 Aus-
stellungsinstitution im Wandel der
Zeit, in Die deutschen Beitrge auf
der Biennale Venedig (1895-2007)
(Kln/Stuttgart, 2007), 17-30
Queen of the Arts Exhibitions,
Festivals and Tourism in Fascist
Venice 1922-1945, in Creative Ur-
ban Milieus: Historical Perspectives
on Culture, Economy, and the City,
eds. M. Heler and C. Zimmermann
(Frankfurt a. M., 2008), 213-232
La Biennale di Venezia. Kontinuitt
und Wandel in der venezianischen
Ausstellungspolitik 1895-1948 (Ber-
lin, 2009)
Daniel Maze
Graduate Student
UCLA
dwmaze@ucla.edu
Tel: 2133044853
438 S. Cloverdale Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Gentile Bellini
Angelo Mazzocco
Professor Emeritus
Mount Holyoke College
amazzocc@mtholyoke.edu
Tel: 413-534-7332
7 Cedar Ridge
South Hadley, MA 01075
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Biondo Flavio and renaissance thought
'Rifessioni storiche per Roma in
eta` rinascimentale: Il contributo
del mondo anglofono, Roma nel
Rinascimento (2008): 1-27
Interpretations of Renaissance Hu-
manism (Brill, 2006)
'Kristeller and the Italian Vernacu-
lar in Kristeller Reconsidered, ed.
J. Monfasani (Italica Press, 2006)
Unidea politica italiana in Pe-
trarca? in Petrarca politico. Atti del
Convegno (Roma-Arezzo, 19-20
marzo 2004) (Rome, 2006), 9-26
The Antiquarianism of Francesco
Petrarca, reprinted in The Renais-
sance: Critical Concepts and His-
torical Studies, vol. 1, ed. R. Black
(London and New York, 2006),
322-341
Nan McElroy
nan@illustrata.net
Tel: 340 341 3448
Cannaregio 3427
30121 Venice
Italy
Italy: Instructions for Use
France: Instructions for Use
Greece: Instructions for Use
Sarah Blake McHam
Professor
Rutgers University
mcham@rci.rutgers.edu
Tel: 732-932-0122 x15
Fax: 732-932-1261
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81 Pheasant Hill Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Infuence of Pliny the Elder on Italian
Renaissance art and theory
La tomba del doge Giovanni
Mocenigo: politica e culto dinas-
tico, in Tullio Lombardo, scultore e
archtetto nella Venezia del rinasci-
mento, 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. Hum-
frey (Cambridge, 2007), 207-51
La Bottega dei Lombardo alla Cap-
pella di SantAntonio 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. Schofeld (Venice,
2006), 224-39
Erudition on Display: The Sci-
entifc` Illustrations in Pico della
Mirandolas Manuscript of Pliny the
Elders Natural History, in Visual-
izing Medieval Medicine, 1200-
1550, 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 Renais-
sance Florence: A Social History,
eds. R. Crum and J. Paoletti (Cam-
bridge, 2006; paperback edition,
2008), 104-37
'Tomba come testamento: Il monu-
mento funerario di Andrea Bregno,
in Andrea Bregno: Il senso della
forma, eds. C. Strinati and C. Cres-
centini (Rome, 2007)
'Refections of Pliny in Giovanni
Bellinis Woman with a Mirror,
Artibus et Historiae (2009)
Oedipal Palimpsest, Source. Notes
in the History of Art (2008)
Daniel McReynolds
Doctoral candidate
dmcreyno@princeton.edu
Tel: 303-359-7599
206 Salem Ct. Apt. 11
Princeton, NJ 08540
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Dissertation: Palladianism and archi-
tectural reform in 18th-century Venice.
Restoring the Teatro Olimpico:
Palladios Contested Legacy,
Memoirs of the American Academy
in Rome 53 (2008): 153-212
Alexandra Melita
Royal Holloway University of London
feggaronisi@hotmail.com
51, Filikon Street
Zakynthos 29100
Greece
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Magical Healing and the Greeks in
Seventeenth Century Venice
John Melville-Jones
Professor
University of Western Australia
jrmelvil@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Tel: 61.(0)8.6488.2164
Fax: 61.(0)8.6488.1182
Classics and Ancient History (M205)
University of WA
Crawley 6009
Western Australia
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The Chronicle and Diary of Antonio
Morosini; Venetians at Constantinople
1450-55
Venice and Thessalonica 1423-1430:
the Greek Accounts (Padua, 2006)
Venice and Constantinople 1450-
1455 (2009)
Sharon Michalove
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Program
in Medieval Studies
University of Illinois
mlove@illinois.edu
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-Cham-
paign
hhminor@uiuc.edu
Tel: 217-333-1331
1014 W. University Ave.
Champaign, IL 61821
CURRENT RESEARCH:
G.B. Piranesi
Mary Momdjian
Graduate student
UCLA
momdji@aol.com
Tel: 818-981-9635
Fax: 818-981-0824
16641 Oldham Place
Encino, CA 91436
CURRENT RESEARCH:
I am researching the Levantine mer-
chants who travelled from Venice and
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Florence and worked and sometimes
stayed in the city of Aleppo/Syria dur-
ing the 17th - 19th centuries.
Julius Morche
Mr
University of Heidelberg
morche@uni-heidelberg.de
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 his-
tory, institutional economics
Laura Morreale
Dr.
morreale156@verizon.net
Tel: 202-237-6315
3210 Patterson St., NW
Washington, DC 20015
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Northern Italian vernacular historiogra-
phy; website on the French of Italy
Andrea Mozzato
Dottore di ricerca in storia medievale
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed
Arti
andreamozzato@yahoo.it
Elssholzstr. 19
10781 Berlin
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Storia del commercio e della manifat-
tura (tessuti e spezie), Venezia XIV-XV
secc.; Mobilit ed integrazione di arti-
giani forestieri, Venezia XIV-XV secc.;
Edizione di fonti e banche dati
Una preziosa materia prima. La
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 (1400-
1800), ed. P. Lanaro (Toronto, 2006)
Luxus und Tand: Der internationale
Handel mit Rohstoffen, Farben,
Brillen und Luxusgtern im Venedig
des 15. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel
des Apothekers Agostino Altucci,
in Luxusgegenstnde und Kunstwer-
ke in Mittelalter und Frher Neuzeit
(Irsee 14-16 marzo 2008), ed. M.
Hberlein et al. (2009).
Uno speziale aretino a Venezia
nel secondo Quattrocento, Annali
Aretini (2009).
Strategie produttive e di mercato di
drappieri veneziani in area adri-
atica e levantina nel XV secolo, in
Acque, terre e spazi dei mercanti. Is-
tituzioni, gerarchie, conitti e prat-
iche dello scambio nel Mediterra-
neo dallEt antica alla modernit,
ed. D. Andreozzi, et. al. (Napoli,
Trieste, Atene, 2008)
Mara Mueller
mara_luisa_mueller@hotmail.com
Tel: 0041 78710 24 68
Edward Muir
Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor
Northwestern University
e-muir@northwestern.edu
Tel: 847-491-3653
Fax: 847-467-1393
1881 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Book project: The Culture of Skepti-
cism in 17th Century Venice
(with B. Levack, M. Maas, and M.
Veldman), The West: Encounters
and Transformations, 2d ed. (New
York, 2007)
The Culture Wars of Late Renais-
sance: 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 Es-
says in Honor of John M. Najemy,
ed. D. Peterson. Toronto, 2008)
'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
susan.nalezyty@comcast.net
Tel: 301.864.7998
6000 39th Pl.
Hyattsville, MD 20782
CURRENT RESEARCH:
'Il collezionismo poetico:
Cardinal Pietro Bembo and the Forma-
tion of Collecting Practices in Venice
and Rome in the Early Sixteenth Cen-
tury, dissertation, Temple University
Giovanni Bellinis Feast of the
Gods and Banquets of the Ancient
Ritual Calendar. Sixteenth Century
Journal
Christiane Neerfeld
Dr.
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an
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der Vereinigung zur Erforschung der
Neueren Geschichte e.V., Bonn
chr.neerfeld@web.de
Tel: +49 - (0)228 - 686280
Hellstrasse 100
D-53332 Bornheim
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Diari veneziani; Pietro Dolfn
Historia per forma di Diario. La
cronachistica veneziana contempo-
ranea a cavallo tra il Quattro e il
Cinquecento (Venezia, 2006)
Gabriele Neher
Dr
University of Nottingham
gabriele.neher@nottingham.ac.uk
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 Bres-
cia and Verona. I am in the process of
fnishing off a monograph for Ashgate
on Brescia, Venice and Verona, with
plans to look again at Romanino and
Moretto after that.
Verona and Vicenza, in Venice and
the Veneto, ed. P. Humfrey (Cam-
bridge, 2008), 252-284
Tom Nichols
Dr
University of Aberdeen
t.nichols@abdn.ac.uk
Tel: 01224 273783
Department of History of Art
Kings College
Aberdeen AB24 3UB
Scotland
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian Renaissance painting; Imag-
ery of poverty
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 cen-
tury, in Armut und Armenfrsorge
in der italienischen Stadtkultur
zwischen 13. und 16. Jahrhundert,
eds. P. Helas and G. Wolf (Frank-
furt, 2006), 349-70
Understanding Tintorettos pre-
stezza: Literary and other ap-
proaches to the contested artistic
culture of mid-Cinquecento Venice,
in Offcine del nuovo: Sodalizi fra
letterati, artisti ed editori nella
cultura italiana fra Riforma e Con-
troriforma, eds. H. Hendrix and P.
Procaccioli (Rome, 2008)
'Defning genres: the survival of
mythological painting in Counter-
Reformation Venice, in Forms of
Faith in Sixteenth Century Italy,
eds. A. Brundin and M. Treherne
(Ashgate)
False gods: Tintorettos mytholo-
gies as anti-poesie, in Tintoretto:
Actas del Congresso, ed. M. Falomir
(Madrid, 2008)
'Saint Barnab gurissant un malade
de Paolo Vronse et les images
vnitiennes de la pauvret et de la
maladie, in Venice et Paris 1500-
1700: La peinture vnitienne de
la Renaissance et sa reception en
France, ed. M. Hochmann (Paris,
2008)
J. Mark Nicovich
William Carey University
mark.nicovich@wmcarey.edu
Tel: 601-447-7187
119 Short Bay Street
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The Poverty of Grado and the Chryso-
bull of 1082; Naval Crusading as a
State Enterprise: Venice, Genoa and
Pisa
Rebecca Norris
MPhil Student
rn290@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 07531579278
26780 Kalmia Avenue
Moreno Valley, CA 92555
Newnham College
Sidgewick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DF
UK
Christopher Nygren
PhD Candidate
Johns Hopkins University
cnygren@jhu.edu
Tel: 443-600-4481
268 Mergenthaler Hall
Baltimore, MD 21218
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Titians religious paintings
Dr Simon P. Oakes
Executive Director
The New Renaissance Project
simon.oakes@libero.it
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St. Johns College
Oxford, OX1 3JP
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Sixteenth-century Venetian and trans-
alpine painting and drawing, especially
the work of Bellini, Drer, Giorgione,
Sebastiano, and Titian
Venetians in vogue, Apollo 168,
no. 560 (December 2008): 104-06
Venices 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
'Drer e lÌtalia, Renaissance
Studies 22.1 (2008): 116-28
The ghost of Giorgione, Apollo
(January 2008): 102-03
Drers Antwort auf die Renais-
sance-Architektur Venedigs, in Das
Drer-Haus: Neue Ergebnisse der
Forschung, eds. G.U. Gromann
and F. Sonnenberger (Nuremberg,
2007), 241-60
Bellini and The East, Renaissance
Studies 21 (2007): 422-32
Hieronymo Thodesco and the
Fondaco dei Tedeschi: A reappraisal
of the sources and documents relat-
ing to a German architect in early
Renaissance Venice, Zeitschrift fr
Kunstgeschichte ( 2009)
A note on Titians Doria Pamphilj
Judith, Apollo
Monique OConnell
Wake Forest University
oconneme@wfu.edu
Tel: 336-758-4711
Dept. of History, Box 7806
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7806
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The Venetian maritime state; Venetian
political culture and offce-holding;
Gender and empire
(with A. Mozzato and B. Kohl), Rul-
ers of Venice, 1332-1524, (electronic
edition of the Segretario alle Voci
election registers with additions)
Giulio Ongaro
Professor
University of Southern California
ongaro@usc.edu
Tel: (213) 740-3214
Fax: (213) 821-5686
8400 Day St.
Sunland, CA 91040
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Music in Early Modern Venice
La composizione del coro e dei
gruppi strumentali a San Marco
dalla fne 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 Mu-
sic, 1520-1640, ed. J. Haar (Boydell
& Brewer, 2006)
Gherardo Ortalli
Professore
Universit Ca` Foscari
gh.ort@alice.it
Dipt. di Studi Storici
Dorsoduro, 3484/D
I-30123 Venice
Italy
Luoghi e messaggi per lesercizio
del potere negli anni delle sperimen-
tazioni istituzionali, in Pensiero e
sperimentazioni istituzionali nella
Societas Christiana (1046-1250)
(Milano, 2007), 761-800
Marco Polo and Europe: the dis-
covery of the East, in La via della
seta e la civilt cinese. Gengis Khan
e il tesoro dei Mongoli (Treviso,
2007), 49-63
The administrative choices and
diffculties of the city centre, in A
Future for Venice? Considerations
40 years after the 1966 ood (Turin-
London, 2008), 19-27
'Bozji sud u dalmatinskim i istars-
kim podrujima i meusobna stat-
utarna povezanost mletaka i opcina
pod njihovom vlascu (Lòrdalia in
terra dalmata e istriana e la dialettica
statutaria fra Venezia e le comunit
del Dominio), Zbornik Pravnog
fakulteta Sveuilista u Rijeci 28
(2007): 905-930
Colpire la fama e garantire il
credito tra legge e propaganda. Il
ricorso allimmagine, in La fducia
secondo i linguaggi del potere, ed.
P. Prodi (Bologna, 2007), 325-357
Nascere sullacqua. La lunga genesi
di Venezia, in Lacqua nei secoli
altomedievali, Spoleto 2008 (Set-
timane di studio del Centro italiano
di studi sullalto medioevo, LV),
141-182
At the origins of the idea of Eu-
rope, 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 os-
servato dagli altri (Roma-Venezia,
2008), 200-219
La Chiesa di Roma, Costantinopoli
e lidea di Europa al tempo del Pic-
colomini, in LEuropa dopo la
caduta di Costantinopoli: 29 mag-
gio 1453, Atti del XLIV Convegno
storico internazionale (Spoleto,
2008), 435-466
Grandi opere anti-Venezia, Italia
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Nostra Bollettino 436 (giugno 2008)
Politica e festa: un risvolto
nellambito delluniverso ludico,
in Festa e politica della festa nel
medioevo (Roma, 2008), 207-230
'Il mito di Venezia: mezzo secolo
dopo, in Leredit 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
djo@Virginia.EDU
Tel: 434-977-6952`
Fax: 434-924-7891
PO Box 400180
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4180
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Responses to epidemic disease in Re-
naissance Italy
Politics and Public Life in Renais-
sance Venice, in Ritratti: La dimen-
sione individuale nella storia (secoli
xv-xx), festschrift for Anne Jacobson
Schutte, eds. S. Seidel Menchi and
R. Pierce (Edizioni di storia e let-
teratura, 2008)
Chronicles and Civic Life in
Sercambis Lucca in Chronicling
History in Medieval and Renais-
sance Italy, eds, D. Osheim, S. Dale
and A. Lewin (Penn State, 2008)
Patricia Osmond
Dr. (Visiting Assoc. Prof.)
Iowa State University
osmond@iastate.edu
Tel: (39) 06 68808552
Via Beato Angelico 23, int. 1
00186 Rome
Italy
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)
(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
'Pomponio Leto e Diano: unèredit
ambivalente, in Atti della Con-
ferenza LAssedio di Diano del
1497, (Salerno).
Testimonianze di ricerche antiqua-
rie tra i fogli di Sallustio, in Atti
della Conferenza Pomponio Leto:
tra identit locale e cultura inter-
nazionale, (Rome)
Sallust, in The Classical Tradition,
eds. A. Grafton, G. Most, S. Settis
(Cambridge, MA)
Lectiones Sallustianae. Pomponio
Letos 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
gpagratis@isll.uoa.gr
Tel: 003.06972755311
Fax: 003.02107277494
Bouboulinas 13,
Ano Ilioupoli
16345, Athens
Greece
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
Le fortune di mare. accidenti del-
la navigazione mercantile nei mari
Ionio e Adriatico (1611-1795), in
Ricchezza del mare. Ricchezza dal
mare, Secc. XIII-XVIII, ed. S. Cava-
ciocchi (Florence, 2006), 841-861.
Merchants and Shipowners in Ve-
netian Corfu in the frst half of the
Sixteenth Century, in Following
the Nereids. Sea routes and mari-
time business, 16th-20th centuries,
eds. M. Chatziioannou and G. Har-
laftis (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 Set-
tinsulare (1800-1807) in Sicilia,
in 2nd Mediterranean Maritime
History Network Conference, Mes-
sina/Taormina (3-7 May 2006), eds.
M. dAngelo, C. Vassallo (Messina
2008), 393-408
The Reports of the Venetian Baili
and Provveditori of Corfu (16th cen-
tury) (Athens, 2008), 1-493.
Church and State in the Venetian Is-
lands 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
The Maritime Enterprise of Corfu in
the frst half of the 16th century
Seth Parry
Dr.
Emmanuel College
sparry@ec.edu
Tel: (706) 245-7226
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P.O. Box 425
Franklin Springs, GA 30639
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian Humanism and the Ottoman
Turks
Debra Pincus
Independent Scholar / Art Historian
d-pincus@nga.gov
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
Giovani Bellinis Humanist Signa-
ture. Pietro Bembo, Aldus Manutius
and Humanism in Early Sixteenth-
Century Venice, Artibus et Histo-
riae 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 epigraf e la lara storia, in I
Lombardo. Architettura e scultura
a Venezia tra 400 de 500, eds. A.
Guerra, M. Morresi and R. Schofeld
(Venice, 2006), 121-135
(with B. Shapiro Comte), A Draw-
ing for the Tomb of Dante Attrib-
uted to Tullio Lombardo, Burling-
ton Magazine 148 (Autumn 2006):
734-746
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,
Imitation, Appropriation and Mean-
ing a San Marco in Venice
The Turn Westward: Stylistic Lines
in Fourteenth-Century Venetian
Sculpture, in Medieval, Renais-
sance and Baroque: A Cats Cradle
for Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, eds. D.
Levine and J. Warren Freiberg
Lisa Pon
Assistant Professor
Southern Methodist University
lpon@smu.edu
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
Do Art Historians in the 21st Cen-
tury Have a Renaissance?, in The
Renaissance: The Art Seminar, eds.
J. Elkins and R. Williams (London,
2008)
Prints, in International Encyclo-
pedia of Communications (London,
2008)
(with C. Kallendorf and M. Zorzi)
'The Books of Venice/Il Libro
Veneziano, Miscellanea Marciana
Place, Print, and Miracle: Forls
Madonna of the Fire as Functional
Site, Art History (June 2008)
Claudio Povolo
Professore ordinario
Dipartimento di Studi storici, Univer-
sit di Venezia
povolo@unive.it
Tel: 0444-321460
Contr borghetto, 40
36100 Vicenza
Italy
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Zanzan: Storia, epopea e mito di un
bandito del Seicento
'La piccola comunit e le sue con-
suetudini, in Tra diritto e storia.
Studi in onore di Luigi Berlinguer
promossi dalle Universit di Siena
e Sassari, II (Catanzano, 2008),
591-642
La virt segreta. La presidenza
di Bartolomeo Bressan al Liceo
A. Pigafetta (1866-1877), in La
navicella dellingegno. I duecento
anni del Liceo Ginnasio Antonio
Pigafetta 1807/8-2007/8 (Vicenza,
2008), 39-51
Giovan Maria Bertolli: lascesa
di un giurista nella Venezia della
seconda met del Seicento, in 300
anni di Bertoliana. Dal passato un
progetto per il futuro, I (Iohannes
Maria Bertolius Serenissimae
Reipublicae Venetae Iuris Consul-
tor) (Vicenza, 2008), 19-51
Pravni sistem Beneke repub-
like: Benetke in njihov teritorij
(XV.-XVIII. stol.), Annales. Serie
Historia et Sociologia 17.2 (2007):
241-276
Presentazione, in La marina mili-
tare attraverso l8 settembre 1943.
Il senso dellonore tra dimensione
storica e dimensione retorica, by
Concetta Ricottilli (Venezia, 2007),
7-10
(ed.), Processo e difesa penale in
et moderna (Bologna, 2007), con
presentazione e saggio Dallordine
della pace allordine pubblico,
15-107
(ed. with G. Chiodi), Amminis-
trazione della giustizia penale e
controllo sociale nel Regno Lom-
bardo-Veneto (Verona, 2007), con
un saggio Ritorno alla selva incan-
tata, 379-389
'Uno sguardo rivolto alla religiosit
popolare: linchiesta promossa dal
Senato veneziano sulle festivit
religiose (1772-1773), in Il culto
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dei santi e le feste popolari nella
Terraferma veneta, ed. S. Marin
(Venezia, 2007), XIX-LXIV
Retoriche della devianza. Crimi-
nali, fuorilegge e devianti nella
storia (ideologie, storia, letteratura,
iconografa...), Acta Histriae 15
(2007), 1-51
La selva incantata. Delitti, prove,
indizi nel Veneto dellOttocento.
Saggio di etnografa giudiziaria
(Verona, 2006)
Un sistema giuridico repubblicano:
Venezia e il suo stato territoriale
(secoli XV-XVIII), in Il diritto
patrio. Tra diritto comune e codi-
fcazione (secoli XVI-XIX), eds. I.
Birocchi and A. Mattone (Roma,
2006), 297-353
'Il processo a Ottavio Trento, car-
tina di tornasole dei confitti sociali
(Lo stato delle cose), in Storia
economica e sociale di Bergamo. Il
tempo della Serenissima. Settecento,
et del cambiamento, eds. M. Cat-
tini and M. A. Romani (Bergamo,
2006), 249-295
'Un rapporto diffcile e controverso:
Paolo Sarpi e il diritto veneto, in
Ripensando Paolo Sarpi, ed. C. Pin
(Venezia, 2006), 395-416
A Political Laboratory: The Sereni-
ssima, its history and its constitu-
tion 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
tkrabb@princeton.edu
History Dept.
Princeton, NJ 08544
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Book on artistss views of warfare
Edition and translation of A Six-
teenth-Century Book of Trades: Das
Stndebuch by Hans Sachs, with
woodcuts by Jost A
mman
Benjamin Ravid
Professor
Brandeis University
ravid@brandeis.edu
Tel: 617-969-9599
497 Ward Street
Newton Centre, MA 02459-1108
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Jews of Venice
Biblical Exegesis a la Mercantilism
and Raison d`tat 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 Discon-
tents: The Jews of Italy, eds. P. Reill
et al. (Toronto, 2008), 19-55
All Ghettos Were Jewish Quarters
but not all Jewish Quarters Were
Ghettos, Jewish History and Cul-
ture 10: 2-3 (2008)
Popular Religion in the Early-Mod-
ern 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-F Revisited: Their
Impact on Venice and Some Wider
Refections 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 Bonfl, eds. E.
Baumgarten et al.
Il Governo Veneziano e gli Ebrei,
in Venice and the Religious Experi-
ence
Elizabeth Rodini
Associate Director, Program in Muse-
ums and Society, and Senior Lecturer,
History of Art
The Johns Hopkins University
erodini@jhu.edu
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
Carpaccios St. Ursula Cycle and a
book-length study of Gentile Bellinis
London portrait of the Sultan focusing
on the moment on its arrival in the col-
lection of the National Gallery; Issues
of mobility and migration as related
to the visual culture of later 15th and
16th-century Venice and its connec-
tions with the Levant
The Sultans True Face? Gentile
Bellini, Mehmet II, and the Value of
Verisimilitude in The Turk and Is-
lam in the Western Eye (1453-1832),
ed. J. Harper (Ashgate, 2009)
Dennis Romano
Professor of History and Fine Arts
Syracuse University
dromano@maxwell.syr.edu
Tel: 315-443-5456
Fax: 315-443-5876
145 Eggers Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244
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CURRENT RESEARCH:
Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval
Italy, c. 1100 to c. 1350
The Likeness of Venice: A Life of
Doge Francesco Foscari, 1373-
1457 (New Haven, 2007)
City-State and Empire: Histori-
cal Overview, in Venice and its
Empire, ed. P. Humfrey, in series Art
Centers of the Renaissance (Cam-
bridge, 2008), 9-30
Equality in Fifteenth-Century
Venice, Studies in Medieval and
Renaissance History
Jan-Christoph Rler
Dr.-Ing.
Fondazione Cini
dev@jc-r.net
Castello 3331
I-30122 Venezia
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Architettura civile a Venezia e nel
Veneto dal Trecento al Settecento
Precisazioni su palazzo Barbarigo
a San Polo e la sua collezione di
quadri, Arte veneta 64 (2007):
234-243
E Natalie Rothman
Assistant Professor
rothman@utsc.utoronto.ca
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
seventeenth centuries; Dragomans;
Converts; Commercial brokers; His-
torical anthropology; Alterity
Becoming Venetian: Conversion
and Transformation in the Seven-
teenth-Century Mediterranean,
Mediterranean Historical Review 21
(2006): 39-75
Self-Fashioning in the Mediterra-
nean Contact Zone: Giovanni Bat-
tista Salvago and his Africa overo
Barbaria (1625), in Renaissance
Medievalisms, ed. K. Eisenbichler
(Toronto, 2008), 123-43
'Interpreting Dragomans: Boundar-
ies and Crossings in the Early Mod-
ern Mediterranean, Comparative
Studies in Society and History
Genealogies of Mediation: Culture
Broker` and Imperial Governmental-
ity, in Anthro-History: Transform-
ing the Disciplines, ed. D. Cohen
(Michigan, 2009)
Between Venice and Istanbul: Trans-
Imperial Subjects in the Early Mod-
ern Mediterranean (in progress)
The Dragoman Renaissance: Vene-
tian-Ottoman Diplomatic Interpret-
ers in the Early Modern Mediterra-
nean (in progress)
Susannah Rutherglen
Ph.D. candidate
Princeton
srutherg@gmail.com
Tel: 609-933-9258
c/o Diane Schulte
Dept. of Art & Archaeology
105 McCormick Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Bruno Sabaila
Universits Pantheon Assas & Sor-
bonne, Paris
Souslailedelarchange@free.fr
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
Les institutions vnitiennes au XIIe
sicle : une bauche de ltat mod-
erne au Moyen Age
'Infuence of the fgure of Saint
Mark Evangelist upon the Venetian
political system formation
Rosa Salzberg
PhD Candidate
European University Institute
r.m.salzberg@googlemail.com
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
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)
'Per le piaze & sopra il ponte:
Reconstructing the Geography of
Popular Print in Early Sixteenth-
Century Venice, in Geographies
of the Book, eds. C. Withers and M.
Ogborn (2009)
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Jennifer Scappettone
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
jscape@uchicago.edu
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 Venices role as
a crucible for modern and postmodern
aesthetic experimentation; Studies
in contemporary poetry and poetics,
including the work of Amelia Rosselli
'Utopia Interrupted: Archipelago
as Structure in A Draft of XXX
Cantos, PMLA 22 (2007): 105-123;
Reprinted in Miasto w SztuceSz-
tuka w Miescie (City in ArtArt in
City), ed. E. Rewers
Guest Editor, Aufgabe 7 (2008): dos-
sier on emergent Italian poetry and
poetics.
'`Pi mOndo i: tUtti!`: Traffcs of
Historicism in Jackson Mac Lows
Contemporary Lyricism, Modern
Philology 105 (2007): 185-212
(with E. Adnan and L. Hejinian) Bel-
ladonna Elders Series # 5: Poetry,
Landscape, Apocalypse (Belladonna
Books, 2009)
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
anne_schulz@brown.edu
Fax: 401-863-7790
Brown University
Department of History of Art and
Architecture
Box 1855
Providence, RI 02912
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian Renaissance Sculpture
Precisazioni su Giambattista e
Lorenzo Bregno, Arte veneta 64
(2007): 6-27
The Choir Stalls in the Venetian
Church of Santo Stefano and Re-
lated Works by Leonardo Scala-
manzo, Burlington Magazine 150
(2008): 656-663
Ten entries in La Scuola Grande
di San Rocco a Venezia, (Miralib-
lia Italiae), eds. F. Posocco and S.
Settis (Modena, 2008), 1: 212-16,
228-29, 348-49
La scultura di Sante di Tullio Lom-
bardo, Arte veneta
'I rilievi della facciata di San Zac-
caria, 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 dellarte
Anne Jacobson Schutte
Professor of History, Emerita
ajs5w@virginia.edu
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 com-
pelled 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
Untitled comment on the achieve-
ments 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
sascully@post.harvard.edu
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
Unholy Feast: Carnality and the
Venetian Inquisition
Policing Desire: Meat Consump-
tion and its Constraints in Renais-
sance Venice
Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Consulting Professor, Music
Stanford University
esfeld@stanford.edu
Tel: (408) 732-1586; (650) 725-9242
Fax: (650) 725-9290
867 Durshire Way
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
CURRENT RESEARCH:
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Vivaldi in the Veneto
Ritual, Liturgy, and the Venetian
Theatrical Calendar, in Lopra
italien en Europe lpoque de
Haendel: Transmission, circulation
et reception dun genre interna-
tional, eds. D. Colas, et al. (Tours,
2008), 15-27.
(with L. Stella) Scuole della musica
a Venezia da 1500 al 1797, Recer-
care (2007) [posthumous comple-
tion of work of Gastone Vio]
Song and Season: Science, Culture,
and Theatrical Time in Early Mod-
ern Venice (Stanford, 2007)
A New Chronology of Venetian
Opera and Related Genres (1660-
1760) (Stanford, 2007)
Musical Commerce and the Fiera
della Sensa, 1720-1760, in pro-
ceedings of Venezia mercato delle
arti (2008)
'Dating Venetian Operas: Implica-
tions and Quandaries for Vivaldi
Studies, in online proceedings of
Vivaldi conference, Fondazione Cini
in 2007
Monica Shenouda
PhD Candidate
mas5ms@virginia.edu
Tel: 434-227-1427
506B 2nd Street NE
Charlottesville, VA 22902
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Images of Alexandria, Egypt in Re-
naissance Venice
Alan Stahl
Curator of Numismatics
astahl@princeton.edu
Tel: 914-945-0674
11 Fairview Place
Ossining, NY 10562
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The Nexus of wealth and power in
Medieval Venice
Zecca: La Zecca di Venezia nelleta
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 (Philadel-
phia, 2008): 164-79
Zecca di Venezia, in Guida per lo
studio delle zecche italiane medi-
evali e moderni, ed. L. Travaini
(2009)
The Venetian Mint after the Black
Death, in Medieval Italy: A Docu-
mentary 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.
Oberlnder-Trnoveanu (2008)
Teresa Fava Thomas
Associate Professor
Fitchburg State College
tthomas@fsc.edu
Tel: 978-665-4587
Fax: 978-665-4530
Miller Hall #4 - History Dept.
Fitchburg State College
160 Pearl Street
Fitchburg, MA 01420
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
m.vangelder@uva.nl
Tel: +31-20-525 4489
Fax: +31-20-525 4429
Leiduinstraat 39-1
1058 SH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The Netherlandish merchant communi-
ty in early modern Venice; Diplomatic
and cultural exchange between Venice,
England, and the Dutch Republic;
Cultural brokerage
Trading places: the Netherland-
ish merchant community in Venice,
1590-1650 (Leiden - Boston 2009)
Daniel Nijs; Giovanni Reynst;
Luca van Uffel, in Il collezion-
ismo darte a Venezia. Il Seicento,
eds. S. Mason and L. Borean (Ven-
ice, 2008), 295-296, 304, 320-321
Changing tack: the versatile al-
legiances of Daniel Nijs, a Nether-
landish 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 Nether-
landish merchants in the Serenis-
sima, in Incontri: rivista europea
di studi italiani (2006/2):163-74 [in
Dutch]
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)
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Jonathan Walker
Senior Research Fellow
University of Sydney
jonathan.walker@usyd.edu.au
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 flms. 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.
(with F. de Vivo and J. Shaw) A
Dialogue on Spying in 17th-Cen-
tury Venice, Rethinking History 10
(2006), 323-44
'Let`s Get Lost: On the Importance
of Itineraries, Detours and Dead-
Ends, Rethinking History 10 (2006):
573-97
Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise
and Fall of a Master Spy (Mel-
bourne, 2007)
American edition of Pistols! Trea-
son! Murder! (Baltimore, 2009)
(with D. Hallett) Five Wounds, an
illuminated novel, (London, 2010)
Robin B. Walton
Senior Lecturer, retired
University of the Witwatersrand
waltonrb@global.co.za
P.O. Box 1113
Hilton 3245
South Africa
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Late 17th century Venetian opera and
sacred music
Raymond B. Waddington
Professor Emeritus
University of California, Davis
rbwaddington@ucdavis.edu
Tel: 530-662-0703
English Department
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8581
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Aretino; Renaissance medals; Miltons
poetry
Pietro Aretino, Religious Writer,
Renaissance Studies 20 (2006):
277-92
Una maschera per Aretino, in Ut-
reumque 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 Med-
als, The Medal 53 (2008): 6-20
Aretino, Titian and La Humanit
di Cristo, in Forms of Faith (2009)
Italian translation of Aretino`s
Satyr: Sexuality, Saire, and Self-
Projection in Sixteenth-Century
Literature and Art (Rome, 2009)
John Malcolm Wagstaff
Professor Emeritus
University of Southampton
jm_wagstaff@yahoo.co.uk
16 Oakmount Avenue
Highfeld, Southampton, S017 1DR
UK
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The Morea in the 18th Century; The
Territorio di Vostizza, 1700
Caroline A. Wamsler
CAWamsler@me.com
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
Merging Heavenly Court and
Earthly Council in Trecento Ven-
ice, in Negotiating Secular and
Sacred in Medieval Art: Christian-
ity, Islam, and Buddhism, eds. A.
Walker and A. Lyster (Ashgate,
2009)
Elissa Weaver
Professor of Italian, emerita
University of Chicago
e-weaver@uchicago.edu
Tel: 773-667-4081
Fax: 773-834-1095
1419 E. 56th St., #2
Chicago, Illinois 60637
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Italian Women Writers (for Venice,
especially Arcangela Tarabotti)
(ed.) Arcangela Tarabotti, a Literary
Nun in Baroque Venice, (Ravenna,
2006)
'Scenes from Italian Convent Life:
An Anthology of convent Theatri-
cal Texts and contexts, (Ravenna,
2009)
Saundra Weddle
Associate Professor
Drury University
sweddle@drury.edu
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Tel: 417-873-7437
Fax: 417-873-7446
926 S. Weller Ave.
Springfeld, MO 65802
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian Convents, 15th and 16th
centuries, particularly Santa Maria dei
Miracoli and San Sepolcro; Pilgrim-
age; Monuments that recall the Holy
Land in Venice and the Veneto
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 Pres-
ence, Spatial Privilege and Flo-
rentine Renaissance Convents, in
Renaissance Florence: A Social His-
tory, eds. R. Crum and J. Paoletti,
(Cambridge, 2006), 394-414
(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
tswky@aol.com
1306 Willow Ave
Louisville, KY 40204
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Fumigated mail and the plague and
cholera epidemics in Venice
In Search of the Ancient Etruscan
The Mystery of the Tuscan Hills
The Symbolic Heart 3400 BC to
1628
Jan Willem Wesseldijk
Independent scholar/Ph.D. candidate
Leiden University
janwiwes@xs4all.nl
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
llww@gwu.edu
Tel: 202.994.3104
The George Washington University
801 22nd St. NW, #509B
Washington DC 20052
Le false obiezioni de nostri
calunniatori: Lucrezia Marinella
Responds to the Misogynist Tradi-
tion, Bruniana & Campanelliana
12.1 (2006)
Sara Copio Sullam, and Lucre-
zia Marinella, in Encyclopedia of
Women in the Renaissance: Italy,
France, England (Santa Barbara,
2007)
Petrarchs Lettere disperse, in The
Complete Petrarch: A Lifes Work
(1304-1374), eds. V. Kirkham and
A. Maggi (Chicago)
(with M. Ray) English edition and
translation of Arcangela Tarabottis
Lettere familiari e di complimento
John Whenham
Professor
University of Birmingham, UK
e.j.whenham@bham.ac.uk
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
(with R. Wistreich, eds.) The Cam-
bridge Companion to Monteverdi
(Cambridge, 2007)
(ed.) Giovanni Rovetta, Madrigali
concertati a 2, 3, 5, 6, 8. Et nel fne
una cantata 4, libro secondo Op.
6 (Venice, 1640), (www.ascima.
bham.ac.uk)
Nick Wilding
Dr
Georgia State University
nwilding@gsu.edu
Tel: 646-753-1248
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4117
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4117
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Gianfrancesco Sagredo; Galileo; Natu-
ral philosophy; Pseudonymity
The Return of Thomas Salusburys
Life of Galileo, The British Jour-
nal for the History of Science 41
(June 2008): 241 - 265
'Galileo`s Idol, Galilaeana: Jour-
nal of Galilean Studies (2006)
Graphic Technologies, in Robert
Hooke: Tercentennial Studies, ed.
M. Hunter and M. Cooper (Ashgate,
2006)
(trans. and intro.) Dialogue of the
Two Chief World Systems by Galileo
Galilei (Penguin Classics, 2007)
Galilean Angels, in Conversa-
tions with Angels: Essays Towards a
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History of Spiritual Communication,
1100 1700, eds. J. Raymond and
L. Kassell (Palgrave Macmillan)
Carolyn C. Wilson
Dr.
Independent Scholar
cwilson68@hotmail.com
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
Giovanni Bellini e il dipinto
dàltare. Solennit dellìntento,
pita necessaria e devozione
assoluta: la Nativit e la Trasfgu-
razione, Giovanni Bellini, eds. M.
Lucco and G. Villa, exh. cat. Rome,
Scuderie del Quirinale, 30 Septem-
ber 2008- 11 January 2009 (Cinise-
llo Balsamo, 2008), 116-129.
fve entries in A Corpus of Draw-
ings 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 Pas-
sarotti)
Some Further Evidence of St. Jo-
seph`s Cult in Renaissance Italy and
Related St. Joseph Altarpieces, in
Die Bedeutung des hl. Josef in der
Heilsgeschichte. Akten des IX. Inter-
nationalen Symposions ber den hl.
Josef, FE-Medienverlag GmbH, vol.
2 (Kisslegg, 2006), 903-33
Peter Windows
Dr.
Birmingham City University
peter.windows@bcu.ac.uk
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 Draw-
ings; Early collections of drawings in
north Italy; Catalogue raisonn of the
drawings of Bernardino Parenzano
(with E. Karet) The Antonio II Ba-
dile album of Drawings (c. 1500):
The Origins of Collecting in Early
Modern Verona (Ashgate, 2011-
2012)
Carolin Wirtz
Dr. phil.
carolin.wirtz@gmx.de
Tel: 0228-8504576
Klnstrae 368
53117 Bonn
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Abraham Spillieurs (1613-1656). Die
Handelsbeziehungen zwischen Venedig
und Kln im 17. Jahrhundert; Kardinal
Giovanni Battista Zen und das Bon-
ner Stift St. Cassius und Florentius um
1500
Der Buchdrucker Johannes Man-
then von Gerresheim in Venedig
(1474-1484), Dsseldorfer Jahr-
buch 77 (2007): 17-40
Kln und Venedig. Wirtschaftliche
und kulturelle Beziehungen im 15.
und 16. Jahrhundert (Beihefte zum
Archiv fr Kulturgeschichte 57),
Diss. phil. (Kln/Weimar/Wien,
2006)
Mercator in fontico nostro. Mer-
canti tedeschi fra la Germania e il
Fondaco dei Tedeschi a Venezia, in
Presenze tedesche a Venezia, ed S.
Winter, 1-48.
(with A. Mozzato) Die An-
ziehungskraft der Metropolen:
Deutsch(sprachig)e Kaufeute
und Handwerker im Venedig des
Sptmittelalters, in Stadt und Land
in Mittelalter und Renaissance in
der Romania, Verffentlichung der
Tagung in Regensburg 27.-28.9.08
Wolfgang Wolters
Prof. Dr.
wobri.wolters@gmx.de
Tel: 004930 3053352
Fax: 004930 3053352
Brixplatz 4
D-14052 Berlin
Germany
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian Renaissance art and architec-
ture
Fragmente vom Grabmal der Do-
gen Marco und Agostino Barbarigo
in der Villa Valmarana ai Nani bei
Vicenza, in Miscellanea in memo-
riam di Terisio Pignatti, eds. M.A.
Chiari Moretto Wiel and A. Gentili
(Padova, 2008), 79-84; 458-59
Appunti sulla decorazione orna-
mentale 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 sofftti a Vene-
zia. Alla ricerca di Tullio Lom-
bardo, in Tullio Lombardo scul-
tore e architetto nella Venezia del
Rinascimento, Atti del Convegno di
Studi, Venezia 2006, ed. M. Ceriana
(Venezia, 2007), 148-167
Schiebetren und Schiebefenster
im Odeo Cornaro in Padua, Archi-
tectura (2007), 2: 217-221
The restoration of Venetian Build-
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ings, in A future for Venice. Con-
siderations 40 years after the 1966
ood, Atti del convegno dell'Istituto
Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
(Torino, 2008), 51-55
Una storia dei bronzi veneziani
senza le campane? in LIndustria
del bronzo del Rinascimento a Vene-
zia e nell Italia settentrionale, Atti
del convegno alla Fondazione Cini,
Venezia 2007
Weltkulturerbe Venedig. Ein Blick
von auen, in Atti del convegno
ICOMOS a Hildesheim 2007
Al modo veneziano und nicht
alla moderna. Zu den Anfngen
einer venezianischen Renaissance-
baukunst, Jahrbuch der Biblio-
theca Hertziana
Bauaufnahmen des Tommaso
Temanza von Bauwerken des
Giangiacomo de Grigi in Venedig,
Architectura (2008)
Joanna Woods-Marsden
Professor
UCLA
jwm@humnet.ucla.edu
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
Theorizing Renaissance Portrai-
ture, in Renaissance Roundtable,
eds. J. Elkins and R. Williams
(2008), 360-66
(ed.) Titian: Materiality, Likeness,
Istoria (Turnhout, 2007)
The Mistress as Virtuous: Titians
Portrait of Laura Dianti, in Titian:
Materiality, Likeness, Istoria, ed. J.
Woods-Marsden (Turnhout, 2006),
53-69
Visual Rhetoric of Power and Beau-
ty: Gendered Identity in Titians
Court Portraits
Diana Wright
DianaGWright@comcast.net
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
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
(with P. MacKay) Pavane for a
Dead Princess: a love poem for
Kleope Malatesta by her husband,
Theodoros II Palaiologos, Rhe-
torica
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 As-
sociation (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
Universit di Udine
andrea.zannini@uniud.it
Tel: +3990432556664
Fax: +3990432556669
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e
documentarie
via T. Petracco, 8
33100 Udine
Italy
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venetian Society and Economy (15th-
19th c.)
(ed. with M. Folin) La storia come
esperienza umana. Gaetano Cozzi:
sei conversazione, una lezione in-
edita, la bibliografa (Treviso, 2006)
'La logica della distinzione. I Bor-
ghesaleo, una casata di Terraferma
al servizio della Serenissima (XVI-
XVIII sec.), Ateneo Veneto 193,
terza serie, 5/II (2006): 63-126
'Introduzione, in Venezia non
da guerra. LIsontino, la societ
friulana e la Serenissima nella
Guerra di Gradisca (1615-1617),
Atti del Convegno internazionale di
studi storici, Gradisca dIsonzo, 26-
27 ottobre 2007, eds. M. Gaddi and
A. Zannini (Udine, 2008), 13-31
Giovanni Zanovello
Dr.
Indiana University - Jacobs School of
Music
giovi@alumni.princeton.edu
Indiana University
Jacobs School of Music
1201 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
CURRENT RESEARCH:
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Music in Late-15th-Century Florence;
Musical Institutions in Veneto Cathe-
drals, 1450-1530
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
Professor of American Literature
University of Venice, Ca Foscari
mamoli@unive.it
Tel: 39-041-2349401
Fax: 39-041-2349481
Castello 6119
30122 Venice
Italy
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Venice in 20th century Canadian po-
etry; Henry James and Venice
A Knock-down Insolence of Tal-
ent: Sargent, James and Venice, in
Sargents Venice (New Haven,
2006)
(with G. Dowling) gondola signore
gondola. Venice in 20th century
American Poetry (Venice, 2007)
Henry James and Italy, in A
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