Early Modern Rome

Program

Thursday, May 13

9-9:30 am
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
WELCOMING REMARKS

Portia Prebys
President, Association of American College and University Programs in Italy
Julia L. Hairston
Associate Academic Director, University of California, Rome Study Center
Massimo Miglio
Presidente, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
Luca Codignola-Bo
Direttore, CNR, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea
Gianni Venturi
Direttore, Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, Ferrara

9:30-11 am
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
PETRARCH, ROME, AND COLA DI RIENZO
Chair: Serena Sapegno, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Margaret Brose, University of California, Santa Cruz
"De-familiarizing the Ruins of Rome: Petrarch’s Familiares"
Alexander Lee, Université du Luxembourg and University of Warwick
"Petrarch, Rome and the 'Dark Ages'"
Steve Baker, Columbia University
“Ad Antiquam Amicitiam Renovandam: From Cola di Rienzo’s Politics of Amicitia to Petrarch’s Community of Friends”

9:30-11 am
University of California, Rome Study Center
SISTO V
Chair: Patrizia Cavazzini, The British School at Rome

Dalma Frascarelli, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
"Luogo del sapere. La costruzione e la decorazione della Biblioteca Vaticana nella politica culturale di Sisto V"
Mauro Sarnelli, Università degli Studi di Sassari
"Il tardo Umanesimo nella Roma di Sisto V (e del Tasso)"
Valentina Prosperi, Università degli Studi di Sassari
"Gli affreschi del Salone Sistino tra tradizione classica e Controriforma"

11-11:30 Coffee Break
at the University of California, Rome Study Center

11:30 am - 1 pm
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
DIPLOMACY AND DIPLOMATS
Chair: Thomas V. Cohen, York University

Massimo Miglio, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo/Università degli Studi della Tuscia
"I legati pontifici nel XV secolo: ruolo diplomatico e strategie politiche"
Catherine Fletcher, Open University/British School at Rome
"The City of Rome as a Space for Diplomacy"
Paola Farenga, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” and Anna Modigliani, Università degli Studi della Tuscia
"Le lettere degli ambasciatori: una fonte significativa per la storia di Roma nel XIV secolo"

11:30 am-1 pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUALS
Chair: Yvonne Dohna, Gregorian University

Luca Marcozzi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
"Bembo in Rome: From Passion to Disenchantment"
Paolo Carloni, Temple University, Rome and Monica Grasso, Università degli Studi di Urbino
"Michelangelo, Petrarca e la figura della vergine nel Giudizio Sistino"
Costanza Barbieri, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
"Il cardinal Alessandro de’ Medici diplomatico e riformatore ritratto da Scipione Pulzone"

1-3 pm Lunch Break

3-4:30 pm
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
GENDER, MAGIC, AND ESOTERICISM
Chair: Renata Ago, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Mariateresa Guerra Medici, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
"Streghe a Roma e dintorni"
Tessa Storey, Royal Holloway, University of London
"Cosmetics, Poisons and Alchemy: The Gendering of Domestic Recipe Making in Seventeenth-Century Rome"
Marjorie Roth, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
"Opportunity Lost: Christian Prophecy, Musical Magic, and the Road Not Taken in Counter-Reformation Rome"

3-4:30 pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
CULTURE IN THE PAPAL COURT
Chair: Paolo Alei, University of California, Rome

Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, University of Stavanger, Norway
"Greek Mathematics in Rome and the Aesthetics of Geometry in Piero della Francesca"
Raphaële Mouren, École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques, Lyon
"Rome, centre de l'humanisme européen, de Paul III à Marcel II : à propos de quelques éditions d'auteurs antiques"
Chiara Cassiani, Università degli Studi della Calabria
"Pierio Valeriano e la corte di Roma"

4:30-5 pm Coffee Break
at the University of California, Rome Study Center

5-6:30 pm
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
NUNS AND SAINTS
Chair: Carolyn Valone, Saint Mary’s College, Rome

Kimberlyn Montford, Trinity University
"Female Presentation and Agency in Nuns’ Music of Early Modern Rome"
Noel O’Regan, University of Edinburgh
"Scandal Averted: The Case of the Papal Singer Giovanni Luca Conforti and the Nuns of S. Caterina dei Funari"
Mícheál Mac Craith, National University of Ireland, Galway
"Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s Roman Narrative, 1608"

5-6:30 pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
RITUAL SPACE AND RHETORIC
Chair: Rose Marie San Juan, University College, London

Lucinda Byatt, Edinburgh
"Sant’Agata dei Goti on the Quirinal: An Early 16th-Century Fulcrum For Politics And Learning Under Cardinal Ridolfi"
Genevieve Warwick, University of Glasgow
"Ritual Form and Urban Space in Early Modern Rome"
Katherine M. Bentz, Saint Anselm College
"The Rhetoric of the Garden Gate in Early Modern Rome"

6:30-8 pm Reception at the University of California,
Rome Study Center
All attendees are welcome. All the foods and wines served at the reception have been researched and are historically accurate for the early modern period. Explanations will be available.

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Friday, May 14

9:30-11 am
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
ROME AND FOREIGNERS
Chair: Antonella De Michelis, University of California, Rome

Matteo Sanfilippo, Università degli Studi della Tuscia
"Una città d’immigranti: dalla fine della cattività avignonese alla guerra dei Trent’anni"
Irene Fosi, Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti Pescara
"L’Inquisizione e gli stranieri a Roma in età moderna"
James Nelson Novoa, Villanova University
"The Portuguese New Christian Lobby in Rome: 1532-1555"

9:30-11 am
University of California, Rome Study Center
MUSIC, ART AND DANCE
Chair: Cristiana Filippini, University of California, Rome

Paul Arthur Anderson, California State University, Los Angeles
"Between Architect and Artisan: The Role of Professional Guilds and Confraternities in Early Modern Rome"
Barbara Sparti, Rome
"The Danced Moresca: From the Papal Court to the Streets of Rome"
Amy Brosius, New York University
"Leonora Baroni Cantatrice: The Roman Virtuosa as Courtier"

11-11:30 am Coffee Break
at the University of California, Rome Study Center

11:30 am-1 pm
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
STRATEGIES
Chair: Marina D’Amelia, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Katherine A. McIver, University of Alabama, Birmingham
"Moving About: Women in the Urban Fabric of Sixteenth-Century Rome"
P. Renée Baernstein, Miami University
"Roma Caput Italiae: Elite Marriage and the Making of an Italian Ruling Class"
Julia L. Hairston, University of California, Rome
"Mastro Pasquino’s Lament to Tullia d’Aragona"

11:30 am-1 pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
PERFORMANCE
Chair: Luca Marcozzi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Raimondo Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
"Feste, luoghi e rituali d’incoronazione poetica nell’Accademia Romana"
Eric Nicholson, Syracuse University in Florence
"Waxing Poetic: a Literary “Contest” and the Quest for Fame in Late Cinquecento Rome"
Valeria De Lucca, University of Southampton
"Antonio Cesti’s Orontea in Rome (1661): Visual Splendor of Aristocratic Entertainment"

1-3 pm Lunch Break

3-4:30 pm
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
PHYSICIANS/BODIES
Chair: Federica Favino, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Elisa Andretta, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University
“'A Medical Spanish Rome'? Circulation of Medical Knowledge and Practices Between Spain and the Eternal City"
Bradford A. Bouley, Stanford University
"Holy Bodies: Anatomy and Sanctity in Post-Tridentine Rome"
John Christopoulos, University of Toronto
"Framing 'Abortion' in Early Modern Rome: Confessors, Jurists, Popes"

3-4:30 pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
CULTURE AND FOREIGNERS IN ROME
Chair: Eric Nicholson, Syracuse University in Florence

JoAnn DellaNeva, University of Notre Dame
"An Early Modern Frenchman Reads Rome: “Les Souspirs” of Olivier de Magny"
Nancy D’Antuono, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
"Spanish Golden Age Drama in Papal Rome: The Adaptations of Giulio Cardinal Rospigliosi"
Peter Leech, Swansea University
“Spent too soon for so long a preparation”: Late Seventeenth-Century Celebrations in Rome for King James II of England

3-4:30 pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
ART AND MYTH
Chair: Laurie Kalb, Temple University, Rome

Ayana Smith, Indiana University
"From the Palazzo Farnese Gallery to Arcadia: How Art in Early Modern Rome Shaped Later Aesthetics and Music"
Paolo Alei, University of California, Rome
"Meaning and Attribution: A New Narcissus in the School of Caravaggio"
Wendy Heller, Princeton University
“'Un maggiore diletto': Staging Ovidian Fantasies in Early Modern Rome"

4:30-5pm Coffee Break
at the University of California, Rome Study Center

5-6:30 pm
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
RELIGIOUS LIFE
Chair: P. Renée Baernstein, Miami University

Emily Michelson, University of St. Andrews
"Preaching Across Rome in the 16th Century"
Andrew R. Casper, Miami University
"Icons, Guidebooks, and the Religious Topography of Sixteenth-Century Rome"
Querciolo Mazzonis, Università degli Studi di Teramo
"Women’s Semi-Religious Life in Rome (1550-1650)"

5-6:30 pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
THE LONG ARM OF ROME
Chair: Anne Wingenter, University of California, Rome

Daniele V. Filippi, Milan
"The Master and the Soundscape. Palestrina and the Musical Image of Rome Between the 16th and 17th centuries"
Anu Raunio, University of Turku, Finland
"L’Ospizio dei convertendi, storie di conversioni miracolose e l’assistenza romana caratterizzata dallo spirito post-tridentino"
Luca Codignola-Bo, CNR, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea
"Re-configuring and Re-organizing the New American Worlds: Big Dreams, Tentative Steps, Small Achievements"

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Saturday, May 15

9:30-11 am
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
HUMANISM AND HUMANISTS
Chair: Patricia Osmond, Rome

Patrick Baker, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
"A Renaissance translatio studii: Eloquence’s Return to Rome from Exile"
Kenneth Gouwens, University of Connecticut
"The Crisis of Masculinity in Giovio’s 'Ischian' Dialogue"
Angela Quattrocchi, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
"Da S. Francesca Romana agli spirituali moderati. Origini e continuità dell’umanesimo religioso di Latino Giovenale de’ Manetti"

9:30-11 am
University of California, Rome Study Center
URBANISM
Chair: Antonella De Michelis, University of California, Rome

Andrea Branchi, Saint Mary’s College, Rome
"Alexander VI’s Plans for Rome"
Katherine Rinne, California College of the Arts
"Angling for Acqua: Topography, Technology, and Water Lust in Rome from 1572-1581"
Lauren Jacobi, New York University
"The Banchi in the Rione di Ponte: Architecture and Urbanism"
Maurizio Caperna, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
"Sviluppi e caratteri dell’area urbana di via della Lungara dalla metà del Cinquecento alla metà del Seicento"

11-11:30 am Coffee Break
at the University of California, Rome Study Center

11:30-1pm
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
GENDER AND ANTAGONISM
Chair: Mariateresa Guerra Medici, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University
"Hierarchies of Masculinity in Baroque Rome"
Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University
"La Romana Agonistes: Broomsticks and Fighting Words c. 1600"
Thomas V. Cohen, York University
"Bartolomeo Camerario—Legist, Polemicist, Chief of the Annona, Collector of Young Girls"

11:30-1pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
CHURCH, ANTIQUITY, AND ART
Chair: Carolyn Smyth, John Cabot University

Jill E. Blondin, University of Texas, Tyler
"Space, Memory, and Sixtus IV at SS. Vito e Modesto"
Minou Schraven, Leiden University
"Founding Rome Anew: Pope Sixtus IV and the Foundation of Ponte Sisto (1473)"
Harula Economopoulos, Saint Mary’s College, Rome
"Morte e rinascita della scultura a Roma nell’età della Controriforma"

1-3 pm Lunch Break

3-4:30 pm
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
NEWS AND KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Nick Wilding, Georgia State University and the American Academy in Rome

Paul M. Dover, Kennesaw State University
“'News of the world': The Papal Court as a Clearing-House for International News in the Second Half of the 15th Century"
Giovanni Pizzorusso, Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti Pescara
"La quinta parte del mondo: missioni e conoscenze a Roma in età moderna"
Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame, Rome
"The Friendship of Alexander VII and Athanasius Kircher, 1637-1667"

3-4:30 pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
VIOLENCE REAL AND RHETORICAL
Chair: Julia L. Hairston, University of California, Rome

Costanza Gislon Dopfel, St. Mary’s College of California
"Reshaping Rome’s Narrative: The Curious Case of Sigismondo Malatesta’s Execution"
Nancy E. Goldsmith, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
"Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio (1504-1573) and the Sack of Rome"
John M. Hunt, University of Louisville
"The Consumption of Violence: Carriage Culture in Early Modern Rome, ca. 1550-1650"

4:30-5 pm Coffee Break
at the University of California, Rome Study Center

5-6:30 pm
Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo
SPAIN IN ITALY
Chair: James Nelson Novoa, Villanova University

Anna Maria Oliva, CNR, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea
"Gli oratori spagnoli a Roma tra fine Quattrocento e primo Cinquecento"
Rose Marie San Juan, University College, London
"The Transformation of Bernini’s Rio de la Plata"
Piero Ventura, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” "L’arciconfraternita dei napoletani a Roma tra XVI e XVII secolo"

5-6:30 pm
University of California, Rome Study Center
STRATEGIES OF THE NOBILITY
Chair: Stefanie Siegmund, Jewish Theological Seminary

Eleonora Canepari, CNRS, Paris
"How to Become Illustre? Civic Nobility and Neighborhoods in the Renaissance and Baroque Rome"
Jennifer Mara DeSilva, Eastern Connecticut State University
"Red Hat Strategies: Elevating Cardinals, 1471-1549"
Antonella De Michelis, University of California, Rome
"The Maestri di Strade: Political Strategies and Social Mobility in Farnese Rome"

8 pm Closing Dinner at the Hotel Tiziano
Event open to speakers and session chairs.

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