The Duke and the Stars (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History)

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Related articles in Google Scholar. Citing articles via Google Scholar. Slavery after Rome, — The scarred and over-quarried hillsides were reforested with cypresses by Temple Leader in the late nineteenth century, giving them their present sylvan aspect. Rather, Harvard conceives of Villa I Tatti as an international institution for the advancement of Italian Renaissance studies on the post-doctoral level. Villa I Tatti is one of three centers for advanced research in the humanities belonging to Harvard but located outside of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The others are Dumbarton Oaks , founded in for Byzantine, pre-Columbian and garden and landscape studies, and the Center for Hellenic Studies , founded in , both in Washington, D. Each year fifteen full-year fellows are chosen from about applicants. All have the doctorate at the time of application but are still in the early phase of their careers. Senior distinguished scholars are not eligible for the fellowship, but every year the director invites some who come without stipend as Visiting Professors in Residence.

In a given year perhaps a third of the fellowships tend to be in art history, a third in history, and a third in literature and music.

There are no quotas of nation. About half of the fellows over almost 50 years have been from the United States and Canada and half from other countries. In addition to the fifteen year-long fellowships there are a number of short-term awards aimed at specific groups. A limited number of Mellon Visiting Fellowships, for periods ranging from three to six months, are available each academic year for advanced research in any aspect of the Italian Renaissance.

This Fellowship is designed to reach out to Italian Renaissance scholars from areas that have been under-represented at I Tatti, especially those living and working in Asia, Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean basin except Italy and France and the Islamic countries.

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

There is a similar three-month award, named after I Tatti's third director the Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowship, for Renaissance scholars whose career paths do not normally allow sabbaticals or afford extended summer vacations, such as museum curators. Berenson described I Tatti as a library with a house attached. Library spaces were added to I Tatti in , , and — Geier Library, was created in one of the former farm buildings. At his death Berenson left a large personal library of 50, volumes, principally dedicated to Mediterranean culture seen through its art and archeology.

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It also included significant holdings in Chinese, Indian and Near Eastern art, reflecting his collecting interests in those fields. The books were located in a library designed by Cecil Pinsent in , but, also scattered throughout the house. Italian literature was not strongly represented and music was absent. Transformed from a rich but idiosyncratic personal library into a modern research library, the Biblioteca Berenson aims to provide comprehensive research-level coverage of current scholarly publications in all fields of Italian art, architecture, history, science, medicine, society, culture and literature approximately from to Research tools are also acquired in adjacent fields such as northern Europe in the same period, medieval studies, and Byzantine and Islamic cultures around the Mediterranean, especially where these relate to Renaissance Italy.

It tries to provide modern editions of many of the works of Greek and Latin literature. Currently it holds some , volumes, which include , books, 7, offprints, 14, auction catalogues, and 23, periodical volumes. Over periodicals are currently received, most with complete runs from the start of publication. In I Tatti joined with three other research libraries in Florence to form a consortium for joint, on-line cataloging, IRIS, which now counts seven member libraries. In addition, the considerable electronic resources available through the Harvard library are also available at I Tatti, which makes it one of the largest collections of electronic resources in Italy.

Established by a gift from F. It covers all western music from the Greeks to the early baroque period, with emphasis on Italian music composed up to It includes 4, scores and 4, critical studies, monographs, treatises, and reference works; it subscribes to 84 journal titles. There is also an extensive microfilm collection of musical manuscripts and early printed books.

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The aim is to acquire every published work in Italian musicology for the period up to The versos of many photographs contain handwritten notes by Bernard and Mary Berenson , Nicky Mariano and other art connoisseurs from the first half of the twentieth century. Apart from the main collection of photographs on Renaissance painting, there are other minor sections of images representing sculpture, medieval art, Byzantine and early Christian architecture.

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Bernard and Mary Berenson cultivated many friendships through letters. Their letters of their correspondents [9] and some of their own letters are kept in the Berenson Archive, together with diaries, notes, drafts of books, personal photographs and other biographical material. I Tatti is home to the art collection of Bernard and Mary Berenson, which includes an important collection of about late Medieval and Renaissance Italian paintings. The painting collection was formed between ca.

Shortly before his death in , Berenson donated his Madonna and Child by Ambrogio Lorenzetti to the Uffizi, which owned two smaller paintings that originally came from the same dismembered altarpiece.

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

The most famous works in the collection, and among the first to be acquired by the Berensons, are three panels depicting St. John the Baptist coming from the Sansepolcro Altarpiece by the Sienese painter Sassetta painted — There is also an active program of public lectures by outside scholars and shop-talks by fellows. In addition, I Tatti organizes and hosts one or two symposia or giornate di studio each semester which bring scholars from other countries. Each year I Tatti hosts the Bernard Berenson Lectures, a series of three interconnected lectures on a given theme, presented by a senior scholar of worldwide renown in the field of Renaissance studies.

Under the editorship of James Hankins of Harvard, Harvard University Press also publishes the I Tatti Renaissance Library , which is modeled on the Loeb Classical Library and aims to publish the major literary, historical, philosophical and scientific works of the Italian Renaissance written in Latin with modern English translation on facing pages. Forty-one volumes have appeared to date and about more are envisaged in the course of the next decade.

Both the fellowship and the scholarly events have been enhanced by the completion late in of the Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato, site of fellows' studies and a small auditorium, the Gould Hall, on the designed by Charles Brickbauer. The concerts of early music organized by the Morrill Music Library are an integral part of the academic activities at Villa I Tatti. They range from intimate performances for the I Tatti community, often on period instruments, to those performed by early music groups for a wider audience.

The series Early Music at I Tatti, established in by Joseph Connors with Kathryn Bosi, offers twice-yearly concerts performed by musicians of international renown.