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The Renaissance Society

of America

Annual MeetingProgram and Abstract Book

Washington, DC22–24 March 2012

Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de’ Benci, ca. 1474/78. Alisa Mellon Bruce Fund. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Contents

The indexes in this book refer to five-digit panel numbers, not pagenumbers. Panels on Thursday have panel numbers that begin withthe number 1; panels on Friday begin with the number 2; and pan-els on Saturday begin with the number 3. The black tabs on eachpage of the full program are an additional navigational aid: they pro-vide the date and time of the panels.

RSA Executive Board.......................................................................5

Acknowledgments.............................................................................6

Book Exhibition and Registration ...................................................10

Business Meetings...........................................................................11

Plenaries, Awards, and Special Events.............................................12

Program Summary

Thursday.................................................................................16

Friday .....................................................................................25

Saturday..................................................................................32

Full program with abstracts

Thursday8:30–10:00.......................................................................4110:15–11:45.....................................................................741:15–2:45.......................................................................1093:00–4:30.......................................................................1444:45–6:15.......................................................................179

Friday8:45–10:15.....................................................................21410:30–12:00...................................................................2492:00–3:30.......................................................................2843:45–5:15.......................................................................318

Saturday8:45–10:15.....................................................................35010:30–12:00...................................................................3832:00–3:30.......................................................................4183:45–5:15.......................................................................452

Index of Participants....................................................................485

Index of Sponsors .........................................................................504

Index of Panel Titles ....................................................................506

Room Charts................................................................................519

Grand Hyatt Floorplan................................................................537

Maps...........................................................................................538

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The Renaissance Society of America, Executive Board

Elizabeth Cropper, PresidentEdward Muir, Vice PresidentWilliam J. Kennedy, Past PresidentJames S. Grubb, TreasurerAnn E. Moyer, Executive Director

Sheila J. Rabin, Chair, Associate Organizations and International Cooperation

William J. Kennedy, Chair, DevelopmentMichael J. B. Allen, ACLS DelegateClare Carroll, Chair, MembershipMonique E. O’Connell, Chair, Electronic MediaAlison Frazier, Chair, ConstitutionCraig Kallendorf, Chair, Publications

Nicholas Terpstra, Renaissance Quarterly, Articles EditorSarah Covington, Renaissance Quarterly, Book Reviews Editor

Megan C. Armstrong, Renaissance Quarterly, Associate EditorGeorge L. Gorse, Renaissance Quarterly, Associate EditorPatrick Macey, Renaissance Quarterly, Associate EditorAndrew Morrall, Renaissance Quarterly, Associate EditorDeborah W. Parker, Renaissance Quarterly, Associate EditorPamela Smith, Renaissance Quarterly, Associate Editor

Brian Copenhaver, CounselorJanet Cox-Rearick, CounselorDavid Rosand, CounselorGeorge Labalme, Jr., Honorary Member

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Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; and the Folger Shakespeare Library

for their sponsorship of sessions.

The Program Committee

Elizabeth Cropper Edward MuirTobias B. Gregory Karen L. Nelson Ann E. Moyer

Participating Associate Societies and Centers

American Cusanus Society

Andrew Marvell Society

Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)

Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History (ATSAH)

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto

Cervantes Society of America

Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe

Chemical Heritage Foundation

Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance

Early Modern Image and Text Society (EMIT Society)

Erasmus of Rotterdam Society

Fédération internationale des sociétés et des instituts pour l’étude de la Renaissance (FISIER)

Group for Early Modern Cultural Analysis (GEMCA)

Historians of Netherlandish Art

Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions

International Association for Thomas More Scholarship

International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

International Sidney Society

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International Spenser Society

Italian Art Society

John Donne Society

Medici Archive Project, Inc. (MAP)

Medieval & Renaissance Studies Association in Israel

Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium at Rutgers University

New York University Seminar on the Renaissance

Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Princeton Renaissance Studies

Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Michigan

Renaissance English Text Society (RETS)

Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, City University of New York, The Graduate Center

Renaissances: Early Modern Literary Studies at Stanford University

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association

Societas Internationalis Studiis Neolatinis Provendis / International Association for Neo-Latin Studies

Société Française d’Etude du Seizième Siècle (SFDES)

Society for Court Studies

Society for Emblem Studies

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)

Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (SMRP)

Society for Renaissance Studies, United Kingdom

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (EMW)

Society of Fellows (SOF) of the American Academy in Rome (AAR)

South Central Renaissance Conference (SCRC)

Southeastern Renaissance Conference

Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)

Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

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Discipline Representatives, 2009–11

Ricardo Padrón, Americas

Marion Wells, Comparative Literature

Walter Melion, Emblems

Judith Anderson, English Literature

Achsah Guibbory, English Literature

Natasha Korda, English Literature

Kathleen P. Long, French Literature

Helmut Puff, Germanic Literature

Ilana Y. Zinguer, Hebraica

Ronald Surtz, Hispanic Literature

P. Renee Baernstein, History

Alison Frazier, History

John Najemy, History

Sarah Blake McHam, History of Art and Architecture

John Paoletti, History of Art and Architecture

Diane Wolfthal, History of Art and Architecture

Arthur Marotti, History of the Book, Paleography, and Manuscript Tradition

Timothy Kircher, History of Classical Tradition

Thomas Izbicki, History of Legal and Political Thought

Deborah Harkness, History of Medicine and Science

Philip Benedict, History of Religion

Margaret Meserve, Humanism

Walter Stephens, Italian Literature

Jeanice Brooks, Music

Luc Deitz, Neo-Latin Literature

Carla Zecher, Performing Arts and Theater

Peter Mack, Philosophy

Rosemary Kegl, Rhetoric

Elissa Weaver, Women and Gender Studies

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Discipline Representatives, 2012–14

Ricardo Padrón, Americas

Jessica Wolfe, Comparative Literature

Mara R. Wade, Emblems

Robert Miola, English Literature

Karen Nelson, English Literature

Deborah Shuger, English Literature

Tom Conley, French Literature

Ann Marie Rasmussen, Germanic Literature

Bernard Dov Cooperman, Hebraica

Laura R. Bass, Hispanic Literature

Peter Arnade, History

Kathleen M. Comerford, History

Katrina Olds, History

Karen-edis Barzman, History of Art and Architecture

Tracy E. Cooper, History of Art and Architecture

John Paoletti, History of Art and Architecture

Andrew Pettegree, History of the Book, Paleography, and Manuscript Tradition

Timothy Kircher, History of Classical Tradition

Dennis Romano, History of Legal and Political Thought

Monica Azzolini, History of Medicine and Science

Irena Backus, History of Religion

Margaret Meserve, Humanism

Walter Stephens, Italian Literature

Kate Van Orden, Music

Jan Papy, Neo-Latin Literature

Linda Phyllis Austern, Performing Arts and Theater

Lodi Nauta, Philosophy

Peter Mack, Rhetoric

Diana Robin, Women and Gender Studies

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Book Exhibition and Registration

Location: Grand Hyatt Washington, Independence Level

Badges and program books may be picked up during the following times:

Wednesday, March 21, 2:30–5:30 pmThursday, March 22, 7:45 am–5:00 pm

Friday, March 23, 8:30 am–5:00 pmSaturday, March 24, 8:30 am–12:00 noon

Walk-in registration can be paid with Visa or Mastercard: member rate $175,student member rate $125, nonmember rate $300.

Book Exhibitors and Advertisers

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)ARTStor

Ashgate Publishing CompanyBrill

Cambridge University PressCentre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto

David Brown Book CompanyEdizioni ETS

Hackett Publishing CompanyThe Institute of Jesuit Sources

John Wiley and SonsThe Johns Hopkins University Press

Leo Cadogan Rare BooksManey Publishing

Penn State University PressRoutledge

Scholar’s ChoiceTruman State University PressUniversity of Chicago PressUniversity of Toronto Press

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Business Meetings

Thursday, 22 March12:00 pm

Renaissance Quarterly Editors Meeting and Luncheon

Location: Grand Hyatt Washington, Constitution Level, Washington Boardroom

Editors and Associate Editors

Thursday, 22 March6:45 pm

RSA Executive Board Meeting and Dinner

Location: Grand Hyatt Washington, Lagoon Level, Penn Quarter A

Executive Board Members

Friday, 23 March12:15–2:00 pm

RSA Council Meeting and Luncheon

Location: Grand Hyatt Washington, Constitution Level, Constitution A

Associate Group Representatives, Discipline Representatives, Executive Board Members

Saturday, 24 March5:30–6:30 pm

RSA Members Annual Business Meeting

Location: Grand Hyatt Washington, Independence Level, Independence Ballroom

All RSA members are invited

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Plenaries, Awards, and Special Events

Wednesday, 22 March 6:30–7:30 pm

Opening Reception

Sponsor: The Renaissance Society of America

Location: Grand Hyatt Washington, Con stitution Level, Constitution Ballroom

Thusrday, 22 March12:00–1:00 pmand Friday, 23 March 12:30–1:30 pm

Medici Archive Project (MAP) presents live demos of its online interactive platform

Location: Grand Hyatt Washington, Independence Level, Farragut Square

John Monfasani, State University of New York, Albany

Erasmus and the Philosophers

Erasmus was famously allergic to the philosophic theology of the medieval scholastics and what he considered their confusion of Christianity with Aristotelian philosophy. But he himself edited the opera omnia of Aristotle in Greek, just as he produced an edition of the philosophically rich opera omnia of St. Augustine. Paul Oskar Kristeller and Michael Screech have noted the Platonic influences in Erasmus’s Praise of Folly. Martin Luther accused Erasmus of follow-ing in the traces of the ancient Skeptics. Indeed, Erasmus avowed a

Beginning this summer, scholars of early modern Europe will be able to conduct research on the over four million documents in the Medici Archive over a broad range of historical topics—political, diplomatic, gastronomic, economic, artistic, scientific, military, and medical—from any location in the world, using an innovative new software platform. With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MAP will provide high resolution digitized images of original documents from the Medici Archive on the worldwide web. In addition to the original language transcription and English-language synopsis, each document will be accompanied by an online community forum, creating unprec-edented opportunities for exchange of scholarly ideas.

Please contact Lisa Kaborycha ([email protected]) if you have any questions about MAP or the demonstrations.

Thursday, 22 March7:00–8:30 pm

Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture

Sponsor: Erasmus of Rotterdam Society

Location: Folger Shakespeare Library Theater

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Plenary Session: The Global Renaissance



Organizer: Alison K. Frazier, University of Texas, Austin

Chair: Hannah Wojciehowski, University of Texas, Austin

Respondent: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Notre Dame University

certain tenderness towards the Academic skeptics. Nor is it difficult to find references in his writings to philosophers and the ancient schools of philosophy. So the question is: what exactly was Erasmus’s attitude toward philosophy and the philosophical tradition from antiquity to his own day? And what philosophical positions did he appropriate, dispute, or show an interest in? Could one consider Erasmus a phi-losopher malgré lui?

Metro directions to Folger Library from the Grand Hyatt Washington:

From Metro Center station (a 3-minute walk from the Grand Hyatt), take the Blue Line (direction Largo) or the Orange Line (direction New Carrollton) to Capital South station. Walk to the Folger at 201 East Capitol Street Southeast (about 8 minutes). Seating is limited. Advance registration is required: http://www.folger.edu/evreg.cfm?cdid=1338&eventid=34; or call 202–544–4600.


Reception for The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Location: National Gallery of Art, East Building Reception Room (first floor)by invitation

Ann Blair, Harvard University

Information Flows in a Global Renaissance: Through Orality, Manuscript, and Print

The European Renaissance witnessed information explosion due both to increased travel to different parts of the world and to the rediscovery of ancient texts. In addition to these external factors, however, new concep-tions of proper information management caused the explosion — notably the idea of taking and saving notes on texts and direct experiences. Information flows based on this note-taking were neither uniform nor one-directional. In particular, information was treated differently depend-

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ing on the form in which it traveled: in manuscript (whether meant to be secret or for more-or-less broad diffusion), in print (in different genres to reach different audiences), and/or through direct human transmis-sion. What difference did it make when texts traveled with people rather than by themselves as unaccompanied objects, especially when those people were themselves “documents” of other worlds?

Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto

Mediating a Global Mediterranean: Translation, Commensuration, and Articulation

This paper draws out some of the methodological and conceptual implications of the recent resurgence of the Mediterranean as a his-torical object for our understanding of the so-called global Renaissance. It considers shifts in the historiography of early modern Mediterranean empires, focusing on the growing scholarship on ethnolinguistic, religious, and juridical boundary-crossing. The paper highlights the importance of processes of mediation, commensuration, and transla-tion in their myriad transimperial settings, and explores how the global Renaissance was articulated from the vantage point of self-proclaimed cultural intermediaries and the variety of genres and state institutions they engaged. These intermediaries and their role in enabling the circulation of texts, ideas, and objects has all too often been assumed, or rendered transparent. This paper suggests that attending to sites of mediation can bring to light the very conditions for envisioning a global Mediterranean, both then and now.

Ken Albala, University of the Pacific

The Renaissance of Food in Global Perspective

While historians have long traced the many global exchanges in ingredients, peoples, and pathogens that took place in the wake of the age of encounters, few have looked closely at actual culinary traditions. What traditions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European kitchens were adapted to local conditions, ingredients, and available technologies and why do they survive long after disappear-ing from European cuisine? There are surprising culinary rudiments dating back to the Renaissance, stretching from the kasutera of Japan to the capirotada of Mexico. This talk will discuss European cook-books and cooking traditions and the fascinating ways they influ-enced cooking around the world, long before the era of transna-tional conglomerate food corporations.

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Awards Ceremony


Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award

Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize

William Nelson Prize


Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture



Paula Findlen, Stanford University

The Eighteenth-Century Invention of the Renaissance: Lessons from the Uffizi

It is a canonical fact of Renaissance studies that Jules Michelet, Jacob Burckhardt, and a number of other influential nineteenth-century scholars wrote the Renaissance into existence, which they most cer-tainly did, since no historian before the mid-nineteenth century offered a comprehensive and synthetic account of this era as a well-defined period of history. But what inspired and preceded their vision of the Renaissance? This talk explores the eighteenth-century land-scape of antiquarianism, historicism, collecting, and art history from which the idea of the Renaissance emerged. It moves away from schol-arly encounters in Paris and Basel to the society and culture of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour as the site where this conversation began. Its focal point is the activities surrounding the multiple reinventions of the Uffizi Gallery in the age of the Grand Tour. How did Vasari’s building come to house Vasari’s Renaissance?


Closing Reception


Location: Grand Hyatt Washington, Con-stitution Level, Constitution Ballroom

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Program SummaryThe indexes in this book refer to five-digit panel numbers, not page numbers. Panels on Thursday have panel numbers that begin with the number 1; panels on Friday begin with the number 2; and panels on Saturday begin with the number 3. The black tabs on each page of the full program are an additional navigational aid: they provide the date and time of the panels.

For sessions at the National Gallery of Art: The entrance to the East Building is on Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Doors open at 10:00 am. The closest coat check is at the main entrance. The Small Auditorium is located downstairs on the concourse level. Sessions begin at 10:15am on Thursday and 10:30am on Friday. Maximum seating capacity is 65, and seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis. Please present RSA registration badge for entry to the Small Auditorium. Admission to the permanent collections and special exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art is free. Do not miss the current exhibitions: Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes (East Building, Ground Level); The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (West Building, Ground Floor); and Civic Pride: Group Portraits from Amsterdam (West Building, Main Floor). For refreshment, the Cascade Café and full-service cafeteria are open on the concourse level of the East Building; and the Garden Café offers a buffet lunch next to the ground floor galleries in the West Building.

Sessions in the Folger Shakespeare Library Board Room are accessible via the entrance at 2nd and East Capitol Streets. The Board Room is down one flight and to the left.

Thursday, 22 March 2012, 8:30–10:00

10101 Grand HyattIndependence Level, Independence B

Locating the Foreign in Early Modern Italy: Integrated or Alienated Minorities? I

10102 Grand HyattIndependence Level, Independence C

Empires of the East: Models of Conquest and Alliance

10103 Grand HyattIndependence Level, Independence D

The Circulation of Manuscripts in Early Modern England

10104 Grand HyattIndependence Level, Independence E

Renaissance Studies in Honor of Bill Kent I

10105 Grand HyattIndependence Level, Independence I

On the Work of Marcia Hall I

10106 Grand HyattIndependence Level, Cherry Blossom

Poets and Their Patron: The Coryciana in Their Context

10107 Grand HyattIndependence Level, Franklin Square

Other Antiquities: Local Conceptions of the Past in Northern European Art and Culture I

10108 Grand HyattIndependence Level, Lafayette Park

Visualizing Disaster in Early Modern Europe

10109 Grand HyattIndependence Level, Farragut Square

Peter Paul Rubens I: Altarpieces and the Beholder

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10110 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Constitution C

Early Modern Globalization: What in the World is That?

10111 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Constitution D

Historical Memory, Antiquarian Culture, and Artistic Patronage in the Centers of Renaissance Southern Italy I

10112 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Constitution E

The Long Shadow of the Venetian Cinquecento I: The Legacy within Venice

10114 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Cabin John

French Renaissance Drama: Poetics and Performance I

10115 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Roosevelt

Cervantes I: Cervantes and the Inward Look

10116 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Wilson

Ficino I: Harmony and Concinnitas

10117 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Washington Board Room

“Suave, mari mango”: Figures of Shipwreck in Early Modernity

10118 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Potomac

Embodying Mathematics: The Material Culture of Doing Technical Work in Books

10119 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Burnham

Dressing Gender in Print

10120 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Latrobe

Guiding Souls: Images of Mary and the Saints in New Spain and Peru I

10121 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Bulfinch

Shakespeare I

10122 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Renwick

Sonic Transformations: Adapting, Collecting, and Listening in Early Modern Italy I

10123 Grand HyattLagoon Level, Conference Theatre

Palatium I: Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Early Modern Europe

10124 Grand HyattLagoon Level, Penn Quarter A

Pregnancy, Wet-Nursing, and Motherhood at the Early Modern Court

10125 Grand HyattLagoon Level, Penn Quarter B

The Political Implications of Syncretism in Lemaire and Rabelais

10126 Grand HyattFirst Floor, Suite 102

Place and Space in Tudor and Stuart Literature I


Angelo Poliziano and the Classical Tradition I


Going Public: Women Writer-Players and the Act of Writing


Sacred and Unsacred in Early Modern Literature


Culture of Spectacle I


Emblems and Empire


Mediterranean Travel and Pilgrimage I

22 March 2012, 8:30–10:00 (Cont’d)

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Andrew Marvell and Allegiance: Political, Intellectual, and Poetic


“A little world made cunningly”: Generative Bodies and Early Modern Scientific Discourses


Rethinking the Boundaries of Humanism I


Cross-Contextual Adaptations and Innovations in Italian Spiritual Literature of the Renaissance


Lordship, Politics, and Honor in the Early Modern British Isles

10138 Folger Shakespeare Library, Board Room

Women Writers at the Folger I: Seventeenth-Century English Writers

Thursday, 22 March 2012, 10:15–11:45


Locating the Foreign in Early Modern Italy: Integrated or Alienated Minorities? II


Blood and Empire: International Aristocracies in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Mediterranean


Printers and Printing


Renaissance Studies in Honor of Bill Kent II


On the Work of Marcia Hall II


Neo-Latin Intertextuality I


Other Antiquities: Local Conceptions of the Past in Northern European Art and Culture II


Trecento Receptions in Early Renaissance Art


Peter Paul Rubens II: Art Theory and Biography


Transatlantic Lives: Subjectivity and Empire in the Early Modern World


Historical Memory, Antiquarian Culture, and Artistic Patronage in the Centers of Renaissance Southern Italy II

22 March 2012, 8:30–10:00 (Cont’d)

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The Long Shadow of the Venetian Cinquecento II: Beyond Venice

10213 Grand HyattConstitution Level, Arlington

Reading Italian Paintings


French Renaissance Drama: Poetics and Performance II


Cervantes II: Cervantes and the Outward Look


Ficino II: Sight and Insight


Scholarship, Science, and Creation in Early Modern Europe


When Readers Write


Guiding Souls: Images of Mary and the Saints in New Spain and Peru II


Shakespeare II


Sonic Transformations: Adapting, Collecting, and Listening in Early Modern Italy II


Palatium II: Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Early Modern Europe


Jesuit Encounters with Heretics, Jews, and New Christians


Pessimism and Politics in Francesco Guicciardini’s Thought: Texts and Readers


Place and Space in Tudor and Stuart Literature II


Angelo Poliziano and the Classical Tradition II


Comparative Approaches to Italian and English Early Modern Theater


Rhetoric and Ethics: New Directions in the History of Renaissance Rhetoric


Culture of Spectacle II


Emblems and the Visual and Verbal


Mediterranean Travel and Pilgrimage II


Andrew Marvell: Textual Foundations


Futuristic Epistemologies in Early Modern Literary and Scientific Thought


Rethinking the Boundaries of Humanism II

22 March 2012, 10:15–11:45 (Cont’d)

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Dante and the Late Renaissance


Imagined Bodies of the Italian Wars


Women Writers at the Folger II: Drama in Seventeenth-Century England

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Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy I

Thursday, 22 March 2012, 1:15–2:45


Building Empire: The Legacy of the Catholic Kings I: Isabel of Castile and Queenship


The History of the Book and the History of Reading


Renaissance Studies in Honor of Bill Kent III


On the Work of Marcia Hall III


Neo-Latin Intertextuality II


Mythology and Religion in Renaissance Art I


Exposing the Male Nude in European Art, 1430–1640


Naar Dürer: The Impact of Dürer’s Visit to Antwerp on Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Printmaking


Translating China in Early Modern Europe I


Sicily: Architecture and Art 1400–1700 I


The Long Shadow of the Venetian Cinquecento III: Into the Modern Era


Reading European Paintings


Gender and Text as Monument in Early Modern France

22 March 2012, 10:15–11:45 (Cont’d)

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Spanish Letters and Representation


Ficino III: More from the Muses


Text and Natural Philosophy


Readers and Their Texts


The Performative Image I


Shakespeare’s Technical Languages


Cultural Exchange and Transnational Encounter: Music, Art, and Patrons I


Power Couples of Early Modern Italy


Multicultural Aspects of Hebraism in Europe during the Renaissance I


Political Thought


Disgust in Early Modern English Literature


Giovanni Pontano in Context I


Theorizing Form in Early Modern Drama


Representing Marvel in Early Modern Italy


Culture of Spectacle III


The Time and Space of Emblems


Revisiting Traditional Practices in English Devotional Writing


Renaissance Science and the Literary Imagination


Impure Conversation: Humanism and Scholasticism in the Early Quattrocento Paradiso degli Alberti


Crossing Boundaries: Translation, Betrayal, and Literary Seduction from Boccaccio to Tasso


Noble Identities in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands


Women Writers at the Folger III: Sixteenth-Century French Writers


Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy II

22 March 2012, 1:15–2:45 (Cont’d)

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Thursday, 22 March 2012, 3:00–4:30


Burials and Monuments


Building Empire: The Legacy of the Catholic Kings II: Artistic and Political Patronage in Italy


The Future of the History of the Book


Renaissance Studies in Honor of Bill Kent IV


“The Mute Image and the Meddling Text”: Papers in Memory of Leo Steinberg I


Neo-Latin Intertextuality III


Mythology and Religion in Renaissance Art II


Metaphor and Symbolism in Renaissance Architecture


Netherlandish Art


Translating China in Early Modern Europe II


Sicily: Architecture and Art 1400–1700 II


The Medici and the Culture of Spectacle


The Ethics of Paintings


Situating Memory in Renaissance France


Rhetoric, Pageantry, and the Construction of Hispanic Myths


Ficino IV: Sacred Myth and Religious Mystery


Renaissance Medical Men: The Origins and Shapes of Professional Identity in Early Modern Italy


Reading, Writing, and Gender

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The Performative Image II


Shakespeare, Materiality, and the Reformation


Cultural Exchange and Transnational Encounter: Music, Art, and Patrons II


Looking Good in the Renaissance I: Beauty and Identity


Multicultural Aspects of Hebraism in Europe during the Renaissance II


Abuse of Power and Its Consequences in Two Early Modern Cultures


Death and Dying in Late Medieval and Early Modern England


Giovanni Pontano in Context II


John Fletcher and Renaissance Drama: Influential Passions


Shaping Civility in Early Modern Italian Culture I


Culture of Spectacle IV


War and Peace in Emblems


Repossessing the Other: Looks, Turks, and Women in Humanist Myth and Imagery


“Bless thee. Thou art translated”: Early Modern Translations of the Bible into English and Their Influence


Millennial Mathematics


Italian Humanists


Leonardo the Writer


Italian Aristocrats in the Dutch Revolt


Women Writers at the Folger IV: Italian and Spanish

22 March 2012, 3:00–4:30 (Cont’d)

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Thursday, 22 March 2012, 4:45–6:15


Constructing Memory in Renaissance Funerary Patronage


Building Empire: The Legacy of the Catholic Kings III: Memory, Commemoration, and Imperial Death


Books, Censorship, and Readers


Renaissance Studies in Honor of Bill Kent V


“The Mute Image and the Meddling Text”: Papers in Memory of Leo Steinberg II


Neo-Latin Intertextuality IV


Italian Sculpture


The Power of the Plan: Conflicts between Project and Reality in Renaissance Architecture


Early Modern Sculpture in Northern Europe


Souls and Spices: Asia in the Age of Exploration 1500–1650


Sicily: Architecture and Art 1400–1700 III


Sixteenth-Century Artistic Exchange between Central Italy and the Veneto


French Culture in the Age of Religious Wars


The Female Body in Performance in Golden Age Spanish Prose and Drama


Ficino V: Looking Forward


Women and Science in Seventeenth-Century England


The Bonds of History: Female Communities and Narrative Production


The Performative Image III

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Shakespearean Drama and the Renaissance Sensorium


Cultural Exchange and Transnational Encounter: Music, Art, and Patrons III


Looking Good in the Renaissance II: Materiality


Hebrew Perplexities of Language: Jewish-Christian Intertextualities


Men’s Business and Women’s Work: The Political and Material Cultures of the Strozzi and Albizzi


The Extraordinary and the Ordinary in Early Modern England


Giovanni Pontano in Context III


Shaping Civility in Early Modern Italian Culture II


Culture of Spectacle V


Roundtable: The Emblematic Operation in Sixteenth-Century Italy and Beyond


The Renaissance in the World


Prophecy, Prophets, and Saints


The Devil and Disease


Humanist Culture in England


Rampant: Heraldry and Early Modern State Formation

Friday, 23 March 2012, 8:45–10:15


Royal Dynasties Abroad: Constructing Cultural Identities at the Foreign Court I: Identity and Insecurity


Ciriaco d’Ancona and the Visual Arts I


Public Art and Contested Spaces in Early Modern Italy I: Sacred and Communal Spaces: Pisa, Siena, and Venice


The Limits of Identity I: Trade and Community Membership in the Mediterranean

22 March 2012, 4:45–6:15 (Cont’d)

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Women and Exile I: Representations: Writers Imagining Exile of Self or Others


Neo-Latin Intertextuality V


Representations of Africans and Asians in European Art I


Henry Tom’s Renaissance: The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Renaissance I: Henry Tom’s Renaissance Methodologies


New Technologies and Renaissance Studies I: A New Set of Teaching Tools: Digital Shakespeare


Indians Everywhere I: Comparative Ethnography and Religious Conversion


Early Modern Religious Dissents: Conflicts and Plurality in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (EMoDiR I)


Humanist Biography I


The Renaissance of French Theory I


Sidney Circle I: Sir Philip Sidney: Manuscripts, Marriages, and Banners


Translatio amoris: Renaissance Reckonings with Plato on Pleasure, Friendship, and Love


Between Manuscripts and Printed Editions in the Italian Renaissance: Genres and Patterns, Texts and Images I


Subjectivity and Interiority: Spanish and Dutch Houses


Authorship and Identity in Early Modern Signatures I: Motif as Signature


Donne’s Letters and Other Writings of April 1613: Roundtable I


Gardens of Power


In Honor of Boccaccio’s 700th Birthday: New Perspectives


Bent, Broken, and Shattered: European Images of Death and Torture, 1300–1650 I


Animal Translations


Renaissance Reading: Sentences in Context I

23 March 2012, 8:45–10:15 (Cont’d)

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Thomas More and His Circle I: A Humanist Style Book: Translation, Maps, Anecdote


Words and Music I


Corneille, Rotrou, and Montfleury


Tragic Practices: Education, Ministry, Law


Representing Violence in Early Modern Spanish Drama


Margaret Cavendish I: Gender and Social Class


Alchemy I: Alchemy and Society


Vernacular Aristotelianism in the Renaissance I


Theater and Drama I


In and Out of Mantua I


Devotion and Gender


Guns and Religion in Early Modern London

Friday, 23 March 2012, 10:30–12:00


Royal Dynasties Abroad: Constructing Cultural Identities at the Foreign Court II: Diplomacy and Display


Ciriaco d’Ancona and the Visual Arts II


Public Art and Contested Spaces in Early Modern Italy II: Princely and Papal Power: Genoa, Lombardy, and Rome


The Limits of Identity II: Trade and Community Membership in the Mediterranean


Women and Exile II: Autobiography: Writers Narrating Exile


Schools of Greek in the Renaissance: Teaching Tools and Classroom Practice

23 March 2012, 8:45–10:15 (Cont’d)

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Representations of Africans and Asians in European Art II


Henry Tom’s Renaissance: The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Renaissance II: Henry Tom’s Renaissance Italy


New Technologies and Renaissance Studies II: A New Set of Teaching Tools: Incorporating Digital Research


Indians Everywhere II: Comparative Ethnography and Representation


Early Modern Religious Dissents: Conflicts and Plurality in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (EMoDIR II)


Humanist Biography II


The Renaissance of French Theory II


Sidney Circle II: The Poesy of Lady Mary Wroth and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke


Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy in Ficino


Between Manuscripts and Printed Editions in the Italian Renaissance: Genres and Patterns, Texts and Images II


Iberian Demonology: Portraying the Devil in Spain in the Early Modern Period


Authorship and Identity in Early Modern Signatures II: Defining Authorship


Donne’s Letters and Other Writings of April 1613: Roundtable II


Time at Home: Objects and Temporality in the Early Modern Domestic Interior I


Italian Renaissance Drama: Comedy, Tragedy, Pastoral


Bent, Broken, and Shattered: European Images of Death and Torture, 1300–1650 II


(Post)Modernism’s Renaissance: Belated Perspectives on Early Modern Poetic Style


Renaissance Reading: Sentences in Context II


Thomas More and His Circle II: Some Aspects of More’s Afterlife


Words and Music II


Medical Culture Before Its Public: Representation of Medicine in Spanish Golden Age Theater

23 March 2012, 10:30–12:00 (Cont’d)

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The King’s Speech: Rhetoric, Agency, and Monarchy in Shakespeare’s Histories


Reading Printed Images in Iberian Books


Margaret Cavendish II: Narratives of Science


Alchemy II: Alchemy in the Arts


Vernacular Aristotelianism in the Renaissance II


Theater and Drama II


In and Out of Mantua II


Saints, Widows, and Husbands: The Uses of Women’s Devotional Writing


England’s Domestic Aliens


Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy III

Friday, 23 March 2012, 2:00–3:30


Royal Dynasties Abroad: Constructing Cultural Identities at the Foreign Court III: Politics and Rhetoric


Ciriaco d’Ancona and the Visual Arts III


Public Art and Contested Spaces in Early Modern Italy III: Machinations of Power in the Republic, Duchy, and Beyond: Florence


Bridging Divides and Building Identity in Premodern Mediterranean Cities


The Wicked and the Wise: Women in Early Modern Europe I


Francesco Patrizi da Cherso on the Language of Rationality and of Poetry


Close Enemies: Representations of Islam in Early Modern Europe I


Henry Tom’s Renaissance: The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Renaissance III: Henry Tom’s Renaissance World

23 March 2012, 10:30–12:00 (Cont’d)

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New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III: A New Set of Teaching Tools: Beyond the Book


Creating a Sense of Place


Dissent and Heresy


Humanist and Renaissance Historiography: Reflections and Forms I


Writing Within and Against Traditions: The French Renaissance Lyric


Sidney Circle III: Fulke Greville: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Limits


Ficino and Lorenzo Pisano: Love, Friendship, and Allegory


Between Manuscripts and Printed Editions in the Italian Renaissance: Genres and Patterns, Texts and Images III


European-Islamicate Exchange: Text and Image


Authorship and Identity in Early Modern Signatures III: Cryptic Signatures


Roundtable: Disputing Valla’s Disputations


Time at Home: Objects and Temporality in the Early Modern Domestic Interior II


Per veder che differenza fusse fra gli artefici di Roma e quegli di Fiorenza


Bent, Broken, and Shattered: European Images of Death and Torture, 1300–1650 III


Machiavelli’s Greeks: Sources and Encounters


Viewing Naples from Within and Without: National Identity and Commonplaces in Early Modern Europe I


Cavell, Shakespeare, and the Renaissance


Words and Music III


Theater and Devotion: Spaces of the Sacred and the Rhetoric of Power in Ferrara and Florence


Philosophy of Action in Shakespeare and Spenser


Writing Women in Early Modern Spain


Cuckolds I: Court Mores: Adultery, Virility, and Politics

23 March 2012, 2:00–3:30 (Cont’d)

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Renaissance Astrology I


Theater and Drama III


From Spain to Rome: Fluid Topographies, Printing, and Urban Noir


Supernatural Women on the Early Modern Stage


The French Connection: Cross-Channel Exchanges in Early Modern England


Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy IV

Friday, 23 March 2012, 3:45–5:15


Royal Dynasties Abroad: Constructing Cultural Identities at the Foreign Court IV: Rivalry and Subversion


The Artist in Crisis


Sacred Places, Public Spaces: Chapels, Tombs, and Memorial Culture in Renaissance Italy


Venetian Cyprus, Europe, and the Mediterranean World


The Wicked and the Wise: Women in Early Modern Europe II


Marginal Comments: Rhetorical Marginalia and Early Modern Reading Practices


Close Enemies: Representations of Islam in Early Modern Europe II


Henry Tom’s Renaissance: The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Renaissance IV: Families in Henry Tom’s Venice


New Technologies and Renaissance Studies IV: Beyond the Digital Facsimile: New Projects in Renaissance Research


Dissent and Nonconformity in England


Humanist and Renaissance Historiography: Reflections and Forms II

23 March 2012, 2:00–3:30 (Cont’d)

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Literature and Medicine in Early Modern France


Sidney Circle IV: Fulke Greville: Philosophy, Uncertainty, and Infinity


Renaissance Philosophy: Leone Ebreo, Pico, and Savonarola


Generosity in the Early Modern Period


Authorship and Identity in Early Modern Signatures IV: Humanist Signatures


Roundtable: After Walter Ong: The Materiality of Literacy


Time at Home: Objects and Temporality in the Early Modern Domestic Interior III


Women’s Cultural Agency in the Age of the Medici Grand Dukes


Bent, Broken, and Shattered: European Images of Death and Torture, 1300–1650 IV


Libertas and Republicanism in Renaissance Bologna


Viewing Naples from Within and Without: National Identity and Commonplaces in Early Modern Europe II


Black Studies in the English Renaissance


Music and Imitation


Marlowe


The Prose Romance: Tradition and Context


Writing the Empire on the Female Body


Cuckolds II: Visual Discourse and Social Critique: Fools, Eggs, and Horns


Renaissance Astrology II


Vices and Virtues of Wine in the Italian Renaissance


Theater and Drama IV


Coins and Medals


Prayer and Politics from the Catholic Margins


The Art of War

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The Early Modern Papacy and Curia I: Ritual and Politics


The Renaissance Line I


The Vogue and Place of Renaissance Painting in Baroque Collections


The Artist as Entrepreneur: Directing the Workshop in Renaissance Venice


Authorial Voices


Renaissance Portraiture: Identity in Written Words I


Proportio and Imitatio


Ireland and the House of Ormond I: Art, Architecture, and Archaeology


New Technologies and Renaissance Studies V: Research in English, Music, and Fine Art


Seventeenth-Century Rome: Interdisciplinary Panel I


Dialectics of Creation I


Quarrels over Marriage in the Querelle des femmes: Fictions, Reality, Philosophy


The Venetian Stato da Mar I: Mapping


Renaissance Philosophy and Historiography


Milton I


Renaissance Ideas of Antiquity: Ad fontes


The Economy of Renaissance Italy I: Literature, Art, and Architecture


Diplomacy, Secrecy, and Espionage in Early Modern France (1560–1630): A Multidisciplinary Approach

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Latin and Vernacular in the Italian Renaissance: Use, Context, and Interactions I


Medici Gardens: History, Design, Function


The Politics and Culture of Violence I


The Renaissance and Contemporary Critical Theory


Veil and Veiling in Early Modern Europe I: Revisiting the Convention of Women’s Veiling


New Work in Renaissance Studies, Chiefly from the Archives


Music Giving and Humanism: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of MS Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Alpha F.9.9


Medieval to Early Modern Religious Education, Agency, and Gender


Exile and Noted Exiles


Telling Objects I


Cuckolds III: Literary Topoi: Comedy, Gender, and Politics


Letters and Letter-Writing


Political and Personal Relations in Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata


Theater and Drama V


The Evolution of the Cortigiano from the Cinquecento to the Baroque


Publication Events in Early Modern Women’s Writing: Session Organized by Early Modern Women’s Research Network, Australia


Genealogy across Genres


Between Orthodoxy and Heresy: Conversion in the Counter-Reformation

Saturday, 24 March 2012, 10:30–12:00


The Early Modern Papacy and Curia II: Patronage and Lifestyle


The Renaissance Line II

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The Appeal of Sculpture in Renaissance Italy: Collecting, Patronage, Style, and the Role of Touch


Publishing the Early Modern Author: Intention and Reputation in the Marketplace


Artists’ Signatures


Interaction with Renaissance Texts


Renaissance Portraiture: Identity in Written Words II


Michelangelo in the Seventeenth Century


Ireland and the House of Ormond II: History, Lies, and Literature


Early Modern Texts and the Digital Humanities


Seventeenth-Century Rome: Interdisciplinary Panel II


New Light on the Veneration of St. Joseph in Early Modern Text and Art


Dialectics of Creation II


Epistolographie rabelaisienne


The Venetian Stato da Mar II: Managing


The End of the Renaissance


Milton II


Desiderius Erasmus


The Economy of Renaissance Italy II: Business Practices


“It shalbe easy for you to conceave the sense”: Unpicking Meanings in Diplomacy and Intelligencing


Latin and Vernacular in the Italian Renaissance: Use, Context, and Interactions II

24 March 2012, 10:30–12:00 (Cont’d)

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The Prince and the Academies: Tuscan Cultural Institutions Under the Medici Regime


The Politics and Culture of Violence II


Inventing the Italian Renaissance


Veil and Veiling in Early Modern Europe II: Women’s Headcoverings in Everyday Life


Manuscripts of Donne and His Contemporaries


New Perspectives on the Italian Madrigal


Shadow Princes: Habsburg Favorites in Context I


Telling Objects II


Cuckolds IV: Medicine and Diets: Ensuring Love, Curing Impotence


Marriage and Letters


Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry I


Theater and Drama VI


The Other Lucrezia Marinella: Her Spiritual Writings


Censorship and Self-Censorship in Renaissance Literature


Conversion and the Material Book

Saturday, 24 March 2012, 2:00–3:30


The Early Modern Papacy and Curia III: Global Concerns


The Sketch and Sketching I


Early Modern Artists’ Collections in Northern Europe I: Individual Artists


At the Intersection of Manuscript and Print

24 March 2012, 10:30–12:00 (Cont’d)

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Artists’ Letters, 1400–1700


Renaissance Portraiture: Identity in Written Words III


Transformations across Media


Civility, Nobility, and Order in Renaissance Ireland


The Digital Herbal: Roundtable on Renaissance Botanical Illustration on the Internet


Antiquarians in Renaissance Rome: Practices and Behaviors


Epic and Empire Revisited: Recent Work on Epic Poetry in the Early Modern World I


Court and Spectacle


Renaissance Salons and Cénacles


Revisiting Renaissance Bologna: A Session in Honor of Richard J. Tuttle (1941–2009)


Perspectives on Nicholas of Cusa I


Milton among the Poets


Dogs, Ostriches, Apes, and the Creation of Meaning


The Economy of Renaissance Italy III: Public Finance


Cosmopolitan Kings of the Commonwealth: Foreign Marriages and Domestic Disputes in Stewart Britain


Language and Meaning


Perceptions of the Other in the Grand Ducal Medici Archive (1537–1743)


The Politics and Culture of Violence III


Playing with Convention: Humor and the Early Modern Portrait


Headcoverings for Men and Women: Fashion and Symbolic Value

24 March 2012, 2:00–3:30 (Cont’d)

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Drama, Scholarship, and the Book Trade: Revisiting the Literary Career of John Bale (1495–1563)


Modern Philology, Manuscript Transmission, and Poggio Bracciolini I


Feminism and the New Formalism in Renaissance Studies


Shadow Princes: Habsburg Favorites in Context II


Art and Reform


Parents and Children in Early Modern Europe


Poetics and Poetry


Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry II


Redefining Sexual Acts in Renaissance English Literature


The Renaissance Boethius


Ethics and Literature in the Renaissance


Spenser


The Literature of Conversion in Early Modern England

Saturday, 24 March 2012, 3:45–5:15


Power and the Church in Italy


The Sketch and Sketching II


Early Modern Artists’ Collections in Northern Europe II: Historiography


The Agency of Printers in Early Modern Book Production


Italian Painting


Roundtable: Renaissance Quarterly: Submitting Your Work for Publication

24 March 2012, 2:00–3:30 (Cont’d)

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Renaissance Portraiture: Identity in Written Words IV


Recreating the Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century


Poetry, Identity, and History in Early Modern Ireland


Spaces Ideal and Real


Foreigners in Rome


Epic and Empire Revisited: Recent Work on Epic Poetry in the Early Modern World II


Courtliness before Il Cortegiano


The Querelle des femmes: The Rhétoriqueurs, Marguerite de Navarre, and the Chevalier de l’Escale


Portraits of the City: Rethinking Methodological Paradigms of Representations of the City


Perspectives on Nicholas of Cusa II


New Approaches to Milton’s Influences


The Economy of Renaissance Italy IV: Economic Thought


Language: Classical and Vernacular


Medici and Slavery in the Mediterranean Sea


The Politics and Culture of Violence IV


Ornament in Italy: Interiors and Exteriors


Costume


Early Modern Miscellanies


Modern Philology, Manuscript Transmission, and Poggio Bracciolini II


Households: Servants, Wives, Princesses

24 March 2012, 3:45–5:15 (Cont’d)

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Shadow Princes: Habsburg Favorites in Context III


Christianity and the New World


The Renaissance Underground


William Scott’s The Model of Poesy: Introducing a New Work of Elizabethan Literary Criticism


Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry III


The Psychic Life of Unfreedom in the English Renaissance


Discovering the New World in Early Modern Italy


The Virtues of Literature: Poetic Meditations on Desire


Spenser’s Afterlives


The Places and Spaces of Conversion

24 March 2012, 3:45–5:15 (Cont’d)

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10101Grand HyattIndependence Level, Independence B

LOCATING THE FOREIGN IN EARLY MODERN ITALY: INTEGRATED OR ALIENATED MINORITIES? I

Sponsor: Society of Fellows (SOF) of the American Academy in Rome (AAR)Organizers: Stephanie Nadalo, Northwestern University, American Academy in Rome;

Lisa Marie Lillie, Washington University in St. LouisChair: Stefano Villani, University of Maryland, College Park

Enrica Guerra, Università degli Studi di FerraraThe Hungarian Community in Ferrara at the Este Court (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries)

Despite the common fi fteenth-century belief that Hungarian people were violent and barbarous, the Renaissance court of the Este in the town of Ferrara welcomed huge numbers of Hungarian émigrés in the fi fteenth and sixteenth centuries, during the period of the Hussite Heresy and the migration of Jews from Eastern Europe. These Hungarians included literary men, students, and simple workers, who collectively formed an important cultural, economic, and religious community within Ferrara. This paper examines the conception of Hungarians within Italian Renaissance courts and considers how this imaginary infl uenced cultural, economic, and religious relations between Hungarians, Ferrara’s citizens, and the Este court. The paper then considers the role of the Hussite heresy in the creation, segregation, or integration of the Hungarian community.

Erin Downey, Temple UniversityThe Bentvueghels: Networking and Agency in the Seicento Roman Art Market

Early modern Rome seduced foreign artists with the promise of artistic enrichment and prestigious patronage. Despite the appeal of the vibrant cosmopolitan center, foreign artists faced considerable obstacles while working in Rome due to the fi ercely competitive, unfamiliar atmosphere. The Bentvueghels, Dutch for “birds of a feather,” was a unique organization formed by northern artists in Rome in response to these challenges. Although the group is renowned for its raucous initiation rituals and lowlife genre paintings, this paper examines the Bentvueghels as a conduit for artistic success that provided a professional, social, and economic nexus for its members in the expanding art market of Seicento Rome. Many Bentvueghels developed lucrative careers in Rome, suggesting that the organization assisted its members as a professional agent that imparted vital social and fi nancial support, encouraged collaborative training, and enabled members to embrace their foreignness in a major Italian art center.

Lisa Marie Lillie, Washington University in St. LouisNegotiating Community Ties and Cross-Cultural Relationships in the Old English Cemetery of Livorno, Italy

Seventeenth-century Livorno was a bustling polyglot entrepôt, its cosmopolitan character attributable in part to the limited religious toleration and free port status granted by the Medicis. Foreigners resident in Livorno had to maintain a delicate balance between the needs of their communities and the local laws governing their activities, from religious practices to commercial transactions. My paper will analyze the Anglophone community of Livorno ca. 1640–1750, and will focus on use of the Old English Cemetery by English residents to reinforce personal and professional relationships. I will also explore the way the establishment and maintenance of the cemetery became a diplomatic bargaining chip in negotiations between English emissaries, merchants, and Tuscan authorities. Finally, I will analyze the cemetery as a locus for cross-cultural sharing. English testators adopted local Sephardic monument styles, a borrowing illustrative of the complex processes by which the English created a culturally hybrid community in a foreign land.

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EMPIRES OF THE EAST: MODELS OF CONQUEST AND ALLIANCE

Organizer: Nedda Mehdizadeh, The George Washington UniversityChair: Julia Schleck, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Ishan Chakrabarti, University of ChicagoThe Uses of Mughal History: Dryden, Aurangzeb, and Kingship

After winding its way through the texts of Herodotus, Strabo, Marco Polo and John Mandeville, the genre of travelogue — starting in the late fi fteenth century — found a new focal-point in India, as European travelers became uniquely engrossed with the Mughal empire and its cultural, religious, social and political formations. Concomitantly, the travelers’ obsession fed a curiosity back home in Europe and led to the proliferation of public cultural practices (including theater) which showcased characters drawn from the Mughal world. The present paper attempts to organize all of these different threads into a coherent picture by focusing on moments of European-Mughal contact across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century travelogues; the paper then discusses plays (Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and Dryden’s Aureng-Zebe), setting them in relation to the travel literature that served as source material for their authors and asking what transductions and deformations were engendered in this shift from one genre to another.

Ambereen Dadabhoy, Harvey Mudd CollegeThe Sultan’s Desire: Ottoman Militarism and Eroticism in Kyd’s Soliman and Perseda

Thomas Kyd’s The Siege of Rhodes dramatizes Süleyman the Magnifi cent’s 1522 attack and capture of Rhodes. The military expedition’s success alerted European powers to the immediate danger posed the Ottomans, for while Süleyman’s father Selim had expended much of his military aggression on the east, Süleyman made a concerted effort to conquer territories in Europe that had resisted previous Ottoman attempts, such as Rhodes and Belgrade. This paper examines the ambivalent construction of Süleyman in Kyd’s Soliman and Perseda. While the play presents both complementary and confl icting sides of the sultan: as king and tyrant; lover and villain; and friend and enemy, there is a simultaneous dissolution of Süleyman’s militarism into eroticism. I argue that by reconstituting the spectacle of warfare into that of sexual desire Kyd undermines the sultan’s power at the same time that he recognizes the implicit relation between military and sexual conquest.

Nedda Mehdizadeh, The George Washington University“Wars as Christians use”: Robert Sherley’s Embattled Identity in The Travels of the Three English Brothers

John Day, William Rowley, and George Wilkins’s The Travels of the Three English Brothers (1607) stages the 1598 journey of the famous Sherleys into Safavid Persia. Having just arrived in Qazvin, the one time capital of Persia under early Safavid rule, the brothers are invited by the Sophy to watch a performance in the “manner of our Persian wars.” Following an elaborate production of Persian-style warfare, the Sherleys take the stage, performing “wars as Christians use.” This paper seeks to uncover the complexities of early modern Anglo-Persian relations by focusing on this peculiar moment of encounter. Set in the Persian court, this play-within-a-play converts Persia into a stage on which disparate military strategies unfold. Rather than a battle between East and West, this scene demonstrates the multivalent desires of each side and underscores their commonalities (such as mutual angst over Ottoman dominance in early modern trade) as much as their differences.

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THE CIRCULATION OF MANUSCRIPTSIN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

Sponsor: History of the Book, Paleography, and Manuscript Tradition, RSA Discipline Group

Organizer and Chair: Arthur F. Marotti, Wayne State University

Heather R. Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library“Item: for a paper book bought at London for the steward”: Paper Circulation in Early Modern England

The increasing availability of paper and blank paper books contributed signifi cantly to the rise in manuscript production and circulation in early modern England. Port books, stationers’ bills, letters, and royal and personal account books and inventories provide insight into the quantity, quality, and consumption of imported writing paper. This talk considers the paper-buying habits of various individuals and institutions, and attempts to categorize different kinds of writing paper and paper books and their relative costs.

Cedric Clive Brown, University of ReadingOne Scribe, Two Recusant Miscellanies, Two Provincial Locations: The Case of Hand B

The distribution of textual materials into provincial miscellanies needs investigation, with recusant texts as a special case. This paper looks again at the case of “Hand B” in Constance Aston-Fowler’s miscellany (HM 904), which is also the chief hand of Bodleian Eng.poet.b.5. The fi rst, from the 1630s, comes from Staffordshire; the second, from the 1650s, was used on yeoman farms in Wootten Wawen, Warwickshire. The fi rst is a personal collection in a landed family, collecting poetry contributed by family and friends; the second is of devotional material made for community use. The commonly held assumption that Hand B is the work of Gertrude Aston Thimelby can be shown to be wrong, with many other infl uential assumptions about hands in HM 904, and what emerges is a fascinating story of priestly infl uence and Jesuit sources across three decades in the middle of the seventeenth century.

Claire Bryony Williams, University of Sheffi eldNash’s Valentine in Cipher, Constable’s Sonnets, and Irreverence: Preoccupations in NAL MS Dyce 44

This paper examines preoccupations in National Art Library MS Dyce 44. It explores the main collector’s sense of humor, religious leanings, and political sympathies in this predominantly chronological collection. Primarily known as the best source of Henry Constable’s secular sonnets, this 1580s–1620s collection evidences a taste for the irreverent and the erotic with verse libels, religious satires, cynical precepts, bawdy epigrams, and Nash’s Choice of Valentines. I consider the unifying appeals of diverse copied texts, signifi cant omissions, and what these tell us about the collector. This leads to a consideration of collector self-styling. The scribe expects other people to read his manuscript, includes a unique poem addressed to readers of the anthology, and exerts control over readership by writing the Nash text in cipher.

10104Grand HyattIndependence Level, Independence E

RENAISSANCE STUDIES IN HONOR OF BILL KENT I

Sponsor: Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesOrganizers: Peter F. Howard, Monash University; Cecilia Hewlett, Monash University

Chair: Peter F. Howard, Monash University

Alison M. Brown, University of London, Royal Holloway“Between the Palace and the Piazza”: Where Did Power Lie in Renaissance Florence?

This contribution will take as a starting point Bill Kent’s introduction to the Monash publication Street Noises, Civic Spaces and Urban Identities in Italian Renaissance Cities (Monash University, 2000). Titled “The piazza’s many voices,”

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his short introduction is emblematic of his multivocal approach to Florentine history in contrasting the public palace, or “Panopticon,” designed to control its people, with the free voices of these people within the piazza itself. His writings consistently emphasized the importance of places and voices for neighborhoods, palaces, and their families and patrons, and the “unheard voices” that he excavated from the Medici archives. His contrast between the palace and the piazza derives from Guiccciardini’s well-known ricordo (C 141) about the thick fog that separates the government palace from the square outside, preventing people knowing more about “what the rulers do, or why, as they do about what goes on in India.”

Cecilia Hewlett, Monash UniversitySanta Maria delle Carceri: The Emergence of a Cult

In the weeks and months that followed the fi rst sighting of the miraculous transformations of the Madonna on the walls of a disused prison in Prato, the number of pilgrims traveling to pay homage to the image grew to the thousands. Many of the early pilgrimages were made, not by citizens of Florence or of any of the other nearby urban centers, but by contadi

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