EARLY MODERN ROME 4
1341-1667
Thursday, November 11
9:30-10:45 am
Sala Dalla Vedova, Società Geografica Italiana
Session Title: The Barberini
Chair: Cecily Boles, Colleferro
“Magnificenza, nobilitazione e propaganda politica: il mecenatismo urbano e architettonico dei Barberini tra
Roma e Palestrina (1630-1750)”
Nicoletta Marconi, Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata
“Ancora sulla ‘strada non prevista’ della poetica di Francesco Bracciolini: l’inedito discorso di Giuseppe Cini
sull’Elettione di Urbano VIII”
Mauro Sarnelli, Roma
Thursday, November 11
9:30-10:45 am
Meeting Room, Hotel Lancelot
Session Title: Art and Religion
Chair: Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame
“Recognizing God in the City of God: Theosis in the Art of Michelangelo and Raphael”
Simon Abrahams, Balzan, Malta
“Between Nazareth and Loreto: The Fusion of Time and Space in Caravaggio’s Madonna di Loreto in Rome”
Daniel M. Unger, University of Ben-Gurion Negev
10:45-11:30 am Coffee Break at Hotel Lancelot or at the Società Geografica Italiana
Thursday, November 11
11:30 am-1 pm
Walsh Room A, Notre Dame
Session Title: Il Gesù
Chair: Sheila ffolliott, George Mason University
“Roman Patriciate Families versus the Jesuits: Land Acquisition for the Construction
of the Gesù, 1551-1568”
Pamela O. Long, Washington, DC
“Building Il Gesù: Networks, Exchange and Urban Developments”
Ann C. Huppert, University of Washington
“Franciscans and Jesuits: Images of St. Francis of Assisi in the Church of Il Gesù”
Alison C. Fleming, Winston-Salem State University
Thursday, November 11
11:30 am-1 pm
Sala Dalla Vedova, Società Geografica Italiana
Session Title: Books and Printing
Chair: Pascale Rihouet, Rhode Island School of Design
“A Network of Knowledge: Authors, Printers, and Publishers”
Raphaële Mouren, The Warburg Institute
“Lattanzio Tolomei (1487-1543): Sienese Diplomat and Book Collector”
Philippa Jackson, London
“Ora siano dati alla Vaticana i doppi della Sapienza…. A Proposito di una Lettera di Leone Allacci al Cardinale
Flavio Chigi”
Rosa Parlavecchia, Università di Napoli Federico II
Thursday, November 11
11:30 am-1 pm
Sala Antinori, Società Geografica Italiana
Session Title: Men at Work
Chair: John M. Hunt, Utah Valley University
“Una patente per un maestro di scuola della fine del Cinquecento”
Iefke van Kampen, Archivio Storico di Formello/Museo dell’Agro Veitano – Palazzo Chigi, Formello
“Leopoldo de’ Medici and his Man in Rome”
Stefano Dall’Aglio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
“Servant or Courtier? Service and Status in the All-Male Household”
Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University
Thursday, November 11
11:30 am-1 pm
Meeting Room, Hotel Lancelot
Session Title: Antiquity
Chair: Carla Keyvanian, Auburn University
“An Ancient Technique for a Modern Language? Stucco, Architecture, and Decoration in Sixteenth-Century
Rome”
Serena Quagliaroli, Università della Svizzera italiana
“Summoning the City: Ancient Egypt in Pirro Ligorio’s Simulations of Rome”
Catharine Wallace, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
“Gli Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis. Le fonti e il loro contesto documentario”
Angela Quattrocchi, Università degli Studi Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria
1-3 pm Lunch Break
Thursday, November 11
3-4:30 pm
Walsh Room A, Notre Dame
Session Title: Engendering Sculpture
Chair: Cristiana Filippini, Trinity College, Rome Campus
“Mothers and Monuments (1400-1600)”
Jan L. De Jong, University of Groningen
“Maid or Matron: Mixed Typologies in the Portrait of Virginia Primi Bonanni (d. 1649) in S. Caterina in
Magnanapoli, Rome”
Cecily Boles, Colleferro
Thursday, November 11
3-4:30 pm
Walsh Room B, Notre Dame
Session Title: Jesuits
Chair: Elia Borza, Université Catholique de Louvain
“Teaching Rhetoric and Poetics in Early 17th-Century Jesuit Rome: Famiano Strada on Metaphor”
Javier Patiño Loira, University of California, Los Angeles
“Rome and Florence in Dialogue: Rereading the Comet Controversy between Galileo and the Jesuits”
Edward M. Chappell, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, November 11
3-4:30 pm
Sala Dalla Vedova, Società Geografica Italiana
Session Title: Making Identity through Clothes
Chair: Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University (Toronto)
“A Paradise for Imposters? Clothes as Social Markers in Early Baroque Rome”
Camilla Annerfeldt, European University Institute
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“The Fortunes of the Romany: Dress, Identity, and Exclusion in Early Modern Rome”
Elizabeth Currie, Central Saint Martins
Thursday, November 11
3-4:30 pm
Sala Antinori, Società Geografica Italiana
Session Title: Spain
Chair: Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame
“Iberian Theater Of Conquest: Performing Islam in Early Modern Rome (1457-1520)”
Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
“‘In the Spanish Fashion’”: Roman Material Culture and Spanish Devotional Practice after Trent”
Piers Baker-Bates, The Open University
Thursday, November 11
3-4:30 pm
Meeting Room, Hotel Lancelot
Session Title: Gian Vittorio Rossi, aka Ianus Nicius Erythraeus
Chair: Mauro Sarnelli, Roma
“The Cardinal and the Curmudgeon: Fabio Chigi’s Role in the Publishing Success of Gian Vittorio Rossi”
Jennifer K. Nelson, University of California, Berkley
“Medici e scienziati nella Pinacotheca di Ianus Nicius Erythraeus”
Luisella Giachino, Università di Torino
Thursday, November 11
4:45-6 pm
Walsh Room A, Notre Dame
Session Title: Money
Chair: Sheila ffolliott, George Mason University
“The Role of Art for the Economy of Early Modern Rome”
Dorothea K. Herreiner, Loyola Marymount University
“Agostino Chigi and Jakob Fugger”
Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame, Rome
Thursday, November 11
4:45-6 pm
Meeting Room, Hotel Lancelot
Session Title: Oratorians
Chair: Alison C. Fleming, Winston-Salem State University
“Miraculous Palpitations. The Heart of Saint Philip Neri between Iconography and Liturgy”
Guendalina Serafinelli, Catholic University of America, Rome
“The Apostolic Community. Cesare Baronio’s Commentaria in Acta Apostolorum between Index and Curial
Ceremony”
Filip Malesevic, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
6:30-8 pm Opening Reception at the Buvette Vanni in the Galleria Alberto Sordi (via del Corso/piazza Colonna)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday, November 12
9-10:45 am
Walsh Room A, Notre Dame
Session Title: Rome Represented
Chair: Maria Sole Costanzo, University of Notre Dame
“The Many Romes of Pope Pius II”
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Barry Torch, York University, Toronto
“Roma e i romani nelle opere Giovanni Pontano”
Florence Bistagne, Université de Avignone
“Quae aut fuere aut futurae sunt: Rome and the Mirabilia Tradition in Poggio Bracciolini’s De Varietate
Fortunae”
Tyler Patterson, University of Southern California
“Percorsi rinascimentali: temi e autori della Philosophia romana”
Valentina Zaffino, Pontifical Lateran University
Friday, November 12
9-10:45 am
Walsh Room B, Notre Dame
Session Title: Sixteenth-Century Texts
Chair: Marcello Simonetta, Medici Archive Project
“Giuliano Dati e la scrittura per immagini nella Roma del Rinascimento”
Carlotta Mazzoncini, Università Roma Tre
“Toward a New Edition of Giovio’s Lives of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael”
Kenneth Gouwens, University of Connecticut
“Roma antica e moderna nella poesia di Francesco Berni”
Chiara Cassiani, Università della Calabria
“Lorenzo Gambara, Caprarola”
Paul Gwynne, American University of Rome
Friday, November 12
9-10:45 am
Sala Dalla Vedova, Società Geografica Italiana
Session Title: Leo X
Chair: Elia Borza, Université Catholique de Louvain
“La corte di Giuliano de’ Medici a Roma (1513-1516): nuove evidenze documentarie e riletture”
Marina Porri, Università di Pisa
“Leonardo´s Political Allegories: The Imperial Pope in Rome, the Medici´s Loss of Power in Florence to the
French, and the Madonna with the Cross-Stab”
Stefaan Missinne, Royal Geographical Society
“The Res Publica Christiana and the End of Christendom”
Elizabeth M. McCahill, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Friday, November 12
9-10:45 am
Sala Antinori, Società Geografica Italiana
Session Title: Female Saints
Chair: Rose Marie San Juan, University College London
“Helena Augusta: The Creation of an Extravagant Saint in Early Modern Rome”
Marianne Ritsema van Eck, Leiden University
“Diana Cristiana: A Christian Idol in Early Modern Rome”
Mario Erasmo, University of Georgia
“In viaggio per Roma: Santa Brigida e la regina Cristina”
Maria Teresa Guerra Medici, Rome
“Practices of Recognition: Visits between Christina of Sweden and Chiara Maria della Passione"”
Camilla Kandare, Christina Akademien
Friday, November 12
9-10:45 am
Meeting Room, Hotel Lancelot
Session Title: The Artistic Patronage of Cardinals
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Chair: Sheila ffolliott, George Mason University
“A Tale of Two Palaces: The Pucci Cardinals in Early Modern Rome”
Carla A. D’Arista, Washington, DC
“From Trent to Rome: The Artistic Patronage of the Madruzzo Cardinals and the Politics of Reform”
Dorigen Caldwell, Birkbeck, University of London
“Il Cardinale Ludovico Ludovisi nel teatro politico romano della prima metà del Seicento”
Luigi Alonzi, Università di Palermo
“A New Apollo Needs his Marsyas: Turkish Skins in Cardinal Flavio Chigi’s Museum”
Karen J. Lloyd, Stony Brook University
10:45-11:30 Coffee Break at Hotel Lancelot or at the Società Geografica Italiana
Friday, November 12
11:30 am-1 pm
Walsh Room A, Notre Dame
Session Title: Papal Authority
Chair: Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame
“Shaming, Making Community, and Purification: Legal Punishments of Destruction of Private Property in Early
Modern Rome”
Nele De Raedt, Université Catholique de Louvain
“‘His face turned to ash’: Cleaning up Clerical Concubinage in the Counter Reformation”
Jane K. Wickersham, University of Oklahoma
Friday, November 12
11:30 am-1 pm
Walsh Room B, Notre Dame
Session Title: Roman Humanism
Chair: Maria Sole Costanzo, University of Notre Dame
“Arte e letteratura intorno all’Accademia di Pomponio Leto”
Alessia Dessì, Sapienza Università di Roma
“Paganesimo e uso dell’antico alla corte di papa Paolo II (1464-1471)”
Anna Modigliani, Università della Tuscia
“New Findings about the Accademia de lo Studio de l’Architettura (Rome, C. 1535–1555), Its Work and Legacy”
Bernd Kulawik, Bern
Friday, November 12
11:30 am-1 pm
Sala Dalla Vedova, Società Geografica Italiana
Session Title: Medicine
Chair: Rose Marie San Juan, University College London
“La villanella della gravidanza: Singing Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Rome”
Tessa Storey, Cambridge, UK
“Una città, tre epidemie. La risposta delle istituzioni romane ai rischi epidemici tra XVI e XVII secolo”
Renato Sansa, Università della Calabria
“Intellectual Polyphony in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Music, Medicine, and Religion at the Ospedale di Santo
Spirito in Sassia”
Naomi J. Barker, The Open University
Friday, November 12
11:30 am-1 pm
Sala Antinori, Società Geografica Italiana
Session Title: Protestants
Chair: Thomas V. Cohen, York University (Toronto)
“Martin Luther’s Rome”
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Carl P. E. Springer, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
“Protestants and the Messiah in Rome: The Idea of Rome at the Crossroads of Christian-Jewish and
Protestant-Catholic Polemics”
Daniel Lehmann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Walking a Thin Line: Protestants on Foot in Rome”
Emily Michelson, University of St. Andrews
Friday, November 12
11:30 am-1 pm
Meeting Room, Hotel Lancelot
Session title: Repurposing
Chair: Nicoletta Marconi, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
“Surveying Excavations and Discovered Antiquities in Quattrocento and Early Cinquecento Rome: A
Documentary Approach”
Hilary Barker, University of Chicago
“Setting the Price of Antiquity: Evaluating Spolia in Fourteenth-Century Communal Rome”
Francesca Lembo Fazio, Sapienza Università di Roma
“Tevolozza in Francesco Borromini's Inventions”
Jonathan Foote, Aarhus School of Architecture
1-3 pm Lunch Break
Friday, November 12
3-4:30 pm
Walsh Room A, Notre Dame
Session Title: Session title: Music, Art, Dance
Chair: Eric Nicholson, New York University, Florence
“Effects and Paradoxes of Censorship: The Sensuality of the Sculpted Body in Seicento Roman Sculpture,
Suggested Rather than Exhibited”
Mathilda Blanquet, Université Toulouse - Jean-Jaurés
“Leggiadri Spiriti Con Fest’è Giubilo Danzate. Drammaturgia dei balletti alla ‘Magnifica Corte’ di Lorenzo
Onofrio Colonna (1659-1689) nella Roma di metà Seicento”
Valentina Panzanaro, Roma
“Patrono Meo Colendissimo: Dedicatory Epistles in Mid-17th-Century Roman Musical Publications”
Adrian Horsewood, Cambridge, UK
Friday, November 12
3-4:30 pm
Walsh Room B, Notre Dame
Session Title: Female Saints
Chair: Chiara Sbordoni, University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway
“Political Itineraries of a Visionary Woman: Francesca Romana’s Journey from Pia Domina to Advocata Urbis”
Francesca Canepuccia, University of Oslo
“Legislating Secular Religious Women in Fifteenth-Century Rome”
Mary Harvey Doyno, California State University, Sacramento
Friday, November 12
3-4:30 pm
Meeting Room, Hotel Lancelot
Session Title: Non-extant Monuments
Chair: Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
“La villa romana nell’immaginario letterario del Cinquecento: ekphrasis, invenzione, progetto”
Francesca Mattei, Università Roma Tre
“Andrea Mantegna’s Decorations for the Chapel of Innocent VIII in the Villa Belvedere”
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Molly Bourne, Syracuse University in Florence
“Dragon’s Breath: S. Maria Liberatrice and the Insalubrious Forum”
Jasmine R. Cloud, University of Central Missouri
4:30-5 pm Coffee Break on your own
Friday, November 12
5-6:30 pm
Walsh Room A, Notre Dame
Session Title: Microhistories of Masculinity
Chair: Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University
“The Noble, His Servant, the Merchant, a Death-Blow at the Altar: Enmity, Alliance, Ploys, and Damage”
Thomas V. Cohen, York University (Toronto)
“Much Ado About Dusting: Lower-Class Dueling in Sixteenth-Century Lazio”
Aaron Miedema, York University (Toronto)
“The Spy and the Bargello: The Public Underworld of Gambling in Baroque Rome”
John M. Hunt, Utah Valley University
Friday, November 12
5-6:30 pm
Walsh Room B, Notre Dame
Session Title: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo
Session Chair: Mathilda Blanquet, Université Toulouse - Jean-Jaurés
“The Courtly Economies of Cultural Brokerage between Rome and Iberia”
Elena M. Calvillo, University of Richmond
“‘Regali’ a Vittoria Colonna: Michelangelo e il Crocifisso vivo”
Andrea Alessi, Museo della Città Civico e Diocesano di Acquapendente
“Michelangelo’s Risen Christ and Early Reformist Ideas in Rome, 1512-1520”
Gabriel Shelton, University of Birmingham, UK
Friday, November 12
5-6:30 pm
Meeting Room, Hotel Lancelot
Session title: Raphael
Chair: Piers Baker-Bates, The Open University
“Revisiting Rome After Raphael: Mapping the Remnants of a Roman Workshop”
Alexis R. Culotta, Tulane University
“Raphael 2020 Postmortem: Artistic Veneration and Sainthood”
Tamara Smithers, Austin Peay State University
“The First Artists’ Tombs in the Pantheon (1520-1609)”
Lotte van ter Toolen, University of Groningen
------------------------------------------------------------------------Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
10:30 am
Sala dei Cesari
Introduction & Welcome
Maria Pace Odescalchi
Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
11 am-1 pm
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Sala Medici-Orsini
Session Title: The Orsini
Chair: Paolo Alei, Castello Odescalchi
“Camillo Pardo, l’ultimo degli Orsini di Manoppello”
Elisabetta Mori, Roma
“Giordano Orsini di Monterotondo e la sua eredità nella seconda metà del XVI secolo”
Riccardo Di Giovannandrea, Universidad de Salamanca/Sapienza Università di Roma
“Le relazioni diplomatiche del ducato di Bracciano tra Firenze, Mantova e Guastalla a inizio del Seicento”
Elisabetta Stumpo, Archivio per la memoria e la scrittura delle donne “Alessandra Contini Bonacossi”
“Proteggere il Portogallo nella Roma del Seicento”
Irene Fosi, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio, Chieti – Pescara
Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
11 am-1 pm
Sala delle Donne
Session Title: Papal Power Represented and Recounted
Chair: Elizabeth M. McCahill, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“The Idea of Crusade in the Era of the Italian Wars”
Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame
“La Storia generale di Giovan Girolamo de’ Rossi: una nuova storia del papato nel Rinascimento”
Marcello Simonetta, Medici Archive Project
“The Image of Papacy in Possesso Prints (1589-1846)”
Pascale Rihouet, Rhode Island School of Design
“Feast and Soft power in Early Modern Rome: The Colonna Palace as a Diplomatic Stage”
Cristina Agüero Carnerero, Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma—CSIC
Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
11 am-1 pm
Sala della Vittoria
Session Title: Literature Under Pope Leo X
Chair: Paul Gwynne, American University of Rome
“Per l’incoronazione di papa Leone X: uno sconosciuto capitolo in terza rima”
Giuseppe Crimi, Università RomaTre
“Il lato oscuro dell’età dell’oro all’epoca di Leone X”
Martina Atzori, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
“Tragedie greche a Roma nel primo Cinquecento”
Elia Borza, Université Catholique de Louvain
“La Roma medicea e la rinascita della tragedia greca in Europa: un affare di famiglia”
Tristan Alonge, Maison Française d'Oxford/Université de la Réunion
1-3 pm Lunch Break on your own
Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
3-4:30 pm
Sala Orsini-Medici
Session Title: The Castle of Bracciano
Chair: Paolo Alei, Castello Odescalchi
“Alla corte di Paolo Giordano Orsini: progetti per il castello di Bracciano”
Cecilia Sodano, Museo Civico di Bracciano/Sapienza Università di Roma
“Decorazioni rinascimentali al secondo piano nobile del Castello di Bracciano”
Anna Cavallaro, Sapienza Università di Roma
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“Una camera da bagno al Castello Orsini-Odescalchi a Bracciano—una proposta”
Cornelia Bäurle, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
3-4:30 pm
Sala delle Donne
Session Title: Female Agency, Working Women
Chair: Julia L. Hairston, Rome
“Battles on the Homefront ca. 1600: The Agency of Women and Girls”
Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University (Toronto)
“Martha Marchina: A Working-Class Latin Poet in Early Modern Rome”
Skye Shirley, University College, London
Noël Grisanti, The Ethel Walker School
“Female Theatrical Artistry Outwits Male Grand Tourism in Seicento Rome: The Feign’d Curtizans by Aphra
Behn”
Eric Nicholson, New York University, Florence
Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
3-4:30 pm
Sala della Vittoria
Session Title: Foreign Nations
Chair: Rose Marie San Juan, University College London
“The Romanization of Gabriel da Fonseca (1611-1668)”
James W. Nelson Novoa, University of Ottawa
“‘An Unwieldy and Incapable People’: The Corsican Nation in Early Modern Rome”
Richard Calis, Trinity College, Cambridge University
“Genoese Rome (1625-1667)”
Alessia Cecarelli, Sapienza Università di Roma
4:30-5 pm Coffee Break
Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
5-6:30 pm
Sala Medici-Orsini
Session Title: Renaissance Architecture
Chair: Sheila ffolliott, George Mason University
“Paduan Humanism in Sistine Rome: The Hospital of S. Spirito in Sassia”
Carla Keyvanian, Auburn University
“Renovating a Tradition. The Project for Sant’Adriano in the Roman Forum by Baldassarre Peruzzi”
Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (with Andrea Bonavita)
“Giacomo Della Porta, Architect of the Sapienza Palace (1577–1602): His Exedra Invented and Constructed”
Julia Smyth-Pinney, University of Kentucky
Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
5-6:30 pm
Sala delle Donne
Session Title: Female Agency, Nobility
Chair: Julia L. Hairston, Rome
“Tra i gigli e le rose: Clarice Orsini, moglie di Lorenzo il Magnifico”
Claudia Bischetti, Sapienza Università di Roma
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“Bartolomea Orsini d’Alviano, una gentildonna ‘di ventura’ del Rinascimento italiano”
Anna Esposito, Sapienza Università di Roma
“Maddalena Strozzi dell’Anguillara e le sue figlie”
Maria Temide Bergamaschi, Roma
Castello di Bracciano
Saturday, November 13
5-6:30 pm
Sala della Vittoria
Session Title: Rhetoric and Representation
Chair: Rose Marie San Juan, University College London
“Giulio Romano, tra eros e burla”
Barbara Furlotti, Courtauld Intitute of Art
“”’Pinge e punge’: The Emergence of St. Irene in the Early Modern Galleria”
Alice Marinelli, University College, London
“Magic on Display in Early Modern Rome: Salvator Rosa’s Witches at their Incantations (ca. 1646)”
Hannah Segrave, University of Delaware
6:45-9 pm Aperitivo and closing dinner at the Castello di Bracciano
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