Current Appointees
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Each year Villa I Tatti supports research to advance our understanding of the Italian Renaissance, to encourage the fruitful interchange of ideas, and to create a relaxed atmosphere conducive to research and writing. We are pleased to announce the appointees for the 2012/2013 academic year.
I Tatti FellowsVisiting FellowsVisiting ProfessorsResearch Associates |
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Nadja AksamijaRobert Lehman Fellow Project Title: The Bolognese villa in the age of Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti |
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Andrew BernsMelville J. Kahn Fellow Project Title: Hebrew Letters as Witness to Rural Medicine in Renaissance Italy |
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Giancarlo CasaleLila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fellow Project Title: Ottoman Humanism and the Mediterranean Renaissance |
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Gabriele FattoriniHanna Kiel Fellow Project Title: Arte per le arti: le committenze delle corporazioni a Siena |
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Emanuela FerrettiHanna Kiel Fellow Project Title: Cosimo I e il primo acquedotto di Firenze rinascimentale |
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Philippa JacksonDeborah Loeb Brice Fellow Project Title: Girolamo Ghinucci (1480-1541): Sienese cleric, Roman judge, English diplomat |
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Eun-Sung Juliana KangRush H. Kress Fellow Project Title: Drawings by Raphael from ca. 1500-1512: Patterns and Intentions |
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Valentina LepriFrancesco De Dombrowski Fellow Project Title: Precepts for the political adviser: Machiavelli and Guicciardini as aphorists |
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Evan MacCarthyCommittee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) Fellow Project Title: Music and Learning in Early Modern Italy |
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Nicoletta MarcelliAndrew W. Mellon Fellow Project Title: Attività letteraria e impegno politico negli Orti Oricellari |
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Mauro MinardiAhmanson Fellow Project Title: La committenza degli ordini mendicanti nel Montefeltro nel Trecento |
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Renee RaphaelHanna Kiel Fellow Project Title: Reading Galileo: Philosophy and the New Science in Counter-Reformation Italy |
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Laura RefeLila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fellow Project Title: Poliziano e allievi: una scuola d'eccezione nell'Europa umanistica |
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Jessica N. RichardsonAhmanson Fellow Project Title: Painting in Late-Medieval Bologna and Francesco Cavazzoni’s Miraculous Madonnas |
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Marco SgarbiJean-François Malle Fellow Project Title: History of Italian Renaissance Logic in the Vernacular (1547-1576) |
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Julian BrooksCraig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow (April-June) Project Title: Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action |
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Christopher BrownGraduate Visiting Fellow (Jan-June) Project Title: To read widely in Renaissance sources and secondary literature |
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Evelien ChayesMellon Visiting Fellow (Jan-March) Project Title: The Incogniti, their Discorsi and their Jewish Connections |
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Eric GordonCraig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow (Sept.-Dec.) Project Title: Technical Investigation into the Walters’ View of An Ideal City |
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Ana Carolina HosneMellon Visiting Fellow (Sept.-Dec.) Project Title: The circulation of the art of memory throughout the Jesuit missions in the late sixteenth century |
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Adam JasienskiGraduate Visiting Fellow (Sept.-Jan.) Project Title: To read widely in Renaissance sources and secondary literature |
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Chen LiuMellon Visiting Fellow (Sept.-March) Project Title: The Revival of Renaissance Studies in Contemporary China |
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Sanam Nader-EsfahaniGraduate Visiting Fellow (Sept.-Jan.) Project Title: To read widely in Renaissance sources and secondary literature |
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Monica Preti-HamardFlorence Gould Visiting Fellow (April-June) Project Title: I voli dell’Ariosto: una mostra per il Cinquecentenario dell’Orlando Furioso |
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Alexandre RagazziMellon Visiting Fellow (Jan-March) Project Title: Matteo da Leccia and the use of auxiliary plastic models |
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Min-Ling TsaiMellon Visiting Fellow (April-June) Project Title: Maniera tedesca nelle opere di Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo |
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Daniel ZolliGraduate Visiting Fellow (Jan-May) Project Title: To read widely in Renaissance sources and secondary literature |
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Victoria KirkhamLila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor (Sept-Dec) Project Title: Christian Courtiers: The Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati |
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Stephen MilnerRobert Lehman Visiting Professor (Aug-Dec) Project Title: Palla Strozzi as civic orator |
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Alina PayneRobert Lehman Visiting Professor (Jan-June) First project: "The Architecture of the Mediterranean, 1350-1600" Second project: "Traversing Media: Renaissance Architecture and Its Material Forms" |
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Nicholas TerpstraLila Wallace-Reader's Digest Visiting Professor (Jan-June) Book project: "Exiles, Expulsion, and Religious Refugees in Early Modern Europe" Archive project: "Sex and the Sacred: Negotiating Boundaries in Renaissance Florence" |
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Eve BorsookProject Title: History of Glass with Respect to Mosaic Making
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Allen James GriecoProject Title: Renaissance Doctors and the Classification of Wines
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Margaret HainesProject Title: Creativity and Administration in Monumental Building Projects: A Comparison of the Planning and Realization Processes of the Domes of Santa Maria del Fiore and St. Peter's |
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Michael J. RockeProject Title: Male friendship and same-sex eros in early modern Italy |
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Ingrid BaumgärtnerProject Title: Text, Image and Space in Medieval and Renaissance Cartography (13th to 16th Century)
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Jun Li(April-June) Project Title: Diagrams with Tree Patterns in 15th Century Italy and China |
