The American Historical Association awarded its Marraro Prize, for the best book in English on Italian history in any epoch, to Nicholas Terpstra's Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy.... Read more about Nicholas Terpstra's "Cultures of Charity" wins Marraro Prize

The library's current display features evocative vintage photographs of monuments in south Asia from Berenson's photo collection, marking their purchase a century ago. See the accompanying entry in the "Highlights from the Collections" column.  

This conference aims to unravel the complex interaction of the competing paradigms of luxury and greed, which lie at the origins of modern consumption practices. In the western world, the phenomenon of luxury and the ethical dilemmas it raised appeared, for the first time since antiquity, in Renaissance Italy.... Read more about Conference: Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in the Early Modern World (25-26 Sept.)

Three lectures on the History of Science in October, November, and December

... Read more about Berenson Lectures: Paolo Galluzzi, "Machinae pictae”. Idea e immagini delle macchine nel Rinascimento

The Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato and the Harvard University Center at Fifty

... Read more about I Tatti at Fifty

Villa I Tatti, in collaboration with the Harvard Center Shanghai, is pleased to announce a call for papers... Read more about Call for Papers from Asian Scholars: "Space in Renaissance Italy" (Shanghai 2014)

... Read more about Summer Seminar 2014 - Space in Renaissance Italy

Muslims and Islam in the early modern Italian and Mediterranean Worlds

... Read more about I Tatti Studies Call for Papers