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I Tatti Receives a Major Gift to Endow an African Studies Fellowship

April 5, 2022

We are delighted to announce that I Tatti has received a significant donation from Avv. Paolo Fresco to endow a Fellowship in African Studies.... Read more about I Tatti Receives a Major Gift to Endow an African Studies Fellowship

2022 Feb 24

Thursday Seminar: John Selden’s Library of the World, 1618-1654

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

John Selden by Unknown artist © National Portrait Gallery, London

Speaker: Timothy Brook (I Tatti / University of British Columbia)
Details to follow... Read more about Thursday Seminar: John Selden’s Library of the World, 1618-1654

2021 Dec 14

Term Fellows' Presentations III: Tuesday, December 14, 2021

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

St Peter; WL standing slightly to l, holding a key and a book Pen and brown ink, Parri Spinelli © The Trustees of the British Museum

Join us as our Term Fellows give informal presentations of their research projects and discuss their work in progress.... Read more about Term Fellows' Presentations III: Tuesday, December 14, 2021

2022 Jan 27

Thursday Seminar: Structures of Ornament in Renaissance Art and the Example of Alonso Cano (1601-1607)

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Alonso Cano, Project for a Retable, also known Architectural Study, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, 1630-1635

Speaker: Livia Stoenescu (I Tatti / Texas A&M University)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Structures of Ornament in Renaissance Art and the Example of Alonso Cano (1601-1607)

Huegues de Comminelles, Venetia from Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia, Florence, 1470 (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. Latino 4802, fol. 132)

Project "Venice's Nissology: Reframing the Lagoon City as an Archipelago (VeNiss)" awarded European Research Council Starting Grant

January 10, 2022

We are delighted to announce that the project Venice's Nissology: Reframing the Lagoon City as an Archipelago (VeNiss), led by I Tatti research associate Ludovica Galeazzo, has been awarded a ...

2022 Jan 25

I Tatti Masterclasses 2: Berenson, Dante, and Botticelli

6:30pm

Location:

Online Event via Zoom

Speaker: Deborah Parker (University of Virginia)... Read more about I Tatti Masterclasses 2: Berenson, Dante, and Botticelli

2022 Mar 17

Thursday Seminar: "An Enormous Crowd of Everybody": Cold War Sociability and Modern Music at the American Academy in Rome

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Laurance and Isabel sitting on the terrace of the AAR's Villa Aurelia

Speaker: Martin Brody (I Tatti / Wellesley College)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: "An Enormous Crowd of Everybody": Cold War Sociability and Modern Music at the American Academy in Rome

2022 Jan 20

Thursday Seminar: M stands for "Mort": The Last Hours of Anton Wiertz

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Antoine Wiertz, "The Premature Burial" 1854,

Speaker: Marc Gotlieb (Williams College / Clark Art Institute)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: M stands for "Mort": The Last Hours of Anton Wiertz

Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, displays the incipit Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita in a detail of Domenico di Michelino's painting, Florence, 1465

I Tatti's 2021 Fall Lecture Now Online

November 29, 2021

I Tatti's 2021 Fall Lecture Ulysses and the Limits of Dante’s Humanism by Lino Pertile is now available to view online.... Read more about I Tatti's 2021 Fall Lecture Now Online

2022 Feb 10

Seminar: Thursday, February 10, 2022

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Raphael's Bridgewater Madonna and its copies

Join us as our Term Fellows give informal presentations of their research projects and discuss their work in progress.... Read more about Seminar: Thursday, February 10, 2022

2021 Dec 02

The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700

(All day)

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom (Dec 2 & 3)

Anonymous, Map of the World, 1457. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale

The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 brings together scholars focusing on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system... Read more about The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700