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2025 Apr 10

Term Fellows' Presentations VIII

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Sandro Botticelli, The Agony in the Garden, c. 1500. Museo de la Capilla Real, Granada

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 VIII

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Announcing the Open-Access Release of the First Four Volumes of the I Tatti Research Series

February 24, 2025

I Tatti is delighted to announce the open-access release of the first four volumes of the I Tatti Research Series:... Read more about Announcing the Open-Access Release of the First Four Volumes of the I Tatti Research Series

2025 Mar 13

Thursday Seminar: Donatello's Sovereignty

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Donatello portrait

Speaker: Andreas Beyer (University of Basel)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Donatello's Sovereignty

2025 Mar 04

Term Fellows' Presentations VII

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Glass beads of different colors and shapes from Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Photo credit Foreman Bandama and Abidemi Babatunde Babalola.

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 VII

2025 Feb 27

Term Fellows' Presentations VI

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Portrait of Doctor Rodrigo de la Fuente (El Médico)

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 VI

2025 Mar 06

International Conference: "The Persistence of Petrarch: Translation and Reception in a Global Perspective."

(All day)

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

This conference will explore the reception of Petrarch’s Canzoniere as it has been translated and received both across the centuries, and across the globe.... Read more about International Conference: "The Persistence of Petrarch: Translation and Reception in a Global Perspective."

2025 Feb 18

Term Fellows' Presentations V

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Caption: Gabriele Caliari, Il doge Marino Grimani riceve i doni dagli ambasciatori persiani, XVI secolo. Palazzo Ducale

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 V

2025 Feb 13

Term Fellows' Presentations IV

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) - 'Plant' - Phaidon Press Ltd (2016)

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 IV

2025 Jan 30

Thursday Seminar. From the Field: Renaissance Landscape Painting and Landscape Histories

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

(L’Été ou Ruth et Booz), ca. 1660, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Speaker: Genevieve Warwick (I Tatti / University of Edinburgh)... Read more about Thursday Seminar. From the Field: Renaissance Landscape Painting and Landscape Histories

2025 Jan 23

Thursday Seminar. The Discreet Charm of the Old Indies

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

(The Two Bulls, from the series Small Indies), 1723-30, tapestry, Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Speaker: Cécile Fromont (I Tatti / Harvard University)... Read more about Thursday Seminar. The Discreet Charm of the Old Indies

2025 Feb 06

Thursday Seminar. European Factories of the Indian Ocean, c. 1500-1800: A Project

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti / Zoom

Anonymous, View of the port of Surat (Gujarat). ca. 1670, Rijksmuseum

Speaker: Giorgio Riello and CAPASIA Project Team (EUI)... Read more about Thursday Seminar. European Factories of the Indian Ocean, c. 1500-1800: A Project

2025 Jan 14

Seminar. Renaissance Men, Coats and Cultures of Recognition

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti

Parmigianino, Portrait of Pier Maria Rossi di San Secondo (detail), 1535.

Speaker: Ulinka Rublack (I Tatti / Cambridge University)... Read more about Seminar. Renaissance Men, Coats and Cultures of Recognition

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Launch of “The Letters of Belle da Costa Greene to Bernard Berenson” Website

October 25, 2024

This week a new digital resource launches from I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. “The Letters of Belle da Costa Greene to Bernard Berenson,” created in partnership with the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City,... Read more about Launch of “The Letters of Belle da Costa Greene to Bernard Berenson” Website

2024 Nov 07

Thursday Seminar. Description at the Limit: Early Modern Observers Track the Aurora Borealis

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti

Aurora borealis seen over the city of Augsburg in 1582.

Speaker: Lorraine Daston (I Tatti / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)... Read more about Thursday Seminar. Description at the Limit: Early Modern Observers Track the Aurora Borealis

2024 Nov 21

Thursday Seminar. The Adorned City : Considerations on Early Modern Painted Facades

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

I Tatti

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Speaker: Jérémie Koering (I Tatti / University of Fribourg)... Read more about Thursday Seminar. The Adorned City : Considerations on Early Modern Painted Facades

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