The current issue includes Stefano Carrai's " State of the Field" of Italian Literature, and articles by R. Nicosia, J. Haraguchi, M.S. Hansen, A.R. Jones, O.J. Margolis, C. Vecce, and G. Zak. Read Jane Tylus' Editor's Note.... Read more about ITS 17/2 now available on JSTOR

Villa I Tatti welcomes applications from junior scholars and doctoral students and for a Summer Seminar in Florence on “Understanding Space in Renaissance Italy.”... Read more about Call for Applications: Summer Seminar 2015

I Tatti organized a conference in China. “Space in Renaissance Italy,”  held on October 16-17, first at the Harvard Center Shanghai, and then at Fudan University, was also the first I Tatti event to take place at a Chinese university.... Read more about Report from China: Shanghai Conference and Lectures

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)