Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, Volumes 1 and 2

Volume I: Art History
- Introduction [Machtelt Israëls and Louis A. Waldman]
- Joseph Connors Bibliography
- Tabula Gratulatoria
- Art History
  - Octahedron Tattianum [Louis A. Waldman]
    - I. A Rediscovered Medal of Crescentius Nomentanus by Filarete
    - II. Lucantonio degli Uberti, “Albertus pictor florentinus”, and the Master of the Esztergom Virtues
    - III. From Gozzoli to Bartolomeo di Giovanni: A Demi-fake
    - IV. Larciani and Granacci Side by Side
    - V. An Unknown Copyist of Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari: Francesco Morandini, Called il Poppi
    - VI. Mariotto Albertinelli, pictor et hospes
    - VII. Pontormo, Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, and the Capponi Chapel Annunciation
    - VIII. The Contractors for Jacopo Sansovino’s Façade of San Francesco della Vigna in Venice, 1543
  - A Skull for Lunch [Henk van Os]
  - L’insondable puits du passé ou les métamorphoses du labyrinthe [Hervé Brunon]
  - From translatio to canonizatio in Late Medieval Italian Iconography [Roberto Cobianchi]
  - Constantine, St. Peter, Pope Gregory IX, and St. Francis: The Franciscan Transept in Question [Julian Gardner]
  - The Struggle for Power and its Architectural Representation in Communal Orvieto [Barbara Deimling]
  - Two Enigmatic Portraits of the ‘Blessed’ Giovanna Felici, Sister-in-Law of St. Francesca Romana: Family Promotion and Sanctity through Images in Fifteenth-Century Rome [Claudia Bolgia]
  - St. Elizabeth’s Roses in Italy: Texts and Images [Dávid Falvay]
  - “The Child is Father of the Man”: Some Renaissance Versions of the traditio clavium [Christa Gardner von Teuffel]
  - Ghiberti and Painting [Keith Christiansen]
  - Ghiberti’s Dogs [Amy R. Bloch]
  - Una Madonna col Bambino di Nanni di Bartolo [Mattia Vinco]
  - Masolino in Hungary [Zsombor Jékely]
  - “Per memoria della fede e virtù sua” [Eve Borsook]
  - On the Problem of Visions in Florentine Art [Anne Dunlop]
  - Una pala d’altare di Apollonio di Giovanni [Andrea Staderini]
  - Blood on the Doors (and on the Walls and on the Floors): The Sanguinary Medici Palace [John T. Paoletti]
  - The Sitter as “Guest”: Reception of the Portrait in the Renaissance [Joanna Woods-Marsden]
  - “You Are There”: Passages in Time and Space in Cosimo Rosselli’s Procession of the Miraculous Blood in Sant’Ambrogio, Florence [Brian A. Curran]
  - Artist and Cosmographer: Francesco Rosselli and is Fiorenza [Zsolt Győző Török]
  - (Re)Drawing in Metalpoint [Thea Burns]
  - Footnotes for Sassetta [Donal Cooper]
  - Un nuovo documento seicentesco sulla dispersione del polittico agostiniano di Piero della Francesca [Giovanni Pagliarulo]
  - Le iscrizioni nel dittico di Urbino di Piero della Francesca. Il ritratto di Battista e la tradizione metrica [Lina Bolzoni]
  - Narrative of Another Kind: tavolette votive in Context [Fredrika Jacobs]
  - A Short Note for Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Madonna of the Earthquakes (1467) [Fabrizio Nevola]
  - The Devotional Context of a Miraculous Image: Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino’s Madonna at Orebić [Samo Štefanac]
  - Alberti’s Pathos Formula in the Chapel of the Blessed Giovanni Orsini of Trogir [Joško Belamarić]
  - Fiori di blasoneria. Gli stemmi di Sisto IV e Antonio Basso della Rovere d’Aragona nel sovraporta di Villa La Pietra a Firenze [Mauro Mussolin]
  - Modelli antichi e alcuni disegni per i monasteri della congregazione benedettina di Santa Giustina, poi Cassinese, nel Quattrocento [Guido Beltramini]
  - The Genealogy of Leonardo’s Shadows in a Drapery Drawing [Francesca Fiorani]
  - Taking Flight: Leonardo’s Childhood Memories [Frank Fehrenbach]
  - “Figura d’elementi”. Leonardo e i solidi platonici nel foglio 27r–v dell Manoscritto F [Romano Nanni]
  - Un (auto)ritratto cristo-bacchico di Boltraffio [Philippe Morel]
  - When Marcantonio Met Raphael [Bette Talvacchia]
  - Precision and Pragmatism: Baldassare Peruzzi’s Perspectival Studies and the Sala delle Prospettive [Martin Kemp]
  - Michelangelo’s Mask of the Head of a Faun: Myth and the Mythic in the Sculpture Garden of Lorenzo il Magnifico [Janet Cox-Rearick]
  - A Neglected Work by Michelangelo: The Fragment of a Mural Drawing at the Villa Michelangiolo in Settignano [Carmen C. Bambach]
  - The umbilico of the World: The Roman Capitol and its Pavement [Angela Dressen]
  - Centralized Churches and the Concept of figura composta: Ideal and Practice from Brunelleschi to Borromini [Bram Kempers]
  - Architecture and Invention in Venice and the Veneto in the Later Sixteenth Century [Deborah Howard]
  - The Sound of Venice [Laura Moretti]
  - Alessandro Vittoria between Ornament and Art [Michael Cole]
  - Tre bacini domaschini con stemmi veneziani [Marco Spallanzani]
  - Una preziosa albumina di un dipinto di Giovanni Bellini nella Fototeca Berenson [Anchise Tempestini]
  - A Superannuated Analemma in Veronese’s Portrait of Daniele Barbaro [Duncan Bull]
  - Tintoretto e il ritratto di Luigi Groto, detto il Cieco d’Adria [Diane H. Bodart]
  - Henry James, Tintoretto’s San Cassiano Crucifixion, and a Note on The American Scene [Robert Kiely]
  - Fantastie ariostesche sulla rocca dei d’Avalos a Ischia [Ippolita di Majo]
  - Antiquities as gelatine: The Palace of Diomede Carafa in the Eyes of Costanza d’Avalos [Bianca de Divitiis]
  - Del restauro di scultura antica nel corso del sedicesimo secolo. La trasformazione di una Venus Genetrix in una Giuditta e Oloferne [Valeria Cafà]
  - “Con certo ordine disordinato”: Images of Giovanni Gaddi’s Grotto and Other Renaissance Fountains [Caroline Elam]
  - For Pleasure and for Entertainment: A Rustic Fountain in Sixteenth-Century Rome and a Project by Giovanni Mangone [Guido Rebecchini]
  - Julius III’s Tower of the Winds: A Forgotten Aspect of Villa Giulia [Denis Ribouillault]
  - Vituperation and Revenge: Giorgio Vasari and the Reputation of Pirro Ligorio [Robert W. Gaston]
  - Three Brothers and One Altarpiece: A Connoisseur’s Proposal for Bachiacca in Borgo San Lorenzo [Robert G. La France]
  - Giovanni Bologna’s Mercury, and Pellegrino Tibaldi’s [Morten Steen Hansen]
  - Music and the Performance of Painting: Titian and Barocci, the Brush and the Bow [Stuart Lingo]
  - Flamboyant e première Renaissance. Due modernità a confronto [Flaminia Bardati]
  - Charity’s Nudity and the Veil of Allegory [Jutta Sperling]
  - Mapping Siena [Jane Tylus]
  - “in brachiis suis illum suscepit…cum delectatione immensa”: Francesco Vanni’s St. Catherine of Siena Holding the Infant Christ, Engraved by Philippe Thomassin [Suzanne Boorsch]
  - Teofilo Gallaccini, Reader of John Dee [Alina Payne]
  - A Promise Long Kept: Rutilio Manetti for Lucrezia Ballati, 1538–1621 [Machtelt Israëls]
  - Rubens, Peiresc, and the Birth of Maria de’ Medici [Kristen Lippincott]
  - Giovanni Pieroni’s Reports about Fortresses on the Borders of Innerösterreich [Helena Seražin]
  - Elisabetta Sirani and the Marchese Ferdinando Cospi: Humanism, Natural History, and Art Collecting in Early Modern Bologna [Babette Bohn]
  - Mirabilie viventi [Guido Guerzoni]
  - Mummies, Scimitars, and a Lost Crucifixion by Domenichino: The Collections of Pietro and Nicolò Francesco della Valle in Seventeenth-Century Rome [Kathleen Wren Christian]
  - Looking Back: Mochi and Borromini at San Giovanni dei Fiorentini [Estelle Lingo]
  - Born(e) by God’s Breath: Bernini’s Angels for the Ponte Sant’Angelo [Stefanie Walker]
  - The Barberini Chapel at Sant’Isidoro and the Submemoration of the Architect Domenico Castelli [James G. Harper]
  - “Stuccasti sì, ma troppo al fin stuccasti”. Un ‘concetto’ di Pietro da Cortona per Santa Maria del Fiore [Massimiliano Rossi]
  - Discutendo di architettura nella Roma del 1763 [Maurizio Campanelli]
  - Giving Away One’s Children: Baldassare Longhena and a Drawing for Francesco Borromini [Andrew Hopkins]
  - “Due incomparabili donzelle”: Catarina and Anna Castelli, Sister Bell-Makers in Eighteenth-Century Venice [Victoria Avery]
  - The Eye of the Needle: Jacques-Louis David’s Bélisaire, reconnu par un soldat qui avait servi sous lui, au moment qu’une femme lui fait l’aumône [Charles Dempsey]
- Bernard Berenson and His Legacy
  - Antiche armonie. Un’aggiunta per Burne-Jones a Firenze [Ilaria Della Monica]
  - “The Most Unspoiled of the Mediterranean Lands”: Bernard Berenson and Cyprus [Lorenzo Calvelli]
  - A Painting Becomes Canonical: Bernard Berenson, Royall Tyler, and the Mellon Madonna [Robert S. Nelson]
  - Berenson, Sassetta…et la France [Dominique Thiébaut]
  - Bode’s Signorelli for Johnson [Carl Brandon Strehlke]
  - Mr. Berenson and the Pleasures of Art [Paul Barolsky]
  - “To the Dearest and the Youngest of My Friends”: Margherita Sarfatti to Bernard Berenson, 1936–57 [Claudia Chierichini]
  - The Role of Ethel “Kitten/Bunny” Le Vane and Bernard Berenson in the Creation of J. Paul Getty’s Art Collection [Sanne Wellen]
  - The Fascination of an Art Historian at I Tatti: Bernard Berenson and Jacqueline Kennedy [Jaynie Anderson]
  - Finding Resonance: Integration, Interdisciplinarity, and the Role of the Humanities Research Center [Marica S. Tacconi]
  - Two Cities, Two Directors, and One Collection [Ildikó Fehér]
- Illustrations
- Illustration credits
- Index
Volume II: History, Literature, and Music
- History
  - Spatial Power in Siena and Its State: The Magnates in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries [Edward D. English]
  - Bencio Carucci of Florence in the Papal Mint for Gold Coinage at Pont-de-Sorgues, Avignon, 1322–30 [William R. Day Jr.]
  - Joanna II of Anjou-Durazzo, the Glorious Queen [Serena Ferente]
  - The Neapolitan Giovanni Villani: Florence, Naples, and Medieval Historiographical Categorization [Samantha Kelly]
  - Villani’s Medieval Chronicle in Later Renaissance Florence [Ann E. Moyer]
  - Il tiranno in mostra. Stefano Ussi, Niccolò Tommaseo e il duca d’Atene [Amedeo De Vincentiis]
  - Alberi guelfi e alberi ghibellini [Marco Gentile]
  - Who Wrote the First Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici? [Alison K. Frazier]
  - Machiavelli’s Florentine Tribunes [John M. Najemy]
  - Una nuova fonte per il Ciompo. Niccolò Machiavelli e il De Nobilitate di Antonio de’ Ferrariis [Gabriele Pedullà]
  - Un lapsus machiavélien: Tenuto / temuto dans le chapitre XVI du Prince [Jérémie Barthas]
  - “Bizzarrissime fantasie”: Piero di Cosirno’s Pageant Wagon of the Dead and Girolamo Savonarola [Luigi Lazzerini]
  - Displaying Govermnent Treasures in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence [Kate Lowe]
  - Civil History in the Kingdom of Naples: Some Considerations [Elena Valeri]
  - The Other Congress of Bologna [Christine Shaw]
  - Rights of Passage: Spatial Politics in the Sixteenth-Century Sabaudian Lands [Matthew Vester]
  - A Starry Gift: A New Horoscope for Cosimo I de’ Medici [Monica Azzolini]
  - Astrological Timing and Architectural Sites: The Deborah Loeb Brice Loggiato in One of Its Historical Contexts [H. Darrel Rutkin]
  - Murder and Mystery: The Missing Medici Crown [Christina Strunck]
  - The Stripping of the Tables: Sociability in Florentine Confraternities [Nicholas Terpstra]
  - What’s in a Detail: More Chickens in Renaissance Birth Scenes [Allen Grieco]
  - Iron Stomach: The Heroisrn of Eating Rancid Food — a locus classicus? [Anthony F. D’Elia]
  - Renaissance Toothpaste and Wine Therapy: Medical Curiosities from the Correspondence of a Hungarian Nobleman [Dóra Bobory]
  - “A Continual Tavern in My House”: Food and Diplomacy in Early Modern Constantinople [Eric R. Dursteler]
  - Hounds for a Cardinal [Andrea Gáldy]
  - The Pigment Trade in Venice and the Mediterranean in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century [Andrea Mozzato]
  - A Measure of Madness in Renaissance Florence [Dale Kent]
  - A Family Matter Turned Ugly: The Murder of Leone Marescotti, 1522 [Monica Calabritto]
  - Neighborhood, Rumors, and fama: A Piece of Judiciary History from Thirteenth-Century Prato [Roberta Mucciarelli]
  - A Tale of Two Families: The Abramo and Gradenigo between Venice and Crete [Monique O’Connell]
  - Law and the Fabric of Everyday Life in Tuscany [Giovanna Benadusi]
  - The Remembered Past as Present Exemplar in Florentine Renaissance Preaching [Peter Howard]
  - Education and the Senses: Fragments for Future Thinking [Silvia Evangelisti]
  - Luxury in the Renaissance: A Contribution to the Etymology of a Concept [Catherine Kovesi]
  - In the Footsteps of the Missionaries: Czech and Polish Exiles in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany [Jan Stejskal]
  - Les pierres ont-elles une vie? Mémoire et expérience chez les pèlerins de Terre Sainte [Christiane Klapisch-Zuber]
  - Fifteenth-Century Istria and Dalmatia in Four Memoirs of Western Pilgrims [Ivayla Popova]
  - Frammenti di storia vera dipinti nelle vere storie dei santi [Laura Corti]
  - Fraternal Concord and the ‘Lutheran’ Underground: Ludovico Castelvetro’s Pictorial invenzione for the House of Giovanni Grillenzoni [Anthony Colantuono]
  - Kulvietis, Ochino, and the First Evangelical Confession of Faith in Lithuania [Dainora Pociūté]
  - Eresia e Inquisizione a Siena nel secondo Cinquecento. Un nuovo documento su Marcantonio Cinuzzi [Stefano Dall’Aglio]
  - L’eretico e il suo maestro. Umanesimo, neoplatonismo ed eterodossia nella Firenze del Cinquecento [Giorgio Caravale]
  - The Editor as Inquisitor: Francisco Peña and the Question of Witchcraft in the Late Sixteenth Century [Matteo Duni]
  - Vocation to the East: Italian Candidates for the Jesuit China Mission at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century [Camilla Russell]
  - Agiografia e censura libraria nel Seicento. La santità impossibile dell’orefice Girolamo Pisa da Capri [Miguel Gotor]
  - Student Conflict in the Brevis Relatio of the Hungarian-Illyrian College of Bologna, 1675 [Christopher Carlsmith and Gábor Buzási]
  - Gaspare Berti: Notes and Materials for a Biography [Federica Favino]
  - “People Who Believe in Nothing”: Intolerable Thoughts in Late Renaissance Italy [Edward Muir]
  - James Dennistoun, Rawdon Brown, and the Dukes of Urbino [John E. Law]
  - Rabelais’s Laughter behind a Portrait by Holbein: Play and Culture in the Work of Johan Huizinga [Lodi Nauta]
- Literature
  - Albertano da Brescia, Model of Thirteenth-Century Lay Culture [Ronald Witt]
  - The Nature of Petrarch’s Martiri [Max Freeman]
  - The Humanist Dog [Gábor Almási]
  - “E lavorando semini ciascuno”: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Decameron, III.4 [Roberta Morosini]
  - When a Dead Tongue Speaks Again: The Revival of Greek Studies in the Renaissance [Federica Ciccolella]
  - Poesia e cultura antiquaria nell’Umanesimo. Scritti di Ciriaco d’Ancona nel codice Colombino 7.1.13 [Silvia Fiaschi]
  - Friendship and Exile: On Francesco Filelfo’s Ode IV.6 [Marc Laureys]
  - Marsilio Ficino as a Critic of Averroes [Jozef Matula]
  - Marsilio Ficino and the Irrational [Maude Vanhaelen]
  - Gli umanisti e il rinoceronte. Passando per Dürer [Maria Agata Pincelli]
  - Launching the ars historica: Paolo Cortesi’s Dialogue with Cicero on Historiography [Patrick Baker]
  - Some Notes on the Print History of Illustrated Italian Editions of Apuleius’ Golden Ass [Marc Schachter]
  - Due personaggi del Cortegiano tra Urbino e Roma. Ottaviano e Federico Fregoso [Carlo Taviani]
  - The Polish Castiglione: Łukasz Górnicki, Padua, and the Education of the “Domestic Pole” [Michael T. Tworek]
  - Anatomizing Love, Vivisecting Cupid [Una Roman D’Elia]
  - Benedetto Varchi’s Lezioni on Poetry [Annalisa Andreoni]
  - Composition a due: Lyric Poets and Scribal Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italy [Abigail Brundin]
  - Scattered Fire: Art and Nature in a Poem by Michelangelo [Karel Thein]
  - Bronzino’s Erotic Imagination: The Lesson of “Del pennello” [Deborah Parker]
  - Giovio’s Puns and Vasari’s Curly Tuft [Maddalena Spagnolo]
  - Another Look at Ariosto’s Adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Orlando furioso [Daniel Javitch]
  - II cronotopo-amazzone nell’epica italiana. Alcune osservazioni [Eleonora Stoppino]
  - Chastening Pictures: Donne and Aretino [Yulia Ryzhik]
  - Eleven Good Reasons for Learning Arabic in Late Renaissance Italy: A Memorandum by Giovan Battista Raimondi [Mario Casari]
  - La cultura barberiniana e Marino. Sulla paternità della Difesa di Girolamo Aleandro [Clizia Carminati]
  - The Lies of Poets: Literature as Fiction in the Italian Renaissance [Stefano Jossa]
  - Research without Borders: The Text Encoding Initiative and International Cooperation in Digital Humanities [Elena Pierazzo]
  - Editorial Criteria for ‘Provisional Editions’ of Renaissance Latin Texts: Some Comments [James Hankins]
- Music
  - Changing Musical Time at the Beginning of the Renaissance (and Today) [Michael Scott Cuthbert]
  - The Use of Architectural Proportions in Musical Compositions of the Fourteenth Century [Anna Maria Busse Berger]
  - “Janua sum”. Note su un nuovo frammento musicale trecentesco alla Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona [Pedro Memelsdorff]
  - Guillaume de Machaut Heads South: The Reception of French Songs in Italy, ca. 1400 [Yolanda Plumley]
  - Giacomo Paladini: Professional Singer and Bishop in Fifteenth-Century Italy [Evan A. MacCarthy]
  - Musical Quotation or Compositional Habit? The Case of Guillaume Du Fay’s En triumphant de Cruel Dueil [Sean Gallagher]
  - Liturgical and Musical Space in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy [Klaus Pietschmann]
  - Bronzino’s Lute Player: Music and Youth Culture in Renaissance Florence [Victor Coelho]
  - Salamone Rossi’s Songs by Solomon as a Song of Songs and Song of Ascents [Don Harrán]
  - “Le donne theatrali son Amazoni infernali”: Anti-Theatricalism and Bargaining Strategies at the Medici Court during the Early Seventeenth Century [Janie Cole]
  - A Past that Lasts: Reworking Music and Creating History at the Dawn of Modernity [Vincenzo Borghetti]
- Illustrations
- Illustration credits
- Index

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