Sheila Barker, “Poisons and the Prince: Toxicology and Statecraft at the Medici Grand Ducal Court,” in Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Philip Wexler (London, Elsevier, 2017), pp. 71-81)
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Sheila Barker, “Poisons and the Prince: Toxicology and Statecraft at the Medici Grand Ducal Court,” in Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Philip Wexler (London, Elsevier, 2017), pp. 71-81)
The aim of the Ghetto Mapping Project is to reconstruct the architectural and demographic-economic features of the ghetto of Florence, one of the oldest ghettos of Europe. The ghetto had been established in 1570 by Cosimo I and was demolished in 1888 after the political unification of the Italian peninsula, as a part of majorRead more
La costituzione del ghetto di Firenze a cavallo tra 1570 e 1571 rappresenta uno dei capitoli più importanti nella storia dell’ebraismo fiorentino e toscano. Istituito per volere di Cosimo I in un momento cruciale per la formazione e lo sviluppo del giovane stato granducale, il ghetto divenne da subito punto di gravità della vita ebraica,Read more
The workshop was held on January 20 in the Medici Archive Project’s headquarter of Palazzo Alberti. Scholars from Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Russia have presented papers on the history of the German Guard, addressing its architectural, material, artistic and cultural legacy. The workshop was made possible by a donation of Prof. Sheila ffolliot.Read more
The purpose and the main aim of this conference was to analyse the role of music in the emancipation process that followed the abolition of the Italian ghettos. Changing or in some cases replacing completely the old music repertoire, especially in synagogue contexts, with new compositions often commissioned to non-Jewish composers, and introducing into theRead more
The past three decades have seen a sharp turn in historical scholarship on the institution of the ghetto. The thrust of the newest scholarship on the ghetto has been to portray the ghetto as a more ambivalent and paradoxical space—a space of legally imposed separation and concentration, to be sure, yet also of comings andRead more
On March 29, 1516, the Venetian Republic ordered that the Jews of Venice be restricted to a small island in the northern side of the city known as jeto novo, the island of the old foundry. A few decades later other Italian states (the State of the Church in 1555, the Medici’s Grand Duchy inRead more
Call for Papers: “Translation Theory and Practice during the Renaissance: A Medium, a Genre, a Risk” Sessions sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in Chicago, 30 March-1 April 2017 keywords: translation theory; translation practice; Humanism; Classics; Bible; vernaculars In past and recent years, manyRead more
Abstract: Benedetto Varchi’s monumental “Storia Fiorentina” was left unfinished at the author’s death (1565), only to be printed in 1721. Given its alleged Republican contents and its circulation only in manuscript form, the work soon became the object of ideological appropriations. The present contribution highlights the historical and textual problems of Varchi’s “Storia,” andRead more
Dr. Sheila Barker, Director of MAP’s Jane Fortune Program on Women Artists, published “Early American Artists in Florence’s Galleria degli Uffizi (1763-1860).” The essay appears in the volume Percorsi di arte e letteratura tra la Toscana e le Americhe (Raleigh, NC: Aonia Edizioni, 2016) edited by Nicoletta Lepri. AbstractDuring the first century that it was openRead more
