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Date: Thursday, January 29, 2015, 2:30pm to 6:00pmLocation: Villa I Tatti The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Via di Vincigliata 26, Gould Hall, 50135 Florence, Italy• Lia Markey, Stradano’s Nova Reperta and the Renaissance Representation of Invention and Globalization• Sean Roberts, Sabotage! Rivalry, Technology, and the Making of Renaissance Prints• Gregorio Saldarriaga Escobar, A Botany of Discovery: American Fruit and European Knowledge in the West Indies, 16th-17th centuries Each year, the I Tatti (one year) Fellows present their work-in-progress, in the following format. We meet at the Gould Hall of the Loggiato at 2:30, hear the first (half hour) presentation, have a (half hour) discussion, then hear and discuss the second presentation. After a tea break, we hear and discuss the third presentation. All members of the public are welcome, but RSVP by sending an email to jnelson(@)itatti.harvard.edu; visitors, please indicate your full name, institutional affiliation (if you have one), and status (graduate student, professor, independent, etc.)Forthcoming Seminars: 5 February• Lucio Biasiori, "A letter by the Master of the Hospitallers": Prophecy and Politics from the 14th to the 18th century• Dávid Falvay, The Meditationes Vitae Christi and its Influence on Fourteenth-century Italian Culture• Cyril Gerbron, The Mineral Metamorphoses of Christ in Quattrocento Italian Painting Past Seminars: 20 November• Francesco Borghesi, "Concordia" in the Renaissance• Alessandro Polcri, Il cittadino ideale: in difesa della magnificenza di Cosimo de’ Medici• Dario Brancato, Benedetto Varchi’s Storia fiorentina and its Ideological Appropriations11 December: Trouble in Paradise: Donne, corte e teatro nel dibattito letterario italiano nel tardo Rinascimento• Francesco Lucioli, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso in Early Modern Italian Texts for and about Women• Sarah Gwyneth Ross, L'umanesimo rappresentato nell'Italia della Controriforma. Letteratura, teatro e la famiglia Andreini.• Paola Ugolini, The Court and Its Critics. Anti-Courtly Sentiment in Early Modern Italy22 January Jessica Goethals, Setting the Siege of Florence in the Literary Imagination• Joost Keizer, Leonardo da Vinci and the Work of Interpretation• Laura Moretti, Nella stanza de suoni. Naming spaces in the houses of collectors and patrons of the arts in Cinquecento Italy