The 1997-97 fellows at Villa I Tatti, the UniversityÕs Italy-based center for Renaissance studies, are as follows:

Rolf Bagemihl (University of Wisconsin), Art History, ÒPatronage and Place in Quattrocento TuscanyÓ; Andrea Barlucchi (Università di Firenze), History, ÒAspetti e problematiche della formazione dello stato territoriale Senese in et– tardo-medievaleÓ;

Victor Coelho (University of Calgary), Music, ÒThe Musical Canon of Raffaello Cavalcanti: Personal Repertories and Public Taste in Late- Renaissance FlorenceÓ; Nadia Cannata (University of Reading), Literature, ÒThe Giuntina edition of Rime Antiche (Florence, 1527): A Study in Textual BibliographyÓ; Dario Del Puppo (Trinity College, Connecticut), Literature, ÒPoets, Scribes, and Enterprising Readers in Quattrocento Florence.Ó

Lorenzo Fabbri (Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore), History, ÒL'Opera di S. Maria del Fiore e il patriziato fiorentinoÓ; Maia Gahtan (Yale University), Art History, ÒTempus loquendi, tempus tacendi: Representing Time in the Italian Renaissance.Ó

Luca Gatti (College de France), History, ÒPiero Corsini: A Controversial Figure in Late 14th Century FlorenceÓ; Meredith Gill (University of Maryland), Art History, ÒRule and Order Ñ Augustine and the ArtsÓ; Kenneth Gouwens (University of South Carolina), History, ÒRefashioning a Renaissance Pope: Images of Clement VII, 1527-1534Ó; Mikael H¼rnqvist (Uppsala University), History, ÒThe Machiavellian RepublicÓ; Thomas Martin (University of Tulsa), Art History, ÒThe Florentine Sixteenth-Century Portrait Bust: Meanings and Contexts.Ó

Patricia Osmond (Pennsylvania State University), History, ÒThe Reception of Sallust in the Late Middle Ages and RenaissanceÓ; Marco Pellegrini (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), History, ÒEdition of Volumes XII-XIII of the Correspondence of Lorenzo de'MediciÓ; Blake Wilson (Dickinson College), Music, ÒMusic in the Society of Renaissance Florence, ca. 1300-1492.Ó

Mellon Research Fellows

Susan Urbach (Budapest Museum of Fine Arts), Art History, ÒGiovanni Santi's Man of Sorrows with Two Angels in BudapestÓ; Marian Wesoly (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), Literature, ÒThe Contributions of Byzantine Scholars to the Italian Renaissance.Ó

Visiting Professors

Alison Brown, (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London), History, ÒNew Men and New Ideas: the Intimate Circle of Lorenzo il MagnificoÓ; Andrew Ladis (University of Georgia), Art History, ÒGiotto's Scrovegni ChapelÓ; Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University), Literature, ÒDangerous Words of Ageing Women: Attitudes toward the Verbal Activities of Old Women" and "Fairy Tales from before Fairy Tales."

Research Associates

Fabio Bisogni (Universit– di Siena), Art History, ÒStudi di iconografiaÓ; Lina Bolzoni (Universit– di Pisa), Literature, "Ut pictura poesis nella letteratura italiana fra Cinque e SettecentoÓ; Eve Borsook (Villa I Tatti), Art History, "The Cappella Palatina in Palermo and the History of Mosaic Making"; Riccardo Bruscagli (Universit– di Firenze), Literature, "Lirica dellÕultimo '500 dalla battaglia di Lepanto in poi"; Salvatore I. Camporeale (The Johns Hopkins University), History, "La cancelleria di Carlo Marsuppini (1444-1453)"; Gino Corti (Emeritus) (Villa I Tatti), Paleography & History, "Lorenzo deÕ Medici, collezionista di antichit–Ó; Laura Corti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Art History, "Illustrated Thesaurus of Architectonic Terms found in Architectural Treatises.Ó

Allen Grieco (Villa I Tatti), History, "Food for Thought and Food for the Table: A Social and Cultural History of Alimentary Habits and their Significance in Renaissance Italy (1350-1550)"; Margaret Haines (Rivista d'Arte), Art History, "Edition and Database of the Documentation of the Florentine Opera del Duomo during the Cupola PeriodÓ; Julian Kliemann (Bibliotheca Hertziana), Art History, "Antique Descriptions of Paintings and their Influence on 16th and 17th-century Art and Art Theory.Ó

Arnaldo Morelli (Conservatorio Statle di Musica ÒOttorino Respighi,Ó Latina, Universit– della Calabria, Arcavacata, Cozenza), Musicology, ÒL'organo in Italia nel Rinascimento: costruzione, funzione, prassi, repertorioÓ; Silvana Seidel-Menchi (Universit– di Trento), History, 1) "Bibliotheca Erasmiana Italica: Sixteenth-Century Italian Editions of Erasmus' Work," 2) "Erasmus, Iulius exclusus e coelis: Critical Text, Translation and Annotation"; Marco Spallanzani (Universit– di Firenze), History, "Relations between Florence and Islam during the 14th-16th Centuries: Decorative Arts."