The following sessions/papers may be of interest. Given the size of the RSA
conference programme, I may have missed others - if so, do, please, post
the details to the list.
Renaissance Society of America annual conference, University of Cambridge,
Thursday 7 - Saturday 9 April
http://www.rsa.org
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Thursday 7 April
9:00-10:30
Making and Marketing Medicine in Early Modern Italy (Evelyn Welch & David
C. Gentilcore)
- Evelyn Welch - Grinding, Distilling, and Packaging: The Manufacture of
Early Modern Medicines
- Joseph Wheeler - Selling Medical Secrets in Early Modern Bologna and Venice
- David C. Gentilcore - Charlatans, Print and Medical Regulation in Early
Modern Italy
- John S. Henderson - Recipes and the Treatment of Disease in renaissance
Florence
11:00-12:30
Katherine A. McIver - Nuns' Habits: Negotiating Power behind Convent Walls
The Erotic Cultures of Italy I: Visual Testimony and Verbal Games (Sara F.
Matthews Grieco)
- Guido Guerzoni - 'The Erotic Fantasies of a Model Clerk': The Erotic
Imagery of an Accountant at the Beginning of the Cinquecento
- Allen J. Grieco - From Roosters to Cocks: Renaissance Birds and Sexuality
- Marta Ajmar - 'The Spirit is Ready, but the Flesh is Tired': Sexually
Explicit Objects and Practices in Early Modern Italy
1:30-3:00
The Erotic Cultures of Italy II: Rites of Sociability, Rituals of Seduction
(Sara F. Matthews Grieco)
- Cecilia Cristellon - Il rituale nuziale pretridentino tra sociabilita' e
seduzione (Venezia 1420-1545)
- Flora Dennis - Music and Eros in Everyday Life
- Tessa Storey - Sociability around Courtesans in Early Modern Rome
3:30-5:00
Mary Rogers - Industria feminile or ingegno donnesco? Gender and Textile
Arts in Sixteenth-Century Italian Culture
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Friday 8 April
9:00-10:30
James Bolton - Splendid Isolation? The Staff of the Borromei Banks and
their Contacts with Londoners (1420s-1450s)
Cultures of Cleanliness in 16th- and 17th-Century Italy (Sandra Cavallo and
Allen J. Grieco)
- Stephanie Hanke - Private Bathrooms in Genoese Palaces and Villas in the
16th Century
- Sandra Cavallo - Surgeons, Barbers and Beauty Care in 17th-Century Turin
- Angelica Pediconi - Designing Spaces for Sweating, Barbering, and Bodily
Hygiene in 16th-Century Rome
- Paula Hohti - Barbers, Status and Property in 16th-Century Siena
11:00-12:30
Brandi K. Adams - 'My books little case': Entering into the Renaissance
Academic's Study
Aislinn Loconte - Wisdom has Built Herself a House: Female Religious
Patronage at S Maria della Sapinenza in Naples
1:30-3:00
3:30-5:00
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Saturday 9 April
09:00-10:30
11:00-12:30
Donna Bilak Gillespie - Emblematic Jewelry in Bronzino's Portraiture
14:00-15:30
The Spectacle of Power VII: Conspicuous Consumption (Konrad Eisenbichler)
- Giuseppina Palma - Banquets and Power
- Nadine D. Pederson - Precedent, Power, and Parure: Sumptuary Laws and
Processions in 16th-Century Paris
- Andrea M. Gáldy - Spectacular Antiquities: Power and Display of
Anticaglie at the Court of Cosimo I de' Medici
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