LATE-MEDIEVAL & EARLY-MODERN ITALY Thursdays, 5 p.m. Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London 3rd-floor Seminar Room Convenors: Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe 9 October Gabriele Neher The ‘renovatio urbis’: Venice on the Terraferma 16 October Beverley Brown The bride’s jewellery: Lorenzo Lotto’s wedding portrait of Marsilio and Faustina Cassotti 30 October Peter Dent Giovanni Pisano and the spur of competition: Sant'Andrea, Pistoia, c. 1300 13 November Serena Ferente Naturales dominae: Women and lordship in late medieval Italy 27 November Miles Pattenden The Carafa trial and the politics of nepotism in sixteenth-century Rome All welcome ------------------------------------------------- Visit Pipex Business: The homepage for UK Small Businesses Go to http://www.pipex.co.uk/business-services