Dear Colleagues, please consider sending an abstract for the panel:”What’s a Dilettante? Non-Professional Artists and Literati in Early Modernity (1500-1650)”.

Contributions to this panel will explore the phenomenon of dilettantismo between the 1500s and 1650s and consider some of the following key questions:

Who was the dilettante? How d…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues, please consider sending an abstract for the panel:”What’s a Dilettante? Non-Professional Artists and Literati in Early Modernity (1500-1650)”.

Contributions to this panel will explore the phenomenon of dilettantismo between the 1500s and 1650s and consider some of the following key questions:

Who was the dilettante? How did t…[Read more]

Renaissance Bergamo: At the Edge of the Venetian Terraferma
Present day Bergamo is bifurcated into an  upper and lower portion of the city by the Venetian walls, built in 1561-1623 to discourage Milanese northward expansion, as well as to limit contraband trade. Bergamo was one of the most important of the strong points fortified by the Venetian…[Read more]