Columbia University

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies

ITALY AT COLUMBIA

A SERIES OF FREE PUBLIC LECTURES

BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

MONDAY, MARCH 28 AT 1:10 PM

MICHAEL COLE

Art in Italy, 1560-1570: Decorum, Order, and Reform

MONDAY, APRIL 18 AT 2:40 PM

CARMELA VIRCILLO FRANKLIN

History and Politics in the Liber pontificalis

(Book of the Popes)

TUESDAY, APRIL 26 AT 2:10 PM

ELIZABETH LEAKE

Screening the anti-Fascist Resistance

New York, NY— February 2, 2011 — Each semester the Italian Academy invites prominent Columbia University professors to open one of their regularly scheduled classes to the public, bringing students and the community together in the Academy building. This spring the Academy welcomes professors from the departments of Art History, Classics, and Italian who will lecture on topics related to Italian history. Admission is free. Please rsvp at www.italianacademy.columbia.edu. The lectures begin promptly at the noted time.

For further information, please contact Allison Jeffrey (aj211@columbia.edu).

Michael Cole writes and teaches on European art of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries, with a specialization in early modern Italy. His recent books and articles have focused on sculpture and urbanism in Rome and Florence, on Renaissance magic and demonology, and on experimental printmaking. He came to Columbia after teaching for seven years at the University of Pennsylvania; in 2009-2010, he was Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor at Williams College. His books include Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence (2011), The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions, and the Early Modern World (with Rebecca Zorach, co-editor, 2009) , The Early Modern Painter-Etcher (editor, 2006), Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism, (with Mary Pardo, co-editor, 2004) , and Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture (2002) . His essays have also appeared in The Art Bulletin, Art History, The Burlington Magazine, and The Oxford Art Journal, among other places. He earned his PhD in Art History from Princeton University in 1999.

Carmela Vircillo Franklin received her B.A. and Ph.D. in Classics (Medieval Latin) from Harvard University. She joined the Columbia faculty in 1993. From July 1, 2005 until September 2010, she served as the 20th Director of the American Academy in Rome. She has now returned to Columbia for the academic year 2010-2011. Her research focuses on Medieval Latin texts and their manuscripts, and much of it is conducted in Europe’s great manuscript repositories, especially the Vatican Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Among her recent publications are The Latin Dossier of Anastasius the Persian: Hagiographic Translations and Transformations (2004), which follows an interdisciplinary approach to early medieval culture, transcending traditional linguistic and geographical boundaries; and Material Restoration: An 11th Century Fragment from Echternach in a 19th Century Parisian Codex (2009), a study in “material philology.” She is now engaged in a book project provisionally entitled The Liber pontificalis of Pandulphus Romanus: From Schismatic Document to Renaissance Exemplar, centered on the redaction of the papal chronicle created during the schism of 1130. Her other books include The Ecclesiae Atinatis Historia of Marcantonio Palombo (1996) and Early Monastic Rules: The Rules of the Fathers and the Regula Orientalis (1982).

Elizabeth Leake is a visiting professor to the Italian Department at Columbia and an Associate Professor of Italian at Rutgers University. Her research interests include Twentieth Century narrative and theatre, psychoanalytic and ideological studies in Italian literature, fascist Italy, Italian cinema, and early Danish cinema. She is a recipient of the Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies for her book The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone (2003) and The National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars 2001. Her latest book, After Words: Suicide and Authorship in Twentieth Century Italy, was published in February of this year, and she is co-authoring another entitled Representing Confino. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998.