Independent Research
2005 Grant Recipients

Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture

2006-2007 United States Program

Renzo Baldasso
Columbia University

A Century of Venetian Diagrams: From Erhard Ratdolt (1482) to Guidobaldo del Monte (1581)
Douglas Biow
University of Texas, Austin

Research on Anton Francesco Doni's Manuscript and Books Located in Venice
Christopher Carlsmith
University of Massachusetts, Lowell

To Live and to Study: Student Colleges in Early Modern Padua
Jana Elizabeth Condie-Pugh
Northwestern Univesity

Taming Pazzia: Madness in Early Modern Italy
Dora Dumont
SUNY, Oneonta

National Unification and the Popolani in Venice
Wendy Heller
Princeton University

Pan's Pipes and the Triumph of Bacchus: Baroque Dramatic Music and the Uses of Antiquity
Robert C. Ketterer
University of Iowa

Agostino Piovene, Greek Tragedy and Opera
David Kim
Harvard University

Artifex Viator: Artistic Travel and Geography in Renaissance Italy
Craig Martin
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Averroes and Islamic Philosophy in Renaissance Veneto
Margaret Meserve
Notre Dame University

A Renaissance of News: The Italian Market in Printed Political Information, 1470-1527
Christina Neilson
Johns Hopkins University

Verrocchio's Factura: Making and Meaning in an Italian Renaissance Workshop
Laurel Reed
University of California, San Diego

Navigating Identities: Painting in the Early Modern Adriatic
Mark Rosen
University of California, Berkeley

The Republic at Work: The Thirteenth-Century Reliefs of the Venetian Trades on the Portale Maggiore of San Marco
Susannah Rutherglen
Princeton University

The Venetian Renaissance Cabinet Picture: Themes in the History of European Taste