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Exhibition: Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey

Published: June 01, 2011

This exhibition at the Snite Museum of Art offers a rare opportunity to see thirty-one drawings by the famous 16th-century architect, Andrea Palladio, along with seven books, fifteen models of related buildings, and eight bas-reliefs of some of the drawings (3-D projections of architectural drawings).

Thomas Noble Wins 2011 Otto Gründler Book Prize

Published: May 24, 2011

Author: Joanna Basile

Notre Dame historian Thomas F.X. Noble has won the 2011 Otto Gründler Book Prize for his work Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).

New Exhibit - Exercises in Creativity: Italian Drawings, 1500-1800

Published: May 11, 2011

Author: Charles Leavitt

The Snite Museum of Art announces the opening of Exercises in Creativity: Italian Drawings, 1500-1800 April 3. This exhibition will provide visitors with an opportunity to gain deeper insights into some of Italy’s best-known masters, including Agostino Carracci, Sebastiano Ricci, and Jacopo Tintoretto. Less familiar artists who are equally representative of the social, political, or theological contexts that gave rise to these “exercises in creativity” will also be included.

Ph.D. Student Examines Animal Imagery in Literature

Published: May 10, 2011

Author: Kate Cohorst

Damiano Benvegnù, a student in Notre Dame’s Ph.D. in Literature Program, can point to the moment when he changed his academic focus from astronomy to literature. “Reading William Blake’s ‘Tyger’ in a literature class in my liceo scientifico (high school) was an epiphany. The poem was an amazing feat for Blake in the late 18th century—and then a revelation for me, as a reader, more than 200 years later.”

New Library acquisition: Indicazione antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano

Published: May 06, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Pasquale Massi. Indicazione antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano - Catalogue indicatif des antiquitès composant le Musèe Pie-Clèmentin au Vatican. Rome: Presso i Lazzarini, 1792. First edition; parallel texts in Italian and French. …

Historian Thomas Noble to Receive 2011 Sheedy Award

Published: May 05, 2011

Author: Joanna Basile

Thomas F.X. Noble, professor and chair in the Department of History, has been selected to receive the 2011 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award.

New Library acquisition: Distinta relatione delle cerimonie fatte in Roma...

Published: March 08, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Pietro Leone. Distinta relatione delle cerimonie fatte in Roma nell'aprire le Porte Sante delle quattro principali Basiliche per l'anno corrente del giubileo, e particolarmente di quella di S. Pietro in Vaticano…

New Library acquisition: Picturae antiquae cryptarum romanarum et sepullcri Nasonum…

Published: February 11, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Bellori, Giovanni Pietro. Picturae antiquae cryptarum romanarum et sepullcri Nasonum… Rome: S. Michaelis for Hieronymous Mainardus, 1738. Illustrated with 75 engravings, 34 of which are full-page prints. …

New Library acquisition: Rime, Le Stanze, De gli Asolani

Published: January 25, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Pietro Bembo. Rime, Le Stanze, De gli Asolani. Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio, 1530. By the year 1530, Pietro Bembo was well known for his editions of Petrarch and Dante, published respectively in 1501 and 1502, and his Prose della volgar lingua…

New Library acquisition: Les Eglises des Stations de Rome

Published: January 12, 2011

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Israel Silvestre. Les Eglises des Stations de Rome. Paris, Chez Israel, ca. 1640. Etched and engraved title page with ten consecutively numbered etchings.

New Library acquisition: Roma antica di Famiano Nardini

Published: December 17, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Famiano Nardini. Roma antica di Famiano Nardini. Rome, Gaetano Zenobi, 1704. Includes 16 engraved illustrations, some of which fold out, and 36 woodcuts. Second edition.

New Library acquisition: Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustriumquae supersunt reliquiae

Published: November 30, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Giovanni Battista Cavalieri. Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae. Rome, 1569. Bound with: Giovanni Antonio Dosio. Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustriumquae supersunt reliquiae. Florence, 1569.

Thomas Noble to lead American Catholic Historical Association

Published: November 22, 2010

Author: Julie Hail Flory

Thomas F.X. Noble, chair of the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected vice president of the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) in 2011 and will become its president in 2012. Noble is a professor of history and former director of the Medieval Institute in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the ACHA for 35 years and is a past member of its executive council. “I was surprised and delighted to be elected president of the American Catholic Historical Association, not least because I am the sixth historian from Notre Dame to be accorded this honor,” Noble says.

New Library acquisition: Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae

Published: November 19, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Francesco Albertini. Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae. Rome, Jacobus Mazochius, 1510.

New Library acquisition: Roma ampliata, e rinovata

Published: November 03, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Attributed to Gregorio Roisecco. Roma ampliata, e rinovata, o sia nuova descrizione della moderna città di Roma…. Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli for the bookshop of Gregorio Roisecco, 1750. Contains 39 woodcut illustrations.

New Library acquisition: Urbis Romae topographia….

Published: October 27, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Bartolomeo Marliani. Urbis Romae topographia…. Rome, Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544. Includes 23 woodcut illustrations. First illustrated folio edition.

Leading Dante expert comes to Notre Dame

Published: October 05, 2010

Author: Charles Leavitt

One of the world’s leading Dante scholars, Zygmunt G. Baranski, is slated to join the University of Notre Dame faculty next fall as the University’s first Notre Dame Professor of Dante and Italian Studies. Baranski comes to Notre Dame from the University of Cambridge, where, since 2002, he has been the Serena Professor of Italian and, between 2002 and 2006, head of the Department of Italian in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. “I feel that Notre Dame is exactly the right place for me to be going at this point in my career,” Baranski says.

Claire Honess joins Notre Dame as a Visiting Scholar for Fall 2010

Published: August 31, 2010

Author: Charles Leavitt

During the Fall of 2010, Claire Honess, Co-Director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, is spending a semester at Notre Dame as a Visiting Scholar, thanks to the award of a Study Abroad Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust in London.

Notre Dame team completes 3D Documentation of the Roman Forum

Published: August 30, 2010

Author: Charles Leavitt

In July, a team of School of Architecture faculty and students led by Professor Krupali Uplekar Krusche traveled to the Roman Forum---the center of political, religious, commercial, and judicial life in Rome---to measure, document, and draw large areas of the historic site. The team used conventional and innovative methods, including a Leica 3-D laser scanner, for measuring and understanding this World Heritage Site.

Zygmunt G. Baranski joins Notre Dame as the 2010 Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Distinguished Visiting Professor

Published: August 26, 2010

Author: Charles Leavitt

Serena Professor of Italian and Head of the Department of Italian in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University, is joining Notre Dame as the 2010 Alberto J. and Helen M. Ravarino Distinguished Visiting Professor of Dante and Italian Studies.