Friday, October 11
11:30 am-1 pm
Archivio storico Capitolino
Session Title: Family Identities and Strategies II
Chair: Cynthia Stolhans, Saint Louis University
The Fonsecas of Rome: A Portuguese Family with a Family Secret
James W. Nelson Novoa, University of Lisbon
James Nelson Novoa
The Fonsecas of Rome: A Portuguese family with a Family Secret
The paper will center around the Fonseca family, a family originally from the north of Portugal which managed to make important inroads in Rome over several centuries. A family chapel in the Spanish national church in Piazza Navona, the Minerva palace (the current day Hotel Minerva) and a handsome bust by Bernini in San Lorenzo in Lucina are all testimony to the patronage, staying power and search for affirmation of the Fonseca’s, a Portuguese family of Jewish origins which, facing persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition, first settled in Rome in the middle of the sixteenth century. The desire to suppress or overcome this “blight” at least in part explains the diverse strategies used by the family to ensconce itself in Rome, a family which produced important bankers, doctors and men of the church. The paper will take into account the crucial years of 1556 to 1668 in which the family shifted its center of influence from the church of San Biagio della Fossato that of San Lorenzo in Lucina.
Early Modern Rome 2
10-12 October 2013
University of California, Rome
Rome, Italy
In Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the “Rome Through the Ages” program of the University of California Education Abroad Program
Early modern Rome was contradictory and complex; its vernacular and high culture animated and rich. From Petrarch’s crowning as Poet Laureate on the Capitoline in 1341 to the pontificate of Alexander VII Chigi in 1667, this conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines—history, art and architectural history, literature, music, dance, religious studies, food studies, philosophy, history of medicine or science, and others—to investigate the city and the campagna romana through a variety of different approaches and methods.
The resounding response to the first conference in May 2010—76 papers from researchers from 9 different countries over 3 days—mirrored the complex mix of the city itself and the changing face of Renaissance studies. The organizers wish to bring together in a single venue those whose research focuses on the city of Rome and the Roman countryside to encourage scholars to venture outside of their own disciplinary parameters to enter into dialogue with others and explore concurrent forms of cultural production or social and political events.
Please note that EMR 2 will extend the confines of the city by organizing sessions on the campagna romana, in particular on the Orsini-Odescalchi Castle of Bracciano. As in the tradition of EMR, the panel(s) “Beyond Rome” aim to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines—history, art and architectural history, literature, music, dance, religious studies, philosophy, history of medicine or science, diplomacy, gender, and others—to investigate the Orsini-Odescalchi Castle and its inhabitants through a variety of approaches and methods. The articles selected for the Bracciano panels will be re-examined after the conference by a special committee and published in two different texts: a scholarly book in English with an academic press and an abbreviated publication in Italian and English to illustrate the history, art and architecture of the Orsini-Odescalchi Castle.
Format
Conference papers should be 20-minutes (approximately 10 double-spaced pages) and may be in either English or Italian.
Organizers
Paolo Alei & Julia L. Hairston
Sponsors
Conference sponsored by the University of California, Rome with ACCENT and with the collaboration of the Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo, the Biblioteca Vallicelliana, the Archivio Storico Capitolino, and the Castello Odescalchi di Bracciano.
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