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THE 46TH ANNUAL ERASMUS LECTURE 21 OCTOBER 2010 The CRRS is pleased to announce that Professor Angela Nuovo (History and Preservation of Cultural Heritage, University of

Udine) will speak on “The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance: Structure and Regulation.” Abstract: The phenomenon of the book trade in the long Cinquecento can be studied from various viewpoints and divided into many periods, whether focusing on the diffusion of editorial types, the evolution of the technical aspects of printing and on the book as a product, or instead on the impact of external elements. But an explanation of the structure and evolution of Renaissance Italy’s book market warrants an analysis of contemporary legislation. During the sixteenth century, legislative interventions and the bookmen’s ability to utilize and manipulate juridical institutes gave form and structure to the book market. The most important of these developments was the Venetian privilege system, whose structure ensured anti-monopolist trade, leading, in turn, to the flourishing of printing in Venice. Other Italian states, however, adopted privileges to favor one printer. Papal privileges were substantially different from all the others, as they claimed not only temporal but also spiritual validity. After the Council of Trent established the Papacy as the promoter of new editions of canonical books, the Pope exercised his privileges—using the controlled production of one printer in Rome—to ensure that only perfectly correct versions were in circulation. This distortion of privileges devas-tated the Venetian press.

Professor Nuovo’s many publications include Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento. Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata (Franco Angeli, 2003) and I Giolito e la stampa nell’Italia del XVI secolo (with Christian Coppens, Droz, 2005). The lecture is scheduled for 21 October 2009, 4:00 pm, Old Victoria College, Alumni Hall, University of Toronto. The lecture is free and open to the public. THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: RETHINKING EARLY MODERN PRINT CULTURE 22–23 OCTOBER 2010 Bringing together more than fifty scholars from across the world, this year’s multi-disciplinary, bilingual conference aims to refine and redefine our understanding of early modern print cultures from the fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Topics include: birth of the modern book; authors and the market; authors and publishers; self-representation; theatre and the book; printed books as manuscripts; libraries; authority and ownership; readers and interpretive practices; ephemera in print; and illustrated books. Ian Maclean (History, Oxford University) will deliver a keynote address entitled, “The Economics of the Early Modern Book Trade.” A roundtable discussion will explore issues of teaching Early Modern print culture. An opening reception and exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library are also scheduled. The conference will take place 22–23 October 2010, 9:00–6:15 pm, Old Victoria and Emmanuel Colleges, University of Toronto. Registration is required. For program and registration form, see the conference website: www.crrs.ca/events/conferences/print/index.htm

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CRRS/ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FEATURED TALK 18 NOVEMBER 2010

The CRRS is delighted to welcome Professor David Schalkwyk (Folger Institute) who will deliver a lecture entitled “The Impossible Gift of Love in The Merchant of Venice and the Sonnets.” Abstract: Departing from Luther’s distinction between

gifts between people as being things of “portions and pieces” as opposed to the wholeness of God’s gift of grace, this paper explores the nature of the gift in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as a mode of forging, negotiating or alienating love. The argument will encompass the analysis of the nature of the gift by Marcel Maus and Jacques Derrida, and explore parallels between Shakespeare’s comedy and his sonnets. David Schalkwyk is Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library and editor of Shakespeare Quarterly. He came to the Folger from the University of Cape Town, where he is Professor of English and also recently completed a term as Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities. His most recent publication is Shakespeare, Love, and Service (Cambridge University Press, 2008). The lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of English, will be held 18 November 2010, 4pm, Chapel, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. THE WILLIAM R. BOWEN ANNUAL CONCERT 4 FEBRUARY 2011 The CRRS is pleased to announce the fifth annual concert in honour of Professor William Bowen. This year’s event features the early music ensemble, Scaramella. Under the artistic direction of Noëlle Morton, Scaramella showcases a repertoire written especially for period instruments, both historical and modern. This year’s concert, entitled Birds Bewigged, is inspired by the culture of the natural world. This elegant avian-themed program is structured around musical improvisations based on readings of haiku and poetic readings of texts by Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Thomas Hardy, Billy Collins, and Lorna Crozier. The concert will take place 4 February 2011, 7:30 pm, Chapel, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto.

CRRS HOSTS ITS ANNUAL DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLAR 14–18 FEBRUARY 2011 The CRRS is honoured to welcome John J. Martin (Professor, History; Research Professor, Italian, Duke University). Professor Martin’s research focuses primarily on the cultural history of western Europe. He is the author of Myths of Renaissance Individualism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and “Calvin’s Smile,” History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of the Person (Columbia University Press, 2007). He is also the editor of The Renaissance World (Routledge, 2007). While in residence, Professor Martin will meet privately with both scholars and students and present lectures. THE ANNUAL CANADA MILTON SEMINAR 23 APRIL 2011 The CRRS is pleased to announce the seventh annual Canada Milton seminar. Debora Shuger (UCLA), Tom Corns (University of Wales, Bangor), and John Rogers (Yale University) will deliver the plenary lectures. Elizabeth Hanson (Queen’s University, Kingston), Jeff Miller (Magdalen College, Oxford University), Bradin Cormack (University of Chicago), and Kathy Acheson (University of Waterloo) will give papers. The seminar is scheduled for 23 April 2011, 9–6 pm, Victoria College, University of Toronto. CRRS FRIDAY WORKSHOPS Friday workshops returned this September with a presentation by Isabelle Moreau entitled “La Mothe Le Vayer, Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience: The Beginnings of Religious Freedom.” Designed as a forum for new research and discussion, Friday workshops feature talks by faculty and graduate students in the Art, English, French, and History departments. Fall speakers include: Paul Stevens on Milton in Canada; Paul Cohen on the Habsburg invention of France’s national language; Matt Kavaler on Jan Gossart’s bodies; Elizabeth Harvey and Tim Harrison on magnetism, analogy, and the early modern imagination; and Nicholas Terpstra, Vanessa McCarthy, and Victoria Loucks on sex and the sacred in Renaissance Florence. For details, see the CRRS calendar of events on page 6 or our online calendar: www.crrs.ca/events/calendar.htm#current

CRRS WELCOMES LYNNE MAGNUSSON AS DIRECTOR The CRRS is pleased to announce that our new director has taken office. On 1 July 2010, Professor Lynne Magnusson (English, Toronto) began her five-year term. Lynne is a specialist in Shakespeare and the language of early modern English literature and culture and the author and co-author of numerous books and articles. Her methodological study Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters (Cambridge University Press, 1999) is acclaimed for developing a new approach to the language of social interaction in the early modern period. What is distinctive about Lynne’s approach is the unusual way that it interweaves cultural studies and close reading, offering not only literary scholars but also linguists and social historians a new and rich repertoire of analytical procedures to illuminate the dynamics of social relationships, whether displayed in historical documents or literary texts. She has also worked on the writings of early modern women like the classical scholar and religious reformer, Lady Anne Bacon. The originality and impact of her work was recently recognized by the Canada Council’s prestigious Killam Research Fellowship award. Her current projects include an edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and a new book on sixteenth-century letters that utilizes the CRRS’s prestigious Erasmus collection and its online manuscript resources. Prior to her current position at Toronto, Lynne was Professor of English at the University of Waterloo and then Queen’s University; she has also been a Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, and All Souls College, Oxford University. She was recently elected a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and previously served on the editorial board of the journal Shakespeare Quarterly. She has considerable experience in administering academic programs, having served as Associate Chair, Graduate Officer, and Acting Chair of the Department of English at Waterloo. During her Ph.D. studies at the University

of Toronto (1984), she began her university teaching career as a Teaching Fellow at Victoria College. Since her 2003 return to Toronto, she has been a member of the Academic Program Committee at the CRRS. Lynne’s goal for the CRRS is to sustain and build upon its international reputation while working to make it a vital resource and welcoming research home for early modernists across the University of Toronto campuses, its neighbouring Southern Ontario universities, and further afield. CRRS BIDS FAREWELL TO JANE COUCHMAN AS INTERIM DIRECTOR The CRRS offers its sincere thanks to Jane Couchman (Professor Emerita, French, Humanities and Women’s Studies, Glendon College, York University) for her dedicated leadership as Interim Director for the academic year 2009–10. Highlights of her directorship include: the international conference, “To Have and to Hold: Marriage in Premodern Europe (1200–1700)”; the visit and series of lectures by Professor Patricia Demers (Distinguished Visiting Scholar); the publication of the first six titles in the Toronto series “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe”; and the REED/PLS Chester Cycle conference and performance—in which she performed. Jane will continue her work as co-editor (with Allyson Poska and Katherine McIver) of the Ashgate Research Companion to the Study of Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe and as co-author (with Colette Winn) of a book on the life and writings of Éléonore de Roye, Princesse de Condé. CRRS REDESIGNS ITS WEBSITE We have improved our website! Our aim has always been to provide the community with information about our events, resources, and publications. But the ever-changing nature of information and our interest in establishing more direct lines of communication with our users demanded that we transition to a more dynamic site. Designed by our webmaster, Alexandra Guerson, the new user-friendly site is designed to facilitate easy retrieval of information.

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Finding information on our site has never been easier. The search bar in the top right hand corner is the quickest way to search. The right side of our home page lists featured events, recent publications, and the featured rare book of the month. News appears in the centre of the page. We are pleased to announce that we now offer RSS feeds to provide our community immediate access to news. Designed to deliver instant up-dates on the content of sites and blogs, RSS feeds offer a practical way of quickly navigating through favourite sites. To subscribe to our feed, visit new.crrs.ca/feed. To learn more about RSS feeds, see chronicle.com/blogPost/Keeping-Up-Online-an-Intro/22682. KONRAD EISENBICHLER APPOINTED COMMENDATORE

Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano, recently appointed Konrad Eisenbichler (Renaissance and Italian Studies, Toronto, CRRS Director 1990–2000) a Commander in the Order of Merit of the Republic of It-

aly. Founded in 1951, the O.M.R.I. is the first and highest of Italy’s various orders of knighthood. Awarded in five degrees, commendatore is the third (comparable to the rank of Officer in the Or-der of Canada). Konrad received the distinction in recognition of his scholarship on and his volun-teer work for Italian culture. NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS AWARDED DISTINGUISHED PRIZE The annual Holberg International Prize, given for outstanding scholarly work in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology, has been awarded to Natalie Zemon Davis (Professor Emerita, Me-dieval Studies, and Adjunct Professor, History, Toronto). Natalie has a long history with the CRRS: she helped establish the CRRS sponsored journal, Renaissance and Reformation/Réforme, served as its editor, and delivered the 1988 Erasmus Lecture. The renowned social historian will donate a portion of her prize to rare book libraries.

PUBLISHING NEWS Scholarly Prize

The CRRS is pleased to announce that the first text from “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” series recently received a distinguished award. Journey of 5 Capuchin Nuns, ed. and trans. Sarah E. Owens, was awarded the 2010 Josephine Roberts Prize for scholarly editions.

Publishing Grants The CRRS is fortunate to have received several publications grants. Both the “Essays and Studies” and “Other Voice” series received generous awards from organizations dedicated to the advancement of the humanities. The Poetics of Masculinities in Early Modern Italy and Spain received financial support from the Lila Acheson Wallace-Reader’s Digest Special Grants Subsidy administered by the Villa I Tatti. Savonarola and Savonarolism also received sup-port from the Lila Acheson Wallace-Reader’s Digest Special Grants Subsidy administered by the Villa I Tatti. Funds from the Victoria College Senate, University of Toronto, also financed the book’s publication. The forthcoming book, Disreputable Bodies: Magic, Medicine, and Gender in Renaissance Natural Philosophy, has been awarded a grant from the Board of the Austrian Science Fund, government of Austria. “The Other Voice” series was honoured to receive a substantial start-up grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, which was instrumental to the publication of the series. The forthcoming book, Celinda, A Tragedy, received a publication grant the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

CRRS Publications and Amazon Canada In September 2010, CRRS began listing its texts on Amazon.ca. The results were immediate, with orders streaming in within a few days.

New Publications In recent months, the CRRS has experienced a flurry of publishing. Three titles from the prolific “Essays and Studies” series were published, with another due before the year’s end. In collaboration with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, four titles from “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” series were published, with four additional titles expected before the end of 2010.

“Essays and Studies”: Sport and Culture in Early Modern Europe/ Le Sport dans la Civilisation de l’Europe Pré-moderne Ed. John McClelland & Brian Merrilees 978-0-7727-2052-8 $29.50

The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain Ed. Gerry Milligan & Jane Tylus 978-0-7727-2059-7 $29.50

Savonarola and Savonarolism Stefano Dall’Aglio 978-0-7727-2061-0 $15.00

Forthcoming: Disreputable Bodies: Magic, Medicine and Gender in Renaissance Natural Philosophy Sergius Kodera 978-0-7727-2060-3 $28.00

www.crrs.ca/publications/catalogue.htm crrs.publications@utoronto.ca Prices reflect a 20% discount. Outside Canada, please pay in US dollars.

“The Other Voice”:

Raymond de Sabanac & Simone Zanacchi Two Women of the Great Schism Ed. and trans. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski & Bruce L. Venarde 978-0-7727-2057-3 $13.00 Oliva Sabuco de Nantes Barrera, The True Medicine Ed. and trans. Gianna Pomata 978-0-7727-2067-2 $19.50

Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Sainctonge Dramatizing Dido, Circe and Griselda Ed. and trans. Janet Levarie Smarr 978-0-7727-2069-6 $19.50 Pernette du Guillet, Complete Poems Ed. Karen Simroth James/trans. Marta Rijn Finch 978-0-7727-2065-8 $19.50 Forthcoming: Valeria Miani, Celinda, A Tragedy Ed. Valeria Finucci/trans. Julia Kisacky Antonia Pulci Saints’ Lives and Bible Stories for the Stage Ed. Elissa B. Weaver/trans. James Wyatt Cook Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century Women Ed. and trans. Lewis C. Seifert & Domna C. Stanton

18 Featured talk: David Schalkwyk (Folger Institute) “The Impossible Gift of Love in The Merchant of Venice and the Sonnets” 4 pm, Chapel, EC

25 TRRC talk: Jill Caskey (Art, Toronto) “Lost and Found in the Kingdom of Sicily” 4 pm, Senior Common Room, BH

26 Friday Workshop: Elizabeth Harvey & Tim Harrison (English, Toronto) “Embodied Resonances: Magnetism, Analogy and the Early Modern Imagination, Part 1 & 2” 3:30 pm, 205 NF

December 3 Friday Workshop: Nicholas Terpstra,

Vanessa McCarthy & Victoria Loucks (History, Toronto) “Sex and the Sacred:

Negotiating Boundaries in Renaissance Florence” 3:30 pm, 205 NF

7 TRRC talk: Anthony D’Elia (History, Queen’s University, Kingston) “Renaissance Paganism and the Soul of Sigismondo Malatesta” 4 pm, Senior Common Room, BH

February 4 William R. Bowen Concert: Scaramella,

Birds Bewigged 7:30 pm, Chapel, EC 14– 18 Distinguished Visiting Scholar: John J. Martin

(History, Duke University)

March 17 TRRC talk: Marjorie Rubright (English,

Toronto, Scarborough) TBA 4 pm, Senior Common Room, BH

April 23 7th Annual Canada Milton Seminar: Keynote

speakers: Debora Shuger (UCLA), Tom Corns (University of Wales, Bangor), and John Rogers (Yale University). Lecturers: Elizabeth Hanson (Queen’s University, Kingston), Bradin Cormack (University of Chicago), Kathy Acheson (University of Waterloo), and Jeff Miller (Magdalen College, Oxford).

23 April 2011, 9–6 pm, Victoria College AH=Alumni Hall EC=Emmanuel College BH=Burwash Hall NF=Northrop Frye Hall

CALENDAR OF EVENTS, FALL 2010–SPRING 2011

September 24 Friday Workshop: Isabelle Moreau (French,

University College, London) “La Mothe Le Vayer, Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience: The Beginnings of Religious Freedom” 3:30 pm, 205 NF

October 7 TRRC talk: Jean-Luc Nardonne (Italien,

Université de Toulouse) “La représentation de Jérusalem et de la Terre Sainte dans récits de pèlerins européens au XVIe siècle” 4 pm, Senior Common Room, BH

8 Friday Workshop: Paul Stevens (English, Toronto) “Milton in the Far North: A Toronto Renaissance” 3:30 pm, 205 NF

15 Friday Workshop: Paul Cohen (History, Toronto) “How the Habsburgs Invented France’s National Language: The Duchy of Burgundy and the Elevation of French, 15th–17th Centuries” 3:30 pm, 205 NF

21 46th Annual Erasmus Lecture: Angela Nuovo (Bibliography & Library Science, University of Udine) “The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance: Structure and Regulation” 4–5 pm, AH 112, Old Victoria College

This event is free and open to the public. 22– 23 CRRS International Conference: “Rethinking

Early Modern Print Culture” 9–6:15 pm, Old Victoria and Emmanuel Colleges. Registration is required. Details at: www.crrs.ca/events/conferences/print/index.htm

November 12 Friday Workshop: Matt Kavaler (Art, Toronto)

“Jan Gossart’s Bodies” 3:30 pm, 205 NF

IN RECOGNITION OF OUR MANY SUPPORTERS The CRRS offers its sincere thanks to the individuals and institutions whose financial support and book donations have so richly benefited the library and its programs.

RETURNING FACES TO CRRS FOR 2010–2011 The CRRS welcomes back Graduate Fellows Filomena Calabrese (Italian Studies), Alexandra Guerson (History), and John McQuillen (Art), and Robson Graduate Assistant, Vanessa McCarthy (History). We also welcome back Andres Hidalgo (Philosophy) as publications assistant. Also returning is Monica Gerli, who will continue as assistant to Stephanie Treloar. Kelli Carr and Karen Read continue to serve as Publications and Financial Managers, respectively. WITH THANKS The CRRS extends its gratitude to Natalja Chestopolova (English). Natalja served as a general assistant during the 2009–2010 academic year. At the end of her contract, she remained at the CRRS in a volunteer capacity until June.

CRRS ALUMNI NEWS Jacqueline Murray (History, University of Guelph; CRRS Curator 1985–87; Visiting Fellow 1989–92, 1995–97) recently spent three weeks in Accra, Ghana as a volunteer with the World University Service of Canada. While there, she worked with Child’s Rights International, a Ghanian non-government organization devoted to the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Goals. CRI lobbies the government for legislative reform and works to enhance the well being of children in Ghana. Jacqueline worked on a number of projects, including the production of an accessible version of the Juvenile Justice Act and the pamphlet “What to Expect if You Are Arrested.” She also vetted grant applications for projects aimed at combating child labour in Ghana. Scott Schofield (Graduate Fellow, 2001–07; CRRS Fellow 2007–11) defended his dissertation, “Staging Tudor royalty: religious politics in Stuart historical drama (1603–07).” CRRS STAFF NEWS Filomena Calabrese (CRRS Graduate Fellow) received the Warkentin Travel Award to present the paper “Interpreting Laughter in the Italian Renaissance” at the Reading Early Modern Studies conference in July 2010. Alexandra Guerson (CRRS Graduate Fellow, CRRS Webmaster) received the Warkentin Award to present her paper, “Manipulating the courts: Christians and Jews in late fourteenth-century Catalonia” at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting in May 2010. John McQuillen (CRRS Graduate Fellow) received the Warkentin Award for dissertation research in German libraries, which he carried out during summer 2010. NEW FACES AT CRRS FOR 2010–2011 We are also pleased to announce two new Robson Graduate Assistants. Trevor Cook (English) and Suzanne Grégoire (English) will be staffing the front desk, assisting patrons, and helping with CRRS projects and programs.

Financial Gifts Gwenne Becker Peter Blanchard William Bowen Vera Chau Stephanie Corbet Jane Couchman Natalie Zemon Davis Diane Dyer William Edwards Konrad Eisenbichler James Estes David Hoeniger Lynne Magnusson Christine McLean Olga Pugliese Aubrey Rosenberg Manuela Scarci Natalie Treboute Myra Van Rosenfeld Germaine Warkentin

Gifts in Kind Sarah Anson-Cartwright

Carla Bino Kenneth Borris

Robert Davidson James Estes Mario Fanti

Marina Gazzini Eva Kushner

Elias Ramirez Miramontez Larry Pfaff

Benito Rial Costas Geoffrey Stagg Estate

Paul Stevens Nicholas Terpstra

Germaine Warkentin William Robins National Gallery

of Canada REED

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