Thursday 25 September 2014

09.00 Registration, Welcome and Introductions
Luxury and Greed: Defining the terms I
Discussant: TBA
Catherine Kovesi (University of Melbourne), ‘The Birth of Luxury: the creation of a new concept in Early Modern Europe.’
Lino Pertile (Villa I Tatti), ‘Dante’s She-Wolf: A beast whose greed is never satisfied.’

Luxury and Greed: Defining the terms II
Discussant: Jonathan Nelson (Villa I Tatti)
Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick), ‘Luxury and the Early Modern World of Exchange.’
Craig Clunas (University of Oxford), ‘Greed and Visuality in Ming China.’

Aftenoon Session
Religion and the luxury economy
Discussant: Alessandro Polcri (Fordham University/Villa I Tatti)
Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck College, University of London), ‘Luxury, greed and charity in English Protestant culture: the parable of Dives and Lazarus.’
Speaker TBA

Disseminating luxury through the early modern world
Discussant: Luca Molà (European University Institute)
Rosa Salzberg (University of Warwick), ‘Discussing and Disseminating Luxury on the Streets of Renaissance Italy.’
Timothy Wilson (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), ‘Italian Maiolica and Gift-Giving Between Women, c.1480-1600.’
Sean Roberts (Villa I Tatti), ‘Luxury, Technology, and the Diplomatic Gift in the Early Modern Mediterranean.’

Friday 26 September 2014
09.45 Registration, Welcome and Introductions

Consuming Luxury: Food and clothing
Discussant: Allen Grieco (Villa I Tatti)
Laura Giannetti (University of Miami), ‘“Taste of Luxury” in Renaissance Italy: in practice and in the literary imagination.’
Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick), ‘Chocolate in the Historical Imagination.’
Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli (University of Bologna), ‘), ‘Vesti bollate: the Italian fashion gazette of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (shapes, colours, decorations, and accessories).’

Afternoon Session

Faking It: the pretense of luxury
Discussant: Ulinka Rublack (University of Cambridge)
Timothy McCall (Villanova University), ‘Material Fictions of Luxury in Fifteenth-Century Italy.’
Paula Hohti (University of Copenhagen), ‘“Cheap Magnificence?”: Imitation and Low Cost Luxuries in Renaissance Italy.’
Marta Ajmar (Victoria and Albert Museum, London), '”Those who are not familiar with this matter think that they are looking at one substance alone”: Understanding materiality and material imitation in Renaissance Italy.’

Roundtable – closing session
Discussants: Dana Leibsohn, Craig Clunas, and Catherine Kovesi