Fall 2014

JULIE CAMPBELL 

In Her Own Words:

I’m just back from the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference in New Orleans, where I gave a paper entitled “L’Histoire de la Chiaramonte and Sixteenth-Century Salonnières.” At this conference, the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women meets, and it was the 20th anniversary of the organization. This year, as Vice President, I had the pleasure of helping to arrange a roundtable, a dinner, and life-time achievement awards for 7 of our “founding mothers” who were able to attend.

I’m looking forward to the publication of my article, “Marie de Beaulieu and Isabella Andreini: Cross-Cultural Patronage at the French Court,” forthcoming in The Sixteenth Century Journal.

Other work on Isabella Andreini includes a project that I’m undertaking with Pamela Brown (Univ. of Connecticut) and Eric Nicholson (Syracuse, Florence). We are translating her Contrasti, the short, humorous dialogues between lovers that would have been used either between acts of longer plays or as building blocks of commedia dell’arte plays. Here is a YouTube link to one on “Arms and Letters” that Pamela Brown and Jonathan Soffer filmed last summer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJZzh2v6hA

If the link doesn’t work, you can search on “Amorous Debate on Arms and Letters, by Isabella Andreini (1617) [with Italian subtitles].