Dr. Matteo Leta is a scholar of Renaissance Italy at Warwick University where he is working on movements of Roma people across Europe during the Renaissance. Dr. Leta holds a PhD from the Sorbonne University, co-supervised by the University of Calabria, with a thesis on magic and alchemy in Renaissance literature. He was a postdoctoral […]

This work-in-progress presentation explores the ways that two popular early modern genres – accounts of travel to distant places, and the more systematic description of discrete regions, which were often called “topographies” – were intertwined in conception, content, and production. Taking as case studies the descriptions of America published from 1590 by the De Bry […]

Movie screening and discussion with Tim Jenison and Farley Ziegler: Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning eight years, Jenison's research project takes him […]