Transalpine Travellers and Friendly Affairs: Alba Amicorum in Early Modern Italy, ca. 1550-1700

跨阿尔卑斯山旅行者和友好事务：近代早期意大利的阿尔巴阿米科鲁姆，约。

• 批准号: 2750278
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2750278
• 关键词: Transalpine; Travellers; Friendly; Affairs; Alba

My project offers the first investigation of the presence of Northern-European alba amicorum in earlymodern Italy, mapping networks of travellers, artists, and artisans in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies. This highly interdisciplinary study, combining approaches from book-, art-, and cultural historyas well as early modern mobility studies, demonstrates how alba both facilitated and reflected atransregional expansion of social networks. Widening the geographical scope of existing scholarship, myresearch will illuminate the yet-unexplored Italian response to this foreign market demand.Alba amicorum were notebooks used to collect dedications (e.g. illustrations, mottoes, heraldic crests)from friends, acquaintances, and notable figures. While particularly popular among Northern-Europeanstudents, alba often travelled across Europe through private and academic tours, thus witnessing variouslocalities and cultures. As many alba show, travels to Italy were especially common. However, theevidence of Italy in northern alba contrasts with the lack of popularity enjoyed by the practice in thepeninsula itself. My project is the first to review this disparity and explore the interactions that followedfrom the foreign use of alba in Italy. Expanding current scholarship, which focuses on the genre in itsGerman and Netherlandish contexts and so has overlooked the prevalence of Italian contributions, thisproject will answer the question: to what extent and in what manner were Northern-European albaamicorum used and produced in early modern Italy?Though Nevinson and Welch have suggested that album illustrations were acquired in Italian shops andmarkets 'just as one might buy a set of coloured postcards' (Nevinson 1979: 169), serving as 'evidencethat the album's owner had been to Italy' (Welch 2005: 59), the production and collection of theseimages have never been studied in depth. Furthermore, since the genre's 'most important characteristicis that it records encounters and the networks behind those encounters' (Reinders 2016: 150), trackingthese networks and reconstructing the hubs and structures behind album production in Italy will pioneera significantly better understanding of the genre. Moreover, by investigating the role of women, I buildon, and expand, Reinders' previous research.I have already identified over 80 relevant alba in international libraries, archives, and museums (mostnotably the British Library (London, M4C partner), Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague), and HerzoginAnna Amalia Bibliothek (Weimar)). I shall bolster my analyses with complementary primary sources (e.g.travel accounts, shop/workshop inventories, university matriculation lists). Upon completion, I aspire topresent my findings to a larger public in a physical and/or digital exhibition. In sum, by exploring thepresence of Italy within alba amicorum and the presence of alba in Italy, this project addresses aconsiderable gap in current literature. Overall, connecting this tradition to today's social media, this PhDexplores how and why we construct, share, and remember social networks.

我的项目首次调查了北欧 alba amicorum 在近代早期意大利的存在，绘制了 16 世纪和 17 世纪旅行者、艺术家和工匠的网络。这项高度跨学科的研究结合了书籍、艺术和文化史以及早期现代流动性研究的方法，展示了阿尔巴如何促进和反映社交网络的跨区域扩张。我的研究扩大了现有学术的地理范围，将阐明意大利对这种外国市场需求的尚未探索的反应。Alba amicorum 是用来收集朋友、熟人和知名人物的奉献（例如插图、座右铭、纹章）的笔记本。虽然阿尔巴在北欧学生中特别受欢迎，但她经常通过私人和学术旅行穿越欧洲，从而见证不同的地方和文化。正如许多阿尔巴人所表明的那样，前往意大利的旅行尤其常见。然而，意大利北部阿尔巴的情况与该半岛本身的做法并不受欢迎形成鲜明对比。我的项目是第一个回顾这种差异并探索意大利阿尔巴的国外使用所产生的相互作用的项目。目前的学术研究主要集中在德国和荷兰背景下的流派，因此忽略了意大利贡献的盛行，该项目将回答这个问题：在现代早期的意大利，北欧阿尔巴米科鲁姆的使用和制作程度和方式如何？尽管内文森和韦尔奇认为专辑插图是在意大利商店和市场获得的，“就像人们可能购买一套专辑一样”。 彩色明信片”（Nevinson 1979：169），作为“相册主人去过意大利的证据”（Welch 2005：59），这些图像的制作和收集从未被深入研究过。此外，由于该流派“最重要的特征是它记录了遭遇以及这些遭遇背后的网络”（Reinders 2016：150），跟踪这些网络并重建意大利专辑制作背后的中心和结构将开创对该流派的更好理解。此外，通过调查女性的角色，我在 Reinders 之前的研究基础上进行了扩展。我已经在国际图书馆、档案馆和博物馆（最著名的是大英图书馆（伦敦，M4C 合作伙伴）、Koninklijke Bibliotheek（海牙）和 HerzoginAnna Amalia Bibliothek（魏玛））中确定了 80 多个相关阿尔巴。我将利用补充性的主要来源（例如旅行账户、商店/工作坊库存、大学入学名单）来支持我的分析。完成后，我渴望通过实体和/或数字展览向更多公众展示我的发现。总之，通过探索 alba amicorum 中意大利的存在以及 alba 在意大利的存在，该项目弥补了当前文献中的一个相当大的空白。总的来说，该博士将这一传统与当今的社交媒体联系起来，探讨了我们如何以及为何构建、共享和记住社交网络。