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

我的项目提供了第一次调查北欧的Alba amicorum在早期现代意大利的存在，绘制了16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图书、艺术史和文化史以及早期现代流动性研究的方法，展示了ALBA如何促进和反映社交网络的跨地区扩展。扩大现有学术的地理范围，我的研究将阐明意大利对这一外国市场需求的尚未探索的反应。Alba amicorum是用于收集朋友、熟人和知名人士的献礼(如插图、格言、纹章)的笔记本。虽然ALBA在北欧学生中特别受欢迎，但它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。正如许多阿尔巴所表明的那样，前往意大利的旅行尤其常见。然而，意大利在阿尔巴北部的证据与这种做法在半岛本身并不受欢迎形成了鲜明对比。我的项目是第一个回顾这种差异，并探索外国在意大利使用alba所带来的相互作用。当前的学术主要集中在德国和荷兰背景下的音乐流派，因此忽略了意大利作品的流行，这个项目将回答这样一个问题：早期意大利在多大程度上和以什么方式使用和生产北欧白葡萄酒？尽管内文森和韦尔奇提出，专辑插图是在意大利商店和市场上获得的，就像人们购买一套彩色明信片一样“(内文森1979：169)，作为”专辑所有者去过意大利的证据“(Welch 2005：59)，但这些图像的制作和收集从来没有被深入研究过。此外，由于这一流派“最重要的特征是它记录了相遇以及这些相遇背后的网络”(Reinders 2016：150)，追踪这些网络并重建意大利专辑制作背后的枢纽和结构将开创更好地理解这一流派的先河。此外，通过调查女性的作用，我在Reinders以前的研究的基础上进行了扩展，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Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek(Weimar))中确定了80多个相关的ALBA。我将用补充的主要来源(例如旅行账户、商店/车间清单、大学录取名单)来支持我的分析。完成后，我希望将我的发现以实物和/或数字展览的形式向更广泛的公众展示。总而言之，通过探索意大利在Alba amicorum中的存在和Alba在意大利的存在，该项目解决了当前文献中一个相当大的空白。总体而言，将这一传统与今天的社交媒体联系起来，这个博士探索了我们如何以及为什么构建、分享和记忆社交网络。

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.