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的存在北欧alba amicorum在早期现代意大利，映射网络的旅行者，艺术家，工匠在16和17世纪。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alba如何促进和反映了社交网络的跨区域扩张。我的研究拓宽了现有学术研究的地理范围，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、熟人和知名人物的献词（例如插图、格言、纹章）的笔记本。虽然阿尔巴在北欧学生中特别受欢迎，但它经常通过私人和学术图尔斯之旅穿越欧洲，从而见证了不同的地方和文化。正如许多阿尔巴人所显示的那样，去意大利旅行尤其常见。然而，意大利在北方阿尔巴的证据与半岛本身缺乏流行的做法形成鲜明对比。我的项目是第一个回顾这种差异并探索在意大利使用alba之后的相互作用。扩大目前的奖学金，侧重于在itsGerman和Netherlandish上下文的体裁，所以忽略了意大利的贡献的流行，这个项目将回答这个问题：在何种程度上，以何种方式使用和北欧albaamicorum在早期现代意大利生产？虽然Nevinson和Welch认为专辑插图是在意大利的商店和市场中获得的，“就像人们可能会购买一套彩色明信片一样”（Nevinson 1979：169），作为“专辑主人去过意大利的证据”（Welch 2005：59），但这些图像的制作和收集从未被深入研究过。此外，由于该类型的“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枢纽和结构将开创对该类型的更好理解。此外，通过调查妇女的作用，我建立，并扩大，莱因德斯以前的研究。我已经确定了80多个相关的alba在国际图书馆，档案馆，和博物馆（mostnotably大英图书馆（伦敦，M4 C合作伙伴），Koninklijke图书馆（海牙），和HerzoginAnna Amalia图书馆（魏玛））。我将用补充的主要来源（e.g.travel账户，商店/车间库存，大学录取名单）来支持我的分析。完成后，我渴望在物理和/或数字展览中向更大的公众展示我的发现。总之，通过探讨在alba amicorum中存在的意大利和alba在意大利中的存在，本项目解决了当前文献中的一个相当大的空白。总的来说，连接这一传统，今天的社会媒体，这博士探讨如何以及为什么我们建设，分享，并记住社交网络。

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.