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Sep. 7th, 2005 06:02 pmHere's an interesting little tidbit:
"Smith College received $75,000 from NEH to translate Cesare Vecellio's Degli Habiti Antichi et Morderni Di Viverse Parti Del Mondo. "
from Humanities, January/February 2005, Volume 26/Number 1
"Fashion is his topic, but he is really more interested in traditional dress and the values it sums up," says Ann Rosalind Jones. Jones, who is professor of comparative literature at Smith College, and Margaret Rosenthal, who is associate professor of Italian at the University of Southern California, are translating Vecellio's 1590 monograph, Degli habiti antichi et moderni di viverse parti del mondo (The clothing, ancient and modern, of various parts of the world).
"Vecellio's original commentary has never been printed in full and translated into English," Rosenthal notes. "Dover Press published a book of the woodcuts but did not include any of Vecellio's social commentary. This is going to be a huge resource for costume historians, theater people, or anyone interested in the history of fashion, ethnography, or travel who will now be able to take the image of the woodcut and match it to a description."
The new publication will include twenty prints from the New World from Vecellio's second costume book, Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo (Clothing, ancient and modern, of the whole world), published in 1598.
This must be getting close to done as the grant was originally announced in 2002, and they are supposed to publish it on CD-Rom. The person in charge of the project is Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College, and she's published and edited quite a few books on Italian Rennaissance society.
Dang! I want to go to the Sixteenth Century Society annual conference in Atlanta in October. They've got some great things on the program, http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/SCSCProgram2005.pdf
"Smith College received $75,000 from NEH to translate Cesare Vecellio's Degli Habiti Antichi et Morderni Di Viverse Parti Del Mondo. "
from Humanities, January/February 2005, Volume 26/Number 1
"Fashion is his topic, but he is really more interested in traditional dress and the values it sums up," says Ann Rosalind Jones. Jones, who is professor of comparative literature at Smith College, and Margaret Rosenthal, who is associate professor of Italian at the University of Southern California, are translating Vecellio's 1590 monograph, Degli habiti antichi et moderni di viverse parti del mondo (The clothing, ancient and modern, of various parts of the world).
"Vecellio's original commentary has never been printed in full and translated into English," Rosenthal notes. "Dover Press published a book of the woodcuts but did not include any of Vecellio's social commentary. This is going to be a huge resource for costume historians, theater people, or anyone interested in the history of fashion, ethnography, or travel who will now be able to take the image of the woodcut and match it to a description."
The new publication will include twenty prints from the New World from Vecellio's second costume book, Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo (Clothing, ancient and modern, of the whole world), published in 1598.
This must be getting close to done as the grant was originally announced in 2002, and they are supposed to publish it on CD-Rom. The person in charge of the project is Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College, and she's published and edited quite a few books on Italian Rennaissance society.
Dang! I want to go to the Sixteenth Century Society annual conference in Atlanta in October. They've got some great things on the program, http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/SCSCProgram2005.pdf
