How Did the Malatesta Family Influence the Renissance

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CMRS Ahmanson Conference

Although not as well-known as other prominent families such as the Medici, Visconti, or Borgia, the Malatesta of Rimini, especially during the leadership of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), occupy a central position in the history of the Italian Renaissance. Gifted with groovy military skill and a profound sensibility for the arts, the "wolf of Rimini" became the image of the "human" of the Renaissance. The neat Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt, in his influential The Culture of the Renaissance in Italian republic, considered him a "whole man," the crowning figure among "the furtherers of humanism," a condottiere equally capable in war and fine art, unscrupulous, savage, and yet refined, in other words the perfect case of the new man capable of changing the course of civilisation, and of ushering in the age of modernity. In a time of physical violence and creative effeminateness, Sigismondo could be considered the source of one of the highest cultural achievements of the West.

This conference, organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella (Italian, UCLA) and Dr. Bryan Keene (J. Paul Getty Museum), commemorates the six-hundredth ceremony of the birth of Sigismondo, and will consider his political and armed forces skills, his relationship with the papacy—which culminated in pope Pius II's excommunication and condemnation to eternal damnation —and especially his patronage of the arts and of artists such every bit Leon Battista Alberti, Piero della Francesca, Vittore Pisano (Pisanello), Matteo de' Pasti, Agostino di Duccio, Roberto Valturio, Basinio da Parma, Bonifacio Bembo, just to mention a few.

Prototype: Medal of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta by Matteo de' Pasti, 1446. Obverse:SIGISMONDUS PANDULFUS DE MALATESTIS S RO ECLESIE C GENERALIS . Contrary: CASTELLUM SISMONDUM ARIMINENSE MCCCCXLVI. Courtesy of Ferruccio Farina.

Advance registration for Friday at UCLA is requested. Please register online at cmrs.ucla.edu/event/sigismondo-pandolfo-malatesta/#regform. No fee. Limited seating. Parking data is online at main.transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors

Advance registration for Saturday at The J. Paul Getty Museum is required. To register, transport an electronic mail to manuscripts@getty.edu. Parking is $15 per car payable at the self-service pay stations.

This conference is made possible thanks to a generous souvenir from the Ahmanson Foundation. Back up is also provided by the Armand Hammer Endowment for the UCLA Heart for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Italian Cultural Establish in Los Angeles, and the Franklin D. Tater Chair in Italian Renaissance Studies at UCLA.

Fri, January 26, 2018 \| UCLA Royce Hall Room 314
ix:30	Coffee and pastries
ten:00	Welcoming Remarks Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA), Director, CMRS Antonio Verde, Italian Consul General of Italian republic in Los Angeles
SESSION I: Andrea Moudarres (UCLA), Chair
x:30	Monica Centanni (IUAV Academy of Venice) "Bellum Italicum. Ancient-Style Feasts and Triumphs in Honour of Sigismondo Malatesta"
eleven:xv	Chiara Giovannini (Liceo Classico 1000. Cesare, Rimini) "'Equally Wars Rage on': Giovanni Mario Filelfo'south Elegiac Verses in Tribute to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta"
12:00	Lunch Intermission
SESSION II: Sarah Cantor (UCLA), Chair
2:00	Paolo Cherchi (University of Chicago) "Roberto Valturio and His De re militari"
2:45	Bryan C. Keene (The J. Paul Getty Museum) "The Renaissance Mediterranean: Cardinal Bessarion, Italian Courts, and the Sultan"
iii:30	Break
SESSION III: Jean-Claude Carron (UCLA), Chair
iii:45	Anthony D'Elia (Queen's University) "Sigismondo Malatesta as Athlete and Aboriginal Hero"
4:30	Massimo Bulgarelli (IUAV University of Venice) "Sigismondo and the Tempio Malatestiano. Meanings of an Compages"
5:xv	Reception catered by Angelini Cafe. Wines by Vimomatica Wine Agency. Chef Gino Angelini and Sommelier and Wine Educator Giammario Villa will be nowadays.
seven:00	Musical performance by Il Ruggiero: Emanuela Marcante* and *Daniele Tonini — CANCELED DUE TO FAMILY CONCERNS**
Sabbatum, January 27, 2018 \| The J. Paul Getty Museum
10:00	Opening Remarks Bryan C. Keene, The J. Paul Getty Museum Andrea Gnassi, Mayor of Rimini Filippo Gasperi, Mayor of Gradara
SESSION Four: Davide Gasparotto (The J. Paul Getty Museum), Chair
10:30	Joanna Woods-Marsden (UCLA) "Sigismondo Malatesta: Portraiture and Politics"
xi:15	Suspension
SESSION V: Lyle Massey (UC Irvine), Chair
eleven:30	Daniel Chiliad. Zolli (Pennsylvania State Academy) "Agostino di Duccio'south Lapidary Imagination"
12:15	Ferruccio Farina (Centro Internazionale di Studi Francesca da Rimini) "Crime Benchmarking. Pius Two Piccolomini, Sigismondo Malatesta, Francesco Sforza, Alfonso of Aragona, Federico da Montefeltro and Niccolò d'Este: Sin and Sinners in Comparison"
1:00	Tiffin Break
SESSION Six: Kirstin Noreen (Loyola Marymount University), Chair
2:15	James Fishburne (The Getty Research Institute) "Sacred and Profane: Matteo de' Pasti's Portrait Medals and the Court of Sigismondo Malatesta"
3:00	Marilyn Aronberg Lavin (Institue for Advanced Studies) Sigismondo'south Surprising Duality: Images and Words"
3:45	Pause
SESSION Seven: Laura Llewellyn (The J. Paul Getty Museum), Chair
four:00	Antonia Gatward Cevizli (Sotheby's Institute of Art, London) "The 'Terrible Turk' and a 'Citizen of Hell'"
iv:45	Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) "Power of Art – The War machine Message of an Illustrated Book by Roberto Valturio, Commissioned by Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta"
5:30	Reception: Presentation of the new volume by Ferruccio Farina, Sigismondo Malatesta, 1417-1418. Le imprese, il volto e la fama di un principe del Rinascimento (Rimini: Maggioli Editore, 2017). The writer and publisher will exist present.