Talia Di Manno
Holy Bodies and the Invention of History in Baroque Rome

Discoveries of holy bodies, or “invenzioni,” under the altars of several of Rome’s churches between 1599 and 1634 provided the foundation for spectacular building and decorative cycles. This talk discusses how the archaeology of bodies, poised between artifice and science, animated history writing and definitions of authenticity in the post-Reformation era.

Di Manno is the Anthony M. Clark/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kirstin Valdez Quade
Ordinary Sins

Kirstin Valdez Quade will read from an essay and a short story. “Ordinary Sins” first appeared in the New Yorker and is included in her collection, Night at the Fiestas.

Valdez Quade is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize in Literature, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman. She is assistant professor for the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts.

The event will be held in English. Watch this event live at https://livestream.com/aarome.