Renaissance Conference of Southern California gratefully
acknowledges the ongoing support of the UCLA Center of
Medieval and Renaissance Studies and The Huntington.
Join us for next year’s RCSC meeting!
enaissance Conference
of Southern California
Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting
Friday, June 5, 2015
The Huntington
San Marino, California


 8.15 – 9:00 
REGISTRATION – AHMANSON CLASSROOM
 9.00 – 9.05 
WELCOME: Andrew Griffin, RCSC President
Rossitza B. Schroeder (Graduate Theological Union / Pacific School of Religion)
“Visual Panegyric: Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Mehmed II and the Rhetoric of
the
Religious Image”
Letha Ch’ien (University of California, Davis) “Tintoretto’s Rescue of a Saracen:
Processes of Naturalization”
James Lambert (American University of Kuwait) “The Emotional Content of
Turning towards Islam on the Early Modern Stage”

 9.10 – 10.40: SESSION ONE 
SEAVER 1 – “‘Seeing Feelingly’: Knowledge, Affect and Devotion in Early
Modern England
Chair: Andrew Griffin, University of California, Santa Barbara
James Kearney (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Calculating
Unknowability: Affective Economies and the Limits of Knowledge in The Merchant
of Venice”
Kristen McCants (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Affective Knowledge,
Affective Politics: Governance and Animality in The Blazing World”
Pavneet Aulakh (Vanderbilt University) “To ‘see it feelingly’: Evidentia, Evidence,
and Determining the Truth in King Lear”
Carol Blessing (Point Loma Nazarene University) “George Herbert’s ‘Exceeding
Exact’ Country Parson and its Influence on Methodism”
SEAVER 2 – Renaissance Humanism: Collection and Pedagogy
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, University of California, Riverside
Anita Martins (University of Coimbra) “Ars bene vivendi ac ars bene moriendi: loci
communes in the Pedagogical Collectanea Moralis Philosophiae of Fr. Louis of
Grenade”
Javier Patino Loira (Princeton University) “Readers’ Pleasure and Cooperation:
Glossing Metaphor and Enthymeme in Alessandro Piccolomini’s Paraphrase of
Aristotle’s Rhetoric”
Jason Collar (California State University, Fullerton) “Philipp Melanchthon’s
‘School Plan of 1528’: The Praeceptor Germaniae’s Vision for Education in
Sixteenth-Century Saxony”
Diego Baldi (Institute for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean, Rome)
“Renaissance and the Idea of a Library: Antiquarians and the Beginning of a New
Science”

 10.50 – 12.30: SESSION TWO 
SEAVER 1– Imagining Islam
Chair: Bryan Givens, Pepperdine University
Debra L. Bronstein (Pasadena City College) “Islamic Identities in Marlowe’s
Tamburlaine”
SEAVER 2 – Public and Private Virtues in Renaissance Italy
Chair: Wendy Furman-Adams, Whittier College
Marta Albalá Pelegrín (California State Polytechnic, Pomona) “Roman
Domesticity in Early Modern Plays: Pietro Aretino and Torres Naharro”
Lyrica Taylor (Azusa Pacific University) “Chivalric Morals of Piety, Largesse,
and Conquest in Renaissance Milanese Patronage and Architecture”
Deborah Chatr Aryamontri (Montclair State University) “The Rediscovery of
the Glorious Roman Past: The Antiquarian Documentation of the Ruins of
Ancient Rome”
SEAVER 3 – Authors and Their Images: Expressing Authority in Medieval
and Early Modern Europe
Chair: Maryanne Horowitz, Occidental College
Pippa Salonius (Humboldt State University) “Imagining Hell: Sculptors, Poets
and Painters at the Cathedral of Orvieto”
Bryan Keene (The J. Paul Getty Museum) “‘Varii e bizarri capricci’:
Ecclesiastical Authority, Ancient Grotesques, and Sixteenth-Century Roman
Liturgical Manuscripts”
Dr. Leopoldine Prosperetti (University of Towson) “Sacred Oratory, Verdant
Tivoli, and the Art of Girolamo Muziano: The Origins of the Sublime Sylvan
Landscape in Counter-Reformation Rome”
 12.30-1.45: LUNCH, BANTA HALL 
 1.15 – 1.45: RCSC Board Meeting: All Participants Welcome

 1.45 – 3.20: SESSION THREE 
SEAVER 1 – Italian Art and the Religious Imagination
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, University of California, Riverside
Sophia Quach McCabe (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Matthijs
Bril’s Monumental Landscapes in the Torre dei Venti: A Mediation of the Sacred
and the Secular in late 16th-century Rome”
Mike Adams (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts) “Space as Time:
Heterotopias in Renaissance Paintings of the Annunciation”
Susanne Beiweis (University of Vienna) “The Mirror of the Cosmos and Marsilio
Ficino’s Conception of the Talisman”
Anna Marazuela Kim (University of Virginia) “Idols of Art and of the Mind:
Michelangelo’s Rondanini pietà”
SEAVER 2– International Exchange
Chair: Rachael Scarborough King, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michelle Meza (California State University, Fullerton) “Preserving the Past:
History Writing and Obituaries in English Convents, 1600-1800”
Amos Tubb (Centre College) “‘Let the state paie me my monie’: The Rhetoric of
Petitioning in Cromwell’s England”
Helmer Helmers (University of Amsterdam) “Anglo-Dutch History Translation in
the Wars of the Three Kingdoms”
Sara Torres (University of California, Los Angeles) “Repatriation in James
Wadsworth’s The English Spanish Pilgrimage: A Renegade Comes Home”
SEAVER 3 – Early Modern Poetry
Chair: Martine van Elk, California State University, Long Beach
Paul Dustin Stegner (California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo) “Ovid’s
Flea and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus”
Wendy Furman-Adams (Whittier College) “Eve as Body, Soul, and Place: Paradise
Lost Illustrations, 1688-1937”
Nicole A. Jacobs (California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo) “Eve’s
Curse: Motherhood and Scripture in Early Modern England”
Matt Smith (University of Alabama) “The Paradigm of Temptation in John Milton”
 3.40 – 4:45: KEYNOTE LECTURE – THE AHMANSON CLASSROOM
Introduction: Bryan Givens, Pepperdine University
Cyndia Clegg
Distinguished Professor of English
Pepperdine University
“An Archival Adventuress: Or, Anglicanism Undone”
Closing Remarks: Andrew Griffin

 4.45 – 5.45: Closing Reception, Banta Hall
