Date/Time
Date(s) - 13 Oct 2015
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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The Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance (#407) will next meet Tuesday, October 13th at 5:30 PM at Columbia’s Faculty House. We will hear a paper by Patricia Waddy (Syracuse), entitled “The Del Bufalo at Capo le Case.” Dinner will follow the talk at 7.
Please make sure to notify our Rapporteur ten days in advance if you plan to dine with us (please contact John Kuhn at jmk2187@columbia or 646-402-4168; text messages and voice mail are also acceptable). Note: payment for dinner ($25) is by check only, made out to Columbia University and collected by the rapporteur at dinner.
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Co-Chairs: Cynthia Pyle ([email protected]) and Alan Stewart ([email protected])
Acting Co-Chair: Kathy Eden ([email protected])
October 13: Patricia Waddy (Syracuse), “The Del Bufalo at Capo le Case”
Angelo (“il cavaliere”) del Bufalo, knighted by Paul II in 1464, acquired a house with garden adjacent to the Acqua Vergine in the neighborhood of Rome called “capo le case.” This “Casa del Giardino” came to serve variously, over the course of 250 years, as suburban retreat, famous garden of antiquities, family residence, dynastic seat, desirable rental property, and site of bitter contention in a 63-year-long law suit. The interests and aspirations of individual members of the Del Bufalo family, complicated by issues of inheritance and paralleled by changes in the neighborhood, provoked the architectural changes that supported those varied uses.