Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Villa I Tatti houses a research library containing 140,000 volumes and maintains an extensive collection of 250,000 photographs dedicated to Renaissance studies.

The property transformed from a seventeenth-century farmhouse into a Renaissance villa after Bernard Berenson and Mary Whitall Pearsall Smith acquired it in 1907.

The Morrill Music Library within Villa I Tatti preserves manuscripts and documents of Italian musical compositions dating from ancient Greece through the early baroque period.

The research center provides fellowship opportunities for post-doctoral scholars focusing on Italian Renaissance studies across multiple academic disciplines.

The gardens, designed by Cecil Pinsent in 1909, feature terraced levels, cobblestone pathways, and tall cypress trees that create separate garden sections.

Location: Florence

Location: Fiesole

Inception: 1961

Website: http://itatti.harvard.edu/

Website: http://itatti.harvard.edu

GPS coordinates: 43.79430,11.31510

Latest update: May 12, 2025 05:44