The King, his Ambassador, their Spies and Informants.
Agency in Early Modern Europe

International Conference hosted by Leiden University, the Netherlands

Monday 18 December 2006

10.00 – 10.30 registration & coffee

10.30 – 10.45 welcome & introduction

10.45 – 12.15 session 1
Christoph Frank, (Accademia di Architettura, USI, Mendrisio):
Culture and sometimes politics: cultural agents, their ambitions and
their interlocutors

Peter Hauge (Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen):
John Dowland’s employment at the Danish royal court: musician, agent –
and spy?

12.30 – 14.00 lunch

14.00 – 15.30 session 2
Mark Meadow (Leiden University / University of California, Santa Barbara):
The Fugger agency in transmitting knowledge of the New World

Paul Begheyn SJ (Nederlands Instituut voor Jezuïeten Studies, Amsterdam):
The Italian jesuit Martino Martini in China and his contact with the
Amsterdam printer Joan Blaeu

15.30 – 15.45 coffee & tea

15.45 – 17.15 session 3
Maartje van Gelder (Leiden University / Amsterdam University):
Where paintings and politics meet: the studio di pittura of Daniel Nijs,
art dealer, merchant, and political informer in early modern Venice

Robert Hill (Bournemouth School, Dorset):
Wotton, Carleton and Trumbull: ambassadors and art collecting in early
Stuart England

17.30 – 19.00 reception

19.30 conference dinner

Tuesday 19 December 2006

10.00 – 10.30 coffee

10.30 – 12.15 session 4
Thomas Kirk (NYU, Florence):
Giovanni Andrea Doria (1539-1606); citizen and subject

Helen Jacobsen (New College, Oxford):
Politics or pleasure? The Earl of Arlington’s diplomatic network

12.15 – 14.00 lunch

14.00 – 15.30 session 5
Bianca Chen (EUI, Florence):
Politics and letters. Gijsbert Cuper as servant of two republics

Michael North (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald):/
/The art dealer and gallery director Gerhard Morell as cultural broker
between the Netherlands, Northern Germany and Denmark

15.30 – 15.45 tea

15.45 – 16.30 session 6
Martin Dönike (Humboldt Universität, Berlin):
“From Russia with love” – agents and their victims

Marika Keblusek (Leiden University):
Concluding remarks

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