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The Medici : citizens and masters
Title
The Medici : citizens and masters / Robert Black and John E. Law, editors.
ISBN
9780674088443
0674088441
Publication
[Florence] : Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, [2015]
Physical Description
xii, 432 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Notes
Most of these papers were presented at a conference, held at Villa I Tatti, Florence, 12-14 October 2011.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 06, 2016
Series
Villa I Tatti ; 32
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface / John E. Law
Introduction / Robert Black
PART 1. POWER AND LEGITIMACY.
Dominant cities : Florence, Genoa, Venice, and their territories in the fifteenth century / Giorgio Chittolini
Medicean Florence and beyond : legitimacy of power and urban traditions / Gian Maria Varanini
Communal traditions and personal power in Renaissance Florence : the Medici as signori / Andrea Zorzi
Diplomacy, language, and the "arts of power" / Melissa Meriam Bullard
Lorenzo the Magnificent's regime : aims, iimage, and constitutional framework / Riccardo Fubini
Medici and Sforza : breeds apart? / Jane Black
Tuscans and Lombards : the political culture of officialdom / Marco Gentile
Piero in power, 1492-94 : a balance sheet for four generations of Medici control / Alison Brown
PART II. ECONOMIC POLICY.
Medici economic policy / Franco Franceschi
Lorenzo de' Medici and foreigners : recommendations and reprisals / Lorenz Böninger
PART III. RELIGION AND THE CHURCH.
The Albizzi, the early Medici, and the Florentine church, 1375-1460 / David S. Peterson
Religion and literature in oligarchic, Medicean, and Savonarolan Florence / Paolo Orvieto
A cardinal in Rome : a Florentine and Medici ambition / David S. Chambers
PART IV. THE MEDICI AND THEIR IMAGE.
Patriarchal ideals, patronage practices and the authority of Cosimo "il Vecchio" / Dale V. Kent
The Medici : defenders of liberty in fifteenth-century Florence / Francesco Bausi
Medicean theater : image and message / Paola Ventrone
Sound patrons : the Medici and Florentine musical life / Blake Wilson
The Medici question : a rhetorical "special case"? / Stephen J. Milner
Marking time : Medici imagery and princely iconography / Alison Wright
The politics of castellation / Amanda Lillie
Cosimo de' Medici and Francesco Sforza in Machiavelli's Florentine histories / John M. Najemy
Florence and Ferrara : dynastic marriage and politics / Carolyn James.
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