Research Catalog

Title

The Medici : citizens and masters / Robert Black and John E. Law, editors.

Publication

• Florence : Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Law, John E. (John Easton)
• Black, Robert, 1946-

Description

xii, 432 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Series Statement

Villa I Tatti ; 32

Uniform Title

Villa I Tatti (Series) 32

Subject

• Medici, House of > Congresses
• Medici, House of
• To 1737
• Renaissance > Florence > Congresses
• Arts > Florence > Congresses
• Power (Social sciences) > Florence > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Statesmen > Florence > Biography
• Arts
• Civilization
• Politics and government
• Power (Social sciences)
• Renaissance
• Statesmen
• Florence (Italy) > Civilization > Congresses
• Florence (Italy) > Politics and government > 1421-1737 > Congresses
• Florence (Italy) > History > 1421-1737 > Congresses
• Italy > Florence

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Most of these papers were presented at a conference, held at Villa I Tatti, Florence, 12-14 October 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-418) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780674088443 (alkaline paper)
• 0674088441 (alkaline paper)

LCCN

^^2015004982

OCLC

• 910424176
• SCSB-11742814

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library