Florence After The Medici

Author : Corey Tazzara,Paula Findlen,Jacob Soll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000711707

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Florence After the Medici by Corey Tazzara,Paula Findlen,Jacob Soll Pdf

Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane’s Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten Centuries (1973). It is high time to revisit the Tuscan Enlightenment. This volume brings together an international group of scholars with the goal of putting to rest the idea that Florence ceased to be interesting after the Renaissance. Indeed, it is partly the explicit dialogue between Renaissance and Enlightenment that makes eighteenth-century Tuscany so interesting. This enlightened age looked to the past. It began the Herculean project of collecting, editing, and publishing many of the manuscripts that today form the bedrock of any serious study of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Vasari, Galileo, and other Tuscan writers. This was an age of public libraries, projects of cultural restoration, and the emergence of the Uffizi as a public art gallery, complemented by a science museum in Peter Leopold’s reign whose relics can still be visited in the Museo Galileo and La Specola.

Author : J. Lucas-Dubreton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000021837

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Daily Life in Florence by J. Lucas-Dubreton Pdf

Originally published in 1960, paints a picture of what life was like in Renaissance Florence. It examines private and public life of Florentine citizens, governance and defence; the life of women; domestic arrangements; ritual and ceremony, siege and plague.

Author : Lia Markey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271078229

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Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence by Lia Markey Pdf

The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that the Medici grand dukes of Florence were not only great patrons of artists but also early conservators of American culture. In collecting New World objects such as featherwork, codices, turquoise, and live plants and animals, the Medici grand dukes undertook a “vicarious conquest” of the Americas. As a result of their efforts, Renaissance Florence boasted one of the largest collections of objects from the New World as well as representations of the Americas in a variety of media. Through a close examination of archival sources, including inventories and Medici letters, Lia Markey uncovers the provenance, history, and meaning of goods from and images of the Americas in Medici collections, and she shows how these novelties were incorporated into the culture of the Florentine court. More than just a study of the discoveries themselves, this volume is a vivid exploration of the New World as it existed in the minds of the Medici and their contemporaries. Scholars of Italian and American art history will especially welcome and benefit from Markey’s insight.

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847656872

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Medici Money by Tim Parks Pdf

The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent who presided over its precipitous decline). The Medici faced two apparently insuperable problems: how did a banker deal with the fact that the Church regarded interest as a sin and had made it illegal? How in a small republic like Florence could he avoid having his wealth taken away by taxation? But the bank became indispensable to the Church. And the family completely subverted Florence's claims to being democratic. They ran the city. Medici Money explores a crucial moment in the passage from the Middle Ages to the Modern world, a moment when our own attitudes to money and morals were being formed. To read this book is to understand how much the Renaissance has to tell us about our own world. Medici Money is one of the launch titles in a new series, Atlas Books, edited by James Atlas. Atlas Books pairs fine writers with stories of the economic forces that have shaped the world, in a new genre - the business book as literature.

Author : Emma Micheletti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X006090881

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The Medici of Florence by Emma Micheletti Pdf

Author : Cristina Acidini,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Palazzo Strozzi,Art Institute of Chicago,Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italie).,Detroit Institute of Arts,Art institute (Chicago, Ill.).,Marco Chiarini
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300094957

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The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence by Cristina Acidini,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Palazzo Strozzi,Art Institute of Chicago,Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italie).,Detroit Institute of Arts,Art institute (Chicago, Ill.).,Marco Chiarini Pdf

"Publisdhed in conjuntion with the exhibition: Magnificenza! the Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (In Italy, L'Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze, 1538-1631) ..."--Title page verso.

Author : J. R. Hale
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1842124560

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Florence and the Medici by J. R. Hale Pdf

The enduring fascination of the Medici emanates from their ability as individuals and as a family to control the government of Florence - first, within a quasi-democratic system, and finally through dynastic inheritance.Based on the latest research, Professor Hale's masterly study thus presents an account of the Medici that serves as a history of Florence from the early fifteenth to the early eighteenth century.

Author : Nicolai Rubinstein
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon P
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Florence
ISBN : UOM:39015020713791

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The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434-1494) by Nicolai Rubinstein Pdf

Author : Michel Plaisance
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0772720363

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Florence in the Time of the Medici by Michel Plaisance Pdf

Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781605988276

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Death in Florence by Paul Strathern Pdf

By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances. In Savonarola, an unprepossessing provincial monk, Lorenzo found his nemesis. Filled with Old Testament fury, Savonarola's sermons reverberated among a disenfranchised population, who preferred medieval Biblical certainties to the philosophical interrogations and intoxicating surface glitter of the Renaissance. The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events—invasions, trials by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths—featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures.In an exhilaratingly rich and deeply researched story, Paul Strathern reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts, and political compromises that made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history.

Author : Natalie R. Tomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351885836

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The Medici Women by Natalie R. Tomas Pdf

The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late medieval and early modern Italy and Europe. Tomas takes a feminist approach that examines the experience of the Medici women within a critical framework of gender analysis, rather than biography. Using the relationship between gender and power as a vantage point, she analyzes the Medici women's uses of power and influence over time. She also analyzes the varied contemporary reactions to and representation of that power, and the manner in which the women's actions in the political sphere changed over the course of the century between republican and ducal rule (1434-1537). The narrative focuses especially on how women were able to exercise power, the constraints placed upon them, and how their gender intersected with the exercise of power and influence. Keeping the historiography to a minimum and explaining all unfamiliar Italian terms, Tomas makes her narrative clear and accessible to non-specialists; thus The Medici Women appeals to scholars of women's studies across disciplines and geographical boundaries.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Florence (History)
ISBN : HARVARD:HNL3X3

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The Florentine Histories by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf

Author : Catherine Fletcher
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448182084

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The Black Prince of Florence by Catherine Fletcher Pdf

‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a ‘half-negro’ maidservant rides into Florence. Within a year, he rules the city as its Prince. Backed by the Pope and his future father-in-law the Holy Roman Emperor, the nineteen-year-old Alessandro faces down bloody family rivalry and the scheming hostility of Italy’s oligarchs to reassert the Medicis’ faltering grip on the turbulent city-state. Six years later, as he awaits an adulterous liaison, he will be murdered by his cousin in another man’s bed. ‘Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing’ Hilary Mantel

Author : Richard Stapleford
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271056418

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Lorenzo De' Medici at Home by Richard Stapleford Pdf

"An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Nicolai Rubinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : 6610765197

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The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494) by Nicolai Rubinstein Pdf

Preface to the second editionPart I: Cosimo de Medici and the foundations of the Medici RegimePart II: Piero di Cosimo: Republican Reaction and Medicean RestorationPart III: Lorenzo di Piero: the Medici at the Height of their PowerEpilogue: Piero di Lorenzo and the Fall of the RegimeAppendices