Giuliano De Medici

Author : Josephine Jungić
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773553699

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Giuliano de' Medici by Josephine Jungić Pdf

Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479–1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici partisans who feared his popularity and respect for republican self-rule. Rejecting the autocratic rule imposed by his nephew, Lorenzo (Duke of Urbino), and brother, Giovanni (Pope Leo X), Giuliano advocated restraint and retention of republican traditions, believing his family should be “first among equals” and not more. As a result, the family and those closest to them wrote him out of the political scene, and historians – relying too heavily upon the accounts of supporters of Cardinal Giovanni and the Medici regime – followed suit. Interpreting works of art, books, and letters as testimony, Jungic constructs a new narrative to demonstrate that Giuliano was loved and admired by some of the most talented and famous men of his day, including Cesare Borgia, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Niccolò Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael. More than a political biography, this volume offers a refreshing look at a man who was a significant patron and ally of intellectuals, artists, and religious reformers, revealing Giuliano to be at the heart of the period’s most significant cultural accomplishments.

Author : E. Battye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590061481

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Giuliano De' Medici by E. Battye Pdf

Author : E. Battye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0371226848

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Giuliano De' Medici, and Other Poems by E. Battye Pdf

Author : Mrs. Sandbach Henry R.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11333484

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Giuliano De' Medici by Mrs. Sandbach Henry R. Pdf

Author : Sandbach Henry R
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356984037

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Giuliano De' Medici by Sandbach Henry R Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : E. Battye
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0649593944

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Giuliano De' Medici, and Other Poems by E. Battye Pdf

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Author : Henry R. Sandbach
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0469407395

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Giuliano De' Medici: A Drama in Five Acts with Other Poems by Henry R. Sandbach Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780271044606

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The Stanze of Angelo Poliziano by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marcello Simonetta
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385526807

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The Montefeltro Conspiracy by Marcello Simonetta Pdf

A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved. The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s classic work on take-no-prisoners politics, The Prince. The attempted assassination of the Medici brothers in the Duomo in Florence in 1478 is one of the best-known examples of the machinations endemic to the age. While the assailants were the Medici’s rivals, the Pazzi family, questions have always lingered about who really orchestrated the attack, which has come to be known as the Pazzi Conspiracy. More than five hundred years later, Marcello Simonetta, working in a private archive in Italy, stumbled upon a coded letter written by Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, to Pope Sixtus IV. Using a codebook written by his own ancestor to crack its secrets, Simonetta unearthed proof of an all-out power grab by the Pope for control of Florence. Montefeltro, long believed to be a close friend of Lorenzo de Medici, was in fact conspiring with the Pope to unseat the Medici and put the more malleable Pazzi in their place. In The Montefeltro Conspiracy, Simonetta unravels this plot, showing not only how the plot came together but how its failure (only one of the Medici brothers, Giuliano, was killed; Lorenzo survived) changed the course of Italian and papal history for generations. In the course of his gripping narrative, we encounter the period’s most colorful characters, relive its tumultuous politics, and discover that two famous paintings, including one in the Sistine Chapel, contain the Medici’s astounding revenge.

Author : Miles Unger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743254342

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Magnifico by Miles Unger Pdf

Miles Unger's biography of this complex figure draws on primary research in Italian sources and on his intimate knowledge of Florence, where he lived for several years."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard Stapleford
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827867

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The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli by John M. Najemy Pdf

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.

Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195348439

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April Blood by Lauro Martines Pdf

One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. Lorenzo scrambled to safety as Giuliano bled to death on the cathedral floor. April Blood moves outward in time and space from that murderous event, unfolding a story of tangled passions, ambition, treachery, and revenge. The conspiracy was led by one of the city's most noble clans, the Pazzi, financiers who feared and resented the Medici's swaggering new role as political bosses--but the web of intrigue spread through all of Italy. Bankers, mercenaries, the Duke of Urbino, the King of Naples, and Pope Sixtus IV entered secretly into the plot. Florence was plunged into a peninsular war, and Lorenzo was soon fighting for his own and his family's survival. The failed assassination doomed the Pazzi. Medici revenge was swift and brutal--plotters were hanged or beheaded, innocents were hacked to pieces, and bodies were put out to dangle from the windows of the government palace. All remaining members of the larger Pazzi clan were forced to change their surname, and every public sign or symbol of the family was expunged or destroyed. April Blood offers us a fresh portrait of Renaissance Florence, where dazzling artistic achievements went side by side with violence, craft, and bare-knuckle politics. At the center of the canvas is the figure of Lorenzo the Magnificent--poet, statesman, connoisseur, patron of the arts, and ruthless "boss of bosses." This extraordinarily vivid account of a turning point in the Italian Renaissance is bound to become a lasting work of history.

Author : Mary Logan Berenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:79078964

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"Botticelli's Portrait of Giuliano De' Medici". by Mary Logan Berenson Pdf

Author : Alyssa Palombo
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466882645

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The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence by Alyssa Palombo Pdf

"In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and sensual interpretation of Medici Florence, artist Sandro Botticelli, and the muse that inspired them all." - Booklist A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family’s favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici’s glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men of Florence—most notably the rakish Giuliano de’ Medici—become enthralled with her beauty. That she is educated and an ardent reader of poetry makes her more desirable and fashionable still. But it is her acquaintance with a young painter, Sandro Botticelli, which strikes her heart most. Botticelli immediately invites Simonetta, newly proclaimed the most beautiful woman in Florence, to pose for him. As Simonetta learns to navigate her marriage, her place in Florentine society, and the politics of beauty and desire, she and Botticelli develop a passionate intimacy, one that leads to her immortalization in his masterpiece, The Birth of Venus. Alyssa Palombo’s The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence vividly captures the dangerous allure of the artist and muse bond with candor and unforgettable passion.