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Author : Carolyn Renfrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063714615
Author : Melissa Meriam Bullard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052108816X
Filippo Strozzi (1489-1538), the Florentine aristocrat and banker, is usually remembered for the dramatic exploits at the end of his life. Forced into exile, he became an outspoken defender of the last Florentine Republic against the tyranny of the city's new dukes. His place in Florentine history, however, changes drastically when we focus not on his final years but on his extensive career as a Medici favourite and loyal financier. At the courts of the Medici popes he furthered the grandiose schemes of Leo X and Clement VII and accumulated a personal fortune of legendary size. Dr Bullard's study reassesses Strozzi's place in Renaissance history and considers the more general problems of paper economy and war finance, and Florentine political life, in the early sixteenth century. It documents the intricate financial ties between Florence and the papal court, and Strozzi's key role as a manipulator of the city's public funds to pay for papal wars.
Author : William J. Landon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442644243
William J. Landon reveals Strozzi's influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi's Pistola fatta per la peste for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.
Author : William J. Landon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442699489
By 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli’s life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there is one figure whose substantial contributions to Machiavelli’s restoration has been hitherto neglected – Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi (1482–1549), a younger and fabulously wealthy Florentine nobleman. As manuscript evidence suggests, Strozzi brought Machiavelli into his patronage network and aided many of his post-1520 achievements. This book is the first English biography of Strozzi, as well as the first examination of the patron-client relationship that developed between the two men. William J. Landon reveals Strozzi’s influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi’s Pistola fatta per la peste – a work that survives as a Machiavelli autograph, and for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.
Author : Ann Crabb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 047210912X
Enter the turbulent world of a Florentine family through personal correspondence
Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Italy
ISBN : BSB:BSB10079901
Author : Alessandra Strozzi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520917392
The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adverse circumstances, and who was an acute observer of Medicean society. Her letters speak of political and social status, of the concept of honor, and of the harshness of life, including the plague and the loss of children. They are also a guide to Alessandra's inner life over a period of twenty-three years, revealing the pain and sorrow, and, more rarely, the joy and triumph, with which she responded to the events unfolding around her. This edition includes translations, in full or in part, of 35 of the 73 extant letters. The selections carry forward the story of Alessandra's life and illustrate the range of attitudes, concerns, and activities which were characteristic of their author.
Author : Peta Motture
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
ISBN : 9780300090802
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433069268062
Author : Boston Athenaeum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3330813
Author : John Pope-Hennessy
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780870998393
Author : Nicholas Scott Baker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674727625
In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject. More than a chronological narrative, this analysis covers a wide range of contributing factors to this transition, from attitudes toward office holding, clothing, and the patronage of artists and architects to notions of self, family, and gender. Using a wide variety of sources including private letters, diaries, and art works, Nicholas Baker explores how the language, images, and values of the republic were reconceptualized to aid the shift from citizen to subject. He argues that the creation of Medici principality did not occur by a radical break with the past but with the adoption and adaptation of the political culture of Renaissance republicanism.
Author : Elettra Carbone
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788868123840
Because of its history, art, and natural and cultural landscapes, Italy has been a popular destination for North-European travellers since the age of the Grand Tour. Yet, literary images of Italy are not all linked to the tradition of the journey to this country and cannot be labelled as a manifestation of Northerners’ yearning for the Southern sun. The corpus of critical literature which deals with Italy in Nordic literatures is very wide but also fragmentary. While many scholars have written about this topic and chiefly on the relations between individual Scandinavian literatures or well-known authors – such as Henrik Ibsen, Selma Lagerlöf and Hans Christian Andersen – and Italy, few have emphasised their variety, plurality, and complexity. With its comparative approach, this study casts a new light on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of Italy and presents some of these Nordic Italies. Taking into account texts of different genres – poetry, drama and novel – and focusing on theories of representation, genre, and space, this book examines complex and heterogeneous literary representations that cannot be reduced to a single stereotype. In these texts, Italy emerges both as a set of physical spaces and as a series of metaphorical concepts. How are these Italian spaces and identities constructed and what do they stand for? What forms does the broad concept of Italianness take in these literary works? How are the Italian settings and characters, as well as the aspects of Italian politics, history, society, culture, and folklore that populate so many literary texts, shaped and combined? Is there a relationship between specific literary genres and the way in which Italy is represented? These are only some of the questions addressed by this study, which demonstrates how Nordic representations of Italy express much more than unanimous praise for the sun, idyllic landscapes, ruins, and mandolin players.
Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1377547809
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Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 046123033X
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