The Medici Letters

Author : Maria Salviati De' Medici
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1649590458

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Selected Letters, 1514-1543 by Maria Salviati De' Medici Pdf

The voluminous correspondence of Maria Salviati de' Medici. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in Maria Salviati de' Medici, specifically, in her role in Medici governance and her relationships with other members of the Medici court. Maria Salviati's surviving correspondence documents a life spent close to the centers of Medici power in Florence and Rome, giving witness to its failures, resurrection, and eventual triumph. Presented here for the first time in English, this book is a representative sample of Maria's surviving letters that document her remarkable life through a tumultuous period of Italian Renaissance history. While she earned the exasperation of some, she gained the respect of many more. Maria ended her life as an influential dowager, powerful intercessor for local Tuscans of all strata, and wise elder in Duke Cosimo I's court. The first critical, analytical, biographical work on Maria Salviati de' Medici's life and letter-writing in English.

Author : Taylor Buck
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 1517530431

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The Medici Letters by Taylor Buck Pdf

An investigation of the murder of archaeologist Kat Cullen's partner leads Kat's husband and scientist Chester Allen to believe that the Medici treasure is very real and they are not the only ones interested in finding it.

Author : Jeff Copeland
Publisher : C&C Books
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780974161716

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THE MEDICI LETTERS by Jeff Copeland Pdf

A pope, a king, and a banker, dead for nearly 500 years, hold the key to finding a relic stolen from the Holy Land, a relic that has killed more than once―year 541, Justinian Plague, 500 million dead―and one man, with the help of a beautiful assassin, can stop the coming apocalypse. It’s 1930, Yale University Anthropology Department, Dr. Fox Marshall is a young epidemiologist, an expert in plagues and the sixteenth century Italian Renaissance. His latest conspiracy theory links the Medici banks with a Neapolitan king and an indulgent Renaissance pope. While in his office one August evening, an intriguing yet mysterious woman, Tatya von Daliás, confronts him; her enticement, seven Medici Letters, letters which validate his Medici-King-Papacy triangle theory and also lead to a valuable Christian relic. She beguiles him into chasing the letters and boarding the freighter Jenny Rae for Europe, where he discovers he is not the only one seeking the Medici letters and the Holy Land relic.

Author : Maria Salviati de' Medici
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : 1649590466

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Selected Letters, 1514-1543 by Maria Salviati de' Medici Pdf

"A selection of 150 of the approximately 300 letters by Maria Salviati de' Medici, mother of Cosimo I de' Medici, the first grand-duke of Tuscany, witnessing her considerable importance in the political and cultural life of Renaissance Florence"--

Author : Benedetto Blanis,Edward L. Goldberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442643833

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A Jew at the Medici Court by Benedetto Blanis,Edward L. Goldberg Pdf

Edward Goldberg shares his sensational discovery of the largest body of surviving correspondence from any Jew in Early Modern Europe. Over the course of six years, Benedetto Blanis — a scholar and entrepreneur in the Florentine Ghetto — wrote nearly 200 letters to his princely patron Don Giovanni dei Medici. For the first time, these letters are available in a definitive critical edition — with full transcriptions in the original Italian, English language summaries, and explanatory notes. This book is a companion volume to Jews and Magic in Medici Florence, in which Goldberg narrates Blanis's startling rise and fall. Readers can now take a step closer and hear Blanis's compelling story in his own words — tracing his fraught relations with Jews and Christians, his desperate (and often illegal) business schemes, his disastrous strategies for advancement at the Medici Court, and his pursuit of arcane knowledge, including astrology, alchemy, and Kabbalah.

Author : House of Medici,Harry Gordon Selfridge,Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : UOM:39015008265988

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Florentine Merchants in the Age of the Medici by House of Medici,Harry Gordon Selfridge,Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration Pdf

Author : Bartolommeo Fonte
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674058361

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Letters to Friends by Bartolommeo Fonte Pdf

The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio—a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli—are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl.

Author : Maria Salviati de' Medici
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : 1649590474

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Selected Letters, 1514-1543 by Maria Salviati de' Medici Pdf

"A selection of 150 of the approximately 300 letters by Maria Salviati de' Medici, mother of Cosimo I de' Medici, the first grand-duke of Tuscany, witnessing her considerable importance in the political and cultural life of Renaissance Florence"--

Author : John Boyle Earl of Orrery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1773
Category : Italy
ISBN : BNC:1001963388

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Letters from Italy in the Years 1754 and 1755 by John Boyle Earl of Orrery Pdf

Author : Janet Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : IND:32000002192526

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Lives of the Early Medici by Janet Ross Pdf

Author : House Of Archives Medici
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0265243882

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Catalogue of the Medici Archives, Consisting of Rare Autograph Letters, Records and Documents, 1084-1770 by House Of Archives Medici Pdf

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Medici Archives, Consisting of Rare Autograph Letters, Records and Documents, 1084-1770: Including One Hundred and Sixty-Six Holograph Letters of Lorenzo the Magnificent It will be noticed that almost all of Lorenzo's letters now before us are addressed to Pietro Alamanni, Florentine ambassador at Milan, and afterwards at Rome and Naples. The other papers composing the section whose presence here we have to explain are letters received by Lorenzo and sent on by him to Alamanni for reference, copies of Lorenzo's instructions to other ambassadors or of their despatches to him, the Florentine government's instructions to Alamanni, Alamanni's letter-books, and a few letters from Lorenzo to the Pope and other persons, which are probably duplicates. Lorenzo frequently wrote two copies of letters, and sent them by different routes for greater security. When both copies reached the ambassador he delivered one and kept the other. These papers were plainly the part of Alamanni's embassy-archives dating from the years May 1489 - April 1492. A modern diplomatist would not be allowed to take such documents home with him when he retired, but usage in these matters was different four centuries ago, and ambassadors treated official correspondence that remained in their hands as their own private property. Many instances might be mentioned, but perhaps the celebrated collection at Besancon, in which hundreds of signed letters from the Emperor Charles V. Have found a place because the ambassadors, members and connexions of the Granville family, to whom they were addressed, did not return them to the Imperial chancery, may suffice to Show that the practice was general. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Gertrude Randolph Bramlette Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602033296

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Florentine Merchants in the Age of the Medici by Gertrude Randolph Bramlette Richards Pdf

Author : Medici, House of. Archives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015025916472

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Catalogue of the Medici Archives, Consisting of Rare Autograph Letters, Records and Documents, 1084-1770 by Medici, House of. Archives Pdf

Author : Gabrielle Langdon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780802038258

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Medici Women by Gabrielle Langdon Pdf

The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretensions of the absolutist ruler, Duke Cosimo and his consort, Eleonora di Toledo, and was part of a Herculean programme of propaganda to establish legitimacy and prestige for the new sixteenth-century Florentine court. In this engaging and original study, Gabrielle Langdon analyses selected portraits of women by Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, Alessandro Allori, and other masters. She defines their function as works of art, as dynastic declarations, and as encoded documents of court culture and propaganda, illuminating Cosimo's conscious fashioning of his court portraiture in imitation of the great courts of Europe. Langdon explores the use of portraiture as a vehicle to express Medici political policy, such as with Cosimo's Hapsburg and Papal alliances in his bid to be made Grand Duke with hegemony over rival Italian princes. Stories from archives, letters, diaries, chronicles, and secret ambassadorial briefs, open up a world of fascinating, personalities, personal triumphs, human frailty, rumour, intrigue, and appalling tragedies. Lavishly illustrated, Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I is an indispensable work for anyone with a passion for Italian renaissance history, art, and court culture.

Author : Lia Markey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,8 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.