Title & Author:

Cosimo 'il Vecchio' de' Medici, 1389-1464 : essays in commemoration of the 600th anniversary of Cosimo de' Medici's birth : including papers delivered at the Society for Renaissance Studies Sexcentenary Symposium at the Warburg Institute, London, 19 May 1989 / edited by Francis Ames-Lewis ; with an introduction by E.H. Gombrich.

Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press, 1992.

Description:

xii, 316 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-303) and index.
Cosimo optimus civis / Nicolai Rubinstein -- Cosimo and the popes / George Holmes -- Cosimo de' Medici and Arezzo / Robert Black -- The Buonomini di San Martino: charity for 'the glory of God, the honour of the city, and the commemoration of myself' / Dale Kent -- Cosimo de' Medici as a patron of humanistic literature / James Hankins -- Cosimo de' Medici's wit and wisdom / Alison Brown -- Cosimo and his books / A.C. de la Mare -- Cosimo de' Medici and San Lorenzo / Caroline Elam -- Cosimo de' Medici and the Franciscan observants at Bosco ai Frati / Crispin Robinson -- Fraternal piety and family power: the artistic patronage of Cosimo and Lorenzo de' Medici / John Paoletti -- Cosimo de' Medici and the chapel of his palace / Rab Hatfield -- Dante and Lumen Christi: a proposal for the meaning of the tomb of Cosimo de' Medici / Susan McKillop.

Summary:

"No wide-ranging consideration of the life and career of Cosimo 'il Vecchio' de' Medici has been published since Gutkind's justly celebrated 1938 monograph. The sexcentenary of Cosimo de' Medici's birth in 1989 provided the Society for Renaissance Studies with the opportunity and the stimulus to organize a scholarly Symposium, held at the Warburg Institute, University of London, in May 1989, to reconsider aspects of the character, political interests and art patronage of perhaps the greatest statesman of early Renaissance Italy. Published here are the seven papers delivered at the Symposium, with five others written especially for this volume. The authors discuss various facets of Cosimo's personality, his political and his cultural activities, among them his wit, his relations with the Popes of his time, his literary interests, his patronage of church building, of the fine arts, and finally the imagery of his tomb."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0198173946
9780198173946

Subject:

Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464.
Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464 Anniversaries, etc. Congresses.
Médicis, Cosme de, (1389-1464)
Kings and rulers.
Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) Kings and rulers Biography.
Florence (Italie) Histoire 1421-1737.
Rois et souverains Italie Florence Biographies.
Italy Florence.
Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737 Congresses.
Florence (Italie) Civilisation 15e siècle.
Medici, Cosimo de' 1389-1464

Form/genre:

Festschriften.
History
Biographies.

Added entries:

Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464.
Ames-Lewis, Francis, 1943-
Society for Renaissance Studies (Great Britain)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 73146
Call No.: ID:92-B1543
Status: Available