Title & Author:

The Medici : citizens and masters / Robert Black and John E. Law, editors.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Florence : Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, [2015]

Description:

xii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Villa I Tatti ; 32

Notes:
Most of these papers were presented at a conference, held at Villa I Tatti, Florence, 12-14 October 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-418) and index.
Preface / John E. Law -- Introduction / Robert Black -- PART 1. POWER AND LEGITIMACY. Dominant cities : Florence, Genoa, Venice, and their territories in the fifteenth century / Giorgio Chittolini -- Medicean Florence and beyond : legitimacy of power and urban traditions / Gian Maria Varanini -- Communal traditions and personal power in Renaissance Florence : the Medici as signori / Andrea Zorzi -- Diplomacy, language, and the "arts of power" / Melissa Meriam Bullard -- Lorenzo the Magnificent's regime : aims, iimage, and constitutional framework / Riccardo Fubini -- Medici and Sforza : breeds apart? / Jane Black -- Tuscans and Lombards : the political culture of officialdom / Marco Gentile -- Piero in power, 1492-94 : a balance sheet for four generations of Medici control / Alison Brown -- PART II. ECONOMIC POLICY. Medici economic policy / Franco Franceschi -- Lorenzo de' Medici and foreigners : recommendations and reprisals / Lorenz Böninger -- PART III. RELIGION AND THE CHURCH. The Albizzi, the early Medici, and the Florentine church, 1375-1460 / David S. Peterson -- Religion and literature in oligarchic, Medicean, and Savonarolan Florence / Paolo Orvieto -- A cardinal in Rome : a Florentine and Medici ambition / David S. Chambers -- PART IV. THE MEDICI AND THEIR IMAGE. Patriarchal ideals, patronage practices and the authority of Cosimo "il Vecchio" / Dale V. Kent -- The Medici : defenders of liberty in fifteenth-century Florence / Francesco Bausi -- Medicean theater : image and message / Paola Ventrone -- Sound patrons : the Medici and Florentine musical life / Blake Wilson -- The Medici question : a rhetorical "special case"? / Stephen J. Milner -- Marking time : Medici imagery and princely iconography / Alison Wright -- The politics of castellation / Amanda Lillie -- Cosimo de' Medici and Francesco Sforza in Machiavelli's Florentine histories / John M. Najemy -- Florence and Ferrara : dynastic marriage and politics / Carolyn James.

ISBN:

9780674088443 (alkaline paper)
0674088441 (alkaline paper)

Subject:

Medici, House of Congresses.
Medici, släkt.
Maison des Médicis Congrès.
Medici, House of.
Medici Familie ca. 13.Jh.-18.Jh.
Médicis famille.
Renaissance Italy Florence Congresses.
Arts Italy Florence Congresses.
Power (Social sciences) Italy Florence History To 1500 Congresses.
Statesmen Italy Florence Biography.
Renaissance Italie Florence Congrès.
Hommes d'État Italie Florence Biographies.
Arts.
Civilization.
Politics and government.
Power (Social sciences)
Renaissance.
Statesmen.
Kultur
Härskare.
Florence (Italy) Civilization Congresses.
Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737 Congresses.
Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737 Congresses.
Florence (Italie) Administration 1421-1737 Congrès.
Florence (Italie) Histoire 1421-1737 Congrès.
Italy Florence.
Florenz
Florence (Italie)
Italien Florens.

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Black, Robert, 1946- editor.
Law, John E. (John Easton), editor.
Villa I Tatti (Series) ; 32.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294188
Call No.: BIB 239569
Status: Available