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The Medici : citizens and masters / Robert Black and John E. Law, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Villa I Tatti (Series) ; 32.
- Villa I Tatti ; 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medici, House of--Congresses.
- Medici, House of.
- Medici, släkt.
- Renaissance--Italy--Florence--Congresses.
- Renaissance.
- Power (Social sciences).
- History.
- Arts.
- Florence (Italy)--Civilization--Congresses.
- Florence (Italy).
- Arts--Italy--Florence--Congresses.
- Power (Social sciences)--Italy--Florence--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Statesmen--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Italy--Florence.
- Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737--Congresses.
- Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737--Congresses.
- Civilization.
- Politics and government.
- Local Subjects:
- Medici, släkt.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Florence : Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, [2015]
- Contents:
- 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.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780674088443
- 0674088441
- OCLC:
- 910424176
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