Giuliano de' Medici : Machiavelli's prince in life and art / Josephine Jungić ; edited and revised by Anne Leader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jungić, Josephine, 1942-2013, author.

Contributor:

Leader, Anne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medici, Giuliano de', duca di Nemours, 1479-1516.

Medici, Giuliano de'.

Medici, Giuliano de', duca di Nemours, 1479-1516--Friends and associates.

Medici, House of.

Nobility--Italy--Florence--Biography.

Nobility.

Friends and associates.

Italy--Florence.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 298 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano's life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici partisans who feared his popularity and respect for republican self-rule. Rejecting the autocratic rule imposed by his nephew, Lorenzo (Duke of Urbino), and brother, Giovanni (Pope Leo X), Giuliano advocated restraint and retention of republican traditions, believing his family should be "first among equals" and not more. As a result, the family and those closest to them wrote him out of the political scene, and historians - relying too heavily upon the accounts of supporters of Cardinal Giovanni and the Medici regime - followed suit. Interpreting works of art, books, and letters as testimony, Jungic constructs a new narrative to demonstrate that Giuliano was loved and admired by some of the most talented and famous men of his day, including Cesare Borgia, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Niccolo Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773553200

0773553207

OCLC:

1013481742