Provenance and Possession : Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, K. J. P.

Series:

E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italy--Commerce--Portugal--History--15th century.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton University Press 2024

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Provenance and Possession".

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Provenance and Its Discontents. Evidence, Relevance, Language, Knowledge

2. The World beyond Italy. Keeping Up-to-date with Portuguese Overseas Expansion: Tracking and Assimilating the New Global Realities in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy

3. Florence's 'Black' Babies. Renaissance Florence Meets Sub-Saharan Africa: Mixed-Ancestry Children at the Ospedale degli Innocenti

4. Inanimate Global Goods. Buying for the Medici Collection on the Iberian Peninsula in the 1540s

5. Living Global Goods. The Acquisition of Living Goods for the Medici from the Portuguese Trading Empire: Provenance and Possession of Flesh and Blood

Color Plates

6. Global Sensibilities. Possessing Consciousness of the Global World in Renaissance Italy: A Papal Official's Experience in 1590s Lisbon

Parting Thoughts: Knowledge, Ignorance and Non-knowledge

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780691246895

0691246890

OCLC:

1420639793