The Medici
Subtitle: citizens and masters
By: Robert Black and John E. Law, editors
Edition: First edition.
Series: Villa I Tatti -- 32
Publisher: Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; Villa I Tatti
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Florence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780674088443
Subjects: Politics and government; Arts; History; Renaissance; Civilization; Congresses; Power (Social sciences); Biography; Statesmen
Notes: Most of these papers were presented at a conference, held at Villa I Tatti, Florence, 12-14 October 2011.

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