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Medici Supremacy

Author : Matteo Strukul
Publisher : Masters of Florence
ISBN 13 : 1786692155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Medici Supremacy written by Matteo Strukul and published by Masters of Florence. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Premio Bancarella, 2017 The second installment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance. Florence, 1469. The Medici family is preparing for the marriage of its son and heir Lorenzo. His heart belongs to another, but this union will strengthen the alliance with a powerful Roman family. Torn between love and power, the bounties and the compromises of governing, Lorenzo has become complacent. He has forgotten the bloody path he forged on his ascent to power, and the enemies left in his wake. When the family's historical enemies and shadowy new conspirators put their bloody plot into action, the consequences will be terrible. In order to protect their supremacy, the Medici will enact a violent vengeance from which few will be spared.

Medici Supremacy

Author : Matteo Strukul
Publisher : Masters of Florence
ISBN 13 : 1786692155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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The Family Medici

Author : Mary Hollingsworth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168177710X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Family Medici written by Mary Hollingsworth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential queen of France. Their influence brought about an explosion of Florentine art and architecture. Michelangelo, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo were among the artists with whom they were socialized and patronized.Thus runs the "accepted view” of the Medici. However, Mary Hollingsworth argues that this is a fiction that has now acquired the status of historical fact. In truth, the Medici were as devious and immoral as the Borgias. In this dynamic new history, Hollingsworth argues that past narratives have focused on a sanitized view of the Medici—wise rulers, enlightened patrons of the arts, and fathers of the Renaissance—and their story was reinvented in the sixteenth century, mythologized by later generations of Medici who used this as a central prop for their legacy.Hollingsworth's revelatory re-telling of the story of the family Medici brings a fresh and exhilarating new perspective to the story behind the most powerful family of the Italian Renaissance.

The Women of the Medici

Author : Yvonne Maguire
Publisher : New York : [s.n.]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Women of the Medici written by Yvonne Maguire and published by New York : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1927 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Murder of a Medici Princess

Author : Caroline P. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199839896
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Murder of a Medici Princess written by Caroline P. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany. Murphy is a superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an extraordinary woman, fluent in five languages, a free-spirited patron of the arts, a daredevil, a practical joker, and a passionate lover. Isabella, in fact, conducted numerous affairs, including a ten-year relationship with the cousin of her violent and possessive husband. Her permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her father, who was succeeded by her disapproving older brother Francesco. Considering Isabella's ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to murder her in a remote Medici villa. To tell this dramatic story, Murphy draws on a vast trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents, ranging from Isabella's own letters, to the loose-tongued dispatches of ambassadors to Florence, to contemporary descriptions of the opulent parties and balls, salons and hunts in which Isabella and her associates participated. Murphy resurrects the exciting atmosphere of Renaissance Florence, weaving Isabella's beloved city into her story, evoking the intellectual and artistic community that thrived during her time. Palaces and gardens in the city become places of creativity and intrigue, sites of seduction, and grounds for betrayal. Here then is a narrative of compelling and epic proportions, magnificent and alluring, decadent and ultimately tragic.

The Girlhood of Catherine De' Medici

Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Girlhood of Catherine De' Medici written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Modern Europe from the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks to the Treaty of Berlin, 1878

Author : Sir Richard Lodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Europe from the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks to the Treaty of Berlin, 1878 written by Sir Richard Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The student's modern Europe, a history, 1453 to 1878

Author : sir Richard Lodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The student's modern Europe, a history, 1453 to 1878 written by sir Richard Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence

Author : Cristina Acidini
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300094954
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence written by Cristina Acidini and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publisdhed in conjuntion with the exhibition: Magnificenza! the Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (In Italy, L'Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze, 1538-1631) ..."--Title page verso.

The Medici

Author : Robert Black
Publisher : Villa I Tatti
ISBN 13 : 9780674088443
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Medici written by Robert Black and published by Villa I Tatti. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medici: Citizens and Masters offers a novel, comparative approach to examining Medici power and influence in Florence. Contributors from diverse perspectives set Medici rule against princely states such as Milan and Ferrara, and they ask how much the Medici changed Florence, contrasting their supremacy with earlier Florentine regimes.

The Student's Modern Europe

Author : Sir Richard Lodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Student's Modern Europe written by Sir Richard Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Florentines

Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643137336
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Florentines written by Paul Strathern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born—or emerge in an entirely new guise. The ideas that broke this mold began, and continued to flourish, in the city of Florence in northern central Italy. These ideas, which placed an increasing emphasis on the development of our common humanity—rather than other-worldly spirituality—coalesced in what came to be known as humanism. This philosophy and its new ideas would eventually spread across Italy, yet wherever they took hold they would retain an element essential to their origin. And as they spread further across Europe, this element would remain. Transformations of human culture throughout western history have remained indelibly stamped by their origins. The Reformation would always retain something of central and northern Germany. The Industrial Revolution soon outgrew its British origins, yet also retained something of its original template. Closer to the present, the IT revolution that began in Silicon Valley remains indelibly colored by its Californian origins. Paul Strathern shows how Florence, and the Florentines themselves, played a similarly unique and transformative role in the Renaissance.

The Cardinal Protectors of England

Author : William E. Wilkie
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521203326
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Cardinal Protectors of England written by William E. Wilkie and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974-07-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal and political history, unpredictable and often tragic, of the series of Italian cardinals who undertook, to serve the king and England in the papal court.

Women and Art in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors, and Connoisseurs

Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271042350
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Women and Art in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors, and Connoisseurs written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern periods. By asking how the perspectives and experiences of female patrons contributed to the invention of particular styles or iconographies, or how they shaped taste, or how they influenced demand, these twelve original essays introduce significant new information about specific women patrons while raising theoretical issues for patronage studies more generally. While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynastic promotion, at the same time the women involved devised strategies that circumvented these rules, allowing them to explore the potential or art as a means of proclaiming their own identity and taste.

Renaissance Humanism

Author :
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624661467
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Humanism written by and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows that Renaissance thinkers had a lot to say, not only about the ancient world--one of their habitual passions--but also about the self, how civic experience was configured, the arts, the roles and contributions of women, the new science, the 'new' world, and so much more. --Christopher S. Celenza, Johns Hopkins University

Friendship, Love, and Trust in Renaissance Florence

Author : Dale Kent
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674249216
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Friendship, Love, and Trust in Renaissance Florence written by Dale Kent and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of whether true friendship could exist in an era of patronage occupied Renaissance Florentines as it had the ancient Greeks and Romans whose culture they admired and emulated. Rather than attempting to measure Renaissance friendship against a universal ideal defined by essentially modern notions of disinterestedness, intimacy, and sincerity, in this book Dale Kent explores the meaning of love and friendship as they were represented in the fifteenth century, particularly the relationship between heavenly and human friendship. She documents the elements of shared experience in friendships between Florentines of various occupations and ranks, observing how these were shaped and played out in the physical spaces of the city: the streets, street corners, outdoor benches and loggias, family palaces, churches, confraternal meeting places, workshops of artisans and artists, taverns, dinner tables, and the baptismal font. Finally, Kent examines the betrayal of trust, focusing on friends at moments of crisis or trial in which friendships were tested, and failed or endured. The exile of Cosimo de’ Medici in 1433 and his recall in 1434, the attempt in 1466 of the Medici family’s closest friends to take over their patronage network, and the Pazzi conspiracy to assassinate Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici in 1478 expose the complexity and ambivalence of Florentine friendship, a combination of patronage with mutual intellectual passion and love—erotic, platonic, and Christian—sublimely expressed in the poetry and art of Michelangelo.

Courts, Patrons and Poets

Author : David Mateer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300082258
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Courts, Patrons and Poets written by David Mateer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequence of three course texts and two anthologies, published in association with the Open University, explores the Renaissance from the interdisciplinary perspective of history, literature, drama, religion, the history of art, philosophy, music and political thought.