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