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Futuro Antico
Un panorama di 500 anni visti dalle finestre di Palazzo Antinori, simbolo della continuità di un antico casato e di una solida tradizione di famiglia diventate una moderna realtà. Gli Antinori sono inizialmente mercanti iscritti all'Arte della Seta dal 1285 e successivamente, grazie alla rete di affari che sapientemente imbastiscono in tutta Europa, all'Arte del Cambio. A queste attività uniscono inoltre quella di produttori e mercanti di vini, che nel corso del tempo finirà per diventare prevalente. A metà del Quattrocento, quella di Niccolò Antinori è una delle famiglie più importanti della città, molto attiva nella vita politica e amica dei personaggi più influenti. È il tempo di Lorenzo dei Medici, "il Magnifico", e Firenze è una delle capitali politiche ed economiche del mondo e una città in grande fermento. Palazzo Antinori viene costruito proprio in questa fase cruciale per la storia di Firenze, quando la città sta passando dalla sua dimensione medievale a quella rinascimentale. Imprenditorialità e conduzione della cosa pubblica sono ormai nel sangue della famiglia Antinori, ma il vino resterà la passione e l'attività principale del casato.
The Hills of Chianti
The head of Italy’s "first family" of winemaking reflects on the Antinoris’ six-hundred-year legacy and a life of good food and drink in the hills of Tuscany. If you know wine, you know the name Antinori. Since 1385, this noble Florentine family has produced some of Italy’s finest wines. The Hills of Chianti tells the story of the Antinoris and the Tuscany they call home, through seven iconic bottles that define their legacy. From the Tignanello that ushered in the era of Super Tuscans to limited-edition vintages, these wines embody a way of life and will excite oenophile readers and lovers of Italy alike. In this family memoir Piero Antinori reveals the passion, tradition, and love of...
Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence
This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the social crises generated by war, competition for social position, and the abandonment of children, a series of private and public initiatives expanded existing charitable institutions and founded new ones. Philip Gavitt's research reveals the important role played by lineage ideology among Florence's elites in the use and manipulation of these charitable institutions in the often futile pursuit of economic and social stability. Considering families of all social levels, he argues that the pursuit of family wealth and prestige often worked at cross-purposes with the survival of the very families it was supposed to preserve.
Risky Markets
Risky Markets explores a crucial moment in marine insurance history, when tools to tackle risks are in the making. It accounts for one of the earliest attempts of a specialized insurance market is carried out in Renaissance Florence.
The Black Prince of Florence
Family tree -- Glossary of names -- Timeline -- Map -- A note on money -- Prologue -- Book one: The bastard son -- Book two: The obedient nephew -- Book three: The prince alone -- Afterword: Alessandro's ethnicity.
The Fruit of Liberty
In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject. More than a chronological narrative, this analysis covers a wide range of contributing factors to this t...
Early Music History
Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music and the relationship between music and society.
