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Forgotten Healers
Winner of the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian Renaissance. In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life—from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries—drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girls’ shelters, and homes, women were practitioners and purveyors of knowledge about health and healing, making significant contributions to early modern medicine. Sharon ...
Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court
Niccolò Ridolfi (1501–50), was a Florentine cardinal, nephew and cousin to the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII, and he owed his status and wealth to their patronage. He remained actively engaged in Florentine politics, above all during the years of crisis that saw the Florentine state change from republic to duchy. A widely respected patron and scholar throughout his life, his sudden death during the conclave of 1549–50 led to allegations of poison that an autopsy appears to confirm. This book examines Cardinal Ridolfi and his court in order to understand the extent to which cardinalate courts played a key part in Rome’s resurgence and acted as hubs of knowledge located on the faul...
A Mattress Maker's Daughter
In explaining an improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter explores changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gives way to the Counter Reformation and Early Modern Europe.
Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621
Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621 focuses on the cooperation between two new foundations, the last Medici state and the Society of Jesus, spanning nearly a century, concentrating on the Jesuit foundations in Florence, Siena, and Montepulciano. As the Medici built and centralized their power in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, they sought to control both the civic and religious behavior of their citizens. They found partners in the Jesuits, whose educational program helped establish social order and maintain religious orthodoxy. Via a detailed investigation of both minor and major Italian Jesuit colleges, and of multiple Medici rulers, Kathleen M. Comerford provides insight into church/state cooperation in an age in which both institutions underwent significant changes.
Quattro matrimoni e una biblioteca
Dai libri di proprietà di Ambrósio Fernández Merino, un misterioso avvocato spagnolo vissuto a Firenze, prende il via una ricerca storica che conduce ad approfondire il profilo di un intellettuale poco noto e a riscoprire un personaggio femminile al centro, invece, delle cronache del tempo: Marie Louise La Farge. Una ricca americana di origini francesi, divorziata, plurimaritata, vissuta tra Londra, Parigi, Roma e morta a Firenze nel 1899. Autrice di un testamento e di una battaglia legale che aveva riacceso l’interesse pubblico sulla sua vita, era caduta nell’oblio al sorgere del nuovo secolo. La sua storia è riemersa dalle note di possesso di alcuni dei suoi mariti conservate nei libri dell’avvocato spagnolo, principale artefice di una raccolta donata all’Università di Firenze dalle eredi La Farge.
The Duke's Assassin
Stefano Dall’Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de’ Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on two of the most infamous assassinations in Italian Renaissance history. In 1537 Lorenzino changed the course of history by murdering Alessandro de’ Medici, first duke of Florence, and paving the way for the accession of the new duke, Cosimo I. In 1548 Lorenzino was killed in Venice in revenge for the assassination. The events surrounding these murders, which Dall’Aglio reconstructs, involved the Medici, their loyalists, Florentine republican exiles, and some of the most powerful sovereigns of the time. The first publication in a century to examine the life of Lorenzino de’ Medici, and the first work in English, this fascinating revisionist history is based on extensive research in the historical archives of Florence and Simancas. The tale is as gripping as a detective novel, as Dall’Aglio unravels a 500-year-old mystery, revealing who was behind the bloody death of the duke’s assassin: the emperor Charles V.
The Medicean Succession
Cosimo dei Medici stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders, doubled his territory, attracted scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and dissipated fractious Florentine politics. These triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion, as Gregory Murry shows in this study of how Cosimo crafted his image as a sacral monarch.
Infamous Stains
The Medici theologian and confessor who abuses a twelve-year-old boy; the Capuchin tormented by an exuberant physiology and fantasies about women; the doge who fails because of affairs that do not meet with public approval; the priest who from the confessional engages in carnal relations with his penitents; the convicts serving their sentences in galleys, suspected of sexual misconduct; Adam, rumored to have had unnatural intercourse with Eve, and Cain, thought to have sodomized his son. Whether real or imagined, the actions of these men raise questions and trigger normative reactions. And even when the condemnation is mild, the dismay they provoke is put into words, and limits between licit and illicit, moral and immoral, decent and indecent are drawn. In this continuous process of definition, an elusive object, but no less endowed with the capacity to affect individuals, seems to take shape: an ideal masculinity, defined in relation to the sexed body and its use.
Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
Giulia
Giulia è una fanciulla abbandonata alla nascita nella Firenze di Francesco I dei Medici e di Bianca Cappello, già oggetto di ricerche storiche e di alcune rielaborazioni in chiave letteraria e cinematografica. Il volume, grazie alla ricchezza delle fonti ora reperite, presenta una biografia del tutto nuova ed esaustiva di questa donna del secolo XVI, con una versione inedita della sua personalità e della sua storia. Firenze, il Casentino e la Valdinievole sono i luoghi della sua esistenza, che riflette in pieno la condizione della donna nella sua epoca, vissuta da Giulia con coraggio e determinazione. Il discorso si sviluppa su due piani intrecciati, quello dell’analisi storica e quello della sua integrazione narrativa, con la ricostruzione ipotetica delle zone rimaste in ombra. Questo libro entra di diritto in tradizioni storiografiche ormai largamente codificate e in una tradizione letteraria definita da Giacomo Debenedetti come ‘storiografia dell’interiorità’.
