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Essays illustrate the ways Renaissance Florentines expressed or shaped their identities as they interacted with their society.
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Caterina Cornaro (1454-1510) came from one of the most important Venetian families of her time and became the last queen of Cyprus. On the occasion of the fifth centenary of her death, an international conference was held in Venice in September 2010 - organised by the two editors of this volume. During that interdisciplinary event, well-known scholars from the fields of history, art history, literary history, archaeology, Byzantine studies and musicology presented the results of their most recent research across a broad subject area. The queen's biography and myth were traced, as well as the reception of this historical figure in art and on stage. Stress was laid upon socioeconomic and cultu...
The first biography of one of the outstanding humanists of the fifteenth-century Renaissance.
Given by Eugene Edge III.