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The Pollaiuolo Brothers
Painters, draftsmen, goldsmiths, sculptors, and designers, the Pollaiuolo brothers of fifteenth-century Florence produced some of the most beautiful works of the Italian Renaissance.
Management and Resolution of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe
This is the third and final volume of essays issuing from the Leverhulme International Network 'Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries: Cultural Polemics in Europe, c. 1300–c. 1650'. The overall aim of the network was to examine the various ways in which conflict and rivalries made a positive contribution to cultural production and change during the Renaissance. The present volume, which contains papers delivered at the third colloquium, draws that examination to a close by considering a range of different strategies deployed in the period to manage conflict and rivalries and to bring them to a positive resolution. The papers explore these developments in the context of political, diplomatic, social, institutional, religious, and art history.
Il banco Strozzi di Napoli
Realtà composita e complessa, il Mezzogiorno tardomedievale viene qui presentato attraverso il filtro delle scritture contabili di una grande banca fiorentina: l’istituto di intermediazione creditizia impiantato a Napoli dai fratelli Filippo e Lorenzo Strozzi. Partendo dalla loro attività di mercanti e banchieri, di cui i Libri Giornali superstiti del banco napoletano e le Ricordanze offrono ampia e puntuale testimonianza, si approfondisce il tema dei rapporti e degli scambi tra i principali spazi economici del Mediterraneo occidentale nella seconda metà del XV secolo. Lo sguardo sulla capitale partenopea, oltre ad ampliare il quadro delle conoscenze riguardo a questa importante piazza commerciale e finanziaria quattrocentesca, sugli operatori economici coinvolti e sui rispettivi raggi d’azione e d’influenza, ha consentito, attraverso un metodo induttivo, di rilevare e ricostruire diversi aspetti della vita economica e sociale del Regno di Napoli al tempo di Ferrante d’Aragona (1458-1494).
The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494
A classic history of banking and trade in the medieval period, combining superb research and analysis with graceful writing. The Medici Bank was the most powerful banking house of the 15th century. Headquartered in Florence, Italy, it established branches in Rome, Venice, Geneva, Lyons, Bruges, London, and many other cities. The bank served as financial agent of the Church, extended credit to monarchs, and facilitated international trade in Western Europe. By their personal influence and the use of their profits, the owners and administrators of the bank contributed significantly to the development of Florence as the greatest center of the Renaissance.
Nuova opera
Il fiorentino Giovanni Cavalcanti (1381-1451 ca.), membro di un ramo decaduto della famiglia, ebbe una vita segnata dal carcere per debiti. Il desiderio di giustizia e rivalsa informa i suoi scritti. La Nuova opera è un testo eterogeneo: punteggiato da novelle e aneddoti, fra cronaca storica e satira morale, narra e commenta gli eventi che coinvolsero Firenze negli anni 1440-1447. Memore di Dante, letto con profitto da Machiavelli, l’autore denuncia le cruente opposizioni tra fazioni e la degenerazione nei vizi della città, nonché la violenza e la tendenza alla tirannide dilaganti nella penisola, con punte polemiche verso Filippo Maria Visconti, Francesco Sforza, Cosimo de’ Medici. La nuova edizione critica e annotata guida i lettori attraverso la densa e vivace scrittura cavalcantiana.
Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence
Molho (European history, Brown U.) shows that the propertied families of late-medieval and early-modern Florence maintained their power and influence through arranged marriage and the dowry. While elsewhere in Europe the elite were toppling under the onslaught of commerce and personal freedom, in Florence they married carefully within a narrow and well-defined class, used dowries as both speculation and instruments of manipulation, and remembered every detail for a long time. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity
A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
The Rise of the Medici
"Dr. Kent traces the systematic establishment of this Medici patronage network and its eventual transformation, under pressure of events, into a powerful political force."--Book jacket.
Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany
Scholarship on pre-university education in Italy before 1500 has been dominated by studies of individual towns or by general syntheses; this work offers not only an archival study of a region but also attempts to discern crucial local variations.
