The Medici – Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance

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The Medici – Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance

The Medici – Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance

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It demonstrates that transformations ensued as more information reached Florence but also makes clear that the process of integrating the novelty of the Americas was not consistent. It makes evident that news and goods from the Americas played a considerable role in the visuality of sixteenth-century Italy.

The Masters of Florence trilogy has been a great success all over Europe and has been translated into many languages. The multiple—and at times conflicting or overlapping—modes of inventing and imagining the New World in Europe therefore permeate this study of the Medici and their fascination with the Americas. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. This series follows the life of Catherine de Medicirides beginning with her childhood, her subsequent political marriage to Henry, Duke of Orleans, and concluding with her drive to end the conflict between Catholic Spain and Protestant England. Through a close examination of archival sources, including inventories and Medici letters, Lia Markey uncovers the provenance, history, and meaning of goods from and images of the Americas in Medici collections, and she shows how these novelties were incorporated into the culture of the Florentine court.It was his son Cosimo who took advantage of the erudite refugees from the fall of Constantinople to promote ancient Greek and Roman writings. The Medici series is billed as a fictionalized depiction of the powerful Medici family who ruled Florence for almost a century.

In particular, this is one of the few Medici books that also details how the Medici family was deeply involved with the great scientists and painters during the era. She was married to Henri, the son of France’s Francois I, and was expelled from her home in Florence. For most of Europe’s population, who did not travel to the New World or participate in its violent conquest, the Americas had to be imagined at home.For instance, in the 1570s Francesco de’ Medici commissioned court artist Jacopo Ligozzi to create naturalistic works on paper to document the plants and animals from the New World entering the court. Mary Hollingsworth's excellent study of the Medici… a careful, understated book, largely uninterested in the grand revisionist statements used to sell popular histories, and it is all the better for it…her book is never short on drama. In Portrait of a Conspiracy by Donna Russo Morin, the first novel in her Da Vinci Disciples series, the murder of a Medici ignites the powder keg that consumes a Florence under the iron rule of the powerful Medici family.

France, 1939: At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, an archivist employed at the Louvre, arrives home to discover her brother is missing. Through these imaginative artistic endeavors the Medici and their collaborators brought the New World home to Italy and made its new lands, its natural settings, its peoples, and its art accessible within their own sphere. If you make a purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you, we may earn a small commission.

The story covers everything from the powers to the dramas to the seemingly endless ambition that this family had. Strathern ( Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City, 2015, etc.



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