A Companion to Cosimo I De' Medici

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-33977-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 648 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1220 g

Reihe: The Renaissance Society of America

Mining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and taking advantage of the breadth and depth of scholarship produced in recent years, the seventeen essays in this Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici provide a fresh and systematic overview of the life and career of the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, with special emphasis on Cosimo I's education and intellectual interests, cultural policies, political vision, institutional reforms, diplomatic relations, religious beliefs, military entrepreneurship, and dynastic concerns.

Contributors: Maurizio Arfaioli, Alessio Assonitis, Nicholas Scott Baker, Sheila Barker, Stefano Calonaci, Brendan Dooley, Daniele Edigati, Sheila ffolliott, Catherine Fletcher, Andrea Gáldy, Fernando Loffredo, Piergabriele Mancuso, Jessica Maratsos, Carmen Menchini, Oscar Schiavone, Marcello Simonetta, and Henk Th. van Veen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Assonitis, Alessio

Veen, Henk Th van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519–2019)

Alessio Assonitis and Henk Th. van Veen

1 The Education of Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici (1519–1537)

Alessio Assonitis

2 Alessandro de’ Medici: A Reassessment

Catherine Fletcher

3 Cosimo I and His Spanish In-Laws: The Duke and the Toledo Family

Fernando Loffredo

4 The Emperor and the Duke: Cosimo I, Charles V, and the Negotiation of Sovereignty

Nicholas Scott Baker

5 Cosimo I de’ Medici and Catherine de Médicis: Making the Political Personal

Sheila ffolliott

6 Cosimo I versus the Strozzi, the Enemies of the State

Marcello Simonetta

7 His Father’s Son: Cosimo I de’ Medici as Military Leader

Maurizio Arfaioli

8 Cosimo I “Fontana de Iustitia e Nemico de Tristi”: Pragmatism and Aequitas

Daniele Edigati

9 Taking Over the Economy: Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Management of the Wealth of the State

Stefano Calonaci

10 Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Tuscan Territory

Oscar Schiavone

11 Cosimo I and Religious Heterodoxy in Tuscany

Jessica Maratsos

12 Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Jews

Piergabriele Mancuso

13 The Duke as Cultural Manager: Institutionalization and Entrepreneurship

Andrea M. Gáldy

14 Problems with Cosimo I’s Artistic Patronage: Baccio Bandinelli and the Neptune Fountain in Piazza della Signoria

Henk Th. van Veen

15 Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Renaissance Sciences: “To Measure and to See”

Sheila Barker

16 Cosimo I de’ Medici: Antagonism and Praise

Carmen Menchini

17 Cosimo I de’ Medici and Modern Historiography

Brendan Dooley

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Alessio Assonitis (Ph.D., Columbia University) is the director of The Medici Archive Project. He has published on topics related to Italian Renaissance art, book history, Medici history, archival studies and digital humanities.

Henk Th. van Veen (Ph.D., University of Groningen) is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on Italian early modern art, including the monograph Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2006).