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The Medici : citizens and masters

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Most of these papers were presented at a conference, held 12-14 October 2011.

Contents

Preface / John E. Law
Introduction / Robert Black
Power and legitimacy. Dominant cities: Florence, Genoa, Venice, Milan, and their territories in the fifteenth century / Giorgio Chittolini
Medicean Florence and beyond: legitimacy of power and urban traditions / Gian Maria Varanini
Communal traditions and personal power in Renaissance Florence: the Medici as signori / Andrea Zorzi
Diplomacy, language, and the "arts of power" / Melissa Meriam Bullard
Lorenzo the Magnificent's regime: aims, image, and constitutional framework / Riccardo Fubini
Medici and Sforza
breeds apart? / Jane Black
Tuscans and Lombards: the political culture of officialdom / Marco Gentile
Piero in power, 1492-1494: a balance sheet for four generations of Medici control / Alison Brown
Economic policy. Medici economic policy / Franco Franceschi
Lorenzo de' Medici and foreigners: recommendations and reprisals / Lorenz Böninger
Religion and the Church. The Albizzi, the early Medici, and the Florentine church, 1375-1460 / David S. Peterson
Religion and literature in oligarchic, Medicean, and Savonarolan Florence / Paolo Orvieto
A cardinal in Rome: Florentine and Medici ambitions / David S. Chambers
The Medici and their image. Patriarchal ideals, patronage practices, and the authority of Cosimo "il vecchio" / Dale V. Kent
The Medici: defenders of liberty in fifteenth-century Florence / Francesco Bausi
Medicean theater: image and message / Paola Ventrone
Sound patrons: the Medici and Florentine musical life / Blake Wilson
The Medici question: a rhetorical "special case"? / Stephen J. Milner
Marking time: Medici imagery and princely iconography / Alison Wright
The politics of castellation / Amanda Lillie
Cosimo de' Medici and Francesco Sforza in Machiavelli's Florentine histories / John M. Najemy
Florence and Ferrara: dynastic marriage and politics / Carolyn James.

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