Lorenzo the magnificent : culture and politics

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Lorenzo the magnificent : culture and politics

edited by Michael Mallett and Nicholas Mann

(Warburg Institute colloquia, 3)

The Warburg Institute, University of London, 1996

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Colloquium papers

Includes index

Includes three chapters in Italian

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Description

The colloquium held at the Warburg Institute and the University of Warwick in May 1992 to mark the 500th anniversary of Lorenzo de' Medici's death included papers by historians of art and literature, drama and public spectacle, and politics and society. This volume examines Lorenzo's world.

Table of Contents

  • The young Lorenzo - 1449-1469, F.W. Kent
  • Lornzo's "Presence" at churches, convents and shrines in and outside Florence, Kate Lowe
  • designing the Via Laura Palace - Giuliano da Sangallo - the Medici and time, Linda Pellecchia
  • a portrait for the visit of Galeazzo Maria Sforza to Florence in 1471, Alison Wright
  • Lorenzo's Greek manuscripts, and in particular his own commissions, E.B. Fryde
  • Lorenzo's "Politica festiva", Paola Ventrone
  • politics in the "Sacre Rappresentazioni" of Lorenzo's Florence, Nerida Newbigin
  • the art of cartography in 15th-century Florence, Kristen Lippincott
  • Lorenzo and the philosophers, Jill Kraye
  • La cultura letteraria nell'eta di Lorenzo, Mario Martelli
  • Le "Pistole" di Luca Pulci e la formazione culturale del giovane Lorenzo, Francesca Battera
  • La canzone "Quando raggio di sole" di Lorenzo, Paolo Orvieto
  • "Signore" and "Studio" - Lorenzo in a comparative context, Peter Denley
  • Lorenzo and Arezzo, Robert Black
  • Lorenzo and Pistoia - peacemaker or partisan?, Stephen Milner
  • horse-racing and politics in Lorenzo's Florence, Michael Mallett
  • Lorenzo and patterns of diplomatic discourse in the late 15th century, Melissa Bullard
  • Lorenzo and Machiavelli, Humfrey Butters
  • Lorenzo and Giucciardini, Alison Brown
  • Lorenzo's image in Europe, Nicolai Rubenstein.

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