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

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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. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. As one of the most powerful and influential dynasties during the Renaissance period, ruling for over three centuries, you can be certain that there are plenty of great Medici books detailing the family’s rise and fall. The many illustrations, clarified by ample captions, do not add up to a mere gallery of official portraits; rather, they interact with the historical narrative, clarifying scholarly points or unveiling new and sometimes surprising details and associations. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.I liked how the two scenes were tied together when Brunelleschi and Cosimo discuss building the dome and Brunelleschi talks about the Pantheon. Even when he’s writing about a subject as complex as the economy and the Florentine Renaissance, he manages to make it enjoyable. But such was the reputation and reach of the Florentine bankers, and none more so than the Medici with their branches strewn throughout Europe, that in the 15th century the Florin was a more dominant and more secure currency then the Euro is today. Although while reading it I didn’t feel it was belligerently homophobic, it is absolutely true that the author doesn’t possess a true understanding of homosexuality.

This delightful album by Aapo Hakkinen features the long neglected collection of harpsichord music and highlights the works of Ferdinando de Medici, recorded here for the very first time together with other world premiere recordings. In later years as grand duke, Ferdinando sought to develop real economic ties to the Americas by fostering commercial relations with Brazil. Flick to any page and you might find Giuliano de' Medici being stabbed to death by a rival banker in the Duomo in 1478, or Dianora de' Medici and Isabella de' Medici being strangled by their husbands within six days of each other in 1576 - the former, Hollingsworth notes, done in with "a dog leash".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.

As Simonetta learns to navigate her marriage, her place in Florentine society, and the politics of beauty and desire, she and Botticelli develop a passionate intimacy, one that leads to her immortalization in his masterpiece, Birth of Venus. In The Stolen Lady by Laura Morelli, a servant to the woman whose face will become one of the most famous in the world, is bewitched by Savronarola with devastating effects on the family she serves. Reports of these new lands, peoples, plants, animals, and precious materials fascinated Cosimo and his sons, the future dukes Francesco (1541–1587) and Ferdinando (1549–1609). Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici’s glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers.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.

I admire both Davids—Donatello’s boyish, relaxed David and Michelangelo’s muscular, steely-eyed David. Chapter 1 therefore defines the initial response to the Americas on the Italian peninsula and introduces the reader to the most important textual sources about the New World that the Medici studied and that subsequently pervade this study. And unlike other European princes and dukes of the sixteenth century, they also commissioned drawings, frescoes, panel paintings, and tapestries representing the Americas. While Dacos refuted the notion that Aztec art had any effect on Renaissance art, she simultaneously indicated that American inspiration did exist, observing that Raphael studied and depicted the exotic New World animals that had been brought to the papal court when he produced frescoes in the papal apartments.The series also stars several well-known actors, including Richard Madden ( Game of Thrones), Dustin Hoffman, and Sean Bean (isn’t he in every costume drama? Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France.