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Chacun tient le seigneur Jean pour un chef plein d’audace et d’impétuosité, aux vastes conceptions, capable des plus grands partis. » Ainsi Machiavel, son contemporain, contribuait-il à installer le mythe d’un Jean de Médicis capitaine d’Italie, sauveur de la péninsule, premier homme d’armes italien. Les condottières ont en effet fasciné les hommes de la Renaissance comme les générations qui les suivirent pour des raisons souvent paradoxales : au service des cités-États ou des principautés, ces chefs militaires entretenaient des compagnies de mercenaires à la fois louées pour leurs qualités militaires et craintes pour les risques qu’elles pouvaient faire courir aux États. Jean de Médicis fut le plus renommé d’entre eux. Il ne vécut que vingt-huit ans. Après sa mort, désormais connu sous le nom de « Jean des Bandes Noires », il eut une existence bien plus longue grâce à la force de sa légende. Appuyé sur des archives nombreuses, ce livre explore cette double histoire, celle d’une vie faite de guerre et de politique en pleine Italie de la Renaissance, et celle de la construction d’un mythe au service d’une dynastie et d’un État
Condottieres --- Medici, Giovanni de, --- Italie
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Medici, giovanni de (1498-1526) --- Condottieres --- Italie --- Florence (italie) --- Biographie --- Histoire --- 1492-1559 --- 1421-1737
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"Edward Goldberg shares his sensational discovery of the largest body of surviving correspondence from any Jew in Early Modern Europe. Over the course of six years, Benedetto Blanis - a scholar and entrepreneur in the Florentine Ghetto - wrote nearly 200 letters to his princely patron Don Giovanni dei Medici. For the first time, these letters are available in a definitive critical edition - with full transcriptions in the original Italian, English language summaries, and explanatory notes. This book is a companion volume to Jews and Magic in Medici Florence, in which Goldberg narrates Blanis's startling rise and fall. Readers can now take a step closer and hear Blanis's compelling story in his own words - tracing his fraught relations with Jews and Christians, his desperate (and often illegal) business schemes, his disastrous strategies for advancement at the Medici Court, and his pursuit of arcane knowledge, including astrology, alchemy, and Kabbalah."--Pub. desc.
Jews --- Librarians --- Information scientists --- Library employees --- Libraries --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Blanis, Benedetto, --- Medici, Giovanni de', --- Florence (Italy) --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Florence (Tuscany) --- History
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"In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis - a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished Ghetto dynasty - sought to parlay his alleged mastery of astrology, alchemy and Kabbalah into a grand position at the Medici Court. He won the patronage of Don Giovanni dei Medici, a scion of the ruling family, and for six tumultuous years their lives were inextricably linked. Edward Goldberg reveals the dramas of daily life behind the scenes in the Pitti Palace and in the narrow byways of the Florentine Ghetto, using thousands of new documents from the Medici Granducal Archive. He shows that truth - especially historical truth - can be stranger than fiction, when viewed through the eyes of the people most immediately involved."--Pub. desc.
Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Social life and customs --- Blanis, Benedetto, --- Medici, Giovanni de', --- Florence (Italy) --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Florence (Tuscany)
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A detailed examination of the life and career of Cardinal Bendinello Sauli - notorious for his involvement in a plot to murder the Pope. Cardinal Bendinello Sauli died in disgrace in 1518, implicated, rightly or wrongly, in a conspiracy to assassinate the then Pope, Leo X. This book, based on extensive archival research in Genoa and Rome, traces Sauli's rise and fall, setting one man's life and career against a background of political turmoil and intrigue, and offering new perspectives on the patronal links which bound pope, cardinals and their family and courtiers so closely together. It plots his elevation to ecclesiastical eminence through the efforts of his family who were financiers to the pope; and it examines his apogee as cardinal-patron both of humanists and of some of the leading artists of his day such as Sebastiano del Piombo and Raphael. The plot to murder the pope is also studied in depth; the author examines the surviving evidence relating to the plot and reveals new archival material which supports its existence in the eyes of the law and Sauli's involvement in it. In addition, she explores Sauli's role as a man of the Church and his administration of his benefices. HELEN HYDE is an independent scholar who studied at the universities of Lancaster and London. Her previous publications include articles on the Sauli family and early sixteenth-century Genoa.
Patronage, Ecclesiastical --- Cardinals --- Ecclesiastical patronage --- Benefices, Ecclesiastical --- Church and state --- Church polity --- Church property --- Clergy --- History --- Sauli, Bendinello, --- Leo --- De' Medici, Giovanni, --- Leone --- Medici, Giovanni de', --- de Médicis, Jean --- Cardinal Bendinello Sauli. --- Church. --- Genoa. --- Jurisprudence. --- Papacy. --- Papal Conspiracy. --- Patronage. --- Politics. --- Renaissance Italy. --- Sixteenth Century.
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Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular, grand-scale textiles are reconstructed in Raphael's Tapestries and set among a series of unprecedented decorative projects that Pope Leo commissioned from the artist. Likely produced by the Brussels weaver Pieter van Aelst, the tapestries pioneered a new all'antica style analogous with contemporary painted and sculpted interior programs. Tapestries played a central role at Leo's court, as spectacle and as propaganda, and the Grotesques of Leo X would inform tapestry design for the next three centuries. Their beauty and complexity rivaled those of contemporary painting, and their luxurious materials made them highly prized. With this new study, the Grotesques take their rightful place as Renaissance masterworks and as documents of the fervent humanist culture of early 16th-century Rome.
Tapestry, Renaissance --- Mythology, Classical, in art. --- Art and society --- Mythologie ancienne dans l'art --- Art et société --- Themes, motives. --- History --- Histoire --- Raphael, --- Leo --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Art patronage. --- grotesques --- tapestries --- mythology [literary genre] --- patronage --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Raphael --- Aelst, van, Pieter, the elder --- Leo X [Pope] --- Tapisserie de la Renaissance --- Thèmes, motifs --- Art et société --- Thèmes, motifs --- Mythology, Classical, in art --- Renaissance tapestry --- Themes, motives --- Sanzio, Raffaele, --- Raffaello Sanzio, --- Santi, Raffaello, --- Sanzio, Raffaello, --- Raffael, --- Raffaello, --- Urbino, Raffaello da, --- Sanctius, Raphael, --- Urbinas, Raphael Sanctius, --- Rafaėlʹ, --- Raffaele Sanzio, --- Sanzi, Raffaello, --- de' Medici, Giovanni --- de Médicis, Jean --- Léon --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Social aspects --- De' Medici, Giovanni, --- Leone --- Medici, Giovanni de', --- Sanzio, Raffaele --- Raffaello Sanzio --- Santi, Raffaello --- Sanzio, Raffaello --- Raffael --- Raffaello --- Urbino, Raffaello da --- Sanctius, Raphae, --- Urbinas, Raphael Sanctius --- Rafaėlʹ --- Raffaele Sanzio --- Sanzi, Raffaello --- Aelst, van, Pieter [sr.] --- invloed van antieke kunst
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A Mattress Maker's Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged warrior-prince into marrying her, and the family takes revenge. He is Don Giovanni de' Medici, son of the Florentine grand duke; she is Livia Vernazza, daughter of a Genoese artisan. They live in luxury for a while, far from Florence, and have a child. Then, Giovanni dies, the family pounces upon the inheritance, and Livia is forced to return from riches to rags. Documents, including long-lost love letters, reveal another story behind the legend, suppressed by the family and forgotten. Brendan Dooley investigates this largely untold story among the various settings where episodes occurred, including Florence, Genoa, and Venice. In the course of explaining their improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter explores early modern emotions, material culture, heredity, absolutism, and religious tensions at the crux of one of the great transformations in European culture, society, and statecraft. Giovanni and Livia exemplify changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gave way to the culture of Counter-Reformation and early modern Europe.
Princes --- Soldiers --- Royalty --- Courts and courtiers --- Medici, Giovanni de', --- Vernazza, Livia, --- Relations with women. --- Italy --- Social life and customs --- Italia --- Italian Republic (1946- ) --- Italianska republika --- Italʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Italie --- Italien --- Italii︠a︡ --- Italii︠a︡ Respublikasi --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- Īṭāliyā --- Italiya Respublikasi --- It'allia --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- Iṭalyah --- Iṭalye --- Itaria --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- Laško --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Olasz Köztársaság --- Olaszország --- Regno d'Italia (1861-1946) --- Repubblica italiana (1946- ) --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Włochy --- Yidali --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Ιταλική Δημοκρατία --- Ιταλία --- Итальянская Республика --- Италианска република --- Италия --- Италия Республикаси --- Італьянская Рэспубліка --- Італія --- Італійська Республіка --- איטאליע --- איטליה --- רפובליקה האיטלקית --- إيطاليا --- جمهورية الإيطالية --- イタリア --- イタリア共和国 --- 意大利 --- 意大利共和国 --- 이탈리아 --- 이탈리아 공화국 --- Sardinia (Italy)
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