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The Badia of Florence

The Badia of Florence
Author: Anne Leader
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0253355672

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The Santa Maria di Firenze, the venerable Benedictine abbey located in the heart of Florence, is the subject of this book. Leader's richly illustrated, interdisciplinary study examines the abbey's history during the Renaissance.


The Badia Fiesolana

The Badia Fiesolana
Author: Angela Dressen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016
Genre: Architecture, Renaissance
ISBN: 9783643958082

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The monastery of the Badia Fiesolana on the outskirts of Florence has often been seen as a secondary project of the Medici. However new research has shown that the family's involvement in its financial, cultural, intellectual, religious and artistic affairs is central to its development under Cosimo and Lorenzo de'Medici during the 15th century. In the remarkable setting of the Badia, where art and architectural structure was studied anew, erudite abbots encountered learned humanists. The proceedings of a conference held in 2013 shed new light on cultural and scholarly life in and around Florence. --


The Badia Fiorentina

The Badia Fiorentina
Author: Alessandro Guidotti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1982
Genre: Benedictine art
ISBN:

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Saunterings in Florence

Saunterings in Florence
Author: Elvira Grifi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1896
Genre: Florence (Italy)
ISBN:

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The Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches

The Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches
Author: Susan Bracken
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443857637

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Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compendium of the main churches in Florence and has been written with two distinct audiences in mind: English-speaking students of Renaissance art, architecture, literature and history and the well-read traveller to Florence who wishes to place the works of art and architecture into the wider context of Italian culture. The choice of churches discussed here was influenced by the author’s experience as teacher for several university programmes on site in Florence. The buildings described and analysed are those which students will most likely encounter in the course of their study-abroad stay in Florence, whether they wish to specialise in art, architecture or the history of the Florentine Renaissance. This book represents a textbook that offers concise information on the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches, provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces the student to some of the most important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.


The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence
Author: Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-12-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107660866

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This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on economics and the production of original works in Latin, he offers a new way of understanding how the humanist movement could incorporate so many who were illiterate in Latin, but who nonetheless were responsible for an intellectual and cultural paradigm shift. The book demonstrates the massive appeal of the humanist movement across socio-economic and political groups, and argues that the movement became so successful and widespread because by the 1420s–30s the demands of common rituals began requiring humanist speeches. Over time, humanist learning became more valuable as social capital, which raised the status of the most learned humanists and helped disseminate humanist ideas beyond Florence.


Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence

Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence
Author: James Shaw
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9042031573

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A study of the Speziale al Giglio apothecary shop in fifteenth-century Florence, Italy.


The Badia Fiesolana

The Badia Fiesolana
Author: Angela Dressen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 3643908083

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The monastery of the Badia Fiesolana on the outskirts of Florence has often been seen as a secondary project of the Medici. However new research has shown that the family's involvement in its financial, cultural, intellectual, religious and artistic affairs is central to its development under Cosimo and Lorenzo de'Medici during the 15th century. In the remarkable setting of the Badia, where art and architectural structure was studied anew, erudite abbots encountered learned humanists. The proceedings of a conference held in 2013 shed new light on cultural and scholarly life in and around Florence. Angela Dressen is Andrew W. Mellon Librarian at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Klaus Pietschmann is Professor for Musicology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz.


Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence

Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence
Author: Philip Gavitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011-08-22
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 110700294X

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This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the social crises generated by war, competition for social position, and the abandonment of children, a series of private and public initiatives expanded existing charitable institutions and founded new ones. Philip Gavitt's research reveals the important role played by lineage ideology among Florence's elites in the use and manipulation of these charitable institutions in the often futile pursuit of economic and social stability. Considering families of all social levels, he argues that the pursuit of family wealth and prestige often worked at cross-purposes with the survival of the very families it was supposed to preserve.