The Last of the Strozzi
Author | : Carolyn Renfrew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : Carolyn Renfrew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : Ann Crabb |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780472109128 |
Enter the turbulent world of a Florentine family through personal correspondence
Author | : Melissa Meriam Bullard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521088169 |
Filippo Strozzi (1489-1538), the Florentine aristocrat and banker, is usually remembered for the dramatic exploits at the end of his life. Forced into exile, he became an outspoken defender of the last Florentine Republic against the tyranny of the city's new dukes. His place in Florentine history, however, changes drastically when we focus not on his final years but on his extensive career as a Medici favourite and loyal financier. At the courts of the Medici popes he furthered the grandiose schemes of Leo X and Clement VII and accumulated a personal fortune of legendary size. Dr Bullard's study reassesses Strozzi's place in Renaissance history and considers the more general problems of paper economy and war finance, and Florentine political life, in the early sixteenth century. It documents the intricate financial ties between Florence and the papal court, and Strozzi's key role as a manipulator of the city's public funds to pay for papal wars.
Author | : William J. Landon |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442644249 |
William J. Landon reveals Strozzi's influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi's Pistola fatta per la peste for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.
Author | : Thomas Adolphus Trollope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Italy |
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Author | : William J. Landon |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442699485 |
By 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli’s life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there is one figure whose substantial contributions to Machiavelli’s restoration has been hitherto neglected – Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi (1482–1549), a younger and fabulously wealthy Florentine nobleman. As manuscript evidence suggests, Strozzi brought Machiavelli into his patronage network and aided many of his post-1520 achievements. This book is the first English biography of Strozzi, as well as the first examination of the patron-client relationship that developed between the two men. William J. Landon reveals Strozzi’s influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi’s Pistola fatta per la peste – a work that survives as a Machiavelli autograph, and for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.
Author | : Thomas Adolphus Trollope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Italy |
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Author | : Louis Napoleon Parker |
Publisher | : London : S. French |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : Thomas Adolphus Trollope |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2018-02-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781377547800 |
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Author | : Alessandra Strozzi |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520917391 |
The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adverse circumstances, and who was an acute observer of Medicean society. Her letters speak of political and social status, of the concept of honor, and of the harshness of life, including the plague and the loss of children. They are also a guide to Alessandra's inner life over a period of twenty-three years, revealing the pain and sorrow, and, more rarely, the joy and triumph, with which she responded to the events unfolding around her. This edition includes translations, in full or in part, of 35 of the 73 extant letters. The selections carry forward the story of Alessandra's life and illustrate the range of attitudes, concerns, and activities which were characteristic of their author.