Title & Author:

Lorenzo the magnificent : culture and politics / edited by Michael Mallett and Nicholas Mann.

Publication:

London : Warburg Institute, University of London, 1996.

Description:

x, 324 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, plans ; 25 cm

Series:

Warburg Institute colloquia, 0266-1772 ; 3

Notes:
"This book contains most of the papers delivered at a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute and the University of Warwick in May 1992"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The young Lorenzo, 1449-1469 / F.W. Kent -- Lorenzo'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 fifteenth-century Florence / Kristen Lippincott -- Lorenzo and the philosophers / Jill Kraye -- La cultura letteraria nell'etá di Lorenzo / Mario Martelli -- Le Pístole di Luca Pulci e la formazione culturale del giovane Lorenzo / Francesca Battera -- La canzone 'Quando raggio de 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 fifteenth century / Melissa Bullard -- Lorenzo and Machiavelli / Humfrey Butters -- Lorenzo and Guicciardini / Alison Brown -- Lorenzo's image in Europe / Nicolai Rubinstein.
Chiefly in English; three papers in Italian.

ISBN:

0854810943 (paperback)
9780854810949 (paperback)

Subject:

Medici, Lorenzo de', 1449-1492 Congresses.
Medici, Lorenzo de', 1449-1492.
Médicis, Laurent de, (1449-1492) Congrès.
Renaissance Italy Florence Congresses.
Art patronage Italy Florence History 15th century.
Renaissance Italie Florence Congrès.
Mécénat Italie Florence Histoire 15e siècle.
Art patronage.
Renaissance.
Renaissance Italy Florence.
Italy Florence.
Florence (Italy) Civilization.
Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737.
Londres Congrès 1992.
Italie Politique et gouvernement 1268-1559 Congrès.
Italie Civilisation 1268-1559 Congrès.
Florence (Italie) 1469-1492 (Laurent le Magnifique) Congrès.
Culture
Politics
Florence (Italy)

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

Mallett, Michael Edward.
Mann, Nicholas.
Warburg Institute colloquia ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192130
Call No.: ID DG737.9.L64; ID:97-B3228
Status: Available