Studies on Florence and the Italian Renaissance in Honour of F.W. Kent

Edited by Peter F Howard Edited by Cecilia Hewlett

Book cover: Studies on Florence and the Italian Renaissance in Honour of F.W. Kent

Extent: 524, 524 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Series: Europa Sacra

Series volume number: 20

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2016)

ISBN: 9782503552767

Price: $182.00

In stock

This volume honours F.W. (Bill) Kent (1942-2010), internationally renowned scholar of Renaissance Florence and founding editor of the Europa Sacra series. Kent belonged to an energetic generation of Australians who, in the late 1960s, tackled the Florentine archives and engaged key issues confronting historians of that ever-fascinating city. With his meticulous archival findings and contextual interpretations spanning a scholarly career of more than forty years, Kent engaged with, indeed drove, the scholarly response to many of the issues that have shaped not just our current and emerging understanding of Florence and other urban centres of Italy, but along with that, a more nuanced view of the role of frontier towns and the countryside. Interdisciplinary in scope and grounded in visual, literary, and archival materials, the essays presented here explore a variety of facets of the society of Renaissance Italy, confronting and extending themes that have been emerging in recent decades and exemplified by Kent’s work. These themes include the role of kinship and networks, power and agency in Laurentian Florence, gender, ritual, representation, patronage, spirituality, and the generation and consumption of material culture.

Foreword Acknowledgements 'A paradise inhabited by Devils': Bill Kent and his Florentine Renaissance - PETER HOWARD Part I. Power and Agency in Medicean Florence Between the Palace and the Piazza: Locating Power and Agency in Bill Kent's Florence - ALISON BROWN 'La cara e buona imagine paterna di voi': Ideal Images of Patriarchs and Patrons as Models for the Right Ordering of Renaissance Florence - DALE KENT Asserting Presence: Strategies of Medici Patronage in Renaissance Florence - JOHN T. PAOLETTI The Magnificent Arbitrator: Lorenzo de' Medici and the Patrician Families in Florence - LORENZO FABBRI Carried Away: Lorenzo's Triumphs of 1491 - NERIDA NEWBIGIN 'With his authority she used to manage much business': The Career of Signora Maria Salviati and Duke Cosimo I de' Medici - NATALIE TOMAS Part II. Family, Friends, Networks Mercantile and Other Friendships in Early Renaissance Tuscany - CAROLYN JAMES Michelangelo's Brothers 'at my shoulders' - WILLIAM E. WALLACE Transmission of Intangible Goods in Vasari: Talent, Names, Kinship - CHRISTIANE KLAPISCH-ZUBER Protecting Dowries in Law in Renaissance Florence - THOMAS KUEHN Commissioni and Commessi in Florence: A Preliminary Assessment of the Introduction, Diffusion and Role of Annuities in Florence, c. 1400-1580 - Lorenzo Polizzotto 'Grande passatenpo honesto': Filippo Strozzi's Garden at Naples - AMANDA LILLIE Florentine Exiles and Venetian Patricians: The Soderini Family and the Forging of New Ties - ERSIE BURKE Part III. Spirituality and Patronage Begging for Favours: The 'New' Clares of S. Chiara Novella and their Patrons - SHARON T. STROCCHIA 'Tis Better to Give than to Receive: Client-Patronage Exchange and its Architectural Implications at Florentine Convents - SAUNDRA WEDDLE Saint Peter, the Carmelites, and the Triumph of Anghiari: The Changing Context of the Brancacci Chapel in Mid-Fifteenth Century Florence - NICHOLAS A. ECKSTEIN Rural Pilgrims and Tuscan Miracle Cults - CECILIA HEWLETT The Tailor's Song: Notes from the Underground in Grand-Ducal Florence - DAVID ROSENTHAL Authority and Punishment in the Letters of Hildegard of Bingen and Catherine of Siena - CLARE MONAGLE Catherine of Siena, Florence, and Dominican Renewal: Preaching through Letters - CONSTANT J. MEWS 'With open doors' in the Tor de' Specchi: The Chiesa Vecchia Frescoes and the Monks of Santa Maria Nova - CYNTHIA TROUP Part IV. Consuming Culture Leonardo Bruni and the Rise of Official Historiography in Renaissance Florence - GARY IANZITI Interpretation and Translation: Classical Influences on Leonardo Bruni and the Art of Translation in Quattrocento Florence - ANDREA RIZZI Ser Giovanni di Francesco, Forger of Coins and Man of 'Ingegno' - LORENZ BONINGER Curbing 'Ambitions of the Throat': Alimentary Sumptuary Law in Early Modern Italy - CATHERINE KOVESI The One about Michelangelo and the Onions: Jokes and Cultural Anxiety in the Early Sixteenth Century - JILL BURKE The Publications of Francis William Kent

  • Edited by Peter F Howard
  • Edited by Cecilia Hewlett