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Author: Miles Unger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 0743254341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiles Unger's biography of this complex figure draws on primary research in Italian sources and on his intimate knowledge of Florence, where he lived for several years."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Richard Stapleford
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 027105641X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Lorenzo de' Medici
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781599102306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The first English translation of the complete literary works of Lorenzo de' Medici (1 January 1449-9 April 1492), Italian statesman and ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Comprises love poems, comic poems, short stories, and philosophical and devotional works, including one play"--
Author: F. W. Kent
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801886270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Historian F.W. Kent offers a new look at Lorenzo's relationship to the arts, aesthetics, collecting, and building - especially in the context of his role as the political boss (maestro della bottega) of republican Florence and a leading player in Renaissance Italian diplomacy. Kent's approach reveals Lorenzo's activities as an art patron as far more extensive and creative than previously thought. Known as "the Magnificent," Lorenzo was broadly interested in the arts and supported efforts to beautify Florence and the many Medici lands and palaces. His expertise was well regarded by guildsmen and artists, who often turned to him for advice as well as for patronage.
Author: Maurice Rowdon
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLorenzo de' Medici was twenty-one when he took over the government of Florence in 1469. By the age of sixteen he was already an able diplomat, following the example and training of his father and grandfather, and as head of the Medici family, he became a first-class party chief as well as the most princely patron of art and thought in Christendom. Although he had virtually no physical charm, he had immense influence over people, and at the crisis of his career he saved both the Florentine state and himself by a master-stroke of personal diplomacy. He survived an assassination attempt in which his brother died, only to grow old with gout before he was thirty-eight and be crippled by the time of his death, five years later. The grief of the people of Florence was almost hysterical when the news was broken to them; to them, as to us, Lorenzo was a figure not easily matched, let alone surpassed. The author, Maurice Rowdon, looks anew at Lorenzo the man and places him in the Italy and Europe of his day. - Jacket flap.
Author: Lee Hancock
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2004-12-15
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781404203150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the life and accomplishments of the fifteenth-century ruler of Florence who was renowned for his passion for the arts, and who sponsored Michelangelo.
Author: Phyllis Mack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521527026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays taking up themes that have resonated through Professor Koenigsberger's lectures, seminars and public writings.
Author: Charles L. Mee
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780304936823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the violent political power struggles, the social and religious ferment, the cultural revolution, and the individual prominence surrounding the life of Lorenzo de' Medici, the Italian nobleman described as the archetype of "the Renaissance Man."
Author: Alison Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 110848946X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUses Piero de' Medici's life as a prism to throw new light on the crisis in Renaissance Italy that revolutionised culture and political thinking.
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-08-15
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1605988278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances. In Savonarola, an unprepossessing provincial monk, Lorenzo found his nemesis. Filled with Old Testament fury, Savonarola's sermons reverberated among a disenfranchised population, who preferred medieval Biblical certainties to the philosophical interrogations and intoxicating surface glitter of the Renaissance. The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events—invasions, trials by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths—featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures.In an exhilaratingly rich and deeply researched story, Paul Strathern reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts, and political compromises that made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history.
