Lila Acheson Wallace - Reader’s Digest Publications Subsidy

Part I - The patron's oeuvre -- Cosimo's oeuvre -- Cosimo's letters -- Learning the lessons of Florentine culture : who Cosimo knew -- Educating the patron : what Cosimo read -- Part II - The common culture of the Florentine audience : the Medici share in this -- Venues and performances -- Compilations and the corpus of texts -- Popular devotion and the prerception of images -- Images of Florentine patronage refracted through popular culture -- Part III - Cosimo's religious commissions -- Expiation, charity, intercession -- Building "for the honor of God, and the honor of the city, and the memory of me" -- Part IV - The house of the Medici -- The palace : Measuring self on the urban map -- Accommodating the patron -- The chapel in the heart of the palace : A microcosm of Medici patronage -- Part V - The patron as "auctor" -- Patrons and their artists : "the variety of genius" -- The patron's choice : princes, patricians, partisans -- Conclusion : An oeuvre defines its patron : Cosimo's visable image -- Appendix A : A list of what appear to be popular miscellanies compiled from the Pupilli record.

Nicholas IV: a Franciscan pope -- Power and patronage at Assisi -- The Upper Church in 1288 -- Planning the nave programme -- 'Franciscus alter Christus' -- Rebuilding the church -- Ascending to God, descending to neighbour."For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, was the catalyst for the creation of frescoes of unprecedented intellectual ambition in the Basilica of San Francesco. At the heart of the new decorative scheme were twenty-eight scenes depicting the life of Saint Francis. Putting to one side the long debate about whether the Saint Francis cycle was or was not painted by Giotto, The Making of Assisi takes a fresh approach and treats the cycle as part of a larger, integrated, and far-reaching program of renewal at the Basilica. ... Donal Cooper and Janet Robson investigate the particular historical moment in which the frescoes were made, casting new light on their patronage and iconography."--Publisher's website.

Mannerism and imitation -- Gigantum arrogantia: Raphael vs. Michelangelo in Perino del Vaga -- Daniele da Volterra's contested subject -- Pellegrino Tibaldi's Apologus Alcinoi -- Painting and counter-reformation in the Poggi Chapel."Explores the imitation of Michelangelo by three artists, Perino del Vaga, Daniele da Volterra, and Pellegrino Tibaldi, from the 1520s to the time around Michelangelo's death in 1564. Argues that his Mannerist followers applied imitation to identify with and/or create ironical distance from to the older artist"--Provided by publisher.

"The core of this book is the catalogue of the Italian sources of Dürer's artwork; the chronological organization of the entries helps to trace a new image of Dürer as both a theorist of art and science, and a master engraver and painter, with results that substantially change our vision of his relationship with Italy. The volume also offers a first analytical index of Dürer's treatises kept in the Italian libraries"--Provided by publisher.

Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel -- Elena Civalelli/Suor Deodata and Mihale/Catterina Šatorivić-- Maria Gozzadini and her daughters-Aissè, Eminè, Catigè.

Chapter One. Contexts: The female writer in context: opportunities, attitudes, models -- Women's writing and the counter-reformation -- Religious writing in post-Tridentine Italy: a poetics of conversion -- Secular writing in post-Tridentine Italy: the new sesualism and the misogynist turn -- Chapter Two. Lyric Verse: Women's lyric output, 1580-1630 -- Pietosi affetti: spiritual lyric and the female poet -- The dwindling muse: female-authored secular lyric in post-Tridentine Italy -- Chapter Three. Drama: Drama for the doge: Moderata Fonte's Le feste -- Arcadian adventures: women writers and pastoral drama -- The challenge of tragedy: Valeria Miani's Celinda -- Chapter Four. Sacred Narrative: Women writers and the new sacred narrative -- Refashioning the Gospels: New Testament narrative in Moderata Fonte and Francesca Turina -- Hagiographic epic: Lucrezia Marinella's Lives of Saints Columba and Francis -- Hagiographic epic remade: Marinella's Lives of Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena -- A Medicean sacred epic: Maddalena Salvetti's David perseguitato -- Chapter Five. Secular Narrative: Women writers and the literature of chivalry -- Ideology and history in female-authored chivalric epic -- Gender, arms, and love in female-authored chivalric fiction -- The fortunes of female-authored chivalric fiction -- Beyond chivalry: Lucrezia Marinella's experiments in mythological epic and pastoral romance -- Chapter Six. Discursive Prose: Output and principal trends - Authorizing women: the problem of Docere -- Preachers in print: religious Institutio in Maddalena Campiglia and Chiara Matraini -- Proclaiming women's worth: Fonte, Marinella, and the Querelle des femmes -- Coda -- Appendix: Italian women writers active 1580-1635.Chapter One. Contexts: The female writer in context: opportunities, attitudes, models -- Women's writing and the counter-reformation -- Religious writing in post-Tridentine Italy: a poetics of conversion -- Secular writing in post-Tridentine Italy: the new sesualism and the misogynist turn -- Chapter Two. Lyric Verse: Women's lyric output, 1580-1630 -- Pietosi affetti: spiritual lyric and the female poet -- The dwindling muse: female-authored secular lyric in post-Tridentine Italy -- Chapter Three. Drama: Drama for the doge: Moderata Fonte's Le feste -- Arcadian adventures: women writers and pastoral drama -- The challenge of tragedy: Valeria Miani's Celinda -- Chapter Four. Sacred Narrative: Women writers and the new sacred narrative -- Refashioning the Gospels: New Testament narrative in Moderata Fonte and Francesca Turina -- Hagiographic epic: Lucrezia Marinella's Lives of Saints Columba and Francis -- Hagiographic epic remade: Marinella's Lives of Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena -- A Medicean sacred epic: Maddalena Salvetti's David perseguitato -- Chapter Five. Secular Narrative: Women writers and the literature of chivalry -- Ideology and history in female-authored chivalric epic -- Gender, arms, and love in female-authored chivalric fiction -- The fortunes of female-authored chivalric fiction -- Beyond chivalry: Lucrezia Marinella's experiments in mythological epic and pastoral romance -- Chapter Six. Discursive Prose: Output and principal trends - Authorizing women: the problem of Docere -- Preachers in print: religious Institutio in Maddalena Campiglia and Chiara Matraini -- Proclaiming women's worth: Fonte, Marinella, and the Querelle des femmes -- Coda -- Appendix: Italian women writers active 1580-1635.