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10 Medieval and Renaissance Things to See at the Victoria and Albert Museum

October 9, 2014 By Medievalists.net

My latest visit to the Victoria and Albert Musuem: 10 Medieval and Renaissance Things to See at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Alfonso I d'Este Duke of Ferrara, Architecture, Art History, Backgammon, Cassone chests, Cesare Borgia, Christianity, Early Modern, Elisabetta Gonzaga, Europe, France, Germany, Giovanni Angelo del Maino, Italy, Late Middle Ages, Lucrezia Borgia, Mantua, Marriage, Museums, Netherlands, Paris, Pope Alexander VI, Renaissance, Urbino, Utrecht, Vannozza die Cattanei, Victoria and Albert Museum

Prophetic Statebuilding: Machiavelli and the Passion of the Duke

April 12, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Cesare & Machiavelli

My interpretation of Machiavelli’s use of Borgia highlights the biblical resonances of Machiavelli’s account of the rise and fall of this exemplary new prince—a prince whom both his subjects and the Florentine himself call by the exalted title “Duke Valentino.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Cesare Borgia, Early Modern, Fifteenth Century, Florence, Government, Italy, Literature, Machiavelli, Medieval Lordship, Papacy, Political Thought, Renaissance, The Borgias, The Prince

BOOKS: The Feuding Families of Medieval and Renaissance Italy

March 15, 2014 By Medievalists.net

The House of Medici - Its Rise and Fall

Put down the Godfather, turn off the Sorpanos, and check out the real Italian families of Medieval and Renaissance Italy!

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Banking, Beatrice d’Este, Borghese, Calixtus III, Caterina Sforza Countess of Forli, Cesare Borgia, Christianity, Clarice Orsini, Colonna, Commerce, Cosimo de' Medici, della Rovere, Early Modern, Economics - Urban, Fifteenth Century, Florence, Gender, Ghibellines, Giulia Farnese, Guelphs, Isabella d’Este, Isabella of Aragon/Naples Duchess of Milan, Italy, Late Middle Ages, Lorenzo de' Medici, Lucrezia Borgia, Machiavelli, Marriage, Medici, Medieval Women, Milan, Orsini, Papacy, Political Thought, Politics, Pope Alexander VI, Renaissance, Rome, Sforza, Sixteenth Century, Social History, Spain, The Borgias, The Italian Wars 1494 - 1559, The Prince, Urban Studies