Medievalists.net » Medici http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Machiavelli and Botticelli Movies to Hit the Screen in 2016 http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/29/machiavelli-and-botticelli-movies-to-hit-the-screen-in-2016/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/29/machiavelli-and-botticelli-movies-to-hit-the-screen-in-2016/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:55:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60689 Machiavelli and Botticelli are set to hit screens in 2016. We sat down to chat with Italian director, Lorenzo Raveggi about his two ambitious projects.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/29/machiavelli-and-botticelli-movies-to-hit-the-screen-in-2016/feed/ 0 Angels in Art: Angels Through the Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/14/angels-in-art-angels-through-the-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/14/angels-in-art-angels-through-the-ages/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2015 12:04:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58940 A look at cool and fun facts about angels and how they were depicted in some of the most beautiful works of Medieval and Renaissance art.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/14/angels-in-art-angels-through-the-ages/feed/ 0 10 Creepy Things to See at the Louvre That Are Better Than the Mona Lisa http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/10/10-creepy-things-see-louvre-better-mona-lisa/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/10/10-creepy-things-see-louvre-better-mona-lisa/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:14:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56035 If you're an ancient historian, a medievalist, or early modernist, there are so many other amazing pieces and works of art a the Louvre other than these two tourist staples. Here is my list of cool, creepy, unusual and better than the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/10/10-creepy-things-see-louvre-better-mona-lisa/feed/ 0 The Sincere Body: The Performance of Weeping and Emotion in Late Medieval Italian Sermons http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/sincere-body-performance-weeping-emotion-late-medieval-italian-sermons/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/sincere-body-performance-weeping-emotion-late-medieval-italian-sermons/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:58:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54498 In 1493 the well-known and controversial Franciscan preacher Bernardino of Feltre gave a series of Lenten sermons to the people of Pavia. On March 11 he dedicated an entire sermon to the necessity of contrition—or perfect sorrow over sin—in the rite of confession.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/sincere-body-performance-weeping-emotion-late-medieval-italian-sermons/feed/ 0 Flee the loathsome shadow: Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) and the Medici in Florence http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/flee-loathsome-shadow-marsilio-ficino-1433-99-medici-florence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/flee-loathsome-shadow-marsilio-ficino-1433-99-medici-florence/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:30:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54007 This article examines the changing political landscape of Medicean Florence, from Cosimo de’ Medici (1389-1464) to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492), through the letters of the celebrated neo-Platonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/15/book-italians/feed/ 0 ‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/04/selling-stories-and-many-other-things-in-and-through-the-city-peddling-print-in-renaissance-florence-and-venice/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/04/selling-stories-and-many-other-things-in-and-through-the-city-peddling-print-in-renaissance-florence-and-venice/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:37:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45491 ‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice Rosa M. Salzberg (University of Warwick) Sixteenth Century Journal: XLII/3 (2011) Abstract Mobile and marginal, street sellers tend to disappear from the historical record, yet they played a very important part in the dissemination of cheap print […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/03/personal-rituals-the-office-of-ceremonies-and-papal-weddings-1483-1521/feed/ 0 For reasons of state: political executions, republicanism, and the Medici in Florence, 1480-1560 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/26/for-reasons-of-state-political-executions-republicanism-and-the-medici-in-florence-1480-1560/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/26/for-reasons-of-state-political-executions-republicanism-and-the-medici-in-florence-1480-1560/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:17:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36726 This article explores how the changing nature of punishment for political crimes in Renaissance Florence from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries can be read as a barometer of political change in the city.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/26/for-reasons-of-state-political-executions-republicanism-and-the-medici-in-florence-1480-1560/feed/ 0 Heraldry in the Trecento Madrigal http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/heraldry-in-the-trecento-madrigal/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/heraldry-in-the-trecento-madrigal/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:19:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35897 This study investigates a repertoire of eighteen madrigals whose texts refer to heraldry, all of which were composed in trecento Italy.

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