The magnificence with which the Florentine Renaissance is synonymous derived its power
from a virtue elucidated and disseminated by influential preachers as early as the 1420s …

On 11 July 1501, in Florence, a certain Antonio Rinaldeschi lost some money and clothing
while gambling at a tavern called The Fig Tree. Leaving the tavern, he cursed the name of …

The pagan Renaissance is no more. A hundred years of interpretation of Burckhardt's thesis
has erased most traces of those fearless individuals whose fascination with the almost living …

THE FAME OF FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE ART HAS ALWAYS GIVEN THE history of
Florence a wide appeal, and interest in the precocity business techniques and in the late …

to-day as" Palazzo Riccardi") did n ten years after Cosimo had seized palaces of the
Rucellai, Pitti, Paz Strozzi, followed even later. 1 At the beginning of the fifteent sculptors had …

This volume sheds light on the transitions in the intellectual life of Renaissance Florence in
the last quarter of the fifteenth century. Its point of departure is a hitherto unedited Latin text …

1 This study is preliminary to a larger project, currently in progress: Holy Florence:
Spirituality and Devotion in a Renaissance City. I wish to express my thanks to William …

This article will consider the use of patronage in religious settings in Renaissance Florence
for political and territorial purposes. New informa tion on minor acts of patronage at the …

The Summa Theologica of the Archbishop Antonino Pierozzi, was a product of his
preaching, and its themes were elaborations of topics that he expounded to his Florentine …

I. FLORENCE AND THE FLORENTINES... Compared with Athens and Rome, 1. Beauty of
the city and its environs, 2. City walls, 3. Streets payed and provided with sewers at an early …