The most recent edition of Renaissance Studies (Volume 16, Number 2,
June 2002) contains some articles which look as though they may be of
interest. I quote the journal's own abstracts:
ALISON BROWN, Lorenzo de' Medici's new men and their mores: the changing
lifestyle of Quattrocento Florence
As an approach to the contentious problem of how to define the nature of
Florentine society - feudal or mercantile, old or new - this paper
investigates the outlook and lifestyle of Lorenzo de' Medici's
secretary-notaries, a new and highly vocal group of functionaries in the
later fifteenth century. It examines first their social behaviour,
especially their clothes and consumerism, then their political role and
ambitions, and finally their morality, arguing that these men sought to
rise in society by adopting new ways and attitudes, not those of the old
elite. In doing so, they articulated the outlook and values that came to
typify new thinking about politics and society in the early modem
period. (pp. 113-42)
CINZIA M. SICCA, Consumption and trade of art between Italy and England
in the first half of the sixteenth century: the London house of the
Bardi and Cavalcanti company
Scattered passages in Vasari's Lives of the Artists testify to the trade
of artworks outside Italy at the hands of the Florentine merchants. One
such merchant-venturer, Giovanni di Lorenzo Cavalcanti, is explicitly
mentioned by Vasari in connection with commissions for Henry VIII.
Documents found in private and public Italian archives shed light on
Cavalcanti's activity, on the increasingly important role he came to
play during the first half of the reign of Henry VIII. A strong Medici
supporter, gentleman usher to Pope Leo X, Cavalcanti acted as a link
between the Curia and the English monarchy, in a capacity which combined
a semi-diplomatic function with a thriving trading and banking activity
in partnership with Pierfrancesco de' Bardi. In particular, the paper
focuses on an analysis and discussion of the function of the firm's
London house, as it can be evinced from a copia di masserizia (household
inventory) drafted in 1523, when for six and a half months Gregorio da
Casale (permanent English representative at the Curia) and Gabriello
Cexano (Cardinal Giulio de Medici's secretary) lived in the house. The
document affords an unprecedented insight into an early
sixteenth-century Italian household in London, its internal
distribution, furnishings and works of art on display. (pp. 163-201)
In addition, there are reviews of Richard J. Agee, The Gardano Music
Printing Firms, 1569-1611 (Rochester NY: Univerity of Rochester Press,
1998) and Kate van Orden ed., Music and the Cultures of Print (New York
and London: Garland Publishing, 2000), by Susan G. Lewis; and of Luca
Molā, The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2000), by Richard Mackenney.
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ALMA MATER STUDIORUM
UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA
Dipartimento di Paleografia e Medievistica
DISCIPLINARE IL LUSSO
La legislazione suntuaria in Italia e in Europa tra Medioevo ed Etā
moderna
Convegno internazionale di studi
Bologna, 27-28 settembre 2002
Aula Giorgio Prodi
Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2
Con la collaborazione del Ministero per i beni e le attivitā culturali -
Direzione generale per gli archivi
Venerdė 27 settembre
Ore 9.30-13.30
L'Italia
Introduce e presiede Massimo Miglio (Istituto Storico Italiano per il
Medio Evo)
Saluti di Salvatore Italia (Ministero per i beni e le attivitā
culturali), Antonio Dentoni-Litta (Ministero per i beni e le attivitā
culturali) e Paolo Prodi (coordinatore nazionale della ricerca "Ragione
ed etica nel pensiero e nelle istituzioni tra Medioevo ed Etā Moderna:
politica economica e diritto")
Una societā nello specchio della legislazione suntuaria: il caso
dell'Emilia-Romagna
Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli (Universitā di Bologna)
Il caso dell'Umbria
Maria Grazia Nico (Universitā di Perugia)
Il caso del Veneto
Luca Molā (University of Warwick)
La prammatica degli Ebrei e per gli Ebrei
Ariel Toaff (Bar-Ilan University)
Ore 15.30-19
L'Europa
Presiede Massimo Montanari
Il caso della Spagna
Mercč Aventin (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Il caso della Francia
Neithard Bulst (Universität Bielefeld)
Il caso della Germania
Gerhard Jaritz (Central European University, Budapest)
Il caso dell'Inghilterra
Thomas Lüttenberg (Universität Bielefeld)
Sabato 28 settembre
Ore 9.30-13.30
Punti di vista
Presiede Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli
La prospettiva della storia economica
Franco Franceschi (Universitā di Siena)
La prospettiva della storia dell'arte e del costume
Marzia Cataldi Gallo (Soprintendenza per i beni artistici e storici per
la Liguria)
La prospettiva della storia dell'alimentazione
Massimo Montanari (Universitā di Bologna)
La prospettiva della storia giuridica
Mario Ascheri (Universitā di Siena)
La prospettiva della storia sociale
Giulia Calvi (Universitā di Siena)
La prospettiva della storia delle donne
Gabriella Zarri (Universitā di Firenze)
Discussione finale
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Rupert Shepherd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK
Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/
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