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Hamilton, Desirae. "The Captain of the People in Renaissance Florence." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804880/.
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The Renaissance Florentine Captain of the People began as a court, which defended the common people or popolo from the magnates and tried crimes such as assault, murder and fraud. This study reveals how factionalism, economic stress and the rise of citizen magistrate courts eroded the jurisdiction and ended the Court of the Captain. The creation of the Captain in 1250 occurred during the external fight for dominance between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope and the struggle between the Guelfs and Ghibellines within the city of Florence. The rise of the Ciompi in 1379, worried the Florentine aristocracy who believed the Ciompi was a threat to their power and they created the Otto di Guardia, a citizen magistrate court. This court began as a way to manage gaps in jurisdiction not covered by the Captain and his fellow rectors. However, by 1433 the Otto eroded the power of the Captain and his fellow rectors. Historians have argued that the Roman law jurists in this period became the tool for the aristocracy but in fact, the citizen magistrate courts acted as a source of power for the aristocracy. In the 1430s, the Albizzi and Medici fought for power. The Albizzi utilized a government mandate, which had the case already carried out or a bullectini to exile Medici adherents. However, by 1433, the Medici triumphed and Cosimo de Medici returned to the city of Florence. He expanded the power of the Otto in order to utilize the bullectini to exile his enemies. The expansion of jurisdiction of the Otto further eroded the power of the Captain. Factionalism, economic stress and the rise of the citizen magistrate courts eroded the power of the Captain of the people.
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Virgilio, Carlo. "Florence, Byzantium and the Ottomans (1439-1481) : politics and economics." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5738/.
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This dissertation studies the diplomatic and political communication between Florence, the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires in the fifteenth century (1439-1481). The first chapter is introductory to the thesis and reconstructs the contacts between Florence and Byzantium. The second chapter and the third chapter examine the privileges granted by John VIII to Florence; the chapters present the contents and contextualise the privileges within the humanist environment. The fourth chapter studies the Florentine-Byzantine contacts after the Council (1439-1453), focusing on why Florence abandoned Byzantium. The fifth chapter analyses the beginning of Florentine-Ottoman relations and reconstructs the commercial privileges given by the sultan to Florence. The sixth and seventh chapters investigate Florence’s diplomacy during the Ottoman-Venetian war (1463-1479) and Otranto (1480-1481) until Mehmet II’s death. The thesis is accompanied by three appendices including a number of unpublished documents, a prosopography of the Florentines involved in the Levant, and selected Byzantine charters used for the analysis in chapter two. I aim to demonstrate that the relations between the eastern and the western part of the Mediterranean in the fifteenth century were determined by political and economic considerations rather than faith. These considerations guided Florence’s diplomacy to achieve commercial superiority in Constantinople.
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Mariani, Irene. "Vespucci family in context : art patrons in late fifteenth-century Florence." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15740.
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The study of Florentine artistic patronage has attracted several approaches over the last three decades, including the exploration of patron-‐client structures and how the use of art in private and public spheres contributed to shape families’s identity. Building on past research, this work focuses on the art patronage of a prominent, yet overlooked, family, the Vespucci, to whom Amerigo, the navigator who reached the coasts of America in the late fifteenth century, belonged. Although the family’s importance was achieved through a synergy of political, religious and intellectual forces, attention is given to the Vespucci’s engagement with the arts and their key contribution to Florence’s humanistic culture between the years 1470-1500. The family’s houses and private chapels are analysed, and three artists, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Piero di Cosimo, considered. Combining history, art history, and archival resources, new evidence and interpretations are advanced to ascribe selected artworks - controversially believed to be Vespucci commissions - to the private patronage of this Florentine family. Examining the Vespucci’s artistic taste in private and public settings, whilst attempting a reconstruction of partially lost painted commissions, deepens comprehension on the role that domestic and social life played in the creation of art and culture; the family’s force in shaping spaces; and the practice of buying, commissioning, and displaying as a means of signifying wealth, increasing status, and establishing identity. Power seekers, the Vespucci entered the Medici intellectual circles through which they created chains of friendship with prominent families inside and outside of Florence. As questions about shared artistic tastes and the paradigmatic role of the Medici artistic patronage have been the focus of scholarly enquiry, this study of the Vespucci provides an insight into the family’s spreading of new ideas and its interaction with the development of the visual arts. Investigation into the Vespucci’s breadth of interests helps to reframe the current knowledge of Florentine cultural exchanges and to contextualise the family’s influence beyond the geographical discoveries it has been exclusively associated with.
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Kim, Hae-Jeong. "Liturgy, Music, and Patronage at the Cappella di Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, 1550-1609." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278255/.
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This dissertation describes the musical and religious support of the Medici family to the Medici Chapel in Florence and the historical role of the church of San Lorenzo in the liturgical development of the period. During the later Middle Ages polyphony was allowed in the Office services only at Matins and Lauds during the Tenebrae service, the last three days of Holy Week, and at Vespers anytime. This practice continued until the end of the sixteenth century when more polyphonic motets based on the Antiphon and Responsory began to be included in the various Office hours during feast days. This practice is documented by the increased number of pieces that appear in the manuscripts. Two of the transcriptions from the church of San Lorenzo included in the appendix are selected from this later repertoire.
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Grover, Sean Thomas. "A Tuscan Lawyer, His Farms and His Family: The Ledger of Andrea di Gherardo Casoli, 1387-1412." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11041/.
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This is a study of a ledger written by Andrea di Gherardo Casoli between the years 1387 and 1412. Andrea was a lawyer in the Tuscan city of Arezzo, shortly after the city lost its sovereignty to the expanding Florentine state. While Andrea associated his identity with his legal practice, he engaged in many other, diverse enterprises, such as wine making, livestock commerce, and agricultural management. This thesis systematically examines each major facet of Andrea's life, with a detailed assessment of his involvement in rural commerce. Andrea's actions revolved around a central theme of maintaining and expanding the fortunes, both financial and social, of the Casoli family.
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Bailie, Lindsey Leigh. "Staging Privacy: Art and Architecture of the Palazzo Medici." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11049.
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xii, 112 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.The Palazzo Medici was a site of significant social and political representation for the Medici. Access to much of the interior was limited, ostensibly, to the family. In republican Florence, however, visitors were a crucial component in the maintenance of a political faction. Consequently, the "private" spaces of the Palazzo Medici were designed and decorated with guests in mind. Visitor accounts reveal that the path and destination of each visitor differed according to his status and significance to the family. The common citizen waited, sometimes for great lengths, in the courtyard, taking in the anti-tyrannical message of the space. The privileged guest, who had more to provide the Medici, was given access to the more private spaces of the residence. Surrounded by art and architecture that demonstrated the faith, education, and wealth of the Medici, he was assured that his support of the family was beneficial to his own pursuits.
Committee in charge: James Harper, Chairperson; Jim Tice, Member; Jeff Hurwit, Member
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Wilson, Helen 1924. "A study of the letters of Alessandra Strozzi : illustrating the significant role which could be played by women in Renaissance Florence." Master's thesis, Department of History, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7260.
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Swanson, Barbara Dianne. "Speaking in Tones: Plainchant, Monody, and the Evocation of Antiquity in Early Modern Italy." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1365170679.
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Lefeuvre, Philippe. "La notabilité rurale dans le contado florentin Valdarno Supérieur et Chianti, aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01H015.
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Conçue comme une enquête sur les élites rurales, cette thèse vise à restituer les étapes permettant au notable rural, un idéal-type social, de s'imposer dans un territoire donné. Le contado florentin est un cas paradigmatique. Les mobilités sociales et I'inurbamento des ruraux aisés sont vus comme les facteurs d'affaiblissement de communautés rurales livrées aux appétits citadins. La recherche mobilise le fonds de trois abbayes vallombrosaines, Montescalari, la Vallombreuse (Coltibuono, en se concentrant sur le quart Sud-Est du contado florentin (fonds Diplomatico de l'Archivio di Stato d Flo rence). La reconstitution de trajectoires familiale s'oblige à replacer ces trajectoires dans l' évolution plus large de logiques de la distinction sociale . Les éléments qui fondent la sociabilité rurale se transforment radicalement. Une société organisée à l'échelle locale, et très hiérarchisée dans le cadre seigneurial, fonctionne, jusqu'aux premières décennies du XIIIè siècle, sur l' exploitation de la terre et des hommes et sur la redistribution des bénéfices de la rente foncière entre un grand nombre de familles. Ce sont moins les profits du commerce et de l'artisanat rural qui font évoluer cette situation que l' intégration des patrimoines seigneuriaux aux dynamiques économiques de la ville. Le crédit fonctionne alors au dépens des anciennes solidarités pour devenir un facteur de différenciation sociale. Au même moment, on observe un transformation des cercles à l ' intérieur desquels se conservent et se transmettent les capitaux symboliques et matériels : la famille et ses prolongements; les seigneuries rurales ; les communes rurales et les clientèles de la haute aristocratieThis thesis is an investigation into rural elites. It aims to evidence the process by which rural notables, considered here as a social type, establish their ascendency over a given territory. The Florentine contado is a case in point. Social mobility and the move of the wealthiest inhabitants of the country to the city are shown as primarily responsible for undermining the social cohesion of rural communities, increasingly preyed upon by townsmen. This research is based on three monastic archives, Montescalari, Vallombrosa and Coltibuono, and focuses on the Upper Valdarno valley and the Chianti hills (the archives are held by the Archivio di Stato of Florence, in the Diplomatico). Reconstructing the history and careers of the local notability provides a wider understanding of the way in which social distinction works and evolves over time, transforming rural communities and traditional rural sociability. From the early 12th century up to the first decades of the 13th century, rural communities in the contado were organized on a local and feudal basis, around a significant number of landowning families who exploited the land and the men who worked it, and organized the redistribution of the rent. That pattern changed, not so much because of the rise of city merchants and artisans, but because landlords started to use their lands and feudal power as a means to gain ground in the new urban economy. They neglected older rural solidarities to become providers of credit, which soon worked as an important factor of social differenciation. The social structures (the extended family, fiefdoms, rural towns and the nobility's clientele) which had been the traditional framework for keeping and transmitting capital (both economic and symbolic), were radically transformed in the process
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Renard, Thomas. "Architecture et figures identitaires de l’Italie unifiée (1861-1921)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040091.
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Ce travail porte sur la place et le rôle de l’architecture dans le processus de construction de la nation italienne au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles. Pour cela, nous avons choisi d’isoler un certain nombre de figures identitaires et de les étudier à travers le prisme de commémorations organisées en Italie durant la première période de l’unification (1861-1921). Notre étude est rythmée par l’analyse de trois commémorations liées entre elles par l’activité de l’historien d’art Corrado Ricci.Le huitième centenaire de la création de l’université de Bologne en 1888 et les travaux architecturaux d’Alfonso Rubbiani nous offrent un des premiers exemples d’une fête marquée par la réinvention d’un monument ancien. Les célébrations du cinquantenaire de l’unité italienne en 1911, et plus particulièrement l’exposition régionale et ethnographique organisée à Rome, nous ont permis de définir une nouvelle articulation entre les identités régionales et l’identité nationale ; selon l’idée de l’époque l’unité du génie artistique national émergerait de la diversité des genius loci illustrée par l’architecture des communes de la fin du Moyen Âge et de la première Renaissance. Enfin, les commémorations du 600e anniversaire de la mort de Dante en 1921 constituent le pivot de notre étude. Au cours de ce centenaire, on restaura un grand nombre d’édifices dans toute l’Italie, et plus particulièrement à Florence et à Ravenne. Dans ces deux villes, les travaux s’étendirent à l’échelle urbaine, aboutissant à la création de zones dantesques et à la réinvention de l’image d’une architecture médiévale à vocation identitaireThis dissertation questions the place and role of architecture in the Italian national building process at the turn of the twentieth century. We chose to isolate several paradigmatic figures of identity (such as Dante or some distinctive features of medieval architecture) and to study them through the prism of a number of commemorations held in Italy in the first decades after unification (1861-1921). The analysis of three commemorations bound together by the activity of the art historian Corrado Ricci constitutes the core of our study.The eighth centenary of the creation of the University of Bologna in 1888 and the architectural activity of Alfonso Rubbiani are studied as one of the first examples of a commemoration not marked by the construction of a new monument but by the reinvention of an old one. The careful consideration of the 1911 celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Italian unification and especially the regional and ethnographic exhibition held in Rome on this occasion allowed us to define a new articulation between national and regional identity, defined as a unity of national artistic genius through a multiplicity of genius loci “rediscovered” in the architecture of late Middle Ages and early Renaissance Commune. The third and main object of our analysis are the commemorations for the 600th anniversary of Dante's death in 1921. For this event many buildings were restored throughout Italy, especially in Florence and Ravenna. In both cities, the impact of commemorations reached an urban scale, leading to the creation of whole areas known as zone dantesche: spatial evidences of the powerful myth that the figure of Dante embodied in this historical conjuncture. Supported by the newly acquired value of heritage in the national building process, this commemoration was a crucial step in the invention of a neomedieval city and its mass diffusion through a set of visual stereotypes
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Cilmi, Giancarla. "Les Jacquemart-André collectionneurs d’art italien. Acquisitions et marché de l’art entre la France et l’Italie (fin XIXe-début XXe siècle)." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEP053.
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Edouard André (1833-1894) et Nélie Jacquemart (1841-1912) s’inscrivent parfaitement dans cette pratique du collectionnisme de la fin du XIXe siècle apanage de la bourgeoisie fortunée de la société occidentale. Leur passion pour l’art de la Renaissance italienne les mène à constituer un musée privé unique en ce genre : ils rassemblent des œuvres (peintures, sculptures, objets d’art) s’attachant à récréer l’ambiance d’un palais florentin. Pendant près de trente ans ils entretiennent des relations étroites avec les meilleurs antiquaires italiens et les plus grands experts de l’époque qui leur permettent de constituer un ensemble resté encore exceptionnel à ce jour, légué à la France en 1912. L’analyse du modus operandi mis en place par le couple permettra alors de saisir l’importance de leur collection italienneEdouard André (1833-1894) and Nélie Jacquemart (1841-1912) are perfectly in line with the practice of late 19th-century art collecting, which was the preserve of the wealthy bourgeoisie of Western society. Their passion for Italian Renaissance art led them to create a unique private museum by collecting works of art (paintings, sculptures, art objects) that recreated the atmosphere of a Florentine palace. For nearly thirty years, they maintained close relations with the best Italian antique dealers and the greatest experts of the time, which enabled them to form a collection that remains exceptional to this day, bequeathed to France in 1912. The analysis of the modus operandi set up by the couple will make it possible to understand the importance of their Italian collection
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Merseburger, Maria. "Gemalte Gewandung im Florentiner Quattrocento." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18687.
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Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt für die Bildwissenschaften eine methodische Grundlage dar, Kleidung im Bild als Konstruktion zu begreifen und zu interpretieren. Anhand der eindrucksvollen Patronageprojekte der Familie Tornabuoni – einer gerade emporgestiegenen Kaufmannsfamilie im Umkreis der Medici – werden die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von symbolischer Kommunikation in der Florentiner Frühneuzeit untersucht. Unter anderem über Symbole wurde die Position im Gesellschaftsgefüge des unsicheren frühneuzeitlichen Regierungsklimas immer wieder neu hergestellt und von Neuem ausgehandelt. Die gewählte Bildgarderobe ist dafür ein hervorstechendes Beispiel.The thesis presents an art historical methodology that assesses clothing and its pictorial representations in order to interpret how material culture relates to social construction. Using as an example an impressive patronage project of the Tornabuoni family – a newly rich family of merchants in the circle of the Medici – reveals the possibilities as well as the limitations of symbolic communication through dress in early modern Florence. In addition to outward style, these subtle symbols helped to establish and renegotiate their bearer’s position in the shifting hierarchy of an uncertain political climate. By closely examining Tornabuoni commissions, the thesis demonstrates how clothing is a critical means of understanding social motivations and aspirations.
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PELLEGRINO, Anna. "La città più artigiana d'Italia : Firenze 1861-1929." Doctoral thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5934.
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Defence date: 18 October 2004Examining board: Prof. Maurice Aymard (EHESS) - external supervisor ; Prof. Peter Becker (EUI) ; Prof. Gérard Delille (EUI) - supervisor ; Prof. Luigi Tomassini (Università di Bologna)
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Percorsi di vita, fortune imprenditoriali, ristrutturazioni urbanistiche, aggregazioni associative, conflitti politici e sociali, compongono la storia del nuovo artigianato urbano fiorentino: caso singolare di una formazione sociale in parte consistente “inventata” sulla base di dinamiche culturali, ma anche “modello” economico e sociale da confrontare con quelli di altre capitali europee che hanno avuto uno sviluppo analogo.
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HOUSSAYE, MICHIENZI Ingrid. "Réseaux et stratégies marchandes : le commerce de la compagnie Datini avec le Maghreb (fin XIVe - début XVe siècles) : réseaux, espaces Méditerranéens et stratégies marchandes." Doctoral thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/14484.
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Defence date: 4 May 2010Examining Board: Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI) – Supervisor; Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI); Prof. David Abulafia (University of Cambridge); Prof. Matthieu Arnoux (Université Paris VII et EHESS, Paris).
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Le rôle d’intermédiaire que jouait le Maghreb dans les relations méditerranéennes, entre l’Orient et l’Europe, et les échanges entre les Maghrébins et les différentes puissances commerciales italiennes et espagnoles, ont ancré de manière importante le Maghreb dans l’histoire méditerranéenne et européenne. En proposant la reconstruction des réseaux et des stratégies marchandes qui permirent à la compagnie Datini, à la fin du XIVe siècle et au début du XVe siècle, de négocier avec le Maghreb, nous tentons d’apporter un nouveau regard sur l’étude des entreprises marchandes médiévales, trop souvent prisonnier d’une lecture classique strictement économique. Nous sommes bien sûr redevables à Armando Sapori, Federigo Melis et aux historiens de cette génération en ce qui concerne l’étude de l’entreprise à cette époque. Nous nous appuyons sur leurs travaux et les citons de nombreuses fois1. Mais l’histoire économique telle que nous pouvons actuellement l’appréhender s’est enrichi considérablement des études sur des sujets de nature plus sociale, anthropologique et intellectuelle des années 1980, permettant une problématisation différente. La recherche présentée s’inscrit dans la continuité des travaux qui la précédèrent mais les directions sont divergentes à la fois sur le sujet d’étude, la méthode de travail, l’espace pris en compte et les sources qui sont utilisées. Quand Federigo Melis traitait de techniques des affaires, il mentionnait les formes de comptabilité, la circulation de l’information, le crédit, l’assurance, les coûts de transports et leur évolution… sans jamais faire référence aux relations, à ces réseaux d’affaires qui permettaient aux compagnies de s’étendre bien au-delà de leur strict champ d’activité. L’application de l’analyse de réseaux aux compagnies marchandes médiévales peut ainsi amplement enrichir celle des sociétés de commerce. Nous entendons réaliser une histoire économique qui ne se coupe pas du social et réintègre pleinement le facteur humain au sein de ses analyses. Nous ne pouvons que constater l’utilité de cet outil permettant de superposer à l’étude des entreprises commerciales celle de l’organisation du monde des affaires sous une forme juridique inexistante, reposant sur des liens informels et sur une confiance réciproque.
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SCHELLEKENS, Christophe. "Merchants and their hometown : Florentines in Antwerp and the Duchy of Florence (ca 1500-1585)." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/60218.
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Defence date: 10 December 2018Examining Board: Professor Luca Molà, University of Warwick & EUI (Supervisor) ; Professor Regina Grafe, EUI (second reader) ; Dr. Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli, University of Florence ; Dr. Maartje van Gelder, University of Amsterdam.
This dissertation investigates the ties between Florentine merchants in Antwerp and their hometown in the sixteenth century. It demonstrates that such ties were of great importance to them and are crucial to understand their actions and strategical decisions. Despite being an outdated institution, the Florentine nation in Antwerp remained an important point of reference for the merchant community, and depending on its concrete strategical value it was treated with either indifference or great attention by its home government in Florence. The members of the nation in Antwerp predominantly had a background in the Florentine Office Holding Class, which indicates that social dynamics in Florence resonated in the composition of the community in Antwerp. Apart from the nation, merchants also were guided by their Florentine background in forming their business ties. In their partnerships, they relied strongly on investments from other Florentines, and in Antwerp they largely selected collaborators with a Florentine background. This also goes up on a long-distance level, where a large number of their international contacts were with Florentines in other centers of commerce in Europe. Their ties with their hometown were stronger than has been assessed thus far. Apart from commercial ties with their hometown, Florentine merchants in Antwerp also sought to develop patronage ties with their home ruler, Duke Cosimo I through the provision of various services. As demonstrated by the case of Gaspare Ducci, also merchants that developed strong ties in the Low Countries and settled there, sought to maintain ties with their region of origin. By pointing to the importance of merchants’ hometown, this thesis contributes to debates about the relation between politics and commerce, the relation between informal networks and formal institutions, as well as the explanatory value of diaspora and cross-cultural trade.
Chapter 1 'The Florentine nation in Antwerp (ca. 1500-1585): the membership and meaning of an institution' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'The Antwerp joyous entry of 1549 : the Florentine-Genoese conflict as a window on the role of a trading nation in political cultural transfers' (2015) in the journal 'Incontri'
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DUREL, Aline. "L'imaginaire des épices : Florence-Venise, XIVe-XVIe siècles." Doctoral thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5782.
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Examining board: Prof. Franco Cardini; Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Università di Firenze ; Prof. Diego Curto, European University Institute ; Prof. Allen J. Grieco, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; Prof. Anthony Molho, European University Institute (Supervisor)Defence date: 15 May 2005
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TADDEI, Ilaria. "Fanciulli e giovani : crescere a Firenze nel Rinascimento." Doctoral thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5989.
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Defence date: 15 January 1999Examining board: Prof. Giovanni Cherubini, Università di Firenze ; Prof. Gérard Delille, Istituto Universitario Europeo ; Prof. Olwen Hufton, Merton College Oxford (supervisor) ; Prof. Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur, Università di Firenze (co-supervisor) ; Prof. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Università di Losanna
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LOMBARDI, Daniela. "Povertà maschile, povertà femminile: l'Ospedale dei mendicanti nella Firenze medicea." Doctoral thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5884.
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ARMANI, Barbara. "Il confine invisibile :famiglia, identità e ricchezza di un'élite ebraica nell'Italia dell'emancipazione : gli ebrei di Firenze, 1840-1914." Doctoral thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5814.
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Defence date: 8 July 2003Examining board: Prof. Michele Luzzati, Università di Pisa ; Prof. Anthony Molho, EUI ; Prof. Francesca Sofia, Università di Bologna ; Prof. Raffaele Romanelli, EUI (supervisore)
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CHABOT, Isabelle. "La dette des familles : Femmes, lignages et patrimoines a Florence aux XIVe et XVe siecles." Doctoral thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5741.
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Defence date: 20 June 1995Examining board: Prof. Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, E.H.E.S.S., Paris (Directrice de Thèse) ; Prof. Giorgio Chittolini, Università Statale, Milano ; Prof. Gérard Delille, I.U.E. ; Prof. Anthony Molho, Brown University, Providence, R.I. ; Prof. Giuliano Pinto, Università di Firenze
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Carlson, Raymond Edward. "Michelangelo between Florence and Rome: Art and Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-mnyb-pv07.
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This dissertation considers how the artistic output of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was related to his poetic development and associations with different communities in Florence and Rome. The author of more than 300 poems, Michelangelo was arguably the most prolific artist-poet of the Renaissance. Still, no study has scrutinized the dynamic relationship between his work across media in relation to contemporary shifts in Italian literary culture. Centered on the decades surrounding Michelangelo's permanent move to the Eternal City in 1534, this dissertation shows how he used his creative production to achieve stability in an era buffeted by war and political upheaval. The fortunes of Florence and Rome were inextricably bound, and this dissertation uses surviving visual and written evidence to reconstruct Michelangelo's links to dense intellectual and homosocial networks in these cities. Michelangelo wrote poems to build social ties at a time when the status of artists was in great flux, and this dissertation demonstrates why his poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, and architecture cannot be and would not have been understood apart from one another.
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MADIGNIER, Mirabelle. "Sociabilité informelle et pratiques sociales en Italie : les salons romains et florentins au XVIIIème siècle." Doctoral thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5888.
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Defence date: 24 January 2000Examining Board: Jean Boutier, EHESS, Marseille ; John Brewer, University of Chicago ; Laurence Fontaine, Institut Universitaire Européen ; Renato Pasta, Università degli Studi, Florence ; Daniel Roche, Collège de France, Directeur Externe
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GONZALEZ, DE LARA Yadira. "Enforceability and risk-sharing in financial contracts : from the sea loan to the commenda in late medieval Venice." Doctoral thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4938.
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Defence date: 23 June 2000Examining board: Prof. Avner Greif, Stanford University ; Prof. Ramon Marimon, EUI, Supervisor ; Prof. Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid ; Prof. Jaime Reis, EUI
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Greenwood, Ryan. "Law and War in Late Medieval Italy: The Jus Commune on War and Its Application in Florence, c. 1150-1450." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31765.
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This study, on law and war in late medieval Italy, has two primary aims. One is to review the legal tradition on war as it developed in the medieval jus commune, or common law, from approximately 1150-1300, and then to consider how that tradition evolved from roughly 1300-1450. In general the latter period still represents a lacuna in scholarship on the legal theory of war, and can be addressed as a distinct period because the fourteenth century was a time when theory moved in important new directions. It will be suggested in turn that those new directions were related to changing politics and institutions in Italy. The second aim continues and reflects the first, as it seeks to better understand how legal arguments about war and peace were employed in practice, using Florence as an example. The study finds that these legal arguments found their most important role in diplomacy. Florentine diplomatic records, as well as legal opinions (or consilia) on inter-city disputes, will help to examine the complex nature of that role. In general it will be seen that the law, including the jus commune, was a strategic tool and an important regulatory mechanism for relations between political actors in late medieval Italy, though one that also had significant limitations.
The first chapter introduces the material and themes. The second treats the just war tradition and laws on war through 1300. The third chapter examines legal theory on war, particularly in Roman law, from roughly 1300 to the early fifteenth century. The fourth explores how just war arguments were deployed in Florentine political discourse between 1230 and 1430. The fifth chapter examines a range of legal issues related to war, as found in diplomatic instructions and consilia which played a role in Florentine wartime diplomacy from 1392-1402. The sixth chapter is the conclusion.
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KHVALKOV, Evgeny. "The colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region : evolution and transformation." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/40744.
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Defence date: 8 September 2015Examining Board: Professor Luca Molà, EUI/ Supervisor; Professor Jorge Flores, EUI; Doctor Serena Ferente, King's College London; Professor Kate Fleet, University of Cambridge. Description: Thesis in 2 volumes.
The period from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries was a time of significant economic and social progress in the history of Europe. The development of industry and urban growth, the increasing role of trade and the expansion of geographical knowledge led to an époque of colonial expansion for Italy. Its maritime republics, Genoa and Venice, became cradles of commercial development and represent an early modern system of international long-distance trade in the late medieval period. These city-states came to the forefront of world history not only because of their commercial importance and the commercial mechanisms of exchange they introduced and adopted, but also because of their naval importance and the establishment of their overseas settlements.
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MATRINGE, Nadia. "L'entreprise florentine et la place de Lyon : l'activité de la banque Salviati au milieu du XVIe siècle." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/29619.
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Defence date: 6 December 2013Examining Board: Professor Antony Molho, EUI (supervisor); Professor Jacques Bottin, CNRS (external supervisor); Professor Antonella Romano, EHESS; Dr. Francesco Guidi Bruscoli, Università degli Studi di Firenze
This thesis was awarded the European Business History Association (EBHA) Dissertation Prize 2014 in Utrecht in August 2014.
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The commercial archives of the Salviati bank of Lyons record the entire activity of one of the most important companies on the 16thcentury marketplace. They also keep information relative to other businessmen and companies on the European scene at the time. This thesis scrutinises the organisation, methods and main sectors of activity of the Salviati bank (exchange, finances and commodities trade) in the middle of the 16th century, at the height of Lyons’ prosperity. It examines mercantile practices in relation to economic spaces and underlines the reciprocal influence of Florentine mercantile traditions and Lyonese economic structures. More specifically, it shows how the involvement of Italian firms in Lyons shaped their choice of business organisation and trade objects and how the strategies of Italian businessmen impacted in turn on the functioning of the marketplace. While the study of the Lyonese branch of a Florentine firm allows to assess its adaptability to local economic structures, the analysis of the activity of the main actors on the Lyons marketplace sheds light on the economic and social processes essential to the good functioning of that marketplace (forms of collaboration between various economic operators and different levels of market integration). This leads to a questioning of many of the hypotheses formulated in the current historiography (mostly, on the basis of local sources), concerning the Italian dominion over Lyons, and a refutation of the vision of market organisation and changing economic conditions that it puts forward. The section devoted to the exchange business, the main field of specialisation of the Salviati bank at the time, challenges the notion of Lyon’s key function in the European system of exchange. The uncovering of previously unknown financial techniques, and of techniques whose use in the space-time frame of this thesis is traditionally denied, brings an additional contribution to the history of banking.
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VLAMI, Despina. "Business, community, and ethnic identity : the Greek merchants of Livorno, 1700-1900." Doctoral thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/6008.
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Defence date: 28 May 1996Examining board: Angiolini Franco, University of Pisa (supervisor) ; Delille Gerard, EUI ; Dertilis George University of Athens (co-supervisor) ; Papataxiarhis Efthimios, University of Aegean, Rowland Robert ISCTE Lisbon
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CAGLIOTI, Daniela Luigia. "Il guadagno difficile : commercianti e artigiani napoletani nella seconda meta dell'800." Doctoral thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5806.
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Defence date: 9 October 1992Examining board: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, IUE ; Prof. Daniel Roche, Paris I (supervisore esterno) ; Prof. Raffaele Romanelli, Università di Pisa ; Prof. Robert Rowland (supervisore) ; Prof. Pasquale Villani, Università di Napoli
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KIRK, Thomas Allison. "Genoa and the sea : ships and power in the early modern Mediterranean (1559-1680)." Doctoral thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5857.
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Defence date: 5 July 1996Examining board: Prof. Franco Angiolini, Università degli Studi di Pisa (co-supervisor) ; Prof. Kirti N. Chaudhuri, European University Institute (supervisor) ; Prof. Laurence Fontaine, European University Institute ; Dr. Richard Mackenney, University of Edinburgh ; Prof. Rodolfo Savelli, Università degli Studi di Genova
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ISENMANN, Moritz. "Legalità e controllo del potere (1200-1600) : uno studio comparativo sul processo di sindacato : Firenze, Castiglia e Valencia." Doctoral thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/10430.
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Defence date: 18 January 2008Examining board: Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)-supervisor ; Prof. Wolfgang Reinhard (Universität Freiburg i.Br.)-external supervisor ; Prof. Julius Kirshner (University of Chicago) ; Prof. Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (EUI)
PhD thesis printed and available in two language versions: Italian and German. The original version is the Italian.
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Maratsos, Jessica. "The Devotional Imagination of Jacopo Pontormo." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8CN722C.
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In Italy the first half of the Cinquecento was marked by both flourishing artistic innovation and deep-seated religious uncertainty, the latter revealing itself most clearly in a widespread impetus towards reform. The relationship between these two cultural spheres--long a fraught problem in art historical scholarship--is made visually manifest in the religious works produced by the Florentine painter Jacopo da Pontormo. By re-examining Pontormo's three monumental religious commissions--the Certosa del Galluzzo (1522-27), the Capponi Chapel (1525-28), and the choir of San Lorenzo (1545-1557)--this dissertation maps the complex dialogue between artistic and devotional practice that characterized this era. Further, in highlighting the active role of the painter in this dynamic I propose a not only a new understanding of Pontormo, but also enrich our current notions of artistic agency in the Renaissance period.
The foundation of these arguments derives from a re-evaluation of the specific historical context on the one hand, and the implementation of a broader framework of visual culture on the other. Taking its cue from Giorgio Vasari's 1568 edition of The Lives of the Artists, modern scholarship has tended to view much of the art from the early sixteenth century through a post-Tridentine lens; paintings are labeled controversial or heretical, when in fact such notions would not have been relevant in these earlier decades. Published five years after the conclusion of the Council of Trent, Vasari's Lives is predominantly characterized by the author's own attempts to codify artistic pedagogy and style in the service of the Medici Duchy, whose newly consolidated ties with the papacy were of primary importance. A further difficulty presented by following Vasari's example is the relatively narrow view of the artistic environment that his account affords. Aimed as it was towards the social elevation of the individual Renaissance artist, Vasari's narrative undervalues the importance of other genres and media--such as prints, Mystery plays, terracotta sculptures, and sacri monti--to the work of well-established painters like Pontormo.
Each chapter examines a single, monumental project, delineating the artist's responsiveness to, and engagement with, the unique devotional and artistic challenges inherent to the individual commission. Chapter One resituates Pontormo's use of the maniera tedesca within the broader contexts of northern devotional practices and the parallels they form with affective strategies employed by other genres including sacre rappresentazioni and sacri monti. Chapter Two focuses on the painter's decision to portray himself the guise of Nicodemus, and the ways in which this identification evoked an entire web of historical associations--linked to hagiographic tradition and local legend--that would have been accessible to contemporary viewers. Finally, in Chapter Three I investigate Pontormo's pictorial approach, which combined an overarching diagrammatic simplicity with a complex, allusive figural language, as a means of communicating to the different levels of Florentine society that would have been his audience in this important parish church.
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GARCÍA-MONTÓN, Alejandro. "Génova y el Atlántico (c.1650-1680) : emprendedores mediterráneos frente al auge del capitalismo del norte." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/32113.
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Defence date: 18 June 2014Examining Board: Professor Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, EUI-Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Director) Professor Regina Grafe, EUI Professor Cátia Antunes, Leiden University Professor Maria Fusaro, Exeter University.
While historiography has analyzed the economic rise of northwestern Europe during Seventeenth century, less effort has been devoted to tackle the relative decline of the Mediterranean. Which factors contributed to eclipse the preeminence of south-European merchant-banking networks? How did they react to that shift? This thesis aims at filling that gap by elaborating on the case-study of the Genoese company of Domenico Grillo, offering insight into those questions. The main argument is that the Genoese not only faced increasing competition for the control of exchange circuits but also the reconfiguration of the institutional arrangements that had sustained their previous role as leaders of European financial markets. Challenging the traditional view of decay, this study reveals an astonishing dynamism of Genoese and Italian merchant-bankers in commercial circuits across and within different states and empires, and suggests that these networks adapted rather than collapsed. Furthermore, it shows something perhaps unexpected: the Genoese response went beyond the Mediterranean and encompassed the Atlantic as well. The thesis starts discussing how the Genoese case has been traditionally approached, to then examine the role of those networks in European circuits of exchange. Next, a deep investigation is carried out into the institutional devices supporting Grillo’s business in the Americas, exploring how he collaborated and competed with other actors. The study continues analyzing the trading chains he established across the Mediterranean, Atlantic Europe and the Americas. Finally it focuses on the many times neglected role displayed by the Republic of Genoa in framing the performance of Genoese networks abroad. Using a transnational approach, sources are interrogated in dialogue with the flourishing literature about merchant networks and institutions. Thus, this investigation goes beyond traditional images about the "Genoese capitalism" and revisits one of the axioms underpinning dominant metanarratives about the rise of the so-called "Western civilization".