The book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the family�

The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence dem

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Mining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and taking advantage of the breadth and depth of scholarship produced in recent years, the sevente