Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence

470 Pages·2002·4.64 MB·English

by  William J. Connell

Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence
Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder. Uffizi,
Florence, Italy. Copyright Scala/Art Resource, N.Y.
Society and Individual
in Renaissance Florence
edited by william j. connell
University of California Press
berkeley los angeles london
Chapter 11 was previously published as “San Lorenzo in Florence:
Liturgical Perspectives,” in La Toscane et les Toscans autour de la
Renaissance: Cadres de vie, société, croyances. Mélanges offerts à
Charles-M. de La Roncière (Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence,
1999 [2000]), pp.283–99.
University of California Press
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Society and individual in Renaissance Florence / edited by WilliamJ.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn0-520-23254-2 (alk. paper)
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Florence. I. Connell, WilliamJ.
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To Gene Brucker,
friend and teacher

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations of Archival Sources xi
Introduction 1
william j. connell
1. “Be Rather Loved Than Feared” 13
Class Relations in Quattrocento Florence
f. w. kent
2. Giannozzo and His Elders 51
Alberti’s Critique of Renaissance Patriarchy
john m. najemy
3. Li Emergenti Bisogni Matrimoniali
in Renaissance Florence 79
julius kirshner
4. Michele del Giogante’s House of Memory 110
dale kent
5. Inheritance and Identity
in Early Renaissance Florence 137
The Estate of Paliano di Falco
thomas kuehn
6. Perceived Insults and Their Consequences 155
Acciaiuoli, Neroni, and Medici Relationships in the 1460s
margery a. ganz
viii / Contents
7. The War of the Eight Saints
in Florentine Memory and Oblivion 173
david s. peterson
8. Naming a Nun 215
Spiritual Exemplars and Corporate Identity
in Florentine Convents, 1450–1530
sharon t. strocchia
9. The Prophet as Physician of Souls 241
Savonarola’s Manual for Confessors
donald weinstein
10. Raging against Priests in Italian Renaissance Verse 261
lauro martines
11. Liturgy for Nonliturgists 278
A Glimpse at San Lorenzo
william m. bowsky
12. The Florentine Criminal Underworld 293
The Underside of the Renaissance
john k. brackett
13. Lay Male Identity in the Institutions
of a Tuscan Provincial Town 315
james r. banker
14. Insiders and Outsiders 337
The Changing Boundaries of Exile
alison brown
15. The Identity of the Expatriate 384
Florentines in Venice in the Late Fourteenth
and Early Fifteenth Centuries
paula clarke
16. Clement VII and the Crisis of the Sack of Rome 409
paul flemer
Contributors 435
Index 439