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 demonstrates that …

A journey through the glorious Italian city's scenery, history, and culture, from the New York
Times–bestselling author of Venice Observed and The Group. Mary McCarthy's classic …

Nestled in the Apennines, cradle of the Renaissance, home of Dante, Michelangelo, and the
Medici, Florence is unlike any other city in its extraordinary mingling of great art and …

In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar
Bernardino de Sahagún and twenty-two indigenous artists locked themselves inside the …

First among them, Dr. Nicole Carew-Reid, who had the vision and initiative to put together
such a collection and to translate my work into English. She selected the articles for the book …

This essay situates Giovanni Stradano's engravings of the discovery of the Americas from
the Americae Retectio and Nova Reperta series within the context of their design in late …

THIS BOOK arises out of my discovery of a lost fifteenthcentury Florentine historical memoir,
an extensive account of a patrician revolt against the Medici regime shortly after the death of …

The marriage in 1589 of Grand Duke Ferdinando de'Medici and the French princess
Christine of Lorraine was a landmark event in Renaissance art and architecture, theater …

The ducal court of Cosimo I de'Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist,
rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretensions of the absolutist …

Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in
Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348. Originally published in 1985. The …