A Companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici (The Renaissance Society of America, 17)

Book info: A Companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici (The Renaissance Society of America, 17) (Hardcover, 660 pages) – Brill, 2021. Language: English.

Mining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and taking advantage of the breadth and depth of scholarship produced in recent years, the seventeen essays in this Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici provide a fresh and systematic overview of the life and career of the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, with special emphasis on Cosimo I's education and intellectual interests, cultural policies, political vision, institutional reforms, diplomatic relations, religious beliefs, military entrepreneurship, and dynastic concerns. Contributors: Maurizio Arfaioli, Alessio Assonitis, Nicholas Scott Baker, Sheila Barker, Stefano Calonaci, Brendan Dooley, Daniele Edigati, Sheila ffolliott, Catherine Fletcher, Andrea Gáldy, Fernando Loffredo, Piergabriele Mancuso, Jessica Maratsos, Carmen Menchini, Oscar Schiavone, Marcello Simonetta, and Henk Th. van Veen. Editorial Reviews Review “This is a fine collection of studies and should be read not only by those interested in Cosimo I (and his successors), but also by others interested in questions of leadership, patronage, family history, and science.”
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Summer 2023), pp. 688–690.

About the Author Alessio Assonitis (Ph.D., Columbia University) is the director of The Medici Archive Project. He has published on topics related to Italian Renaissance art, book history, Medici history, archival studies and digital humanities.

Henk Th. van Veen (Ph.D., University of Groningen) is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on Italian early modern art, including the monograph Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2006).