Italian Renaissance art is closely intertwined with the development
of courts and court culture in much of the Italian territory. The
patronage of the ruling families of the small Italian city-states
greatly favored the flourishing of the figurative arts and
architecture, but also in music, literature, and theater. The book
starts with an introduction by Marco Folin, the volume's editor, on
the critical issues of court art and its historiography, followed
by an important essay on the historical and geographical framework
of Renaissance Italy, illustrated by 18 especially-made maps,
useful to understand the complexity and fragmentation of the
country in the 15th century. The role of princely patronage in the
development of music and literature is then examined: from the
place of the humanists at court to the link between music and
propaganda, from the first theatrical representations to the rise
of the printing press and the publication of the most famous
Renaissance books: Castiglione's Book of the Courtier and Ariosto's
Orlando Furioso. The second, longer part of the volume, is arranged
geographically and covers the entire peninsula, giving attention
not only to the major courts, such as Milan, Mantua, Ferrara,
Urbino, papal Rome, Naples and the crypto-court of the Medici in
Florence, but devoting chapters to the minor courts spread around
northern and central Italy, from the Paleologues rulers of
Montferrat to the Malatesta court in Rimini, from Carpi under the
Pios to the Orsinis' rule in Bracciano. The main chapters are
enriched by texts focused on particular aspects of Renaissance
culture and politics: the courts of the cardinals and the southern
barons, the patronage of the condottieri, the specificity of
Venetian state-commissions, etc. The essays are written by
well-known Italian scholars - such as Franco Piperno on music,
Rinaldo Rinaldi on literature, Alessandro Cecchi on Medicean
Florence and Alessandro Angelini on the papal court in Rome - and
are accompanied by a rich and accurate iconography, showing not
only famous masterpieces but also lesser known works of art and
architecture. The book is completed by an annotated bibliography
for the various chapters and by an index of names and places.
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