Cosimo 'Il Vecchio' de' Medici 1389-1464. Including the Papers Delivered at the Society for Renaissance Studies' Symposium on Cosimo 'il Vecchio' de' Medici, May 1989 . at the Warburg Institute London. Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis; with an introduction by E. H. Gombrich.

Gutes Exemplar; Umschlag stw. lichtrandig u. geringf�gig berieben. - Englisch. - Essays in Commemoration of the 600th Anniversary of Cosimo de' Medici's Birth. - Dr Francis Ames-Lewis is Reader in History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London. . // No wide-ranging consideration of the life and career of Cosimo 'il Vecchio' de' Medici has been published since Gutkind's justly celebrated 1938 monograph. The sexcentenary of Cosimo de' Medici's birth in 1989 provided the Society for Renaissance Studies with the opportunity and the stimulus to organize a scholarly Symposium, held at the Warburg Institute, University of London, in May 1989, to reconsider aspects of the character, political interests and art patronage of perhaps the greatest statesman of early Renaissance Italy. Published here are the seven papers delivered at the Symposium, with five others written especially for this volume. The authors discuss various facets of Cosimo's personality, his political and his cultural activities, among them his wit, his relations with the Popes of his time, his literary interests, his patronage of church building, of the fine arts, and finally the imagery of his tomb. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Notes on Contributors ----- List of Plates ----- Introduction ----- E. H. GOMBRICH ----- Cosimo optimus civis ----- NICOLAI RUBINSTEIN ----- Cosimo and the Popes ----- GEORGE HOLMES ----- Cosimo de' Medici and Arezzo ----- ROBERT BLACK ----- The Buonomini di San Martino: Charity for 'the glory of God, the honour of the city, and the commemoration of myself ----- DALE KENT ----- Cosimo de' Medici as a Patron of Humanistic Literature ----- JAMES HANKINS ----- Cosimo de' Medici's Wit and Wisdom ----- ALISON BROWN ----- Cosimo and his Books ----- A. C. DE LA MARE ----- Cosimo de' Medici and San Lorenzo ----- CAROLINE ELAM ----- Cosimo de' Medici and the Franciscan Observants at Bosco ai Frati ----- CRISPIN ROBINSON ----- Fraternal Piety and Family Power: The Artistic Patronage of Cosimo and Lorenzo de' Medici ----- JOHN PAOLETTI ----- Cosimo de' Medici and the Chapel of his Palace ----- RAB HATFIELD ----- Dante and Lumen Christi: A Proposal for the Meaning of the Tomb of Cosimo de' Medici ----- SUSAN MCKILLOP ----- Select Bibliography ----- Index. // . To preserve his wealth and his status in a turbulent city whose ruling families were anxious to guard their freedom of action in a still largely feudal Europe, Cosimo de' Medici had to assume the role of a private citizen and to control the levers of power with the utmost discretion. The richer he became the more carefully he had to balance the popularity acquired by magnificence and the odium incurred by ostentation; and though what we call 'public opinion' was still in its infancy before the arrival of the printing press, he was sufficiently imbued with the aspirations and enthusiasms of his generation to realize the rewards both of pious foundation and of favours given to the writers and artists of the city. As with his patronage so with his political actions: whether we consider him humane or vindictive, it may well be true, as Gutkind has argued in his monograph, that in banishing his opponents Cosimo simply responded to the demands of the hour. � (aus d. Einleitung von Ernst H. Gombrich) ISBN 0198173946