Table of contents for Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the Medici family in the fifteenth century

Table of contents for Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the Medici family in the fifteenth century / Maria Grazia Pernis and Laurie Schneider Adams.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Introduction A RENAISSANCE WOMAN...........................1
 	 
Chapter One THE TORNAQUINCI-TORNABUONI....................			
		 Humanist Education in the Early Renaissance
			
Chapter Two THE MEDICI FAMILY............................. 		 
		 Piccarda Bueri and Giovanni di Bicci
		 
		 Contessina de' Bardi and Cosimo de' Medici:
		 Masserizia versus Magnificentia
		
		 Ginevra Cavalcanti and Lorenzo di Giovanni
	 	 			 
			 Leon Battista Alberti on the Ideal Wife		 
Chapter Three PIERO AND LUCREZIA: THE EARLY YEARS..........						(1444-1450) 				 			 
		 Lucrezia's Dowry 
	 "A Bird in a Golden Cage"
		 Family Life
		 Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence
		 The Birth of Lorenzo	
Chapter Four "EARTHLY PARADISE"........................... 
			 (1450-1464 - I) 		 			 
		 From the Casa vecchia to the Medici Palace		 
		 Interior Decoration of the Medici Palace 
		 
		 "A Palace Worthy of a King"		 
		 Daily Life in the Medici Household	
		 The Medici Villas: 
		 Careggi, Cafaggiolo, Il Trebbio, and Fiesole
Chapter Five THE LIFESTYLE OF PIERO AND LUCREZIA......... 
				 (1450-1464 - II) 
 
		 Piero's Inventory
		 Lucrezia's Elegance and Feminine Luxury 
		 in 15th-Century Florence
		 The Wheel of Fortune
Chapter Six MARRIAGE AND POLITICS........................ 
			 (1464-1469) 			 
		 Gender and Status in the Medici Family
	
		 Arranging Marriages
		 The Wedding of Nannina de' Medici 
			 and Bernardo Rucellai
		 The Plot of 1466
		 A Politically Advantageous Marriage:
		 Lorenzo de' Medici and Clarice Orsini
				
		 Piero's Death
Chapter Seven ETRUSCA LEDA AND THE DIOSCURI................ 
			 (1469-1478 - I) 				 									 	 
			 Lucrezia's Circle of Poets:
		 Luigi Pulci and Angelo Poliziano
		 Lucrezia and the Myth of Charlemagne	
		
		 The Pisa Studio
Chapter Eight FINANCE AND CHARITY.......................... 
			 (1469-1478 - II) 				
		 
			 "Magnifica madonna"
		 "By Word of Mouth"
		 Lucrezia's Property
	 Bagno a Morba
Chapter Nine THE ASSASSINATION OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI..... 
			 (1478-1482 - I)		 			
		 
			 The Pazzi Conspiracy (1478) 
		 The Aftermath
		 
		 Continuing Plots against the Medici
		 Financial Problems
Chapter Ten LUCREZIA'S POETRY............................				 
			 Judith 
		 Esther 
		 Susanna 
		 Tobias
		 John the Baptist 
Chapter Eleven LUCREZIA'S LAST YEARS....................... 
			 (1478-1482 - II)		 				 
		 
			 Lucrezia's Death
		
		 
Chapter Twelve THE TORNABUONI IN SANTA MARIA NOVELLA....... 	 
		 	 Portraits of Lucrezia
	
Notes.......................................................
Appendix A A Medici Family Tree........................
Appendix B The Wardrobes of Piero and Lucrezia.........
Illustrations...............................................
Bibliography................................................
Index.......................................................

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Tornabuoni, Lucrezia, 1425-1482.
Medici, House of.
Women -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- To 1500 -- Biography.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Humanism -- Italy -- Florence.
Florence (Italy) -- Social life and customs.