Highlights from the Mediceo del Principato

Julia Vicioso
April 18, 2011

Documents from Papal Rome.

 

The Medici Archive Project Fellows and Staff
May 12, 2010

Initially intended to include documentary material pertaining to Renaissance and Early Modern painters, sculptors, and architects, this section was extended to all those prominent figures---scienti

Elena Brizio and Stefano Dall'Aglio
May 11, 2010

There is a vast amount of documentary material on Siena in the Mediceo del Principato. Each month, Monte dei Paschi di Siena Fellows Drs. Elena Brizio and Stefano Dall’Aglio will add letters of historical importance relating to Sienese culture, food, wine, art, and religion. Particular attention will be paid to all those letters written around the time of Cosimo I’s siege of the city in 1555.

Alessio Assonitis
January 29, 2009

Travel accounts reveal wonders abroad

As many friends and patrons of the Medici Archive Project already know, the Mediceo del Principato archival corpus is composed mostly of correspondence directed to and originating from the grand dukes and duchesses, princes and princesses, secretaries and ministers, agents and ambassadors in Italy and abroad, and letters primarily dealing with military matters and war dispatches.