Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alessio Assonitis (The Medici Archive Project)
1. The Revenge of the Emperor: Rewriting the Story of Lorenzino de’ Medici’s Assassination
Stefano Dall’Aglio (University of Leeds)
2. Cosimo I de’ Medici and his Library
Alessio Assonitis (The Medici Archive Project)
3. Le ‘spoglie’ invisibili. Note a margine di alcuni documenti relativi al reimpiego dei materiali nei cantieri fiorentini di Giorgio Vasari
Francesca Funis (The Medici Archive Project)
4. “When He Becomes Pope …” The Rise and Fall of Don Luis de Toledo at the Medici Court (1545-1579)
Anatole Tchikine (Dumbarton Oaks)
5. Jacobiglio Hebreo: Mercante, antiquario, informatore del Gran Duca
Piergabriele Mancuso (The Medici Archive Project)
6. Political Meddling in Women’s Lives: Sienese and Florentine Solutions in Difficult Times (1490-1560)
Elena Brizio (The Medici Archive Project)
7. The Contributions of Medici Women to Medicine in Grand Ducal Tuscany and Beyond
Sheila Barker (The Jane Fortune Program on Women Artist)
8. Sofonisba Anguissola, Francesco de’ Medici and Chiappino Vitelli: a Lady-in-waiting, a Prince and a General at the Spanish Court
Maurizio Arfaioli (The Medici Archive Project)
9. The Riches of The Indies: Francesco and Ferdinando de’ Medici and The Americas
Lia Markey (Villa I Tatti – The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
10.’Al certo che questa corte ha un bel misto’: Mapping the Artistic Relations between the Medici and the Savoia
Roberta Piccinelli (Università degli studi di Teramo)
11. Jachia ben Mehmet and the Medici Court
Mark Rosen (University of Texas at Dallas)
12. Donna Livia’s New Clothes
Brendan Dooley (University College Cork)
13. Of Mothers and Aunts: Regency Government and Performance in Early Modern France and Tuscany under Maria de’ Medici and Christine de Lorraine
Brian Sandberg (Northern Illinois University)
14. A Grand Duchess and her Painters as Matchmakers: Maria Magdalena of Austria, Tiberio Titi, Giusto Suttermans and the Betrothal of Empress Eleonora Gonzaga
Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato
15. Florentine Avvisi and Diplomatic Correspondence from London, 1614-22
Lisa Kaborycha (University of California Education Abroad Program)
16. A Medici Agent’s Newsletters to Florence during the Leghorn Crisis of 1653
Nicholas Brownlees (Università degli studi di Firenze)