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CALL FOR PAPERS, Panel at RSA Philadelphia 2027 (M CALL FOR PAPERS, Panel at RSA Philadelphia 2027 (March 11-13, 2027):
The “Last Florentine Republic” at 500

In May 1527, following the sack of Rome, the inhabitants of Florence expelled the Medici family for the last time. This ushered the so-called “Last Republic” and began several years of crisis and transition in the city. For the second time in less than forty years, Florentines experimented with new social and political institutions and attempted to craft an effective, enduring government free from Medici predominance. This session seeks papers that reconsider and reinterpret the causes, experiences, and representations of the events of 1527 (and the years up to surrender of the city in August 1530) from across disciplines. The session will be co-sponsored by the Medici Archive Project and the RSA History discipline representative.

For submission please provide:
• paper title (15-word maximum)
• paper abstract (200-word maximum)
• resume (.pdf or .doc upload, maximum 2 pages)
• full name, current affiliation, and email address

Email submissions or enquiries to Nicholas Baker at nbaker2@richmond.edu and Alessio Assonitis at education@medici.org.

Submit proposals by July 15. Accepted presenters will be notified by July 31 or shortly thereafter.

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There's an exciting host of events coming up this There's an exciting host of events coming up this week and next at MAP!

Thursday, 11 June at 5:30pm
"Medici Twisting of Medici History in the Sala di Leone X" - Public Lecture by Henk Th. Van Veen (University of Groningen)
This event will be livestreamed on Zoom! To join, click the link in our bio.

Friday, 12 June 2026 from 9am
International Conference "The Jews, the Arts, and the Mediterranean (1450-1750)

Thursday, 18 June 2026 at 5.00pm
Book Presentation: "Il Collezionista di meraviglie: Leopoldo de' Medici e la Roma del Seicento" by Stefano Dall'Aglio [**in Italian**]

Click the link in our bio for more information or email education@medici.org to reserve a seat!

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Over the last two weeks, we shared two documents d Over the last two weeks, we shared two documents describing an elusive ancient Egyptian bronze object gifted to Grand Duke Francesco I—but this "panel" (or perhaps "tablet") was not the only exotic gift presented to the Medici from that ancient land. In August 1561, Piero Gelido, a Medicean secretary and diplomat in Venice, wrote to Cosimo I with news of a collection of "medals" he hoped to purchase for the Duke's collection. Among them is a "cameo of Alexander the Great" and "several very ancient Hebrew coins, from the time when they left Egypt and entered the Promised Land." (Of course, Hebrew coins were only minted beginning in the fourth century BC, over a thousand years after the estimated dates of the Exodus).

These coins, Gelido reminded Cosimo, are so incredibly rare that "there are not more than three men who collect them in all of Turkey." However, that meant that their price was very high. Gelido thus requested Cosimo's instructions, and we have no clear news on whether these rarities entered the Medici collection.

ASF, Mediceo del Principato 2973, f. 373r
MAP DocID: 28662
Transcribed by Piergabriele Mancuso
A coin hoard dating to the reign of Alexander Jannaeus (circa 103 to 76 B.C.), High Priest and King of the Hasmoneans

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The next of our Spring 2026 fellows is Samuel H. K The next of our Spring 2026 fellows is Samuel H. Kress Fellow Kathryn Griffith, a PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California. Kathryn's research examines gold in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy, with a focus on gold-wrapped threads and its use in fabric in Medici Florence while at MAP.

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