The Strozzi of Florence

Crabb, Ann

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“…Filippo and Lorenzo were allowed to return to Florence only two years after the armeggeria by currying favour with Piero de' Medici through the agency of the Neapolitan King. 30 Messer Palla's descendants were less lucky and were allowed to return to the city until after the expulsion of Piero de' Medici in 1494. 31 The unpublished correspondence of Giovanfrancesco di Palla during the 1450s and 1460s demonstrates the hope of Palla's son for a change in the family's fortune around the time of the armeggeria.…”

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Armeggerie, wedding chests and battles in fifteenth‐century Florence

Nethersole

2017

Renaissance Studies

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In fifteenth‐century Florence, poets, composers and furniture painters all represented battles in their work. Staged battles, in the form of armeggerie, were also played out on the streets and in the squares of the Renaissance city. This article examines what links these bellicose representations, by paying particular attention to festival battles and cassone frontals. It considers two case studies: an armeggeria organized by Bartolomeo Benci in honour of Marietta Strozzi in 1464, and a pair of wedding chests ordered to celebrated the marriage of Piero Vettori to Caterina Rucellai around the same date. It concludes that battaglie encoded socio‐political alliances and that they were all understood as representational, whether painted or performed.

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