Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretens

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The military nobility – "signori di castelli", lords of castles – formed an important component of the society of Renaissance Italy, although they have ofte