Presents a tourist's guide to the city of Florence as it was in 1490, recreating the people, places, events, and culture of Renaissance Florence.

Meet the Medicis, visit Leonardo's studio, or dine at a palazzo--your guide to Tuscany's splendid era. Welcome to Florence in 1490. Under the patronage of Loren

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.

"An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance"--

Students of the Italian Renaissance who wish to go beyond the standard names and subjects will find in this text abundant information on the lives, customs, bel