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Book SynopsisDuring the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these o
Table of ContentsIllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsPartial Genealogy of the Medici FamilyTo the ReaderIntroduction: Some Aspects of Methodology3Pt. IThe First Years of the Medici Restoration: The Union of Florence and RomeCh. 1The Restoration11Ch. 2The 1513 Carnival15Ch. 3The Election of Leo X42Ch. 4Giuliano de Medici's Capitoline Investiture53Ch. 5Leo X's 1515 Florentine Entrata67Pt. IIToward the Principato: Lorenzo De Medici, 1513-1519Ch. 6Archbishop Giulio's Possesso85Ch. 7The 1514 Feast of San Giovanni87Ch. 8Lorenzo de Medici, Captain General of the Florentine Militia and Duke of Urbino93Ch. 9The Wedding of Lorenzo and Madeleine99Pt. IIIAlessandro De Medici and the Establishment of the PrincipatoCh. 10The First Years of Clement's Pontificate117Ch. 11The Coronation of Charles V128Ch. 12Alessandro, Duke of the Florentine Republic140Ch. 13The Wedding of Alessandro and Margaret151Conclusion: Toward a Typology of Florentine Festival Music of the Early Cinquecento163Notes173Index251
