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The Medici Wedding of 1589: Florentine Festival as Theatrum Mundi
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The Medici Wedding of 1589: Florentine Festival as Theatrum Mundi Hardback - 1996

by James M. Saslow

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The marriage in 1589 of Grand Duke Ferdinando de' Medici and the French princess Christine of Lorraine was a landmark event in Renaissance art and architecture, theater, music, and political ceremonial. Celebrated by a month of elaborate pageantry that required a full year of preparations, the wedding mobilized the combined artistic, intellectual, and administrative forces of Tuscany at the zenith of its wealth, power, and cultural prestige. This book combines art and social history to present the first comprehensive reconstruction of the Medici wedding and in the process provides a fascinating narrative of Florentine culture during the Renaissance.

James Saslow draws on a rich trove of visual and archival sources to describe the jousts, plays, musical-dramatic intermedi, processions, and tournaments that celebrated the wedding; the artists, musicians, and architects who created and organized the events; and the bureaucratic administration that sustained this Renaissance "theater of the world." His sources include producers' daily logbooks and detailed records of the design process, staff, payments, and logistics, as well as eighty-eight set and costume drawings, paintings, and prints, which appear in a catalogue included in the book. Saslow's study will be of interest to practitioners and historians of theater, dance, music, and the visual arts, as well as to students of political and economic history and cultural studies.

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  • Title The Medici Wedding of 1589: Florentine Festival as Theatrum Mundi
  • Author James M. Saslow
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1996-05
  • ISBN 9780300064476 / 0300064470
  • Weight 2.16 lbs (0.98 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7 x 1.07 in (25.40 x 17.78 x 2.72 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Florence (Italy) - History - 1421-1737, Ferdinando - Marriage
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95032245
  • Dewey Decimal Code 945.510

About the author

James M. Saslow is associate professor of art history at Queens College, City University of New York. He is also the author of Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society and The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation, both published by Yale University Press.

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Contents: 1. September & October 1588: The Creative, Management, and Public Relations Staffs -- 2. November & December 1588: Casting, Costumes, and Rehearsals -- 3. January & February 1589: The Theater, the Scenery, the Artists -- 4. March 1589: Artisans, Stagehands, Technical Rehearsals; Christine's Outbound Journey -- 5. April 1589: Dress Rehearsals; Christine's Inbound Journey and Entry -- 6. May 1589: The Wedding As/In Performance -- 7. June 1589 and Beyond: Aftermath and Later Influence -- Catalogue -- Appendix: Genealogical Tables, Valois-Habsburg, Medici. x, 323 p., 16 p. of plates, ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. First edition, first printing. Red boards, unclipped dust jacket, slight shelf wear to edges and a little faded jacket, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Hardcover. VG+VG+: As new in shrinkwrap. Hardcover book with a dust jacket. The title in in white down a mostly black spine. Contents are as follows: 1. September & October 1588: The Creative, Management, and Public Relations Staffs -- 2. November & December 1588: Casting, Costumes, and Rehearsals -- 3. January & February 1589: The Theater, the Scenery, the Artists -- 4. March 1589: Artisans, Stagehands, Technical Rehearsals; Christine's Outbound Journey -- 5. April 1589: Dress Rehearsals; Christine's Inbound Journey and Entry -- 6. May 1589: The Wedding As/In Performance -- 7. June 1589 and Beyond: Aftermath and Later Influence -- Catalogue -- Appendix: Genealogical Tables, Valois-Habsburg, Medici.
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