Ordernr. 051234 KATERN 1 RITUALS, IMAGES, AND WORDS Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 3 Page 1 Ordernr. 051234 LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES Editorial board under the auspices of The Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ian Moulton (Arizona State University) Frederick Kiefer (University of Arizona) Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne) Charles Zika (University of Melbourne) Advisory Board Jaynie Anderson (University of Melbourne) John Cashmere (La Trobe University) Megan Cassidy Welch (University of Melbourne) Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona) Robert W. Gaston (La Trobe University) John Griffiths (University of Melbourne) Anthony Gully (Arizona State University) Bill Kent (Monash University) Anne Scott (Northern Arizona University) Juliann Vitullo (Arizona State University) Emil Volek (Arizona State University) Retha Warnicke (Arizona State University) Page 2 Ordernr. 051234 RITUALS, IMAGES, AND WORDS Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Edited by F. W. Kent and Charles Zika H F Page 3 Ordernr. 051234 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Rituals, images and words : varieties of cultural expression in late medieval and early modern Europe. - (Late medieval and early modern studies ; 3) 1.Communication and culture - Europe - History - 16th century 2.Communication and culture - Europe - History - 17th century 3.Communication and culture - Europe - History - To 1500 4.Communication and culture - Italy - History - 16th century 5.Communication and culture - Italy - History - 17th century 6.Communication and culture - Italy - History - To 1500 7.Renaissance 8.Renaissance - Italy I.Kent, F. W. (Francis William), 1942- II.Zika, Charles 940.2'1 ISBN-10: 250350907X © 2005, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2005/0095/15 ISBN: 2-503-50907-X Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper. Page 4 Ordernr. 051234 Contents Contributors ix Figures xiii Acknowledgements xix Introduction 1 F. W. KENT AND CHARLES ZIKA Part One: Religious Rituals The Religious Confraternities of High Renaissance Florence: Crisis or 9 Continuity? NICHOLAS ECKSTEIN The Death of a Heretic, Florence 1389 33 NICHOLAS SCOTT BAKER Cultivating Charisma: Elisabeth de Ranfaing and the Médailliste Cult in 55 Seventeenth-Century Lorraine SARAH FERBER Part Two: The Rhetoric of the Image Affective Devotion and the Early Dominicans: The Case of Fra Angelico 87 ROBERT W. GASTON Art History and the Resistant Presence of a Saint — The chiesa vecchia 119 Frescoes at Rome’s Tor de’ Specchi CYNTHIA TROUP Page 5 Ordernr. 051234 vi Contents Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinities in Early Quattrocento 147 Florence and Donatello’s Saint George PATRICIA SIMONS Henry VII’s ‘miraculum orbis’: Royal Commemoration at Westminster 177 Abbey 1500–1700 PETER SHERLOCK Gardens of Love in Venetian Painting of the Quattrocento 201 JAYNIE ANDERSON The Witch of Endor: Transformations of a Biblical Necromancer in Early 235 Modern Europe CHARLES ZIKA Part Three: The Written and Oral Word Iustus ut palma florebit: Pier Soderini and Florentine Justice 263 LORENZO POLIZZOTTO Personal Literary Anthologies in Renaissance Florence: Re-Presenting 277 Current Events to Conform to Christian, Classical and Civic Ideals DALE KENT The Fear of Schism 297 PETER HOWARD The Literary Career of Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653): The Constraints 325 of Gender and the Writing Woman STEPHEN KOLSKY Style and Substance in the Early Writings of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 343 W. G. CRAVEN An Insatiable Appetite for News: Isabella d’Este and a Bolognese 375 Correspondent CAROLYN JAMES Unheard Voices from the Medici Family Archive in the Time of Lorenzo 389 de’ Medici F. W. KENT Page 6 Ordernr. 051234 Contents vii The Younger Castracani 405 LOUIS GREEN Index 427 Page 7 Ordernr. 051234 Page 8 Ordernr. 051234 Contributors JAYNIE ANDERSON has been Herald Chair of Fine Arts in the University of Melbourne from 1997. She has published many books and articles on Venetian painting, including ‘Giorgione the Painter of Poetic Brevity’ (1997), and ‘Tiepolo’s Cleopatra’ (2003). She is one of the curators for the forthcoming exhibition, ‘Bellini, Giorgione and Titian: The Renaissance of Venetian Painting’, scheduled to open at the National Gallery of Washington in June 2006, and in October 2006 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. She is convenor of the 32nd International Congress of Art History, Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence, to be held at the University of Melbourne in January 2008. NICHOLAS SCOTT BAKER is a cultural historian of early modern Europe, with a particular interest in Renaissance Italy. He received a BA (Hons) and an MA from the University of Melbourne. He is currently a PhD candidate at Northwestern University. His dissertation focuses on the social culture and identity of the Florentine patriciate during the transition from a republic to a monarchy in the early sixteenth century. BILL CRAVEN taught Renaissance Italy and Early Modern Europe in the former History Department, Faculty of Arts, at the Australian National University for nearly thirty years. His contribution to this volume was written while he was a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Arts. His article ‘Coluccio Salutati’s Defence of Poetry’ appeared in Renaissance Studies, 10 (1996); ‘Vanities, Bonfires and Popular Religious Culture’ appeared in Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of John Tillotson, edited by Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear and Dianne Tillotson (Merton Priory Press, 2002). NICHOLAS ECKSTEIN is the Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian Renaissance History at the University of Sydney, and a former Fellow and Visiting Professor of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti. He is the Page 9 Ordernr. 051234 x Contributors contributing editor of a volume of collected essays in the Villa I Tatti series, The Brancacci Chapel: A Symposium on Form, Function and Setting (Florence: Olschki, 2005), and is currently completing the manuscript of a monograph on the same subject. SARAH FERBER is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Queensland, where she teaches early modern European history and the history of modern bioethics. Her book Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France was published by Routledge in 2004. ROBERT GASTON (PhD, The Warburg Institute, The University of London) teaches art history at La Trobe University, specializing in Italian art 1300–1650, and in aspects of the classical tradition. He is currently completing a book on decorum, a jointly authored volume on liturgical change in San Lorenzo, Florence, 1370–1509, and two volumes on Pirro Ligorio’s antiquarian manuscripts for the Edizione Nazionale of Ligorio’s writings. He has held senior research fellowships at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C. Among his recent publications is: ‘Eleonora of Toledo’s Chapel: Lineage, Salvation, and the War against the Turks’, in The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo, Duchess of Florence and Siena, ed. by Konrad Eisenbichler (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 157–80. PETER HOWARD is Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. He has published in the area of medieval sermon studies, and the Florentine Renaissance, including Beyond the Written: Preaching and Theology in the Florence of Archbishop Antoninus 1427–1459 (Florence: Olschki, 1995). His current research and publications relate to ‘the aural space of the sacred’ in Renaissance Florence, the relationship of preaching to the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel at the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, the Botticelli frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, liturgy and devotion at San Lorenzo, the letters of Archbishop Antoninus and the cura animarum, and a book-length study of spirituality and devotion in Renaissance Florence. He has held fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, the Istituto per le Scienze Religiose, Bologna, and ‘Villa I Tatti’: the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. LOUIS GREEN, formerly Reader in History at Monash University, has worked on the political history and historiography of Florence and Lucca in the fourteenth century, having published Chronicle into History (1972), Castruccio Castracani (1986), and Lucca under Many Masters (1995). More recently he has been examining the relationship between the literary culture of northern and central Italy in the later Middle Ages and its social background and, having written several articles on this subject, is currently engaged in the preparation of a book Towards the Renaissance, Page 10