A Companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici

Alessio Assonitis (Ph.D., Columbia University) is the director of The Medici Archive Project. He has published on topics related to Italian Renaissance art, book history, Medici history, archival studies and digital humanities. Henk Th. van Veen (Ph.D., University of Groningen) is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on Italian early modern art, including the monograph Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

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Introduction: Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519–2019)

 Alessio Assonitis and Henk Th. van Veen



1 The Education of Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici (1519–1537)

 Alessio Assonitis



2 Alessandro de’ Medici: A Reassessment

 Catherine Fletcher



3 Cosimo I and His Spanish In-Laws: The Duke and the Toledo Family

 Fernando Loffredo



4 The Emperor and the Duke: Cosimo I, Charles V, and the Negotiation of Sovereignty

 Nicholas Scott Baker



5 Cosimo I de’ Medici and Catherine de Médicis: Making the Political Personal

 Sheila ffolliott



6 Cosimo I versus the Strozzi, the Enemies of the State

 Marcello Simonetta



7 His Father’s Son: Cosimo I de’ Medici as Military Leader

 Maurizio Arfaioli



8 Cosimo I “Fontana de Iustitia e Nemico de Tristi”: Pragmatism and Aequitas

 Daniele Edigati



9 Taking Over the Economy: Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Management of the Wealth of the State

 Stefano Calonaci



10 Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Tuscan Territory

 Oscar Schiavone



11 Cosimo I and Religious Heterodoxy in Tuscany

 Jessica Maratsos



12 Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Jews

 Piergabriele Mancuso



13 The Duke as Cultural Manager: Institutionalization and Entrepreneurship

 Andrea M. Gáldy



14 Problems with Cosimo I’s Artistic Patronage: Baccio Bandinelli and the Neptune Fountain in Piazza della Signoria

 Henk Th. van Veen



15 Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Renaissance Sciences: “To Measure and to See”

 Sheila Barker



16 Cosimo I de’ Medici: Antagonism and Praise

 Carmen Menchini



17 Cosimo I de’ Medici and Modern Historiography

 Brendan Dooley



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