The Medici Wedding of 1589: Florentine Festival as Theatrum Mundi

by James M. Saslow

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300064470
• ISBN13: 9780300064476
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.4"