Politicized muse.

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by  Cummings, Anthony M.

THE POLITICIZED MUSE
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Music Jor Medici Festivals, isi2—is37 (1992)
T H E
P O L I T I C I Z E D
M U S E
MUSIC FOR
MEDICI FESTIVALS,
1 5 1 2 -1 5 3 7
Anthony M Cummings
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Cummings, Anthony M.
The politicized muse : Music for Medici festivals, 1512^1537 /
Anthony M. Cummings.
p. cm. — (Princeton essays on the arts)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-691-09142-0
1. Music—Italy—Florence—16th century—History and
criticism. 2. Music and state—Italy—Florence.
3. Festivals—Italy—Florence—History—16th entury.
4. Florence (Italy)—History—1421-1737. 5. Arts,
Italian—Italy—Florcncc. 6. Arts, Renaissance—Italy—
Florence. 7. Art and state—Italy—Florence.
8. Medici, House of. I. Title. II. Series.
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I l l u s t r a t i o n s ix
P r e f a c e a n d A c k n o w le d g m e n ts xiii
P a r t i a l G e n e a l o g y o f t h e M e d ic i F am ily xvii
T o t h e R e a d e r xix
I n t r o d u c t i o n : Some Aspects of Methodology 3
PART I. THE FIRST YEARS OF THE MEDICI
RESTORATION: THE UNION OF
FLORENCE AND ROME
C h a p te r i. The Restoration π
C h a p te r 2. The 1513 CarnivaJ 15
C h a p te r 3. The Election of Leo X 42
C h a p te r 4. Giuliano de’ Medici’s Capitoline Investiture 53
C h a p te r 5. Leo X’s 1515 Florentine Entmta 67
PART II. TOWARD THE PRINCIPATO:
LORENZO DE’ MEDICI, 1513-1519
C h a p te r 6. Archbishop Giulio’s Possesso 85
C h a p te r 7. The 1514 Feast of San Giovanni 87
C h a p te r 8. Lorenzo de’ Medici, Captain General of the
Florentine Militia and Duke of Urbino 93
Chapter 9- The Wedding of Lorenzo and Madeleine 99
PART III. ALESSANDRO DB’ MEDICI
AND THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE PRINCIPATO
C h a p te r 10. The First Years of Clement’s Pontificate 117
C h a p te R ir. The Coronation of Charles V 128
C h a p te r 12. Alessandro, Duke of the Florentine Republic 140
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 13. The Wedding of Alessandro and Margaret ISI
CONCLUSION: Toward a Typology of Florentine Festival Music
of the Early Cinquecento 163
NOTES 173
INDEX 251
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure i. Raphael, portrait of Pope Leo X and Cardinals Giulio
de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Inv.
Galleria Palatina, 1912, no. 40 17
Figure 2. Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici, attributed to Francesco
Penni, from the workshop of Raphael. New York, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Inv. no. 4-9.7.12. 18
Figure 3. Raphael, portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici. Courtesy of Ira
Spanierman 19
Figure 4. Representation of the carro "della Zecca" or "di San Gio-
vanni." Reproduced from Pietro Gori, Le feste fiorentine attraverso
isecoli: Le feste per San Giovanni (Florence, 1926), p. 77 20
Figures j and 6. Decorative panels, attributed to Andrea del Sarto.
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto dei disegni, 91461 and
91464 22
Figure 7. Decorative panel, attributed to Andrea di Cosimo Feltrini.
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto dei disegni, 91462 2.3
Figure 8. Decorative panel, attributed to Jacopo Pontormo. Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Kress Study
Collection, no. 1618 24
Figure 9. Decorative panel, attributed to Jacopo Pontormo. Brunswick,
Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Kress Study Collection,
no. 1619 24
Figures 10 and 11. Decorative panels, attributed to Jacopo Pontormo.
Rome, Palazzo Montecitorio, Inv. 1890,5282 and 1890, 5279 25
Figure 12. Representation of the practice of solo singing to the viol.
Florence, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Palatino E.6.5.1.II.31, fol.
274r 38
Figure 13. Frontispiece to Jacopo Penni's Cronim delle magnificbe et
honor ate pompe falte in Roma per la creatione et incoronatione di papa
Leone X, pant. opt. max. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Varicana,
Ferrajoli IV 9758 (2,) 47
Figure 14. Design for a triumphal arch, attributed to Baldassare
Peruzzi. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto dei disegni,
Orn. 72 48
Figure 15. Baldassare Peruzzi, design for a triumphal arch. London,
British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, no.
1946-4-13-2.11 52
Figure 16. Anonymous representation of the Capitoline. Paris, Musee
du Louvre, Ecole d'ltalie, no. 11028 55
Figure 17. Plan of the Capitoline in 1513. Reproduced from Arnaldo
Bruschi, "II teatro capitolino del 1513," in Bollettino del Centra
intemazionale di studi di architettura Andrea Palladia 16 (1974):
189-218, especially p. 192 56