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Paolo Alei • Max Grossman (eds.)

Building Family
Marina Avelar

Identity Education Policy

Disrupting
How New Philanthropy
The Orsini Works to Change
Castle of Bracciano
Education
from Fiefdom to Duchy (1470–1698)

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The Orsini of Bracciano were among the most Condottiero: Bracciano in the System of the Ital-
powerful and influential signori di castelli of early ian States in the Age of Gentil Virginio Orsini •
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their Orsini and the Pastimes of Courtly Women • Part
The castle is one“giving”,
philanthropic of the largest in Latium
and have and was
managed to II: Locus Amoeunus:
Marina Avelar, PhD, The Transformation
has completedofher the
once a centreconsiderable
assemble of courtly cultureinfluence
and diplomacy, in Castle of Bracciano in the Cinquecento • Elis-
doctoral studies at University College London
hosting princes,processes
policymaking kings and popes.
in many Today it boasts
countries. abetta Mori: Isabella de’ Medici and Vittoria Ac-
- Institute of Education, UK, and her thesis was
many beautifully preserved artworks
But how do new philanthropy organisations of the Re- coramboni: The History and Legend of the Two
the winner of the 2016 Peter Lang Young Scholars
naissance era, including frescos by Antoniazzo Wives of the Duke of Bracciano • Maria Giulia
promote education reform? And how does their Competition in Education Studies. Her research
Romano and the Zuccari brothers. The contribu- Aurigemma: Palatium sive forticium: Six-
policy work look like in practice? In this book, is focused on theArchitecture
engagementofofthe private actors,
tors to this study investigate the castle as a visual teenth-century Palazzo-Cas-
the author analyses the efforts of large especially new philanthropy, in education
expression of the family identity of its builders. tello of Bracciano • Claudia Daniotti: Stories of
foundations in Brazilian education governance policymaking,
They trace its evolution from the fortified capital Valour and Lovegovernance
for a Wedding: andTheglobal policy
Sala di Ales-
to
of address these questions.
a large fiefdom at the dawn Though
of the having the
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connected to global
neglected facet networks.
of early modernWith support
Italian of
culture: Paolo Giordano
Autònoma Orsini • Barbara
de Barcelona, Spain.Furlotti: Living
network
the artisticethnography and concepts
patronage of seigniorial clans. from between Rome and Bracciano: Art, Cultural In-
terests and Social Behaviour at the Orsini Court ani and the Remaking of Bracciano • Eleonora
CONTENTS: Part I: Arma et Litterae: The Castle in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries • Chinappi: The Orsini Portraits in the Castle of
of Bracciano in the Quattrocento • Paolo Alei: Part III: Beyond the Castle Walls: The Orsini of Bracciano • Eric Nicholson: Sweet Roman Hands
Building with Magnificenza: The Orsini Castle Bracciano in the Seicento • Guendalina Ajello and Actors: The Orsini as Theatrical Performers
of Bracciano • Stefania Camilli: The State of the Mahler: Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Orazio Torri- in Early Seventeenth-century English Drama

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