THE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT SERIES

he Grand Ducal Medici

and the Levant
Material Culture, Diplomacy, and Imagery
in the Early Modern Mediterranean

EDITED BY
MAURIZIO ARFAIOLI
MARTA CAROSCIO

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Contents

Introduction. he Medici and the Levant

MAURIZIO ARFAIOLI & MARTA CAROSCIO 3

I. Diplomatic and Economic Connections

Economia e diplomazia nella politica ottomana di Cosimo I
VERONICA PRESTINI 9
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Medici–Ottoman Diplomatic Relations (1574–78): What Went Wrong?
F. ÖZDEN MERCAN 19

Avvisi del Levante a Firenze:

L’informazione sul Turco alla corte di Cosimo I de’ Medici
GENNARO VARRIALE 33

‘he Recovery of God’s Heritage’:

Maria de’ Medici and French Religious Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean
BRIAN SANDBERG 45

II. Conflicts in a Meditteranean Perspective

Sul ponte sventola bandiera rossocrociata:
L’altra faccia della marina medicea nel Levante
NICCOLÒ CAPPONI 55

Il Sacro Militare Ordine di Santo Stefano e i turchi:

Lettura comparativa dell’apparato iconografico ed emblematico dei granduchi toscani
LAURA CIRRI 65

Relics of Christian Victory:

he Translation of Ottoman Spolia in Grand Ducal Tuscany
SEAN NELSON 75
 III. Perceiving and Representing the ‘Other’
Visiting the ‘Serraglio del Gran Signore’: Medici Diplomacy and Cross-Cultural
Contacts at the Time of Grand Duke Francesco
ULRIKE ILG 87

he Ottoman Imagery of Jacopo Ligozzi in Medici Florence

WILLIAM KYNAN-WILSON 101

La scoperta del teatro. Spettacoli alla corte medicea (1614–15) descritti da

uno spettatore d’eccezione: l’emiro druso Fakhr ad-Dīn
MARIA ALBERTI 113

Performing the Mediterranean in Giovan Battista Andreini’s Lo Schiavetto

TESSA C. GURNEY 125

IV. Material Culture: Imported Objects and the Transmission of Expertise

Cosimo III de’ Medici e Pietro il Grande, una passione comune: l’Oriente
2 FRANCESCO MORENA 137

Blue Daisies and Red Tulips:

Chinese Porcelain, Iznik Ware and Early Modern Taste at the Medici Court
MARTA CAROSCIO 149

Tappeti anatolici e spagnoli nel territorio fiorentino tra XVII e XVIII secolo.
Gli esemplari della chiesa dell’Ambrogiana a Montelupo Fiorentino
IRENE SABATINI 161

he Typographia Medicea and the Humanistic Perspective of Renaissance Rome

MARGHERITA FARINA & SARA FANI 169

Authors’ Biographies 179

Index 183