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Mantua

Seminar Question

• What factors shaped cultural patronage at the central and northern Italian princely courts?

Core Reading

• Cole, Alison, (London, 2016) [The Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, and 6, and the Epilogue]

Recommended Further Reading

• Brown, Alison, ‘Rethinking the Renaissance in the Aftermath of Italy’s Crisis’, in John Najemy, ed., Italy in the Age of the Renaissance (Oxford, 2004), pp. 246-65.
• Castiglione, Baldesar, , trans. George Bull (Harmondsworth, 1976)
• Chambers, David, Patrons and Artists in the Italian Renaissance (London, 1970)
• Dean, Trevor, , The Journal of Modern History 67, Supplement: The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600 (1995), S136-51.
• Dean, Trevor, 'Ferrara and Mantua', in , ed. Andrea Gamberini and Isabella Lazzarini (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 112-131.
• Fantoni, Marcello, (Amsterdam, 2022)
• Hollingsworth, Mary, (London, 2021)
• Saccone, Eduardo, ‘’, Italica 64.1 (1987), 1-18
• Tredici, Federico Del, 'Lombardy under the Visconti and the Sforza' in , ed. Andrea Gamberini and Isabella Lazzarini (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 156–77.

Indications for Further Reading

• The courts as centres of cultural patronage
• The Book of the Courtier and its context

E-resources

If you want to get a sense of court life and of warfare in the Italian states at the start of the 16th century, watch the film Il mestiere delle armi which was filmed on location, including in Mantua. It is available on youtube . It is in Italian but has English subtitles. For a summary of what it is about, please see .