The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany

The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany

The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany HY the Medici family assumed the well-known device of...
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The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany

The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany

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The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany

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Author: Newell, Marjorie Moyca
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany

HY the Medici family assumed the well-known device of red balls on a field of gold, is one of the vexed questions of heraldic history. Some hold that as the saints, Cosmo and Damian, who appear so often in the votive pictures of the Medici, were also patron saints of medicine and surgery, and because the name of the family signifies physicians, the balls may suggest pills (palle). Others think that a cluster of balls, formerly the sign of money-lenders, was adopted as a device by Giovanni de' Medici, founder of the greater branch of the illustrious house, who as a banker attained great wealth and influence. As the Medici identified themselves with the trading interests and government of Florence, and were connected with several noble Florentine families, their coat of arms became familiar throughout all that extensive territory subject to Florence in the fifteenth century. With its varied number of balls, or quartered with other arms, as charged with the royal lily of[viii] France, or surmounted by the keys of St. Peter and a pontiff's tiara, it greets the traveller at every turn, not only on palaces and city gates, but on illuminated manuscripts and choir books, on the covers of medival ledgers, and terra-cotta wine jars. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 52619
Author: Newell, Marjorie Moyca
Release Date: Jul 22, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

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