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Description: Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence
In October 1462 Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan, ordered three dozen pairs of eyeglasses from Florence, “because there are many who request of us eyeglasses that are made there … since it is reputed that they are made more perfectly [there] than in any other place in Italy” He had previously ordered eighteen pairs, and soon after he died his successor, Galeazzo Maria, ordered fifty more, “perfectly made according to the ages specified in the list.” The picture of the bespectacled court with …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.93-133
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00066.007
Description: Words for Pictures: Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism
Leon Battista Alberti’s last book, De iciarchia of 1468, a dialogue treatise on the good citizen, begins with this scene: I was coming back down the hill from the church of S. Miniato at Florence, up to which I often used to go for exercise, partly to satisfy the requirements of religion, partly to fortify my health. On the way back, on the bridge over the River Arno … I met Niccolo Cerretani and Paolo Niccolini, prudent and moderate gentlemen, and well disposed towards myself.
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.27-38
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00179.004

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