Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction William J. Connell 1. "Be Rather Loved Than Feared" Class Relations in Quattrocento Florence F.W. Kent 2. Giannozzo and His Elders Alberti's Critique of Renaissance Patriarchy John M. Najemy 3. Li Emergenti Bisogni Matrimoniali in Renaissance Florence Julius Kirshner 4. Michele del Giogante's House of Memory Dale Kent 5. Inheritance and Identity in Early Renaissance Florence The Estate of Paliano di Falco Thomas Kuehn 6. Perceived Insults and Their Consequences Acciaiuoli, Neroni, and Medici Relationships in the 1460s Margery A. Ganz 7. The War of the Eight Saints in Florentine Memory and Oblivion David S. Peterson 8. Naming a Nun Spiritual Exemplars and Corporate Identity in Florentine Convents, 1450--1530 Sharon T. Strocchia 9. The Prophet as Physician of Souls Savonarola's Manual for Confessors Donald Weinstein 10. Raging against Priests in Italian Renaissance Verse Lauro Martines 11. Liturgy for Nonliturgists A Glimpse at San Lorenzo William M. Bowsky 12. The Florentine Criminal Underworld The Underside of the Renaissance John K. Brackett 13. Lay Male Identity in the Institutions of a Tuscan Provincial Town James R. Banker 14. Insiders and Outsiders The Changing Boundaries of Exile Alison Brown 15. The Identity of the Expatriate Florentines in Venice in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries Paula Clarke 16. Clement VII and the Crisis of the Sack of Rome Paul Flemer Contributors Index

About the Author

William J. Connell holds the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University and is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is coeditor of Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power (2000), author of La citta dei crucci: fazioni e clientele in uno stato repubblicano del '400 (2000), and coeditor of Renaissance Essays (1993).