Art Mobility and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia 1st Edition Francesco Freddolini

Table Contents:

1. 1 Introduction: Eurasian Tuscany, or the Fifth Element
2. Part One Mediterranean Connections
3. 2 Making a New Prince: Tuscany, the Pasha of Aleppo, and the Dream of a New Levant
4. 3 “To the Victor Go the Spoils”: Christian Triumphalism, Cosimo I de’ Medici, and the Order of Santo Stefano in Pisa
5. 4 Medici Patronage and Exotic Collectibles in the Seventeenth Century: The Cospi Collection
6. Part Two Livorno: Infrastructures and Networks of Exchange
7. 5 Disembedding the Market: Commerce, Competition, and the Free Port of 1676
8. 6 Red Coral from Livorno to Hirado: British Early Trading Networks and Maritime Trajectories, c. 1570–1623
9. 7 Ginori Porcelain: Florentine Identity and Trade With the Levant
10. Part Three Asian Interactions
11. 8 Of Rhinos, Peppercorns, and Saints: (Re)presenting India in Medici Florence
12. 9 Eurasian Networks of Pietre Dure: Francesco Paolsanti Indiano and His Early Seventeenth-Century Trade Between Florence and Goa
13. 10 The Fata Morgana of Cosimo III de’ Medici: Giovanni Gherardini and the Portraits of Kangxi
14. 11 Postscript: Textual Threads and Starry Messengers: The Global Medici From the Archive to the F