The life of Filippo Strozzi, a Florentine aristocrat and banker, is marked by his dramatic final years. Known for his significant role in the political and financial landscape of Florence, his story intertwines with the tumultuous events of the Renaissance. The book delves into his personal and professional challenges, highlighting his resilience and influence during a period of intense social and political change. Through his experiences, readers gain insight into the complexities of aristocratic life in 16th-century Italy.
Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
474 páginas
17 horas de lectura
This book shows how modern Brooklyn’s proud urban identity as an arts-friendly community originated in the mid nineteenth century. Before and after the Civil War, Brooklyn’s elite, many engaged in Atlantic trade, established more than a dozen cultural societies, including the Philharmonic Society, Academy of Music, and Art Association. The associative ethos behind Brooklyn’s fine arts flowering built upon commercial networks that joined commerce, culture, and community. This innovative, carefully researched and documented history employs the concept of parallel Renaissances. It shows influences from Renaissance Italy and Liverpool, then connected to New York through regular packet service like the Black Ball Line that ferried people, ideas, and cargo across the Atlantic. Civil War disrupted Brooklyn’s Renaissance. The city directed energies towards war relief efforts and the women’s Sanitary Fair. The Gilded Age saw Brooklyn’s Renaissance energies diluted by financial and political corruption, planning the Brooklyn Bridge and consolidation with New York City in 1898.
