Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

Introduction: Eurasian Tuscany, or the Fifth Element

Francesco Freddolini



Part 1: Mediterranean Connections




Making a New Prince: Tuscany, the Pasha of Aleppo, and the Dream of a New Levant

Brian Brege

2. To the Victor Go the Spoils: Christian Triumphalism, Cosimo I de' Medici and the Order of Santo Stefano in Pisa

Joseph M. Silva

3. Medici Patronage and Exotic Collectibles in the Seventeenth Century: the Cospi Collection

Federica Gigante

Part 2: Livorno: Infrastructures and Networks of Exchange

4. Disembedding the Market: Commerce, Competition, and the Free Port of 1676

Corey Tazzara

5. Red Coral from Livorno to Hirado: British Early Trading Networks and Maritime Trajectories, c. 1570-1623

Tiziana Iannello

6. Ginori Porcelain: Florentine Identity and trade with the Levant

Cinzia Maria Sicca

Part 3: Asian Interactions

7. Of Rhinos, Peppercorns, and Saints: (Re)presenting India in Medici Florence

Erin E. Benay

9. Eurasian Networks of Pietre Dure: Francesco Paolsanti Indiano and His Early Seventeenth-Century Trade between Florence and Goa

Francesco Freddolini

10. The Russian Fata Morgana of Cosimo III: The Fluctuating Portraits of Kangxi between Florence and Beijing

Marco Musillo

11. Postscript. Textual Threads and Starry Messengers: The Global Medici from the Archive to the Fondaco

Marco Musillo