Table of Contents
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