Based on papers presented at a colloquium held at Duke University, Oct. 1986.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-246) and index.
Contents
Death in history : the function and meaning of death in Florentine historiography of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (translation by Valeria Finucci) / Alberto Tenenti -- Giovanni Caroli, 1460-1480 : death, memory, and transformation / Salvatore I. Camporeale -- The health status of Florentines in the fifteenth century / Ann G. Carmichael -- Petrarchan figurations of death in Lorenzo de' Medici's sonnets and Comento / William J. Kennedy -- Continuity and change in the ideals of humanism : the evidence from Florentine funeral oratory / John McManamon, S.J. -- The art of dying well and popular piety in the preaching and thought of Girolamo Savonarola / Donald Weinstein -- A Renaissance artist in the service of a singing confraternity / Cyrilla Barr -- Death rites and the ritual family in Renaissance Florence / Sharon T. Strocchia -- Donatello's tomb of Pope John XXIII / Sarah Blake McHam -- On Castagno's nine famous men and women : sword and book as the basis for public service / Creighton Gilbert.
