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Italy's Medici Murder Plot Solved
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| 2-24-2004
| Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 02/25/2004 10:53:57 AM PST by blam
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To: BlessedByLiberty
The Third Man, with Orson Welles?
To: DeaconBenjamin
Oops! My boo-boo.
To: BlessedByLiberty
No patronage without great - perhaps unequal - wealth? Being a full time productive artist on the grand scale of Michelangeo or Leonardo requires sufficient funding for the artist and his atelier (apprentices, assistants, studio, materials), and a grand place for the display of the creation.
To give you an idea how most artists live, espeically these days, read Cary's "The Horse's Mouth." It's about a poor painter who dreams of creating great art, but can't afford paint unless he steals it.
I have a book on making pigment in old days before synthetic pigments - for example, to make blue, you grind up real lapis lazuli and subject it to various treatments to remove the impurities, so you have less than you started out with but it's brilliant in hue. Not cheap.
No, this type of magnificent creation required lots and lots and lots and lots of money. Pots of money, bags of money, stacks of ducats.
To: DoctorMichael
You're talking about tribalism - which is very hard for most Americans to comprehend - and your reference to the Baathists is accurate, although perhaps insulting to the Medici, who had far superior aesthetic taste to Saddam. They don't appear to have been as evil, either, although perhaps Saddam benefits from 20th century advances in industrialization of homicide. Who knows what the Medici might have achieved if they'd had efficiency experts to assist them?
Jest a joke - I to enjoyed the PBS series - and do recall the bit about the Medici (can't remember name) who modernized the organization. The setup looked remarkably like late 19th century grand style offices such as you see in federal cabinet level department buildings (the old Commerce building, for one) and corporate headquarters of that era (I am thinking of some insurance companies of the time - Aetna?)
To: CobaltBlue
Thanks. Apparently 'Revelation911' found my comments "biggoted" though (#17)......LOL.
Oh well, maybe it was a little too close to home. Some people here just spoil for a fight; it wasn't meant the way it was taken.
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02/26/2004 10:28:14 AM PST
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DoctorMichael
(Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
The author is a descendant of one of the little-known figures in Renaissance Italian politics. Just finished reading this, and *highly* recommend it to anyone interested in nonfiction, history, the Renaissance, Italy, art, or Machiavelli. :')
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To: blam
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SunkenCiv
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quote from Dante on p 181:
For when the power of thought / is coupled with ill will and naked force / there is no refuge from it for mankind.
and, from Machiavelli, quoted on p 207:
What the prince does the many also soon do / for to their eyes the prince is ever in view.
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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