In the summer of 1634 the grand-ducal ambassador resident in France Giovan Battista Gondi made an undercover journey to Spanish Netherlands to meet Maria de’ Medici and tried to persuade her to leave the Habsburg territories for Florence. Despite the failure of the negotiations, a series of unpublished letters exchanged between Gondi and the first secretary of the Grand Duchy Andrea Cioli will serve as an opportunity to analyze which cultural and artistic affairs involved the Tuscan agent alongside the political events he primarily dealt with. In his letters Gondi described different artefacts that could have been acquired for the Medici collection, and publications that could have contributed to the reputation of the Grand Duke or, on the contrary, jeopardized it.
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Chapter Title
La «gita di Fiandra»: globi, libri e carte geografiche per Ferdinando II de’ Medici nella corrispondenza diplomatica di Giovan Battista Gondi
Authors
Carlotta Paola Brovadan
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-181-5.06
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Publication Year
2020
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Book Title
Donum
Book Subtitle
Studi di storia della pittura, della scultura e del collezionismo a Firenze dal Cinquecento al Settecento
Editors
Marco Betti, Carlotta Paola Brovadan
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
308
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-181-5
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-180-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-181-5
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919