The Medici Wedding of 1589: Florentine Festival as Theatrum Mundi.

Charles L. Stinger, James W. Saslow

The American Historical Review · 1997 · 86 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Reconstructing the Medici wedding between Grand Duke Ferdinando de' Medici and the French princess Christine of Lorraine, this work provides a narrative of this event, which lasted a month, and which was a landmark in Renaissance art and architecture, theatre, music and political ceremonial.