Nicholas Scott Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3803404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Scott Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Putting a Price on the Throne of Saint Peter
In late August 1530, three Florentine merchants formed a partnership specifically to wager on the outcome of the papal election following the death of Pope Sixtus V. Thanks to the survival of an account book compiled by one of the three, Dinozzo Lippi, their undertaking can be examined in detail. This article analyzes the account book within the contexts of Lippi’s commercial career, the tradition of betting on papal elections, the specific histo…
The Renaissance in Italy
A Twenty-First-Century Renaissance
Creating a shared past
In the summer of 1539, an elaborate, ephemeral programme of decoration was constructed in Florence to celebrate the wedding of Cosimo I de' Medici and Eleonora Álvarez de Toledo. Through an interplay of painting, sculpture, heraldry, and classical allusions, the programme constructed a narrative of the marriage as the culmination of a history of mutual support between the Medici family and the Spanish monarchy. In so doing, this article argues, i…
Dux ludens
High-stakes gambling was a widespread pastime in the courts of early modern Europe and the Medici court in Florence enjoyed a particular notoriety for it in the middle decades of the sixteenth century. Using insights from the sociological writings of Johan Huizinga, Erving Goffman, and Clifford Geertz, this article explores the meaning and significance of games of chance in the ducal household, focusing specifically on the gambling habits of the …
A Mattress Maker’s Daughter
A Mattress Maker’s Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni De’ Medici and Livia Vernazza. Brendan Dooley. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiv + 454 pp. $49.95. - Volume 68 Issue 2
The Medicean Succession
The Medicean Succession: Monarchy and Sacral Politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence, by Gregory Murry. Cambridge & London, Harvard University Press, 2014. xiii, 347 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Gregory Murry's The Medicean Succession is an important book that tackles a significant omission in scholarship on Cosimo 1 de' Medici and transition from republic to principality in sixteenth-century Florence: role of and political theology in creation o…
Discursive Republicanism in Renaissance Florence
In his Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on the First Decade of Livy), Niccolò Machiavelli famously asserted that class conflict had fostered and protected republican liberty in ancient Rome. The struggles between the patricians and the plebeians, he argued, ‘did not result in any exile or violence out of harmony with the common good, but rather ... they gave rise to laws and institutions that benefited public liberty’. He we…
PeterHoward
Wings for Our Courage
Stephanie H. Jed. Wings for Our Courage: Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought. Flashpoints. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xvi + 282 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–520–26769–5. - Volume 65 Issue 2
Medicean metamorphoses
In early February 1513, the recently restored Medici family celebrated Carnival in Florence with two elaborate, allegorical triumphs. As moments of ephemeral, public ritual these triumphs provided a unique opportunity for the Medici to negotiate their position in the city and their relationship to the government, to tell a story about themselves. The images and concepts presented in the Carnival depicted the Medici as peacemakers and defenders of…
Un altro Lorenzo”
Guido Rebecchini. “Un altro Lorenzo”: Ippolito de’ Medici tra Firenze e Roma (1511–1535). Venice: Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2010. 328 pp. + 17 b/w pls. index. append. illus. bibl. €30. ISBN: 978–88–317–0646–9. - Volume 64 Issue 3
For Reasons of State
Prior to the late fifteenth century in Florence, the losers of political conflicts routinely faced exile as punishment for their perceived crimes. Following the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478, however, such political criminals increasingly received death sentences rather than banishment. This article explores how the changing nature of punishment for political crimes in Renaissance Florence from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries can be read as a…
The Art of the Network
The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence. By Paul D. McLean and Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence. By Thomas Kuehn Nicholas Scott Baker Nicholas Scott Baker Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 43, Issue 2, Winter 2009, Pages 484–488, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0261 Published: 01 December 2009
Writing the Wrongs of the past
On the night of 6 January 1537 Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici killed his cousin, the first Duke of Florence, Alessandro de’ Medici. In an Apologia, written around three years after the assassination, Lorenzo claimed that he had killed Alessandro in order to restore Florence to republican liberty. Historians have interpreted this text as a self-justificatory and self-aggrandizing piece. This article argues that the Apologia is better understo…
A History of Florence 1200–1575
List of Illustrations. List of Maps. Introduction. 1. The Elite Families. Lineages. Knighthood and Feuds. Political Alignments and Factions. Culture and Religion. 2. The Popolo. Definitions. Guilds. Culture and Education: Notaries. Religion. Critique of Elite Misrule. 3. Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo. Before 1250. Primo Popolo. Angevin Alliance. Priorate of the Guilds. Second Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice. Elite Resurgence: Black and…
For Reasons of State
Prior to the late fifteenth century in Florence, the losers of political conflicts routinely faced exile as punishment for their perceived crimes. Following the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478, however, such political criminals increasingly received death sentences rather than banishment. This article explores how the changing nature of punishment for political crimes in Renaissance Florence from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries can be read as a…
Discursive Republicanism in Renaissance Florence
In his Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on the First Decade of Livy), Niccolò Machiavelli famously asserted that class conflict had fostered and protected republican liberty in ancient Rome. The struggles between the patricians and the plebeians, he argued, ‘did not result in any exile or violence out of harmony with the common good, but rather ... they gave rise to laws and institutions that benefited public liberty’. He we…
Medicean metamorphoses
In early February 1513, the recently restored Medici family celebrated Carnival in Florence with two elaborate, allegorical triumphs. As moments of ephemeral, public ritual these triumphs provided a unique opportunity for the Medici to negotiate their position in the city and their relationship to the government, to tell a story about themselves. The images and concepts presented in the Carnival depicted the Medici as peacemakers and defenders of…
A History of Florence 1200–1575
List of Illustrations. List of Maps. Introduction. 1. The Elite Families. Lineages. Knighthood and Feuds. Political Alignments and Factions. Culture and Religion. 2. The Popolo. Definitions. Guilds. Culture and Education: Notaries. Religion. Critique of Elite Misrule. 3. Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo. Before 1250. Primo Popolo. Angevin Alliance. Priorate of the Guilds. Second Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice. Elite Resurgence: Black and…
Writing the Wrongs of the past
On the night of 6 January 1537 Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici killed his cousin, the first Duke of Florence, Alessandro de’ Medici. In an Apologia, written around three years after the assassination, Lorenzo claimed that he had killed Alessandro in order to restore Florence to republican liberty. Historians have interpreted this text as a self-justificatory and self-aggrandizing piece. This article argues that the Apologia is better understo…
For Reasons of State
Prior to the late fifteenth century in Florence, the losers of political conflicts routinely faced exile as punishment for their perceived crimes. Following the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478, however, such political criminals increasingly received death sentences rather than banishment. This article explores how the changing nature of punishment for political crimes in Renaissance Florence from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries can be read as a…
The Art of the Network
The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence. By Paul D. McLean and Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence. By Thomas Kuehn Nicholas Scott Baker Nicholas Scott Baker Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 43, Issue 2, Winter 2009, Pages 484–488, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0261 Published: 01 December 2009
Medicean metamorphoses
In early February 1513, the recently restored Medici family celebrated Carnival in Florence with two elaborate, allegorical triumphs. As moments of ephemeral, public ritual these triumphs provided a unique opportunity for the Medici to negotiate their position in the city and their relationship to the government, to tell a story about themselves. The images and concepts presented in the Carnival depicted the Medici as peacemakers and defenders of…
Un altro Lorenzo”
Guido Rebecchini. “Un altro Lorenzo”: Ippolito de’ Medici tra Firenze e Roma (1511–1535). Venice: Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2010. 328 pp. + 17 b/w pls. index. append. illus. bibl. €30. ISBN: 978–88–317–0646–9. - Volume 64 Issue 3
Wings for Our Courage
Stephanie H. Jed. Wings for Our Courage: Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought. Flashpoints. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xvi + 282 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–520–26769–5. - Volume 65 Issue 2
PeterHoward
The Medicean Succession
The Medicean Succession: Monarchy and Sacral Politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence, by Gregory Murry. Cambridge & London, Harvard University Press, 2014. xiii, 347 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Gregory Murry's The Medicean Succession is an important book that tackles a significant omission in scholarship on Cosimo 1 de' Medici and transition from republic to principality in sixteenth-century Florence: role of and political theology in creation o…
Discursive Republicanism in Renaissance Florence
In his Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on the First Decade of Livy), Niccolò Machiavelli famously asserted that class conflict had fostered and protected republican liberty in ancient Rome. The struggles between the patricians and the plebeians, he argued, ‘did not result in any exile or violence out of harmony with the common good, but rather ... they gave rise to laws and institutions that benefited public liberty’. He we…
A Mattress Maker’s Daughter
A Mattress Maker’s Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni De’ Medici and Livia Vernazza. Brendan Dooley. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiv + 454 pp. $49.95. - Volume 68 Issue 2
Dux ludens
High-stakes gambling was a widespread pastime in the courts of early modern Europe and the Medici court in Florence enjoyed a particular notoriety for it in the middle decades of the sixteenth century. Using insights from the sociological writings of Johan Huizinga, Erving Goffman, and Clifford Geertz, this article explores the meaning and significance of games of chance in the ducal household, focusing specifically on the gambling habits of the …
A Twenty-First-Century Renaissance
Creating a shared past
In the summer of 1539, an elaborate, ephemeral programme of decoration was constructed in Florence to celebrate the wedding of Cosimo I de' Medici and Eleonora Álvarez de Toledo. Through an interplay of painting, sculpture, heraldry, and classical allusions, the programme constructed a narrative of the marriage as the culmination of a history of mutual support between the Medici family and the Spanish monarchy. In so doing, this article argues, i…
The Renaissance in Italy
Putting a Price on the Throne of Saint Peter
In late August 1530, three Florentine merchants formed a partnership specifically to wager on the outcome of the papal election following the death of Pope Sixtus V. Thanks to the survival of an account book compiled by one of the three, Dinozzo Lippi, their undertaking can be examined in detail. This article analyzes the account book within the contexts of Lippi’s commercial career, the tradition of betting on papal elections, the specific histo…
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