The Cardinal's Hat

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Second son of Lucretia Borgia, Ippolito d'Esté loved gambling, hunting, tennis and women. He became Archbishop of Milan at the age of 9 . . .
But he had to wait another 20 years before he acquired his coveted cardinal's hat, the route to wealth and power in 16th-century Europe. This is his story. But it is also the story of his gardeners, carpenters, ceiling decorators, book-keeper, valet and doctor, the Master of his Wardrobe, his courtiers, squires, pages, cooks and stable boys, and of their families. Based on a hitherto unpublished archive of original documents, The Cardinal's Hat provides a unique insight into Renaissance life.
Mary Hollingsworth is the author of Patronage in Renaissance Italy and Patronage in Sixteenth-century Italy.
'Mary Hollingsworth has achieved an archival "eureka". She gets you right alongside her Renaissance princeling in the most intimate way possible - through the secrets of his money and what he spent it on.' Robert Lacey
'As Mary Hollingsworth... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Second son of Lucretia Borgia, Ippolito d'Esté loved gambling, hunting, tennis and women. He became Archbishop of Milan at the age of 9 . . .
But he had to wait another 20 years before he acquired his coveted cardinal's hat, the route to wealth and power in 16th-century Europe. This is his story. But it is also the story of his gardeners, carpenters, ceiling decorators, book-keeper, valet and doctor, the Master of his Wardrobe, his courtiers, squires, pages, cooks and stable boys, and of their families. Based on a hitherto unpublished archive of original documents, The Cardinal's Hat provides a unique insight into Renaissance life.
Mary Hollingsworth is the author of Patronage in Renaissance Italy and Patronage in Sixteenth-century Italy.
'Mary Hollingsworth has achieved an archival "eureka". She gets you right alongside her Renaissance princeling in the most intimate way possible - through the secrets of his money and what he spent it on.' Robert Lacey
'As Mary Hollingsworth shows in this brilliant piece of historical detective work and narrative reconstruction, no one schmoozed the great and the good of 16th-century Europe with quite such élan as Ippolito d'Este.' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
'A treasure trove of social history a shopping-list will never seem quite the same again' Sarah Dunant
'Beautifully judged and deeply researched' Charles Nicholl, Sunday Times
'A fascinating book; not just for the details, but for the skill with which Hollingsworth interprets them' Jane Stevenson, Observer Vissza