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Architectural patronage in the late Quattrocento was a way of demonstrating status. In spite of the republican and unaristocratic rhetoric espoused by the Florentine ruling class, powerful families, like the Medici or Strozzi, sought to impress their compatriots with conspicuous displays of wealth. In the course of the fifteenth century, the attitude towards the manifestation of riches passed from a medieval and Christian contempt to a distinct appreciation of magnificence as a virtue and duty of the rich. This need to impress is nowhere more apparent than in the patronage of architecture—especially palace building.

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Manfredo Tafuri. Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects. Trans. Daniel Sherer. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 408 pp. + 166 b/w pls. index. append. illus. $50. ISBN: 0-300-11158-4.

Brenda Preyer. Il Palazzo Corsi-Horne: dal diario di restauro di H. P. Home. Trans. Marcella Bonsanti. (Fondazione Home.) Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1993. 446 pp. IL 100,000. ISBN: n.a.

The Patron's Role in the Production of Architecture: Bartolomeo Scala and the Scala Palace

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Manfredo Tafuri. Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects. Trans. Daniel Sherer. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 408 pp. + 166 b/w pls. index. append. illus. $50. ISBN: 0-300-11158-4.

Brenda Preyer. Il Palazzo Corsi-Horne: dal diario di restauro di H. P. Home. Trans. Marcella Bonsanti. (Fondazione Home.) Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1993. 446 pp. IL 100,000. ISBN: n.a.

The Patron's Role in the Production of Architecture: Bartolomeo Scala and the Scala Palace