title: Vincenzo Borghini: "MDLX a 28 d’ottobre, nel qual dì, Sua Eccellenza hebbe il tosone, fece l’entrata in Siena come appresso" Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Ms. II. X. 100 [ca. 1560] (FONTES 50) creator: Borghini, Vincenzo subject: 700 subject: Arts subject: Borghini, Vincenzo subject: Cosimo subject: Siena subject: Einzug subject: Geschichte 1560 subject: Quelle description: FONTES 46 (Ammanati), FONTES 48 (Cirni), and FONTES 49 (Martellini) have each treated the written testimonies that document a civic festival important for the emergence and evolution of the political iconography of the Medici principate, established in 1537, an event in which architecture and images played a central rôle. This event was the triumphal entry of Cosimo de’ Medici and his family into Siena following the conclusion of the War of Siena, in 1559, and the subsequent annexation of Siena to Cosimo’s territories, laying the basis for a Tuscan State. The entry itself took place on 28 October 1560, and it was the first stop on a journey undertaken by a large part of the ducal court which led the entourage to Rome, where the Duke and his company arrived on 6 November 1560 for an extended stay. The victory over Siena represented the first and the essential consolidation of Cosimo’s territorial and dynastic ambitions, and the entry was intended to enforce the submission that followed victory and the conciliation that healed defeat, both accompanied by the celebration of a new power status enjoyed by the expanded Medici state and by the assertion of claims to a regal rank. It was the advancement of these aims that led the Duke, his family, and his court to continue on to the Rome of Pope Pius IV. If one attempts to discover and visualise the images of power that accompanied this event, it is to the extensive written sources that one must turn. The subject of FONTES 50 is the last of the known written documents that describe the entry into Siena. It is a somewhat summary description of the entry which focuses on its programmatic elements (inventions and inscriptions). It is found among the papers of Vincenzo Borghini in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF). Vincenzo Borghini (1515-1580) was the friend, confidant, and counselor of Giorgio Vasari, the luogotenente of the Accademia del Disegno, and an important artistic adviser to the Medici. Borghini’s description belongs to a manuscript which contains a collection of Borghini’s notes about various public festivals extending over many years and drawn from many places within Italy and beyond in Europe. Borghini’s description is based on information furnished to him by informants. The existence of Borghini’s collection of festival descriptions documents the crystallization of a European tradition for such events. The Siena entry of 1560 merits further study in the context of the elaboration of Medici iconics during the principate, especially during the reign of the first Medici duke, Cosimo I, a topic which has been intensively researched in the last half-century. It is an early event in the second phase of the elaboration of the "imagerie" of Medicean ideology, which began in 1555 and was already beginning to fade a few years before 1574, the year Cosimo I died. The entry into Siena thus comes at a time when the ongoing and cumulative elaboration of symbolic programmes for the Medici was still in a very active phase. contributor: Davis, Charles date: 2010 type: Book type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book type: NonPeerReviewed identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/1021/ format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/1021/1/Davis_Fontes50.pdf identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-10217 rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess language: mul title: La reale entrata: invention, programme, inscriptions, and description for the entry of Cosimo de' Medici into Siena, 1560. Anton Francesco Cirni: La reale entrata dell'Eccellentissimo Signor Duca et Duchessa di Fiorenza, in Siena, con la significatione delle latine inscrittioni, e con alcuni sonetti, scritta per Anton Francesco Cirni Corso. In Roma per Antonio Blado Stampator Camerale [1560] (FONTES 48) creator: Cirni, Antonio Francesco subject: 700 subject: Arts subject: Italy subject: Artists, Architects subject: Cosimo subject: Siena subject: Einzug subject: Geschichte 1560 subject: Quelle subject: Cirni, Antonio Francesco description: Fontes 48 publishes a full text version of Anton Francesco Cirni, 'La Reale Entrata dell'Eccellentissimo Signor Duca et Duchessa di Fiorenza, in Siena' (Roma 1560). Cirni's 'Reale Entrata' is a festival book describing both the triumphal entry of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and his Duchess Eleonora di Toledo into Siena on 28 October 1560 and the triumphal apparatus of arches, sculptures, and paintings that was created for this public civic occasion. The text is a primary document of political iconography and an early example of a festival book printed at about the same time as the event it describes. Thus the festival book become part of the event itself, serving to disseminate its content to a wider public. The booklet records the inventions, the programme, and the inscriptions presented at this symbolic event, that is, the words and images that conveyed its political and propagandistic messages. The 1560 Siena Entry was an important station in the emerging self-representation of the new Medici Principate established under Duke Cosimo I. The triumphal apparatus celebrated the victory over Siena, while proposing reconciliation with her citizens. In light of Florence's territorial expansion in Tuscany, the Medici regime's claims and aspirations to a new royal status found expression both in the entry and in Cirni's text. Cirni's rôle was not that of patron, artist, or humanist adviser. He was essentially a client of the Medici, who publicised their aims and ambitions. As he spread their fame in Rome, he also sought favour at the papal court of Pius IV. contributor: Davis, Charles date: 2010 type: Book type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book type: NonPeerReviewed identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/983/ format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/983/1/Davis_Fontes48.pdf identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-9830 rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess language: mul title: Antonio Martellini: La solenne entrata del lo illustrissimo, et eccellentissimo Signore il Signor Duca di Fiorenza et Siena, fatta a XXVIII. d'ottobre, MDLX, in Siena (Firenze: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1560) (FONTES 49) creator: Martellini, Antonio subject: 700 subject: Arts subject: Italy subject: Iconography subject: Martellini, Antonio / La solenne entrata del lo illustrissimo, et eccellentissimo Signore il Signor Duca di Fiorenza et Siena description: FONTES 49 makes widely available a full text version of a rare, little-known, and seldom consulted work, Antonio Martellini’s La Solenne entrata dello Illustrissimo, et Eccellentissimo Signore il Signor Duca di Fiorenza et Siena, fatta a XXVIII. d’Ottobre, MDLX, in Siena (Firenze, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1560), a description of the Triumphal Entry into Siena of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici on 28 October 1560. Antonio Martellini was a sixteenth-century letterato of Siena, about whom almost nothing is known, with the exception of the work published here. Martellini was a member of the equally mysterious Accademia dei Travagliati in Siena (founded 1550-1555). The description of the entry contained in Martellini’s book is, in some respects, more extensive and exact than that in Cirni’s (Fontes 48). Martellini’s festival description is dated the day of Cosimo’s entry into Siena. It is notable for its Sienese perspective, its accurate description, its developed architectural vocabulary, its clarity of structure, its vivid picture of Sienese society and the ducal court, and its detailed description of costume and dress. The large rôle that inscriptions played in the entry is also documented by Martellini, who includes a few inscriptions not found in Cirni, and he offers variant readings for some inscriptions. As is Anton Francesco Cirni’s description of the same entry, Martellini’s book is an important document of political iconography. The Siena Entry of 1560 has been treated in Fontes 46 and 48, and, with the publication of the full text version of Martellini, the primary sources for this entry are accessible online, providing a basis for a more penetrating study of this important occasion, a study which remains to be made. The text is indexed by inscriptions, places, persons, images, and attributes. contributor: Davis, Charles date: 2010 type: Book type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book type: NonPeerReviewed identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/1011/ format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/1011/1/Davis_Fontes49.pdf identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-10111 rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess language: ger title: Giorgio Vasari: Descrizione dell’apparato fatto nel Tempio di S. Giovanni di Fiorenza per lo battesimo della Signora prima figliuola dell’Illustrissimo, et Eccellentissimo S. Principe di Fiorenza, et Siena Don Francesco Medici,e della Serenissima Reina Giovanna D’Austria (Florenz 1568) (FONTES 6) creator: Vasari, Giorgio subject: 700 subject: Arts subject: Italy subject: Vasari, Giorgio subject: Florenz / Baptisterium subject: Festdekoration subject: Borghini, Vincenzo description: Der hier vorgestellte Text, die 'Descrizione dell’apparato fatto nel Tempio di S. Giovanni di Fiorenza per lo battesimo della Signora prima figliuola dell’Illustrissimo, et Eccellentissimo S. Principe di Fiorenza, et Siena Don Francesco Medici, e della Serenissima Reina Giovanna D’Austria' (Florenz: Giunti 1568), ist die gedruckte Beschreibung einer Festdekoration; er wurde von Vasari gleichzeitig mit den Feierlichkeiten am 29. Februar 1568 (nach Florentiner Zeitrechnung noch 1567) veröffentlicht. Die 'Descrizione' beschreibt minutiös die Festdekoration Vasaris für die Taufe des erstgeborenen Kindes von Francesco I. de’ Medici und Giovanna d’Austria, seiner Gemahlin. Die Feier fand in San Giovanni, dem Baptisterium von Florenz, unter Anwesenheit zahlreicher Prominenz und eines großen allgemeinen Publikums statt. Die malerische Ausstattung des Innenraumes des Baptisterium folgt einer für die Zeit typischen ikonografischen Erfindung (‚invenzione’), entwickelt ein gängiges Programm. Es stammt von einem engen Freund und Berater Vasaris, Don Vincenzo Borghini. contributor: Davis, Charles date: 2008 type: Book type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book type: NonPeerReviewed identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/425/ format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/425/1/Davis_Fontes6.pdf identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-4255 rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess language: ger