Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399543095
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 244x170 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 95 colour illustrations and 1 colour appendix 700
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Short description:
Explores the history of material exchanges between the Islamic world and Italy in the seventeenth century.
MoreLong description:
This book reassesses the idea that Islamic objects in seventeenth-century Italy were considered mere curiosities, sparking no cultural or historical interest. It focuses on Italy’s largest collection of Islamic artefacts of the time, assembled by the Medici agent and Bolognese nobleman Ferdinando Cospi in his public gallery: the Cospi Museum. Through an extensive investigation of inventories, letters, and archival documents, the book follows the objects through the various paths which took them from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, through North African cities, to Livorno, Florence and, finally, Bologna. These paths reveal the presence of a network of enslaved Turks, Arab scholars, Egyptian fishermen and Armenian merchants, all responsible for importing both the items and their stories, biographies and anecdotes to Italy. The book thus brings forward to the seventeenth century a phenomenon of cultural inquisition that was thought to start only a century later.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Catalogue Entries
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Foreword
Introduction: All Things Turkish
1. The Life of Ferdinando Cospi
2. The History of the Cospi Museum
3. Islamic Artefacts Collected by Ferdinando Cospi
4. Acquisitions from the Ottoman World
5. Acquisitions from the Italian Market
6. Patronage and Donations
7. Transmission and Preservation of Knowledge
Conclusions: The Proto-ethnography of Collecting
Appendices
Catalogue
Bibliography
Index
