Ave Papa Ave Papabile: The Sacchetti Family, Their Art Patronage, and Political Aspirations.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly | March 22, 2006| | Copyright

Lilian H. Zirpolo. Ave Papa Ave Papabile: The Sacchetti Family, Their Art Patronage, and Political Aspirations.

Essays and Studies 6. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 252 pp. index. illus. bibl. $37. ISBN: 0-7727-2028-2.

Giovanni Battista Sacchetti, a member of an illustrious Tuscan family, settled in Rome at the end of the sixteenth century. By 1573 he had opened a bank in the Ponte district, not far from the church of the Florentine community, San Giovanni dei Fiorentini. In 1579 he married a member of the powerful Altoviti ...

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