Contents E W KENT: The Young Lorenzo, 1449– 1469 ..... 1– 22 KATE LOWE: Lorenzo’s ’Presence’ at Churches, Convents and Shrines in and outside Florence ..... 23– 36 LINDA PELLECCHIA: Designing the Via Laura Palace: Giuliano da Sangallo, the Medici, and Time ..... 37– 63 ALISON WRIGHT: A Portrait for the Visit of Galeazzo Maria Sforza to Florence in 1471 ..... 65– 92 E. B. FRYDE: Lorenzo’s Greek Manuscripts, and in Particular his own Commissions ..... 93– 104 PAOLA VENTRONE: Lorenzo’s Politica festive ..... 105– 116 NERIDA NEWBIGIN: Politics in the Sacre Rappresentazioni of Lorenzo’s Florence ..... 117– 130 KRISTEN LIPPINCOTT: The Art of Cartography in Fifteenth– Century Florence ..... 131– 149 JILL KRAYE: Lorenzo and the Philosophers ..... 151– 166 MARIO MARTELLI: La cultura letteraria nell’età di Lorenzo ..... 167– 176 FRANCESCA BATTERA: Le Pistole di Luca Pulci e la formazione culturale del giovane Lorenzo ..... 177– 190 PAOLO ORVIETO: La canzone ’Quando raggio di sole’ di Lorenzo ..... 191– 202 PETER DENLEY. Signore and Studio: Lorenzo in a Comparative Context ..... 203– 216 ROBERT BLACK: Lorenzo and Arezzo ..... 217– 234 STEPHEN MILNER: Lorenzo and Pistoia: Peacemaker or Partisan? ..... 235– 252 MICHAEL MALLETT: Horse– Racing and Politics in Lorenzo’s Florence ..... 253– 262 MELISSA BULLARD: Lorenzo and Patterns of Diplomatic Discourse in the Late Fifteenth Century ..... 263– 274 HUMFREY BUTTERS: Lorenzo and Machiavelli ..... 275– 280 ALISON BROWN: Lorenzo and Guicciardini ..... 281– 296 NICOLAI RUBINSTEIN: Lorenzo’s Image in Europe ..... 297– 312