Donatello's bronze David and Judith as Metaphors of Medici rule in Florence - Bibliography

Although she did not explore the relationship, Susan L. Smith cited the Policraticus in connection with a Renaissance image of Judith in her article "A Nude Judith from Padua and the Reception of Donatello's Bronze David," Comitatus 25 (1994): 72.

(51.) On the popularity of this sort of literature throughout the medieval period, see Bornstein (as in n. 50), 77-85.

(52.) Ephraim Emerton, Humanism and Tyranny: Studies in the Italian Trecento (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1925), 33-119, analyzed its impact on Italian political thought. W. Ullmann, "The Influence of John of Salisbury on Medieval Italian Jurists," in The Church and the Law in the Earlier Middle Ages: Selected Essays (London: Variorum Reprints, 1975), 383-92 (reprinted from English Historical Review 59 [1944]); and idem, "John of Salisbury's Policraticus in the Later Middle Ages," in Geschichtsschreibung und geistiges Leben im Mittelalter: Festschrift fur Heinz Lows zum 65. Geburtstag ed. K. Hauck and H. Mordek (Cologne: Bohlau, 1978), 519-45, traced its impact on legal theory.

(53.) Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), 278-79. The writings of Thomas Aquinas were thoroughly represented in the Library of S. Marco. They constituted the largest single block of manuscripts donated to the library by Cosimo de' Medici. See Ullman and Stadter, 21, 310-13.

(54.) Ammon Linder, "The Knowledge of John of Salisbury in the Late Middle Ages," Studi Medievali, ser. 3, 18, no. 2 (1977): 900, discussed the Tabula, seu index rerum memorabilium quae sunt in Policratico johannis Sariberiensis by John Calderini, which became enormously popular throughout Europe.

(55.) Linder (as in n. 54), 893-94.

(56.) Ullmann, 1975 (as in n. 52), 385.

(57.) Linder (as in n. 54), 899. See n. 50 above.

(58.) In one of the dialogues, the "De occupata tyrannide," Petrarch, who annotated his own manuscript of Pliny's Natural History extensively, recounted with approval the tyrannicide accomplished by Harmodios and Aristogeiton. On Petrarch's manuscript of Pliny, now in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, see Pierre de Nolhac, Petrarque et l'humanisme, rev. ed., 2 vols. (Paris: Honore Champion, 1965), vol. 1,51, vol. 2. 70-77.

(59.) R. Rouse and M. A. Rouse, "John of Salisbury and the Doctrine of Tyrannicide," Speculun 42 (1967): 693-709.

(60.) John of Salisbury, Policraticus: Of the Frivolities of Courtiers and the Footprints of Philosophers, 8.20, ed. and trans. Cary Nederman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 207-9.

(61.) Ronald G. Witt, Hercules at the Crossroads: The Life Works and Thought of Coluccia Salutati (Durham, NC.: Duke University Press, 1983), 368-69.

(62.) For further analysis and a translation of the De tyranno, see Emerton (as in n. 52), 49-116.

(63.) See Coville; and Bernard Guenee, Un meurtre, une societe: L'assassinat du duc d'Orleans, 23 novembre 1407 (Paris: Gallimard, 1992).