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Article: Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the Della Rovere in Renaissance Italy.(Book review)

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Ian F. Verstegen. ed. Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the Della Rovere in Renaissance Italy.

Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2007. xxviii + 210 pp. index, append. illus. tbls. bibl. $54.95. ISBN: 978-1-931112-60-4.

Over the last quarter of a century publications on patronage, such as Mary Hollingsworth's Patronage in Renaissance Italy (1995) and Guy Fitch Lytle and Stephen Orgel's Patronage in the Renaissance (1982), have underscored the importance of diverse models of client-patron relationships, something which is demonstrated here within the various branches of a single family. The book is divided ...

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