Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence

Marica S. Tacconi is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Director of its Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: 1. The cathedral and its service books; 2. The calendar of feasts; 3. Before 1310: the service books of Santa Reparata; 4. After 1310: the service books of Santa Maria del Fiore; 5. The cult of the saints; Epilogue; Appendix A: Concordance between references to manuscripts published by Poggi and the manuscripts' modern shelf numbers; Appendix B: Artists and craftsmen involved with the production of cathedral service books; Appendix C: The calendar of feasts; Appendix D: Liturgical texts and chants for Florentine saints; Bibliography; Index of manuscripts and archival sources; General index.

"The whole book portrays the author's distinctive ability to master an impressive amount of documentary materials and the extensive bibliography published in centuries of scholarly investigation on the City of the Lily...This book, complemented by thirty-two beautifully rendered color plates that give a hint of these impressive volumes produced in medieval and Renaissance Florence, will soon become an indispensable tool for the study of the history of the liturgy at Florence as well as a model for future studies on liturgical books in premodern European churches." -Luisa Nardini, University of Texas, Journal of Medieval Studies