Giovanni Ciappelli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Trento. His many publications on Renaissance and early modern Italy include Carnevale e Quaresima. Comportamenti sociali e cultura a Firenze nel Rinascimento (Rome 1997), Un ministro del Granducato di Toscana nell'età della Restaurazione. Aurelio Puccini (1773-1840) e le sue “Memorie” (Rome 2007), and Fisco e società a Firenze nel Rinascimento (Rome 2009). Together with Patricia Lee Rubin he has edited Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence (Cambridge 2000).

• Editorial noteList of abbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: Memory, family, identity in early modern Italy and Europe1. Family books in Florence: evolution and involution of a genre 2. Books and readings in Florence in the 15th century. “Ricordanze” and the reconstruction of private libraries 3. Memory of historical events in Florentine “ricordanze” (14th-15th century) 4. Domestic devotion in Florentine “ricordanze” (13th-16th century) 5. The family books of the Castellani 6. The “ricordi” of the Medici 7. Collective memory and cultural memory. The family between ancient and early modern 8. Family memory in the early modern age. The case of Tuscany 9. The evolution of family memory models: Tuscan family books (16th-18th century) 10. Family memory in Florence in the time of Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 11. Collective and individual identity in Florence (16th-18th century). The family book of Gianni 12. Family memory and individual memory. Florentine private diaries and family books of the early modern period 13. The edition of Tuscan sources for family history in the Middle Ages and the early modern period 14. Is there a main road in the study of autobiography? 15. Memory and egodocuments in early modern Europe Index

Giovanni Ciappelli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Trento. His many publications on Renaissance and early modern Italy include Carnevale e Quaresima. Comportamenti sociali e cultura a Firenze nel Rinascimento (Rome 1997), Un ministro del Granducato di Toscana nell'età della Restaurazione. Aurelio Puccini (1773-1840) e le sue “Memorie” (Rome 2007), and Fisco e società a Firenze nel Rinascimento (Rome 2009). Together with Patricia Lee Rubin he has edited Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence (Cambridge 2000).

• Editorial noteList of abbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: Memory, family, identity in early modern Italy and Europe1. Family books in Florence: evolution and involution of a genre 2. Books and readings in Florence in the 15th century. “Ricordanze” and the reconstruction of private libraries 3. Memory of historical events in Florentine “ricordanze” (14th-15th century) 4. Domestic devotion in Florentine “ricordanze” (13th-16th century) 5. The family books of the Castellani 6. The “ricordi” of the Medici 7. Collective memory and cultural memory. The family between ancient and early modern 8. Family memory in the early modern age. The case of Tuscany 9. The evolution of family memory models: Tuscan family books (16th-18th century) 10. Family memory in Florence in the time of Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 11. Collective and individual identity in Florence (16th-18th century). The family book of Gianni 12. Family memory and individual memory. Florentine private diaries and family books of the early modern period 13. The edition of Tuscan sources for family history in the Middle Ages and the early modern period 14. Is there a main road in the study of autobiography? 15. Memory and egodocuments in early modern Europe Index

Giovanni Ciappelli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Trento. His many publications on Renaissance and early modern Italy include Carnevale e Quaresima. Comportamenti sociali e cultura a Firenze nel Rinascimento (Rome 1997), Un ministro del Granducato di Toscana nell'età della Restaurazione. Aurelio Puccini (1773-1840) e le sue “Memorie” (Rome 2007), and Fisco e società a Firenze nel Rinascimento (Rome 2009). Together with Patricia Lee Rubin he has edited Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence (Cambridge 2000).

• Editorial noteList of abbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: Memory, family, identity in early modern Italy and Europe1. Family books in Florence: evolution and involution of a genre 2. Books and readings in Florence in the 15th century. “Ricordanze” and the reconstruction of private libraries 3. Memory of historical events in Florentine “ricordanze” (14th-15th century) 4. Domestic devotion in Florentine “ricordanze” (13th-16th century) 5. The family books of the Castellani 6. The “ricordi” of the Medici 7. Collective memory and cultural memory. The family between ancient and early modern 8. Family memory in the early modern age. The case of Tuscany 9. The evolution of family memory models: Tuscan family books (16th-18th century) 10. Family memory in Florence in the time of Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni 11. Collective and individual identity in Florence (16th-18th century). The family book of Gianni 12. Family memory and individual memory. Florentine private diaries and family books of the early modern period 13. The edition of Tuscan sources for family history in the Middle Ages and the early modern period 14. Is there a main road in the study of autobiography? 15. Memory and egodocuments in early modern Europe Index