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'This book is a treasure-trove of insights into devotional behaviors of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is well-researched and makes visible a range of rich archives, from civic administrations to personal documents. The author weaves historiographical discourse with primary sources, canonical artworks, and lesser-known objects to render a masterful representation of devotion in Renaissance Tuscany. Each example is part of a narrative that leads the reader to a fuller understanding of the context in which Guizzelmi lived ... this captivating and wonderfully rich volume is a valuable resource for anyone invested in late medieval and early modern devotion.' Sarah Reiff Conell, Contemporaneity 'Maniura brings an exceptionally incisive mind to the question of how miraculous images functioned ... For Maniura, art and miracle together created 'apparatuses of consolation' (190). In this perception he brings a shrewd empathy to the people whose stories he relates.' Mary Laven, European History Quarterly 'This book is a treasure-trove of insights into devotional behaviors of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is well-researched and makes visible a range of rich archives, from civic administrations to personal documents. The author weaves historiographical discourse with primary sources, canonical artworks, and lesser-known objects to render a masterful representation of devotion in Renaissance Tuscany. Each example is part of a narrative that leads the reader to a fuller understanding of the context in which Guizzelmi lived ... this captivating and wonderfully rich volume is a valuable resource for anyone invested in late medieval and early modern devotion.' Sarah Reiff Conell, Contemporaneity 'Maniura brings an exceptionally incisive mind to the question of how miraculous images functioned ... For Maniura, art and miracle together created 'apparatuses of consolation' (190). In this perception he brings a shrewd empathy to the people whose stories he relates.' Mary Laven, European History Quarterly

'This book is a treasure-trove of insights into devotional behaviors of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is well-researched and makes visible a range of rich archives, from civic administrations to personal documents. The author weaves historiographical discourse with primary sources, canonical artworks, and lesser-known objects to render a masterful representation of devotion in Renaissance Tuscany. Each example is part of a narrative that leads the reader to a fuller understanding of the context in which Guizzelmi lived ... this captivating and wonderfully rich volume is a valuable resource for anyone invested in late medieval and early modern devotion.' Sarah Reiff Conell, Contemporaneity 'This book is a treasure-trove of insights into devotional behaviors of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is well-researched and makes visible a range of rich archives, from civic administrations to personal documents. The author weaves historiographical discourse with primary sources, canonical artworks, and lesser-known objects to render a masterful representation of devotion in Renaissance Tuscany. Each example is part of a narrative that leads the reader to a fuller understanding of the context in which Guizzelmi lived ... this captivating and wonderfully rich volume is a valuable resource for anyone invested in late medieval and early modern devotion.' Sarah Reiff Conell, Contemporaneity

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Robert Maniura is Reader in the History of Art at Birkeck College, University of London. He has been a Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and has held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. He is the author of Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century: The Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of Częstochowa (2004) and the co-editor of Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects (2006).

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