Writing Home: Letters to and from Florentine Exiles (1433-1494)

我建议研究佛罗伦萨流亡者和那些在1433-1494年美第奇统治时期被迫离开的人之间的书信往来。本研究的目的将是：调查随著时间的推移，这些信件对读者和作者对家的概念和记忆的影响；绘制出它们有可能产生的想象家园的地图；并解决身份问题，因为它与家庭，公民身份，父权和政治有关。我最初的研究重点是亚历山德拉·斯特罗齐（Alessandra Strozzi，约1406-1471年）写给她的儿子们的信件，她的儿子们于1434年被从佛罗伦萨流放到欧洲各地。这些表明，对于斯特罗齐，家庭主妇，最重要的是母亲和孩子之间的关系。我希望发现其他佛罗伦萨流亡者的身份和对家乡的看法与他们的公民身份和对共和国的自豪感有关。有些人可能对导致他们被驱逐的事态感到痛苦，并通过他们的信件在理想化的过去中召唤出对家乡的怀旧之情。另一些人可能渴望他们被排除在外的蓬勃发展的文化场景。在这样一个主题框架内，我的阅读将旨在总结佛罗伦萨身份的多样性，并通过书信建立对想象家园建设的新思考。

I propose to research epistolary correspondences between Florentine exiles and those they were forced to leave behindduring the period of Medici dominance from 1433-1494. The objectives of this research will be: to investigate the effectsover time of such correspondences on their readers' and writers' conceptions and memories of home; to map the kindsof imagined homes they had the potential to engender; and to address questions of identity as it related to the family,citizenship, the patria and politics. The initial focus of my research has been on the letters of Alessandra Strozzi (c. 1406-1471) to her sons, exiled from Florence in 1434 and scattered throughout Europe. These show that for the Strozzi, homemeant family, above all the relationship between the mother and her children. I expect to find that other Florentine exiles'identities and ideas of home would have related to their citizenship and pride in the Republic. Some may have feltembittered by the state of affairs that resulted in their expulsion, and through their letters conjured a nostalgic idea ofhome in an idealised past. Others may have pined for the burgeoning cultural scene from which they were excluded. Setwithin such a thematic framework, my readings will aim to conclude on the varieties of Florentine identity and establishnew thinking on the building of imagined homes through letter-writing.