'Taking objects - as opposed to people - as her protagonists, Leah Clark proposes an innovative approach to the history of collecting art in fifteenth-century Italian courts … the scope of Clark's book reaches well beyond collecting.' Gail Feigenbaum, Renaissance Quarterly
1. Carafa's testa di cavallo: the life of a bronze gifthorse; 2. Practices of exchange: merchant bankers and the circulation of objects; 3. Intertextuality and collection at the court of Ferrara: Roberti's Diptych; 4. The Order of the Ermine: collars, cloaks, and the circulation of the sign.