Una proposta di identificazione per il ritratto di "Giovane con libro" di Agnolo Bronzino: Benedetto Busini

Eliana Carrara’s essay proposes a new identification for the sitter portrayed by Agnolo Bronzino in his Portrait of a Young Man with a Book (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art), by identifiyng him as a youthful portrait of Benedetto Busini, destined to become the Provveditore of the Opera del Duomo in Florence in the Seventies and Eighties of the Sixteenth Century. Thanks to the accurate archival documentation collected by Veronica Vestri, the essay also demonstrates the identicalness between the figure of the future administrator of the Medicean Florence and the young Florentine man working in the bank of Strozzi in Rome and well introduced in the literary circles of Rome, where he was in contact with men of letters such as Molza and Claudio Tolomei.