ABSTRACT
Much of the research on the furniture and objects of daily life that adorned palaces in Renaissance Italy is based on the examples of Florence and Venice. 1 In late fifteenth-century court studies, material goods are occasionally discussed, but the focus has been on projects such as identifying building programs and reconstructing lost painted decorations commissioned by noblemen such as Ercole I d’Este in Ferrara, Ludovico il Moro in Milan, and more recently Francesco II Gonzaga in Mantua. Studioli, such as those of Federico da Montefeltro in his palazzi in Urbino and Gubbio, have also been addressed. 2 In terms of early sixteenth-century courts, a great deal of research has been done on correctly situating and interpreting the famous painted and sculpted collections in the private quarters of Duke Alfonso I of Ferrara and of his sister Isabella d’Este in Mantua. 3
