Emily Wilbourne | Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Portrait of four servants of the Medici court
[1] I. Hugford, Vita di Anton Domenico Gabbiani (Firenze, 1762), p.10.
[2] A. Bernadette, Elizabeth I and Persian Exchanges, in The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I, ed. by C. Beem, New York 2011, p.184.
[3] M. Charini, in Curiosità di una reggia. Vicende della guardaroba di Palazzo Pitti, exhibition catalogue (Firenze, Palazzo Pitti, gennaio-settembre 1979), ed. by K. Aschengreen Piacenti and S. Pinto, Firenze, 1979, p.59, n.27.
[4] I-Fd, reg. 65, fg. 214, see also ACAF (Archivio della Curia Arcivescovile di Firenze), Pia Casa vol. II, insert 119.
[5] M. Miller, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, Durham 2009, p.39.
[6] For Ali’s age see his baptismal details at I-Fd, reg. 58, fol. 22. Ali took the baptismal name Cosimo Maria Medici.
[7] ASF (Archivio di Stato di Firenze), Camera del Granduca f.35, 77r.
[8] ASF (Archivio di Stato di Firenze), Mediceo del Principato, f.6424, c.n.n.
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