I monaci Silvestrini e la Toscana (XIII–XVII secolo). Francesco Salvestrini, ed. Studi sulle abbazie storiche e ordini religiosi della Toscana 5. Florence: Olschki, 2020. vi + 200 pp. + color pls. €26

Francesco Salvestrini's opening chapter provides a careful historical and historiographic introduction to the order and its founder, with particular attention to his spirituality in the political and local context (i.e., the relationship to other observances, the papacy, and diocesan and civic structure). Pellegrini examines the political and social situation of the city at the time the order arrived—a period of significant economic upheaval and conflict between Italian city-states and the Holy Roman Empire, which Pellegrini characterizes as “years of particular [religious] vitality” (66). The book includes thirty-two plates, all but two in full color, reproducing art from private and church collections, largely but not exclusively emphasizing the Oratory of San Giovanni in Poggiolo (Montepulciano)—a small, deconsecrated church, easily missed.