Robert Maniura is Reader in the History of Art at Birkeck College, University of London. He has been a Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and has held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. He is the author of Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century: The Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of Cz¿stochowa (2004) and the co-editor of Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects (2006).
Introduction
1. Giuliano Guizzelmi: a lawyer of Prato
2. The Guizzelmi chapel, the large crucifix and the eucharist
3. The relic of the Virgin: the Holy Girdle
4. The miraculous image of the Virgin: Santa Maria delle Carceri
5. Guizzelmi's miracles: badges and prints
6. Votive offerings: making oneself in wax
7. Making miracles
Conclusion.
