Florentine Tuscany : Structures and Practices of Power / edited by William J. Connell, Andrea Zorzi.
Florence has often been studied in the past for its distinctive urban culture and society, while insufficient attention has been paid to the important Tuscan territorial state that was created by Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Comprising a handful of formerly independent city-st...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture.
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| Summary: | Florence has often been studied in the past for its distinctive urban culture and society, while insufficient attention has been paid to the important Tuscan territorial state that was created by Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Comprising a handful of formerly independent city-states and numerous smaller communities in the plains and mountains, the Florentine 'empire' in Tuscany supplied the markets and fiscal coffers of the Renaissance republic, while providing lessons in statecraft that nourished the political thought of Machiavelli and Guicciardini. This volume comprises seventeen original essays representing the new directions being taken by historians of the Florentine Renaissance. It offers new and exemplary approaches towards state-building, political vocabulary, political economy, civic humanism, local history and social patronage in what is one of the most interesting and well-documented of the states of late medieval and Renaissance Europe. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511523120 0511523122 9780521591119 0521591112 9780521548007 0521548004 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511523120 |