A history of Florence 1200-1575 /
Florence during the Renaissance is famously known as the center for the rebirth of scholarship, literature, and the arts. But it was also an autonomous republic, a site of innovative experiments in government, a major economic power that produced great wealth and yet underwent recurrent fiscal crise...
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| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Elite Families
- Lineages
- Knighthood and Feuds
- Political Alignments and Factions
- Culture and Religion
- 2 The Popolo
- Definitions
- Guilds
- Culture and Education58;Notaries
- Religion
- Critique of Elite Misrule
- 3 Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo
- Before 1250
- Primo Popolo
- Angevin Alliance
- Priorate of the Guilds
- Second Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice
- Elite Resurgence58;Black and White Guelfs
- 4 Domestic Economy and Merchant Empires to 1340
- Population58;City and Contado
- Textiles44;Building44;and Provisioning
- Merchant Companies and the Mercanzia
- Taxation and Public Finances
- 5 The Fourteenth45;Century Dialogue of Power
- Elite Dominance44;1310 8211;40
- Crisis of the 1340s and the Third Popular Government
- Funded Public Debt and Bankruptcies
- Elite Recovery and Popular Reaction
- War against the Church
- 6 Revolution and Realignment
- Workers 8217; Economic Conditions
- The Ciompi Revolution
- The Last Guild Government
- Counterrevolution
- Fear of the Working Classes
- Consensus Politics
- 7 War44;Territorial Expansion44; and the Transformation of Political Discourse
- First Visconti Wars
- Territorial Dominion58;The Conquest of Pisa
- Civic Humanism
- The Civic Family
- 8 Family and State in the Age of Consensus
- The Family Imaginary
- Households44;Marriage44;Dowries
- Women44;Property44;Inheritance
- Children44;Hospitals44;Charity
- Policing Sodomy
- 9 Fateful Embrace58;The Emergence of the Medici
- A New Style of Leadership
- Fiscal Crisis and the Catasto
- Cosimo 8217;s Money and Friends
- Showdown
- 10 The Medici and the Ottimati58;A Partnership of Con 8226;ict Part 158;Cosimo and Piero
- Institutional Controls
- External Supports58;Papacy and Sforza Milan
- Cosimo 8217;s Coup
- The Ottimati Challenge Piero
- 11 The Luxury Economy and Art Patronage
- Poverty and Wealth
- Public and Private Patronage
- Family Commemoration and Self45;Fashioning
- 12 The Medici and the Ottimati58;A Partnership of Con 8226;ict Part 258;Lorenzo
- Lorenzo 8217;s Elders
- Lorenzo 8217;s Volterra Massacre
- Pazzi Conspiracy and War
- The 40;Insecure41;Prince in All but Name
- Building a Dynasty
- 13 Reinventing the Republic
- French Invasion and Expulsion of the Medici
- The Great Council
- Savonarola 8217;s Holy Republic
- Domestic Discord and Dominion Crises
- Soderini44;Machiavelli 8217;s Militia44;and Pisa
- 14 Papal Overlords
- The Cardinal and a Controversial Marriage
- Fall of the Republic and Return of the Medici
- A Regime Adrift
- Aristocratic and Popular Republicanisms
- The Nascent Principate
- 15 The Last Republic and the Medici Duchy
- Revolution
- Siege
- Imposition of a New Order
- Ducal Government
- Finances and Economy
- Courtly and Cultural Discipline
- Victor and Vanquished
- Epilogue58;Remembrance of Things Past
- Index
- Last Page.