UID:
almafu_9959326920002883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 515 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780470754870
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0470754877
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9781405178464
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1405178469
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1280850957
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9781280850950
Content:
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 crises, and a locus of conflicts among the elite families, the guild community, and the working classes, and between family-based factions grounded in patronage and private power. In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major phases of Florentine history from 1200 to 1575, including the formation of the elite of great families, the rise of the guild-based "popolo" and the guild republic of the 1290s, the crisis of the 1340s, the revolutions of 1378 - 82, the wars against Milan, the fiscal crisis of the 1420 - 30s, the rise and fall of the Medici regime, the republican revival in the age of Savonarola and Machiavelli, and the drama of the last republic of 1527 - 30 and subsequent emergence of the principate.; His account weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments, capturing Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic and finally into a princely and territorial state. Based on the mass of scholarship on Florentine history, and on a first-hand understanding and close reading of the primary sources, Najemy provides an original interpretation of Florentine history that will appeal to scholars and general readers for years to come.
Note:
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.
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English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Najemy, John M., 1943- History of Florence 1200-1575. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006 ISBN 9781405119542
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1405119543
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9780470754870
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470754870
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470754870
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470754870
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