The Fruit of Liberty : Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550.
Baker, Nicholas Scott.
The Fruit of Liberty : Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (383 pages) - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series ; v.9 . - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: States and Status in the Florentine Renaissance -- 1 - Imagining Florence: The Civic World of the Late Fifteenth Century -- 2 - Great Expectations: The Place of the Medici in the Office-Holding Class, 1480-1527 -- 3 - Defending Liberty: The Climacteric of Republican Florence -- 4 - Neither Fish nor Flesh: The Difficulty of Being Florentine, 1530- 1537 -- 5 - Reimagining Florence: The Court Society of the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- Conclusion: Florence and Renaissance Republicanism -- Appendix 1: A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, ca. 1500 -- Appendix 2: Biographical Information -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
In the sixteenth century, the city-state of Florence failed. In its place the Medicis created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty analyzes the slow transformations that predated and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject.
9780674726390
Florence (Italy)-Politics and government-1421-1737.
Electronic books.
DG738
945.51106
The Fruit of Liberty : Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (383 pages) - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series ; v.9 . - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: States and Status in the Florentine Renaissance -- 1 - Imagining Florence: The Civic World of the Late Fifteenth Century -- 2 - Great Expectations: The Place of the Medici in the Office-Holding Class, 1480-1527 -- 3 - Defending Liberty: The Climacteric of Republican Florence -- 4 - Neither Fish nor Flesh: The Difficulty of Being Florentine, 1530- 1537 -- 5 - Reimagining Florence: The Court Society of the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- Conclusion: Florence and Renaissance Republicanism -- Appendix 1: A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, ca. 1500 -- Appendix 2: Biographical Information -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
In the sixteenth century, the city-state of Florence failed. In its place the Medicis created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty analyzes the slow transformations that predated and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject.
9780674726390
Florence (Italy)-Politics and government-1421-1737.
Electronic books.
DG738
945.51106