The politics of exclusion in early Renaissance Florence / by Fabrizio Ricciardelli.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Ricciardelli, Fabrizio.

Series:

Late medieval and early modern studies ; v. 12.

Late medieval and early modern studies ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exile (Punishment)--Italy--Florence--History--To 1500.

Exile (Punishment).

History.

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--To 1421.

Florence (Italy).

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737.

Italy--Florence.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

xiv, 294 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2007.

Summary:

No previous work has examined political exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence or its significance for the transition from Florentine popular government to oligarchy. Between the fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth century, political exclusion became a normal feature of political life, regardless of the type of political regime; it was an essential instrument by which new governments consolidated their control over the city and the countryside in one of the largest and most powerful cities of Early Renaissance Europe. Exclusion from the Republic of Florence-separation from friends and family, business and property, coupled with the degradation of public humiliation-engendered a new outlook on life. In Early Renaissance Florence, excluded citizens across social classes became common outlaws, no different for common criminals prosecuted for heresy, blasphemy, gambling, or sexual deviance. By investigating these practices and attitudes of Early Renaissance Florence, this book shows the dark side of Renaissance republicanism: its fear of political dissent in any form and its means to crush it at all costs. This study of the other side of Renaissance republicanism presents a new and crucial chapter in Renaissance history.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Legal Forms of Exclusion 7

The Language of Social Conflict 7

The Language of Law 36

Chapter 2 An Instrument of Political Resolution 59

Factions and Violence 60

New Strategies, Old Methods 85

Chapter 3 Toward the Overcoming of Violence? 107

Without Any Hope: In the Countryside 107

Refinement of Sentences 136

Chapter 4 Between Power Games and Conspiracies 157

Demonizing to Govern 158

Escape: The Final Solution 181

Chapter 5 The Legitimization of Practice 201

The New Perspective of Subversion 202

Political Coalitions in Contrast 224.

Notes:

Based on thesis (doctoral)--University of Warwick, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-275) and index.

ISBN:

2503523897

9782503523897

OCLC:

148998946