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The Medicean succession : monarchy and sacral politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence / Gregory Murry.
LIBRA DG738.17 .M87 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murry, Gregory, 1982- author.
- Series:
- I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
- Cosimo.
- Medici, House of.
- Monarchy.
- History.
- Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737.
- Florence (Italy).
- Tuscany (Italy)--Politics and government--1434-1737.
- Tuscany (Italy).
- Florence (Italy)--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Tuscany (Italy)--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Monarchy--Italy--Tuscany--History--16th century.
- Divine right of kings.
- Italy--Tuscany.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 347 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- The familiarity of terrestrial divinity
- Divine right rule and the providential worldview
- Rescuing virtue from Machiavelli
- Prince or patrone? Cosimo as an ecclesiastical patron
- Cosimo and Savonarolan reform
- Defense of the sacred.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674725476
- 9780674725478
- OCLC:
- 854285500
- Publisher Number:
- 99957961740
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