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The Medicean succession : monarchy and sacral politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence / Gregory Murry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murry, Gregory, 1982-
- Series:
- I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
- Cosimo.
- 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.
- Medici, House of.
- Kings and rulers.
- Political science.
- Italy--Florence.
- Italy--Tuscany.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old Cosimo dei Medici. The senate hoped Cosimo would act as figurehead, leaving the senate to manage political affairs. But Cosimo never acted as a puppet. Instead, by the time of his death in 1574, he had stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders while doubling his territory, attracted an array of scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and, most importantly, dissipated the perennially fractious politics of Florentine life. Gregory Murry argues that these triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion. Drawing on a wide variety of archival and published sources, he examines how Cosimo and his propagandists successfully crafted an image of Cosimo as a legitimate sacral monarch.
- 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:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Murry, Gregory, 1982- Medicean succession.
- ISBN:
- 9780674416192
- 0674416198
- OCLC:
- 872253208
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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