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Florence after the Medici : Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790 / edited by Corey Tazzara, Paula Findlen, and Jacob Soll.
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- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--Italy--Tuscany.
- Enlightenment.
- Tuscany (Italy)--History--1737-1801.
- Tuscany (Italy).
- Florence (Italy)--History--1737-1860.
- Florence (Italy).
- Florence (Italy)--Civilization.
- Italy--Tuscany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 343 pages).
- Other Title:
- Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Corey Tazzara is Assistant Professor of History at Scripps College. Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University. Jacob Soll is Professor of History and Accounting at the University of Southern California.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Tuscany and enlightenment in the Atlantic world / Corey Tazzara and Paula Findlen
- Part 1. The politics of knowledge in Enlightenment Tuscany
- The Enlightenment at work : ideology, reform, and a blueprint for a constitution / Renato Pasta
- The politics of libraries under the Habsburg-Lorraines / Emmanuelle Chapron
- The economics of healthcare and the Tuscan medical enlightenment / Elizabeth W. Mellyn
- From the body to the body politic : Peter Leopold's Florentine enlightenment state / Rebecca Messbarger
- Part 2. Commerce and the state
- Carlo Ginori and the modernization of the Tuscan economy / Antonella Alimento
- Commercial crisis in Livorno and the remaking of the Tuscan hinterland / Corey Tazzara
- Forests, woods, roads : agricultural landscapes as instruments for the material administration of an eighteenth-century Tuscan periphery / Lavinia Maddaluno
- Part 3. History, culture, and enlightenment
- Long after the trial : Galileo's rediscovery, Florentine nostalgia, and enlightened passions / Paula Findlen
- Making Renaissance art Florentine / Heather Hyde Minor
- "Twenty magnificent temples of the arts": geographic schools in the Uffizi Gallery / Callum Reid
- Epilogue : The encyclopedic Prince : Grand Duke Peter Leopold (1747-1792) and the meaning of Tuscan enlightenment / Jacob Soll.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2019).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Florence after the Medici
- ISBN:
- 9781000711516
- 100071151X
- 9780367808723
- 0367808722
- 9781000711325
- 1000711323
- 9781000711707
- 1000711706
- Publisher Number:
- 99982942871
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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