Emergence of a bureaucracy : the Florentine patricians, 1530-1790 / R. Burr Litchfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Litchfield, R. Burr, 1936- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bureaucracy--Italy--Florence--History.

Bureaucracy.

Elite (Social sciences)--Italy--Florence--History.

Elite (Social sciences).

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

Florence (Italy).

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1737-1860.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Burr Litchfield traces the development of the patrician elite of Florence from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the growth of a bureaucratic state in Tuscany during this period, and the changing relationship of the patricians to the state apparatus. His discussion of this largely neglected period of Italian history shows that the elite of the Florentine Renaissance Republic continued as the main component of the urban office-holding aristocracy under the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, and that they had an important role in the transition from Renaissance communal institutions to those of a regional state.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Introduction

PART I: THE PATRICIANS AS A SOCIAL GROUP FROM THE REPUBLIC TO THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE

1. The Legacy of the Renaissance Republic

2. Adaptation to the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth Century Medici Court

3. The Eighteenth-Century Libri di Oro of the Hapsburg-Lorraine

PART II: THE NEW BUREAUCRACY OF THE MEDICI DUKES IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

4. From Magistrates to Functionaries

5. The Expansion of the Central Bureaucracy

6. Central and Provincial Offices

PART III: THE PATRICIANS IN THE BUREAUCRACY

7. Theory and Practice of the Mixed State

8. The Relocation of the Patricians by Type of Office

PART IV: THE PATRIMONIALISM OF PATRICIAN FUNCTIONARIES

9. Training and Appointment

10. Careers and Salaries

PART V: PATRICIAN WEALTH AND DUCAL POLICY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

11. The Changing Fortunes of the Patricians

12. The Economic Policy of Patrimonialism

PART VI: THE REMAKING OF THE BUREAUCRACY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE

13. The Regency for Francis Stephen,1737-65

14. The Leopoldine Reforms,1765-90

15. The Exit of the Patricians from Office

CONCLUSION

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 383-396.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691610030

0691610037

9780691638195

0691638195

9781400858262

1400858267

9781322011189

1322011184

OCLC:

55689070