Lawyers and statecraft in Renaissance Florence / by Lauro Martines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martines, Lauro, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawyers--Italy--Florence--History.

Lawyers.

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

Florence (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1968.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Lawyers at work-in diplomacy, in relations with the Church, in territorial government, in the formulation of policy, in administration, and in the political struggle provide the unifying theme in this analysis of the exercise of political power in Renaissance Florence. Professor Martines studies the actual techniques of government, the hidden legal and constitutional questions raised by everyday affairs, and the responses of individual lawyers to the pressures of politics. He shows precisely how Florentine lawyers, both republicans and oligarchs, viewed the state. An appendix lists and briefly characterizes the some 200 lawyers who practiced in Florence during the period 1380 to 1530.Originally published in 1968.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:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

I. An Approach

The Profession

II. The Guild

III. Backgrounds and Foregrounds

Government and Statecraft

IV. Legal Aspects of Sovereignty and Magistracy in Florence

V. Problems of Internal Government

VI. Aspects of Territorial Government

VII. Florentine Relations with the Church

VIII. Problems of Diplomacy

The State

IX. The Florentine State

X. Lawyers Look at the State

XI. Florence and Milan: Toward the Modern State?

Appendix

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-64941-3

1-4008-7804-7

OCLC:

1013944106