A short history of Florence and the Florentine Republic / Brian J. Maxson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxson, Brian J., author.

Series:

Short Histories.

Short Histories

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2023.

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state - the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art - that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique..

Contents:

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Birth of Florence, Origins to 1250 1. Late Medieval Florence, 1251-1378 2. Oligarchs in the Early Renaissance, 1379-1433 3. The Republic Contested, 1434-1465 4. The Medici Consolidated, 1464-1492 5. The End of the Republic, 1493-1530 6. Early Modern Florence and the Medici Duchy, 1531-1574 Epilogue, 1575-PresentBibliography Index .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755640140

0755640144

9780755649228

0755649222

9780755640126

0755640128

OCLC:

1350689008