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The fruit of liberty : political culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 / Nicholas Scott Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (x, 368 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674726390
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DG738 .F785 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Imagining Florence -- 2. Great Expectations -- 3. Defending Liberty -- 4. Neither Fish nor Flesh -- 5. Reimagining Florence -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1. A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, circa 1500 -- APPENDIX 2. Biographical Information -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject: In the sixteenth century, the city-state of Florence failed. In its place the Medicis created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty analyzes the slow transformations that predated and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Imagining Florence -- 2. Great Expectations -- 3. Defending Liberty -- 4. Neither Fish nor Flesh -- 5. Reimagining Florence -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1. A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, circa 1500 -- APPENDIX 2. Biographical Information -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In the sixteenth century, the city-state of Florence failed. In its place the Medicis created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty analyzes the slow transformations that predated and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject.

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