The Medicean succession : monarchy and sacral politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence /
Main Description:In 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old Cosimo dei Medici. The sen...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The familiarity of terrestrial divinity
- Divine right rule and the providential worldview
- Rescuing virtue from Machiavelli
- Prince or patrone? Cosimo as an ecclesiastical patron
- Cosimo and Savonarolan reform
- Defense of the sacred.