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

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baker, Nicholas Scott, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Colección:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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, ca. 1500
  • APPENDIX 2. Biographical Information
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.