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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Murry, Gregory, 1982-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.