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Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence : Selected Essays /

In Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, an internationally renowned master of the historian's craft provides a splendid overview of Italian history from the Black Death to the rise of the Medici in 1434 and beyond into the early modern period. Gene Brucker explores those pivotal year...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brucker, Gene A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Italian Renaissance
  • Civic traditions in premodern Italy
  • From campanilismo to nationhood
  • "The horseshoe nail" : structure and contingency in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
  • Fede and fiducia. The problem of trust in Italian history, 1300/1500
  • Florence redux
  • Living on the edge in Leonardo's Florence
  • The florentine cathedral chaplains in the fifteenth century
  • The Pope, the Pandolfini and the parrochiani of S. Martino de Gangalandi (1465)
  • Alessandra Strozzi (1408/1471) : the eventful life of a Florentine matron.