The Medicean Succession : : Monarchy and Sacral Politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici’s Florence / / Gregory Murry.
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 senate hoped Cosimo...
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Murry, Gregory, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Medicean Succession : Monarchy and Sacral Politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici’s Florence / Gregory Murry. 1 halftone, 6 graphs Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (360 p.) : 1 halftone, 6 graphs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PROLOGUE: THE SCENE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE FAMILIARITY OF TERRESTRIAL DIVINITY -- CHAPTER 2. DIVINE RIGHT RULE AND THE PROVIDENTIAL WORLDVIEW -- CHAPTER 3. RESCUING VIRTUE FROM MACHIAVELLI -- CHAPTER 4. PRINCE OR PATRONE? -- CHAPTER 5. COSIMO AND SAVONAROLAN REFORM -- CHAPTER 6. DEFENSE OF THE SACRED -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: GLOSSARY OF NAMES -- SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 senate hoped Cosimo would act as figurehead, leaving the senate to manage political affairs. But Cosimo never acted as a puppet. Instead, by the time of his death in 1574, he had stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders while doubling his territory, attracted an array of scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and, most importantly, dissipated the perennially fractious politics of Florentine life. Gregory Murry argues that these triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion. Drawing on a wide variety of archival and published sources, he examines how Cosimo and his propagandists successfully crafted an image of Cosimo as a legitimate sacral monarch. Murry posits that both the propaganda and practice of sacral monarchy in Cosimo's Florence channeled preexisting local religious assumptions as a way to establish continuities with the city's republican and renaissance past. In The Medicean Succession, Murry elucidates the models of sacral monarchy that Cosimo chose to utilize as he deftly balanced his ambition with the political sensitivities arising from existing religious and secular traditions. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Divine right of kings. Monarchy Italy Tuscany History 16th century. HISTORY / Europe / Italy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674725478 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674416192 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674416192 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674416192/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PROLOGUE: THE SCENE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE FAMILIARITY OF TERRESTRIAL DIVINITY -- CHAPTER 2. DIVINE RIGHT RULE AND THE PROVIDENTIAL WORLDVIEW -- CHAPTER 3. RESCUING VIRTUE FROM MACHIAVELLI -- CHAPTER 4. PRINCE OR PATRONE? -- CHAPTER 5. COSIMO AND SAVONAROLAN REFORM -- CHAPTER 6. DEFENSE OF THE SACRED -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: GLOSSARY OF NAMES -- SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX |
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