The Fruit of Liberty : : Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 / / Nicholas Scott Baker.
In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ;
9 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 22 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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