Emergence of a Bureaucracy : : The Florentine Patricians, 1530-1790 / / R. Burr Litchfield.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Litchfield, R. Burr,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 474
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

Burr Litchfield traces the development of the patrician elite of Florence from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the growth of a bureaucratic state in Tuscany during this period, and the changing relationship of the patricians to the state apparatus. His discussion of this largely neglected period of Italian history shows that the elite of the Florentine Renaissance Republic continued as the main component of the urban office-holding aristocracy under the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, and that they had an important role in the transition from Renaissance communal institutions to those of a regional state.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. THE PATRICIANS AS A SOCIAL GROUP FROM THE REPUBLIC TO THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE -- PART II. THE NEW BUREAUCRACY OF THE MEDICI DUKES IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES -- PART III. THE PATRICIANS IN THE BUREAUCRACY -- PART IV. THE PATRIMONIALISM OF PATRICIAN FUNCTIONARIES -- PART V. PATRICIAN WEALTH AND DUCAL POLICY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- PART VI. THE REMAKING OF THE BUREAUCRACY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A. Tables on Offices, Officeholders, and Salaries -- APPENDIX B. Summary Information about Patrician Houses -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter