The Memoir of Marco Parenti : : A Life in Medici Florence / / Mark Salber Phillips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Phillips, Mark Salber,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 959
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Notes On Abbreviations And Sources --; Introduction. August 1, 1464: The Death of Cosimo de’ Medici --; Part 1. Family: Marco Parenti and the Strozzi --; Chapter I. Household --; Chapter 2. Education and Politics --; Chapter 3. The Strozzi --; Part II. Politics: Repatriation and Reform 1464-1466 --; Chapter 4. Winter and Spring: Don Federigo’s Visit --; Chapter 5. Spring: Between Medici and Pitti --; Chapter 6. Summer: The Return Visit --; Chapter 7. Autumn: Uncertainty and the Stirrings of Reform --; Chapter 8. Matchmaking and Other Troubles --; Chapter 9. Fall and Winter: Niccolò Soderini and the Scrutiny Crisis --; Chapter 10. The Climax of the Struggle --; Part III. History: Marco Parenti’s Memoir --; Chapter 11. A Critique of Medici Politics: Marco Parenti’s Views on Piero and Cosimo --; Chapter 12. The “Conspiracy” of 1466: Other Views --; Chapter 13. Historiography and the Public World --; Appendix. A Note on the Manuscript of JMarco Parenti’s Memoir --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400859931; 9783110413441; 9783110413663; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400859931
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark Salber Phillips.

For this vivid description of the world of a Florentine patrician, Mark Phillips draws on Marco Parenti's private letters, ricordanze or diaries, and public history or memoir. When Cosimo de' Medici died in 1464, Parenti foresaw a return to liberty and began to write a history, but his political hopes and his literary ambitions foundered when the Medici party won a decisive victory over their patrician enemies in 1466. Despite this setback, Parenti's historical Memoir, recently rediscovered by Mark Phillips, is our best witness to this major crisis in Florentine politics.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.