The Memoir of Marco Parenti : : A Life in Medici Florence / / 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 pol...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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