Bartolomeo Scala, 1430-1497, Chancellor of Florence : : The Humanist As Bureaucrat / / Alison Brown.
Though Bartolomeo Scala has long intrigued historians, he is a figure whose importance has only recently been appreciated. In Alison Brown's biography Scala emerges as a man of more ability and character than anyone has imagined him to be. We begin to understand why he was employed as chancello...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1979 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- PART ONE. Career
- CHAPTER I. Childhood and Education
- CHAPTER II. Secretary in the Medici Household
- CHAPTER III. Mediceah Chancellor of Florence
- CHAPTER IV. Scala and Lorenzo de' Medici
- CHAPTER V. Fall of the Medici and the New Republic
- PART TWO. Work
- CHAPTER VI. The Office of First Chancellor
- CHAPTER VII. From Medieval Chancery to Modern Secretariat
- PART THREE. Place in Society
- CHAPTER VIII. A Citizen Worth Knowing
- CHAPTER IX. Property and Family
- PART FOUR. Writings
- CHAPTER Χ. Apprenticeship
- CHAPTER XI. Years of Maturity
- CHAPTER XII. The Last Decade
- CHAPTER XIII. System and Eclecticism in Scala's Thought
- PART FIVE. Conclusion
- CHAPTER XIV. Scala and the State
- Select Bibliography
- Index