Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence / / Lauro Martines.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Martines, Lauro,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2257
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (546 p.)

Lawyers at work-in diplomacy, in relations with the Church, in territorial government, in the formulation of policy, in administration, and in the political struggle provide the unifying theme in this analysis of the exercise of political power in Renaissance Florence. Professor Martines studies the actual techniques of government, the hidden legal and constitutional questions raised by everyday affairs, and the responses of individual lawyers to the pressures of politics. He shows precisely how Florentine lawyers, both republicans and oligarchs, viewed the state. An appendix lists and briefly characterizes the some 200 lawyers who practiced in Florence during the period 1380 to 1530.Originally published in 1968.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 -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. An Approach -- The Profession -- II. The Guild -- III. Backgrounds and Foregrounds -- Government and Statecraft -- IV. Legal Aspects of Sovereignty and Magistracy in Florence -- V. Problems of Internal Government -- VI. Aspects of Territorial Government -- VII. Florentine Relations with the Church -- VIII. Problems of Diplomacy -- The State -- IX. The Florentine State -- X. Lawyers Look at the State -- XI. Florence and Milan: Toward the Modern State? -- Appendix -- Index