Brian Jeffrey Maxson

A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state - the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art - that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present.

Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755640140
• Artikelnr.: 66994057

Autorenporträt

Brian Jeffrey Maxson is Professor of History at East Tennessee State University, USA.

Brian Jeffrey Maxson is Professor of History at East Tennessee State University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Birth of Florence
Origins to 1250 1. Late Medieval Florence
1251-1378 2. Oligarchs in the Early Renaissance
1379-1433 3. The Republic Contested
1434-1465 4. The Medici Consolidated
1464-1492 5. The End of the Republic
1493-1530 6. Early Modern Florence and the Medici Duchy
1531-1574 Epilogue
1575-PresentBibliography Index