Alison Brown

Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses Piero de'' Medici''s life as a prism to throw new light on the crisis in Renaissance Italy that revolutionised culture and political thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108806930
• Artikelnr.: 70913807

Autorenporträt

Alison Brown is Emeritus Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, having been a British Academy Exchange Fellow at the Newberry Library Chicago, and an Invited Visiting Professor and Fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at the Villa I Tatti Florence. She is the author of the biography Bartolomeo Scala 1430-97, Chancellor of Florence which won the Premio Arnolfo in Colle Val d'Elsa in 1979 and The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Early Years: 1. Piero's childhood
2. Family backgrounds
3. Education under Poliziano's tutelage
4. Political tyro at home and abroad, 1484-86
5. Marrying into the Roman aristocracy, 1487-88
6. The choice of Hercules: between duty and pleasure, 1488-89
7. Piero as Lorenzo's deputy, 1490-91
Part II. Between Republicanism and Princely Rule: 8. Cultural patronage and sportsmanship
9. Ruling as patrons in Florence's dominium and beyond
Part III. Piero in Power: 10. Lorenzo's death and its aftermath, 1492
11. Balancing power in Italy, 1493
12. 'The Viper with its tail in Florence', 1493-94
13. The crux: 1494
14. The French Descent
15. Revolution in Florence
Part IV. Piero in Exile: 16. Perambulating Italy, 1494-97
17. 'Contamination in the labyrinth': networking in exile
18. The last years, 1498-1503
19. Piero's burial and legacy
Conclusion: 20. Power and legitimacy in Renaissance Italy.