04357nam 2200745 450 991078939360332120211008023835.00-674-41620-10-674-41619-810.4159/harvard.9780674416192(CKB)3710000000089426(EBL)3301388(SSID)ssj0001134335(PQKBManifestationID)11723091(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134335(PQKBWorkID)11162822(PQKB)11786097(MiAaPQ)EBC3301388(DE-B1597)427922(OCoLC)1041189692(OCoLC)872253208(OCoLC)886770155(DE-B1597)9780674416192(Au-PeEL)EBL3301388(CaPaEBR)ebr10839476(OCoLC)923120364(dli)HEB32248(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000042(EXLCZ)99371000000008942620140305h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe Medicean succession monarchy and sacral politics in duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence /Gregory Murry1 halftone, 6 graphsCambridge, Massachusetts ;London, England :Harvard University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (360 pages) illustrationsI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ;14Includes index.0-674-72547-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --FIGURES --PROLOGUE: THE SCENE --INTRODUCTION --CHAPTER 1. THE FAMILIARITY OF TERRESTRIAL DIVINITY --CHAPTER 2. DIVINE RIGHT RULE AND THE PROVIDENTIAL WORLDVIEW --CHAPTER 3. RESCUING VIRTUE FROM MACHIAVELLI --CHAPTER 4. PRINCE OR PATRONE? --CHAPTER 5. COSIMO AND SAVONAROLAN REFORM --CHAPTER 6. DEFENSE OF THE SACRED --CONCLUSION --APPENDIX: GLOSSARY OF NAMES --SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS --NOTES --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INDEXIn 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old Cosimo dei Medici. The senate hoped Cosimo would act as figurehead, leaving the senate to manage political affairs. But Cosimo never acted as a puppet. Instead, by the time of his death in 1574, he had stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders while doubling his territory, attracted an array of scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and, most importantly, dissipated the perennially fractious politics of Florentine life. Gregory Murry argues that these triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion. Drawing on a wide variety of archival and published sources, he examines how Cosimo and his propagandists successfully crafted an image of Cosimo as a legitimate sacral monarch. Murry posits that both the propaganda and practice of sacral monarchy in Cosimo's Florence channeled preexisting local religious assumptions as a way to establish continuities with the city's republican and renaissance past. In The Medicean Succession, Murry elucidates the models of sacral monarchy that Cosimo chose to utilize as he deftly balanced his ambition with the political sensitivities arising from existing religious and secular traditions.I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance HistoryMonarchy and sacral politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's FlorenceMonarchyItalyTuscanyHistory16th centuryDivine right of kingsFlorence (Italy)Politics and government1421-1737Tuscany (Italy)Politics and government1434-1737Florence (Italy)Kings and rulersBiographyTuscany (Italy)Kings and rulersBiographyMonarchyHistoryDivine right of kings.945/.507092Murry Gregory1982-845717MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789393603321The Medicean succession1887981UNINA