LEADER 04166nam 2200709 450 001 9910465058003321 005 20211008023835.0 010 $a0-674-41620-1 010 $a0-674-41619-8 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674416192 035 $a(CKB)3710000000089426 035 $a(EBL)3301388 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134335 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11723091 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134335 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11162822 035 $a(PQKB)11786097 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301388 035 $a(DE-B1597)427922 035 $a(OCoLC)1041189692 035 $a(OCoLC)872253208 035 $a(OCoLC)886770155 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674416192 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301388 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10839476 035 $a(OCoLC)923120364 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000089426 100 $a20140305h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Medicean succession $emonarchy and sacral politics in duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence /$fGregory Murry 205 $a1 halftone, 6 graphs 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (360 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ;$v14 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-674-72547-6 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tFIGURES --$tPROLOGUE: THE SCENE --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER 1. THE FAMILIARITY OF TERRESTRIAL DIVINITY --$tCHAPTER 2. DIVINE RIGHT RULE AND THE PROVIDENTIAL WORLDVIEW --$tCHAPTER 3. RESCUING VIRTUE FROM MACHIAVELLI --$tCHAPTER 4. PRINCE OR PATRONE? --$tCHAPTER 5. COSIMO AND SAVONAROLAN REFORM --$tCHAPTER 6. DEFENSE OF THE SACRED --$tCONCLUSION --$tAPPENDIX: GLOSSARY OF NAMES --$tSOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS --$tNOTES --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINDEX 330 $aIn 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old Cosimo dei Medici. The senate hoped Cosimo would act as figurehead, leaving the senate to manage political affairs. But Cosimo never acted as a puppet. Instead, by the time of his death in 1574, he had stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders while doubling his territory, attracted an array of scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and, most importantly, dissipated the perennially fractious politics of Florentine life. Gregory Murry argues that these triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion. Drawing on a wide variety of archival and published sources, he examines how Cosimo and his propagandists successfully crafted an image of Cosimo as a legitimate sacral monarch. Murry posits that both the propaganda and practice of sacral monarchy in Cosimo's Florence channeled preexisting local religious assumptions as a way to establish continuities with the city's republican and renaissance past. In The Medicean Succession, Murry elucidates the models of sacral monarchy that Cosimo chose to utilize as he deftly balanced his ambition with the political sensitivities arising from existing religious and secular traditions. 410 0$aI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History 606 $aMonarchy$zItaly$zTuscany$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aDivine right of kings 607 $aFlorence (Italy)$xPolitics and government$y1421-1737 607 $aTuscany (Italy)$xPolitics and government$y1434-1737 607 $aFlorence (Italy)$xKings and rulers$vBiography 607 $aTuscany (Italy)$xKings and rulers$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMonarchy$xHistory 615 0$aDivine right of kings. 676 $a945/.507092 700 $aMurry$b Gregory$f1982-$0845717 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465058003321 996 $aThe Medicean succession$91887981 997 $aUNINA