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The fruit of liberty : political culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 / / Nicholas Scott Baker ; sponsored by Villa I Tatti



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Autore: Baker Nicholas Scott <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The fruit of liberty : political culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 / / Nicholas Scott Baker ; sponsored by Villa I Tatti Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Press, , 2013
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
Disciplina: 945/.51106
Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Europe / Italy
Soggetto geografico: Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: I TattiVilla  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Imagining Florence -- 2. Great Expectations -- 3. Defending Liberty -- 4. Neither Fish nor Flesh -- 5. Reimagining Florence -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1. A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, ca. 1500 -- APPENDIX 2. Biographical Information -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject. More than a chronological narrative, this analysis covers a wide range of contributing factors to this transition, from attitudes toward officeholding, clothing, the patronage of artists and architects to notions of self, family, and gender. Using a wide variety of sources including private letters, diaries, and art works, Nicholas Baker explores how the language, images, and values of the republic were reconceptualized to aid the shift from citizen to subject. He argues that the creation of Medici principality did not occur by a radical break with the past but with the adoption and adaptation of the political culture of Renaissance republicanism.
Titolo autorizzato: The fruit of liberty  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-72762-2
0-674-72639-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910453342203321
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Serie: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History