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The Medicean succession : monarchy and sacral politics in duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence / / Gregory Murry



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Autore: Murry Gregory <1982-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Medicean succession : monarchy and sacral politics in duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence / / Gregory Murry Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014
©2014
Edizione: 1 halftone, 6 graphs
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 945/.507092
Soggetto topico: Monarchy - Italy - Tuscany - History - 16th century
Divine right of kings
Soggetto geografico: Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737
Tuscany (Italy) Politics and government 1434-1737
Florence (Italy) Kings and rulers Biography
Tuscany (Italy) Kings and rulers Biography
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Monarchy and sacral politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence
Titolo autorizzato: The Medicean succession  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-41620-1
0-674-41619-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996248286903316
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Serie: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History