Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494)

Zusatztext The issuing of a second edition of Rubinstein's classic study of Medicean government in fifteenth-century Florence ... pays ample testimony to the enduring importance of the work to Florentine studies in general. Informationen zum Autor Emeritus Professor of History, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Honorary Fellow of the Warburg Institute, Editor-in-Chief of the Letters of Lorenzo de Medici, and Honorary Citizen of Florence. In 1985 he was awarded the International Galileo Prize, and in 1993 the Premio della Cultura of the Prime Minister of Italy for 1992. Klappentext This authoritative study examines the complex system of controls that the Medici created to secure and increase their ascendancy and throws new light on the personalities and groups supporting the regime, as well as on the surviving republican opposition. This new edition incorporates the many important studies of the topic since its original publication in 1966. Zusammenfassung This work investigates the ways in which the Medici established and exercised their authority. It examines the complex system of controls which the Medici gradually created to secure and increase their ascendancy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the second edition Part I: Cosimo de Medici and the foundations of the Medici Regime Part II: Piero di Cosimo: Republican Reaction and Medicean Restoration Part III: Lorenzo di Piero: the Medici at the Height of their Power Epilogue: Piero di Lorenzo and the Fall of the Regime Appendices

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• Authors: Nicolai Rubinstein, Nicolai (Emeritus Professor of History Rubinstein, Rubinstein Nicolai
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1997
• EAN: 9780198174189
• ISBN: 978-0-19-817418-9
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Italy, CE period up to c 1500, Political structure & processes, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Political structure and processes