Florence, the Golden Age, 1138-1737 /

Florence, the Golden Age, 1138-1737 /

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Author / Creator:Brucker, Gene A.
Edition:1st paperback ed.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.
Description:278 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Florence (Italy) -- History -- To 1421.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Italy -- Florence.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4348697
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ISBN:0520215222
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 271) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • The Uniqueness of Florence's Historical Experience
  • Florence seen from abroad
  • The Florentine "ingegno"
  • The city straddling the Arno
  • The Great Families
  • The origins
  • "A lust of ... dominion"
  • The old aristocracy and the popolo
  • "One hundred and fifty towers belonging to private citizens..."
  • The consolidation of aristocratic power
  • The life style of the aristocracy
  • The aristocracy under the principato
  • The Florentine palazzo
  • The Economy
  • Florin and lira, gold and silver
  • The great companies
  • Florentine trade and financial activity abroad
  • Profile of the Florentine merchant
  • Florence 1338: some rough statistics
  • The Medici bank
  • From crisis to stasis
  • Florence's wool industry
  • A School for Self-Government
  • The maturing commune
  • Guelfs, Ghibellines and the rise of the popolo
  • The guilds: corporation politics
  • Three witnesses
  • The time of troubles
  • The Renaissance republic
  • The Medici regime
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Excise, valuations, loans, land surveys
  • The Formation of the Florentine Dominion
  • Montaperti
  • "Two bales of pink cloth..."
  • Territorial consolidation
  • The granducato
  • A Civic Culture
  • The monastery of San Marco
  • The cult of antiquity
  • "What a delightful thing is this perspective!"
  • The Laurentian era
  • Andrea del Verrocchio: a master and his workshop
  • Crisis
  • Florentine furniture
  • Florence Under the Principato
  • Games and festivities
  • Chronology, Illustrious Families, the Medici Family Tree, Glossary, Index
  • Chronology
  • Illustrious Florentine families
  • The Medici family tree
  • A short glossary of Florentine place names
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Picture sources

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