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The Fruit of Liberty : Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 / Nicholas Scott Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 9Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource : 22 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674724525
  • 9780674726390
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 945/.51106 23
LOC classification:
  • DG738.13 .B35 2013eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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