TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murry,Gregory
TI  - The Medicean succession: monarchy and sacral politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence 
T2  - I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
SN  - 9780674416192
AV  - DG738.17 .M87 2014eb
U1  - 945/.507092 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Cosimo
KW  - Medici, House of.
KW  - Maison des Médicis.
KW  - Medici, House of
KW  - Monarchy
KW  - Italy
KW  - Tuscany
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Divine right of kings
KW  - Droit divin des rois
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - fast
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Florence (Italy)
KW  - 1421-1737
KW  - Tuscany (Italy)
KW  - 1434-1737
KW  - Biography
KW  - Florence (Italie)
KW  - Administration
KW  - Toscane (Italie)
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Florence
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The familiarity of terrestrial divinity -- Divine right rule and the providential worldview -- Rescuing virtue from Machiavelli -- Prince or patrone? Cosimo as an ecclesiastical patron -- Cosimo and Savonarolan reform -- Defense of the sacred; Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff
N2  - Main Description: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
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