{"product_id":"a-history-of-florence-1200-1575-hardback-9781405119542","title":"A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 (Hardback) 9781405119542","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of Florence, 1200 - 1575\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A masterly survey of a generation of scholarship that has opened up many new perspectives, by an expert guide to the complex political society of medieval and Renaissance Florence.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eChristine Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e, of Cambridge University  \u003cp\u003e\"This is a marvellous book and I suspect it will become a classic. John Najemy has an astonishing and probably unparalleled mastery of the scholarship on Florence and has accomplished a precise and beautifully written synthetic history of the Medieval and Renaissance city.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eCarol Lansing\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn M. Najemy (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405119542, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 October 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e528 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 3.4 cm, 0.88 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Based on wide reading of the available secondary and printed sources, \u003ci\u003eA History of Florence\u003c\/i\u003e represents the achievement of a lifetime's devotion to the study of the city. Moreover, Najemy's categories of analysis should provoke debates and conversations for future lifetimes.\"  (\u003ci\u003eRenaissance and Reformation\u003c\/i\u003e, 2009)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \"There is much to praise about this book. It is a model historical synthesis of the history of a great premodern European city. It is also a sophisticated political history in which class-based ideas and values matter as much as individual details of political events.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Catholic Historical Review,\u003c\/i\u003e July 2010)\"[This] is the best history of Florence in any language, and it will long remain so, for Najemy has mastered the relevant literature more thoroughly than any other historian in living memory.\" (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e)  \u003cp\u003e\"John Najemy is a pre-eminent historian of Renaissance Florence ... a scholar of learning, imagination and intellectual penetration, with a profound knowledge of Florentine history from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century and with a remarkable range of interests in political, social and intellectual history. There has been no credible attempt to write a history of Florence in this period since the time of Perrens's multi-volume work, finished in 1883. Najemy has risen admirably to the challenge. He has assimilated the vast secondary literature on Florence, from the beginning of the thirteenth to the late sixteenth century. The range of his analysis and explication stretches across a vast range of fundamental social, political, economic, diplomatic, military and biographical topics. Nor is Najemy indifferent to intellectual history, especially questions involving political thought and ideology. This book is no mere synthesis of other scholars' work. Indeed, Najemy offers a distinctive interpretation, one which has already stimulated controversy and will doubtless continue to do so.\" (\u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Highly recommended.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary accomplishment. Deserves rich praise as a fundamentally new and authoritative interpretation of four key centuries of this remarkable city's development.” \u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e“[Najemy], a veteran Renaissance historian offers a big and impressive survey of the Florentine city-state …. One of the justifications for the book [is] the need for an updated and accessible synthesis of the superabundance of recent specialized scholarship on Florence. He succeeds admirably at that task … [and] manages to explain and contextualize detailed scholarship while remaining a lively and engaging political narrative. [It] will surely become the definitive narrative of medieval and Renaissance Florence, a point of departure for students of Florentine politics and culture as well as a major interpretive statement providing much for specialists to engage with for some time.\" (\u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCaptures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state, and monarchy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWeaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAcademically rigorous yet accessible and appealing to the general reader\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLikely to become the standard work on Renaissance Florence for years to come\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Maps ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Elite Families 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLineages 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnighthood and Feuds 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Alignments and Factions 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture and Religion 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Popolo 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefinitions 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuilds 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture and Education: Notaries 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritique of Elite Misrule 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo 63\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBefore 1250 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimo Popolo 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAngevin Alliance 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePriorate of the Guilds 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecond Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElite Resurgence: Black and White Guelfs 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Domestic Economy and Merchant Empires to 1340 96\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopulation: City and Contado 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextiles, Building, and Provisioning 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMerchant Companies and the Mercanzia 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaxation and Public Finances 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Fourteenth-Century Dialogue of Power 124\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElite Dominance, 1310–40 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrisis of the 1340s and the Third Popular Government 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFunded Public Debt and Bankruptcies 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElite Recovery and Popular Reaction 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWar against the Church 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Revolution and Realignment 156\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorkers’ Economic Conditions 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ciompi Revolution 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Last Guild Government 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCounterrevolution 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFear of the Working Classes 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsensus Politics 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 War, Territorial Expansion, and the Transformation of Political Discourse 188\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst Visconti Wars 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerritorial Dominion: The Conquest of Pisa 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivic Humanism 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Civic Family 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Family and State in the Age of Consensus 219\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Family Imaginary 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHouseholds, Marriage, Dowries 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen, Property, Inheritance 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChildren, Hospitals, Charity 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolicing Sodomy 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Fateful Embrace: The Emergence of the Medici 250\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Style of Leadership 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiscal Crisis and the Catasto 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCosimo’s Money and Friends 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShowdown 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Cosimo and Piero 278\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutional Controls 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExternal Supports: Papacy and Sforza Milan 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCosimo’s Coup 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ottimati Challenge Piero 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 The Luxury Economy and Art Patronage 307\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoverty and Wealth 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic and Private Patronage 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamily Commemoration and Self-Fashioning 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Lorenzo 341\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLorenzo’s Elders 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLorenzo’s Volterra Massacre 348\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePazzi Conspiracy and War 352\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe (Insecure) Prince in All but Name 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding a Dynasty 369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 Reinventing the Republic 375\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrench Invasion and Expulsion of the Medici 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Council 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSavonarola’s Holy Republic 390\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDomestic Discord and Dominion Crises 400\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoderini, Machiavelli’s Militia, and Pisa 407\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Papal Overlords 414\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cardinal and a Controversial Marriage 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFall of the Republic and Return of the Medici 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Regime Adrift 426\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristocratic and Popular Republicanisms 434\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nascent Principate 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 The Last Republic and the Medici Duchy 446\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevolution 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSiege 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