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基本説明
Weaves together intellectual, cultural, economic, religious, and political developments.
Full Description
In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575.
Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state, and monarchy
Weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments
Academically rigorous yet accessible and appealing to the general reader
Likely to become the standard work on Renaissance Florence for years to come
Contents
List of Illustrations viii
List of Maps ix
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
1 The Elite Families 5
Lineages 6
Knighthood and Feuds 11
Political Alignments and Factions 20
Culture and Religion 27
2 The Popolo 35
Definitions 35
Guilds 39
Culture and Education: Notaries 45
Religion 50
Critique of Elite Misrule 57
3 Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo 63
Before 1250 64
Primo Popolo 66
Angevin Alliance 72
Priorate of the Guilds 76
Second Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice 81
Elite Resurgence: Black and White Guelfs 88
4 Domestic Economy and Merchant Empires to 1340 96
Population: City and Contado 96
Textiles, Building, and Provisioning 100
Merchant Companies and the Mercanzia 109
Taxation and Public Finances 118
5 The Fourteenth-Century Dialogue of Power 124
Elite Dominance, 1310-40 124
Crisis of the 1340s and the Third Popular Government 132
Funded Public Debt and Bankruptcies 139
Elite Recovery and Popular Reaction 144
War against the Church 151
6 Revolution and Realignment 156
Workers' Economic Conditions 157
The Ciompi Revolution 161
The Last Guild Government 166
Counterrevolution 171
Fear of the Working Classes 176
Consensus Politics 182
7 War, Territorial Expansion, and the Transformation of Political Discourse 188
First Visconti Wars 189
Territorial Dominion: The Conquest of Pisa 194
Civic Humanism 200
The Civic Family 211
8 Family and State in the Age of Consensus 219
The Family Imaginary 219
Households, Marriage, Dowries 225
Women, Property, Inheritance 232
Children, Hospitals, Charity 238
Policing Sodomy 244
9 Fateful Embrace: The Emergence of the Medici 250
A New Style of Leadership 250
Fiscal Crisis and the Catasto 254
Cosimo's Money and Friends 262
Showdown 269
10 The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict
Part I: Cosimo and Piero 278
Institutional Controls 280
External Supports: Papacy and Sforza Milan 286
Cosimo's Coup 291
The Ottimati Challenge Piero 298
11 The Luxury Economy and Art Patronage 307
Poverty and Wealth 307
Public and Private Patronage 315
Family Commemoration and Self-Fashioning 323
12 The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict
Part 2: Lorenzo 341
Lorenzo's Elders 344
Lorenzo's Volterra Massacre 348
Pazzi Conspiracy and War 352
The (Insecure) Prince in All but Name 361
Building a Dynasty 369
13 Reinventing the Republic 375
French Invasion and Expulsion of the Medici 375
The Great Council 381
Savonarola's Holy Republic 390
Domestic Discord and Dominion Crises 400
Soderini, Machiavelli's Militia, and Pisa 407
14 Papal Overlords 414
The Cardinal and a Controversial Marriage 415
Fall of the Republic and Return of the Medici 419
A Regime Adrift 426
Aristocratic and Popular Republicanisms 434
The Nascent Principate 441
15 The Last Republic and the Medici Duchy 446
Revolution 447
Siege 453
Imposition of a New Order 461
Ducal Government 468
Finances and Economy 473
Courtly and Cultural Discipline 478
Victor and Vanquished 482
Epilogue: Remembrance of Things Past 486
Index 491
