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The Medici
Robert Black
John Easton Law
其他書名
Citizens and Masters
出版
Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
, 2015
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Political
History / General
History / Europe / Italy
History / Europe / Renaissance
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / World / European
Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory
ISBN
0674088441
9780674088443
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KO1FrgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The Medici controlled fifteenth-century Florence. Other Italian rulers treated Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492) as an equal. To his close associates, he was "the boss" ("master of the workshop"). But Lorenzo liked to say that he was just another Florentine citizen. Were the Medici like the kings, princes, and despots of contemporary Italy? Or were they just powerful citizens?
The Medici: Citizens and Masters
offers a novel, comparative approach to answering these questions. It sets Medici rule against princely states such as Milan and Ferrara. It asks how much the Medici changed Florence and contrasts their supremacy with earlier Florentine regimes. Its contributors take diverse perspectives, focusing on politics, political thought, social history, economic policy, religion and the church, humanism, intellectual history, Italian literature, theater, festivals, music, imagery, iconography, architecture, historiography, and marriage. The book will interest students of history, Renaissance studies, Italian literature, and art history as well as anyone keen to learn about one of history's most colorful, influential, and puzzling families.