Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Law, John E.; Paton, Bernadette

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2010

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Contents: Introduction; Part I Communes and Despots: Communes and despots: the city state in late-medieval Italy, P.J. Jones. Part II Power and Restraint: The use of sortition in appointments in the Italian communes, Daniel Waley; Magnate violence revisited, Carol Lansing. Part III Political Thought: Theory and Practice: Communes and despots: some Italian and Transalpine political thinkers, Robert Black; The myth of the Renaissance despot, Benjamin G. Kohl; Conflicting attitudes towards Machiavelli's works in 16th-century Spain, Rome and Florence, Humfrey C. Butters. Part IV Communes and Despots: Some Case Studies: From commune to regional state: political experiments in 14th-century Cremona, Marco Gentile; The Gonzaga Signoria, communal institutions, and the 'honour of the city': mixed ideas in quattrocento Mantua, David S. Chambers; Giangaleazzo Visconti and the ducal title, Jane Black; Whatever's best administered is best: Paolo Guinigi signore of Lucca, 1400-30, Christine Meek; The mouse and the elephant: relations between the kings of Naples and the lordship of Piombino in the 15th century, David Abulafia; Communes and despots: the nature of 'diarchy', John E. Law; Concepts of LibertA in Renaissance Genoa, Christine Shaw. Part V The Case of the Medici: Prato and Lorenzo de' Medici, F.W. Kent; The early years of Piero di Lorenzo, 1472-92: between Florentine citizen and Medici prince, Alison Brown; Muddying the waters: Alfonsina Orsini de' Medici and the lake of Fucecchio, Catherine Kovesi; The Medici dukes, Comandati and Pratolino: forced labour in Renaissance Florence, Suzanne B. Butters. Part VI Culture, Art and Patronage: Giovanni Bellini and the background to Venetian painting, George Holmes; Communes, despots and universities: structures and trends in Italian Studi to 1500, Peter Denley; Aedeficia iam in regales surgunt altitudines: the mendicant Great Church in the trecento, Julian Gardner. Epilogue: 'Communes and despots': the opening paragraph, Trev
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Della;dizionario;Rerum Italicarum Scriptores;biografico;Lorenzo De;degli;Late Medieval Italy;italiani;Paolo Guinigi;archivio;Italian Renaissance Studies;storico;Giorgio Chittolini;lombardo;Galeazzo II;capitano;Carte Strozziane;del;Nuovo Archivio Veneto;popolo;Mario Ascheri;Medieval Italian Communes;Quaderni Storici;Par III;Otto Di Pratica;Machiavelli's Works;City Councils;Palazzo Della Ragione;Archivio Storico Italiano;Castruccio Castracani;Giancarlo Andenna;Gian Paolo Brizzi;Capitano Del Popolo;Mendicant Churches;Rivista Storica Italiana