The Civic World Of Early Renaissance Florence

Author : Gene A. Brucker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400847853

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The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence by Gene A. Brucker Pdf

Professor Brucker contends that changes in the social order provide the key to understanding the transition of Florence from a medieval to a Renaissance city. In this book he shows how Florentine politics were transformed from corporate to elitist. He bases his work on a thorough examination of archival material, providing a full socio-political history that extends our knowledge of the Renaissance city-state and its development. The author describes the restructuring of the political system, showing first how the corporate entities that comprised the traditional social order had lost cohesiveness after the Black Death. He traces the process of readjustment that began during the guild regime of 1378-1382, and analyzes the impact of foreign affairs. During the crisis years of the Visconti wars the distinctive features emerged of an elitist regime whose vitality was demonstrated following the death of Giangaleazzo Visconti and whose membership and style the author discusses in detail. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Fabrizio Ricciardelli
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124046819

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The Politics of Exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence by Fabrizio Ricciardelli Pdf

No previous work has examined political exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence or its significance for the transition from Florentine popular government to oligarchy. Between the fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth century, political exclusion became a normal feature of political life, regardless of the type of political regime; it was an essential instrument by which new governments consolidated their control over the city and the countryside in one of the largest and most powerful cities of Early Renaissance Europe. Exclusion from the Republic of Florence-separation from friends and family, business and property, coupled with the degradation of public humiliation-engendered a new outlook on life. In Early Renaissance Florence, excluded citizens across social classes became common outlaws, no different for common criminals prosecuted for heresy, blasphemy, gambling, or sexual deviance. By investigating these practices and attitudes of Early Renaissance Florence, this book shows the dark side of Renaissance republicanism: its fear of political dissent in any form and its means to crush it at all costs. This study of the other side of Renaissance republicanism presents a new and crucial chapter in Renaissance history.

Author : Hans Baron
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1966-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691007527

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The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance by Hans Baron Pdf

Hans Baron was one of the many great German émigré scholars whose work Princeton brought into the Anglo-American world. His Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance has provoked more discussion and inspired more research than any other twentieth-century study of the Italian Renaissance. Baron's book was the first historical synthesis of politics and humanism at that momentous critical juncture when Italy passed from medievalism to the thought of the Renaissance. Baron, unlike his peers, married culture and politics; he contended that to truly understand the Renaissance one must understand the rise of humanism within the political context of the day. This marked a significant departure for the field and one that changed the direction of Renaissance studies. Moreover, Baron's book was one of the first major attempts of any sort to ground intellectual history in a fully realized historical context and thus stands at the very origins of the interdisciplinary approach that is now the core of Renaissance studies. Baron's analysis of the forces that changed life and thought in fifteenth-century Italy was widely reviewed domestically and internationally, and scholars quickly noted that the book "will henceforth be the starting point for any general discussion of the early Renaissance." The Times Literary Supplement called it "a model of the kind of intensive study on which all understanding of cultural process must rest." First published in 1955 in two volumes, the work was reissued in a one-volume Princeton edition in 1966.

Author : William J. Connell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520928220

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Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence by William J. Connell Pdf

Renaissance Florence has often been described as the birthplace of modern individualism, as reflected in the individual genius of its great artists, scholars, and statesmen. The historical research of recent decades has instead shown that Florentines during the Renaissance remained enmeshed in relationships of family, neighborhood, guild, patronage, and religion that, from a twenty-first-century perspective, greatly limited the scope of individual thought and action. The sixteen essays in this volume expand the groundbreaking work of Gene Brucker, the historian in recent decades who has been most responsible for the discovery and exploration of these pre-modern qualities of the Florentine Renaissance. Exploring new approaches to the social world of Florentines during this fascinating era, the essays are arranged in three groups. The first deals with the exceptionally resilient and homogenous Florentine merchant elite, the true protagonist of much of Florentine history. The second considers Florentine religion and Florence's turbulent relations with the Church. The last group of essays looks at criminals, expatriates, and other outsiders to Florentine society.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191524844

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Italy in the Age of the Renaissance by John M. Najemy Pdf

Italy in the Age of Renaissance offers a new introduction to the most celebrated period of Italian history in twelve essays by leading and innovative scholars. Recent scholarship has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Italy by adding new themes and perspectives that have challenged the traditional picture of a largely secular and elite world of humanists, merchants, patrons, and princes. These new themes encompass both social and cultural history (the family, women, lay religion, the working classes, marginal social groups) as well as new dimensions of political history that highlight the growth of territorial states, the powers and limits of government, the representation of power in art and architecture, the role of the South, and the dialogue between elite and non-elite classes. This thematically organized volume introduces readers to the fruitful interaction between the more traditional topics in Renaissance studies and the new, broader approach to the period that has developed in the last generation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 027104814X

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Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence by Anonim Pdf

To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity. Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.

Author : Arthur Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192508614

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The Intellectual Struggle for Florence by Arthur Field Pdf

The Intellectual Struggle for Florence is an analysis of the ideology that developed in Florence with the rise of the Medici, during the early fifteenth century, the period long recognized as the most formative of the early Renaissance. Instead of simply describing early Renaissance ideas, this volume attempts to relate these ideas to specific social and political conflicts of the fifteenth century, and specifically to the development of the Medici regime. It first shows how the Medici party came to be viewed as fundamentally different from their opponents, the 'oligarchs', then explores the intellectual world of these oligarchs (the 'traditional culture'). As political conflicts sharpened, some humanists (Leonardo Bruni and Francesco Filelfo) with close ties to oligarchy still attempted to enrich traditional culture with classical learning, while others, such as Niccolò Niccoli and Poggio Bracciolini, rejected tradition outright and created a new ideology for the Medici party. What is striking is the extent to which Niccoli and Poggio were able to turn a Latin or classical culture into a 'popular culture', and how the culture of the vernacular remained traditional and oligarchic.

Author : Jonathan Davies
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004477599

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Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance by Jonathan Davies Pdf

This book makes a substantial contribution to the study of Florentine history. It answers an important but hitherto unresolved question: why did the Florentine Republic keep a university in its capital city between 1385 and 1473 rather than follow the example of other Italian states in maintaining a university in a subject town? Based on a wide range of newly-found sources, it discloses that the University owed its survival to the support of the Florentine elite, especially the Medici family and its followers. It reveals systematically the close ties between the University and major developments in the social, economic, political, ecclesiastical, and cultural life of Florence and Florentine Tuscany. The appendices fill some of the greatest gaps in our knowledge of the University, identifying administrators, students, examiners, and teachers.

Author : Roger J. Crum,John T. Paoletti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521846936

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Renaissance Florence by Roger J. Crum,John T. Paoletti Pdf

This book examines the social history of Florence from the fourteenth through to sixteenth centuries.

Author : Brian Maxson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043916

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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence by Brian Maxson Pdf

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.

Author : Philip Gavitt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Abandoned children
ISBN : 0472101838

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Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence by Philip Gavitt Pdf

A study in the ideology of wealth and poverty

Author : Martin Wackernagel
Publisher : Rsart: Renaissance Society of
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 1442611847

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The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist by Martin Wackernagel Pdf

Wackernagel stresses the changing roles of commissions and patrons in the late fourteenth to the early fifteenth centuries, from small-scale enterprise under Lorenzo de Medici to the large-scale development of major Florentine monuments.

Author : Gene A. Brucker
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000259672

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Renaissance Florence by Gene A. Brucker Pdf

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the city's physical character, its economic and social structure and developments, its political and religious life, and its cultural achievement. For this edition, Mr. Brucker has added "Notes on Florentine Scholarship" and a "Bibliographical Supplement."

Author : Gene Brucker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1983-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520046955

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Renaissance Florence, Updated Edition by Gene Brucker Pdf

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the city's physical character, its economic and social structure and developments, its political and religious life, and its cultural achievement. For this edition, Mr. Brucker has added Notes on Florentine Scholarship and a Bibliographical Supplement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : OCLC:1151788418

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The World of Renaissance Florence by Anonim Pdf