The Guilds Of Florence Classic Reprint

Author : Edgcumbe Staley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1332521738

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The Guilds of Florence (Classic Reprint) by Edgcumbe Staley Pdf

Excerpt from The Guilds of Florence "Firenze, la Bellissima e Famosissima Figlia di Roma" - was no mere metaphor of Dante, but a very true title of the First of Modern States. The cumulative energies of the Florentines had their focus in the corporate life of the Trade-Associations, and in no other Community was the Guild-system so thoroughly developed as it was in Florence. A complete and connected History of the Guilds has never been compiled. The present work is put forth, perhaps rather tentatively than exhaustively, to supply the omission. The subject is a large one, and the founts of information are many and various. I have tasted at many springs and drunk from many wells - and my subject-matter has been drawn from the following sources: - (1) Manuscripts - Twelfth to Sixteenth centuries; (2) Printed matter - Books and Periodicals; (3) Letters from Authorities and Friends; (4) Personal Knowledge of Florence and the Florentines. In the study of Manuscripts I have entered largely into the labours of such experts as Emily Baxter, Guido Biagi, R. Davidssohn, Lewis Einstein, F. T. Perrens, J. A. Symonds, and Pasquale Villari, and I have freely used their readings. This I have done because of initial difficulties of time and emolument for original research. The early Constitutions and Statutes of many of the Guilds were written in an almost insolvable mixture of abbreviated Latin and vernacular Tuscan - the deciphering of which would easily consume any man's natural life-time. When I sought for some student to undertake, even a superficial survey, I was met with the crushing but practical reply - "the game is not worth the candle!" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Edgcumbe Staley
Publisher : New York : B. Blom
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008991658

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The Guilds of Florence by Edgcumbe Staley Pdf

Author : Staley Edgcumbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243799217

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Guilds of Florence by Staley Edgcumbe Pdf

Author : Walter Bell Scaife
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1330975170

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Florentine Life During the Renaissance (Classic Reprint) by Walter Bell Scaife Pdf

Excerpt from Florentine Life During the Renaissance What wonder then that to him who loves modern history Florence is the most inspiring of all European cities, and a visit there, the acme of his desire. Here the air is full of those melodious sounds in which Dante gave to the world his sub limest thought, in which Petrarch sang his lovely sonnets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Odon Por
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0267816359

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Guilds and Co-Operatives in Italy (Classic Reprint) by Odon Por Pdf

Excerpt from Guilds and Co-Operatives in Italy Por speaks about an alliance with the State but I am sure he knows what power has already been generated in the Guild organizations, and is con fident they can hold their own against the Caesarism which so easily springs up in administrators and Government officials. Besides I realize that some time the warming of the coldest of all cold monsters must be attempted; and it can only be done when the humanity of the people is power fully entrenched in organizations which they have themselves created and which' are true expressions of their character. The Italian guildsmen have done so much that they may accomplish the miracle of making the State the kindly big brother of the individual; and no doubt it will become more efficient by the creation of Vocational Councils through which the thought of the wisest in every branch of national life may converge purely on the State, not muddled by an admixture with non expert opinion, as it is in democratic assemblies where everybody's finger may legally be inserted in everybody else's pie. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Esther Gertrude Roper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1333527926

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Select Passages Illustrating Florentine Life in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Classic Reprint) by Esther Gertrude Roper Pdf

Excerpt from Select Passages Illustrating Florentine Life in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries The extracts in this little book have been chosen to illustrate the social and industrial as well as the political life of Florence in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when the practice of government based on Trade Guilds was in process of development. To-day, when similar theories of government are widely discussed, the history of this experiment is of vital interest. During those two centuries and under such rule all the most beautiful churches and palaces of Florence were built, many of its best known poets, novelists, and historians wrote, and some of its most famous sculptors and painters worked. Nearly all of them were members of Trade Guilds. The aim of this necessarily short and inadequate work is to arouse in its readers a desire for more knowledge of those times. A brief bibliography is appended to the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : E. Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1331933943

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Lorenzo De' Medici by E. Armstrong Pdf

Excerpt from Lorenzo De' Medici: And Florence in the Fifteenth Century It might be urged with much apparent reason that Florence is no nation, and Lorenzo de' Medici no hero. He was no slayer of men in a national cause; only once did he draw his sword and then he failed to strike. No people owed to him its freedom, for he completed the subjugation of the Florentine republic. He added but slightly to the state's territories, he bequeathed to it no one important building. Nevertheless in the most interesting century of Italian history Florence was the most typical state, and Lorenzo the most typical citizen. Had Henry VII. of England or Louis XI. of France been asked who was the most remarkable man in Italy, they would have named Lorenzo, and this must be the justification for his inclusion in this series. No biography of Lorenzo will ever be definitive, for the questions in dispute are rather of feeling than of fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405178464

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A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 by John M. Najemy Pdf

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

Author : Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1330621050

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The History of Florence by Niccolo Machiavelli Pdf

Excerpt from The History of Florence: And of the Affairs of Italy; From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent Together With the Prince and Various Historical Tracts Niccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence, May 3, 1469. He was of an old though not wealthy Tuscan family, his father, who was a jurist, dying when Niccolo was sixteen years old. We know nothing of Machiavelli is youth and little about his studies. He does not seem to have received the usual humanistic education of his time, as he knew no Greek. The first notice of Machiavelli is in 1498 when we find him holding the office of Secretary in the second Chancery of the Signoria, which office he retained till the downfall of the Florentine Republic in 1512. His unusual ability was soon recognized, and in 1500 he was sent on a mission to Louis XII. of France, and afterward on an embassy to Caesar Borgia, the lord of Romagna, at Urbino. Machiavelli's report and description of this and subsequent embassies to this prince, shows his undisguised admiration for the courage and cunning of Caesar, who was a master in the application of the principles afterward exposed in such a skillful and uncompromising manner by Machiavelli in his "Prince." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : Janet Ross
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0266161758

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Florentine Palaces and Their Stories (Classic Reprint) by Janet Ross Pdf

Excerpt from Florentine Palaces and Their Stories Of his fine palace there is a delightful description in, I should think, one of the first guide-books written about Florence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Edgcumbe Staley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : MINN:31951002050124D

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The Guilds of Florence by Edgcumbe Staley Pdf

Author : Alessia Meneghin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000712513

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The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence by Alessia Meneghin Pdf

The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been ​​the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic activity of rigattieri in fifteenth-century Florence. It offers invaluable information on issues such as the relationship between socio-political affiliations and economic interest as well as the structures of consumption and the spending power of different social groups. Furthermore, through the lens of the Arte dei Rigattieri, this work examines the connection between the development of the political bureaucracy, the establishment of Medicean power, and contemporaneous processes of identity construction and social mobility.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1776 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210122185

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guido Carocci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023696961

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By' Gone Florence by Guido Carocci Pdf

Author : Langton Douglas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1333189303

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A History of Siena (Classic Reprint) by Langton Douglas Pdf

Excerpt from A History of Siena I DO not think that any apology is necessary for this book. The Republic of Siena played an important part in Italy in the Middle Ages, and in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. But whilst her neighbour Florence has had many historians, there is no complete history of Siena in any language. Moreover, whilst there are many works in English on subj ects connected with the art and literature of Renaissance, there are but few in our tongue which treat in a serious and scholarly spirit of the history of the Italian States. My original intention was first to tell brie y the story of Siena, and afterwards to compose a fuller account of her troubled, struggling life. But, as time progressed, I determined to attempt to write a book which would both be useful to the historical student and also not without interest to the general reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."