The Fruit of Liberty : Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 / Nicholas Scott Baker.
Baker, Nicholas Scott, author.
2013
DG738.13 .B35 2013eb
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Title The Fruit of Liberty : Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 / Nicholas Scott Baker.
Author Baker, Nicholas Scott, author.
ISBN 9780674726390
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726390
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
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Description 1 online resource : 22 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674726390 doi
Call Number DG738.13 .B35 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 945/.51106
Summary In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject. More than a chronological narrative, this analysis covers a wide range of contributing factors to this transition, from attitudes toward officeholding, clothing, the patronage of artists and architects to notions of self, family, and gender. Using a wide variety of sources including private letters, diaries, and art works, Nicholas Baker explores how the language, images, and values of the republic were reconceptualized to aid the shift from citizen to subject. He argues that the creation of Medici principality did not occur by a radical break with the past but with the adoption and adaptation of the political culture of Renaissance republicanism.
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Series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 9
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Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Imagining Florence
2. Great Expectations
3. Defending Liberty
4. Neither Fish nor Flesh
5. Reimagining Florence
Conclusion
APPENDIX 1. A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, ca. 1500
APPENDIX 2. Biographical Information
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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