@article{449109,
      recid = {449109},
      author = {Gamberini, Andrea. and Lazzarini, Isabella.},
      title = {The Italian renaissance state [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge [Eng.] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 634) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative  view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing  on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the  kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international  team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and  variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth to early  sixteenth centuries, surveying the mosaic of kingdoms,  principalities, signorie and republics against a backdrop  of wider political themes common to all types of state in  the period. The authors address the contentious problem of  the apparent weakness of the Italian Renaissance political  system. By repositioning the Renaissance as a political,  rather than simply an artistic and cultural phenomenon,  they identify the period as a pivotal moment in the history  of the state, in which political languages, practices and  tools, together with political and governmental  institutions, became vital to the evolution of a modern  European political identity"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/449109},
}