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  • Florence in Transition

    Volume One: The Decline of the Commune

    de Marvin Becker ...
    Originally published in 1967. With the waning of the Middle Ages, the life of the Italian polis underwent a gradual but unmistakable transformation. The leisurely decentralization of the medieval commune, which had its roots in feudalism, the code of chivalry, and religious faith, gave place to the tight despotism of the fourteenth century. This in turn yielded to democratized government and ... Leer más

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  • Florence in Transition

    Volume Two: Studies in the Rise of the Territorial State

    de Marvin Becker ...
    Originally published in 1968. In the pluralistic society of the medieval commune, informal and personal ties of obligation bound men together. In trecentro Florence this "gentle" communal structure gradually evolved into the stricter, more centralized organization characteristic of the modern state. A growing emphasis on law and order transformed the medieval commune of the early fourteenth ... Leer más

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  • Vom Nationalsozialismus überzeugt?

    Politische Einstellungen christlicher Akteure in und nach der Diktatur

    Series Libro 34 - Religion und Moderne
    Wie waren die führenden Vertreter:innen und gläubigen Mitglieder der beiden christlichen Großkirchen zum Nationalsozialismus politisch eingestellt? Bejahten sie das neue Regime oder lehnten sie es ab? Welche Abstufungen und Mischformen von Nähe und Distanz gab es und worin äußerten sie sich? Was waren die Gründe für die jeweilige Einstellung und wie veränderte sie sich während und nach der ... Leer más

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    A Biography

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  • April Blood

    Florence and the Plot against the Medici

    One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. ... Leer más

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  • Machiavelli

    A Portrait

    "Explores why . . . The Prince . . . continues to enthrall readers and . . . can help enrich the way we understand [the statesman]. . . . A compelling portrait " ( Kirkus Reviews).The man whose name is shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher Celenza's portrait of Machiavelli removes the varnish to reveal not just the hardnosed ... Leer más

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  • Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527–1800

    A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes

    de Eric Cochrane ...
    The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades of the sixteenth century. They thus give the impression that Florentine culture suddenly died with the generation of Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Andrea del Sarto.Eric Cochrane shows that the ... Leer más

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  • The Garments of Court and Palace

    Machiavelli and the World That He Made

    A "serious and thoughtful" interpretation of Machiavelli's life and thought—and its relevance today—from the acclaimed author of Terror and Consent ( The Times, London).Constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt turns his expert attention to the life and work of Niccolo Machiavelli, the sixteenth century political philosopher whose classic text The Prince remains one of the most important and ... Leer más

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    The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The particular nature of their history and culture through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent flowering, and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the internal shifts of economic, social, and political power—by violence, by manipulation, by the gradual pressures of changing circumstance. And here are the ... Leer más

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  • The Universities of the Italian Renaissance

    A "magisterial [and] elegantly written" study of Renaissance Italy's remarkable accomplishments in higher education and academic research ( Choice).Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical AssociationSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title of the YearItalian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic ... Leer más

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  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Leer más

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  • Dante

    A Life

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    Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing.Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries.However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the ... Leer más

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