Abstract:
Communes and despots -- Communes and despots: the city state in Late-Medieval Italy / P.J. Jones -- Power and restraint -- The use of sortition in appointments in the Italian Communes / Daniel Waley -- Magnate violence revisited / Carol Lansing -- Political thought: theory and practice -- Communes and despots: some Italian and Transalpine political thinkers / Robert Black -- The myth of the Renaissance Despot / Benjamin G. Kohl -- Conflicting attitudes towards Machiavelli's works in sixteenth-century Spain, Rome and Florence / Humfrey C. Butters -- Communes and despots: some case studies -- From commune to regional state: political experiments in fourteenth century Cremona / Marco Gentile -- The Gonzaga Signoria, communal institutions and 'the honor of the city': mixed ideas in quattrocento Mantua / David S. Chambers -- Giangaleazzo Visconti and the ducal title / Jane Black --'Whatever's administered is best': Paolo Guinigi signore of Lucca, 1400-1430 / Christine Meek -- The mouse ane the elephant: relations between the kings of Naples and ateh lordship of Piombino in the fifteenth century / David Abulafia -- Communes and despots: the nature of 'diarchy' / John E. Law -- Concepts of Libertà in Renaissance Genoa / Christine Shaw -- The case of the Medici -- Prato and Lorenzo de' Medici / F.W. Kent -- The early years of Piero de Lorenzo, 1472-1492: between Florentine citizen and Medici Prince / Alison Brown -- Muddying the waters: Alfonsina Orsini de' Medici and the Lake of Fucecchio / Cathreine Kovesi -- The Medici Dukes, Comandati and Pratolino: forced labour in Renaissance Florence / Suzanne B. Butters -- Culture, art, and patronage -- Giovanni Bellini and the background to Venetian painting / George Holmes -- Communes, despots and universities: structures and trends of Italian studi to 1500 / Peter Denley --Aedificia iam in regales surgunt altitudines: The Mendicant Great Church in the Trecento / Julian Gardner -- 'Communes and Despots': The opening paragraph / Trevor Dean.The City State in Late-Medieval Italy - Power and restraint - Political thought: theory and practice - Case studies - Medici - Culture, art and patronage.
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Includes index.Includes bibliographical references and index.HOLLIS no. 012587548
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