Living on the Edge in Leonardo’s Florence: Selected EssaysUniversity of California Press, 14.3.2005 - 237 sivua In Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, an internationally renowned master of the historian's craft provides a splendid overview of Italian history from the Black Death to the rise of the Medici in 1434 and beyond into the early modern period. Gene Brucker explores those pivotal years in Florence and ranges over northern Italy, with forays into the histories of Genoa, Milan, and Venice. The ten essays, three of which have never before been published, exhibit Brucker's graceful intelligence, his command of the archival sources, and his ability to make history accessible to anyone interested in this place and period. Whether he is writing about a case in the criminal archives, about a citation from Machiavelli, or the concept of modernity, the result is the same: Brucker brings the pulse of the period alive. Five of these essays explore themes in the premodern period and delve into Italy's political, social, economic, religious, and cultural development. Among these pieces is a lucid, synoptic view of the Italian Renaissance. The last five essays focus more narrowly on Florentine topics, including a fascinating look at the dangers and anxieties that threatened Florence in the fifteenth century during Leonardo's time and a mini-biography of Alessandra Strozzi, whose letters to her exiled sons contain the evidence for her eventful life. |
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... first published in Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001): 1–9. It is reprinted here with the permission of the direc- tor of the Renaissance Society of America. “Florence Redux” was published in Beyond Florence, the Contours of xi Permissions.
... first published in Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001): 1–9. It is reprinted here with the permission of the direc- tor of the Renaissance Society of America. “Florence Redux” was published in Beyond Florence, the Contours of xi Permissions.
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... first published work, an essay that I wrote as a freshman at the University of Illinois, was entitled “Hero Worship.” I described my own images of heroic figures of the past, which included Washington and Lincoln, Grant and Napoleon ...
... first published work, an essay that I wrote as a freshman at the University of Illinois, was entitled “Hero Worship.” I described my own images of heroic figures of the past, which included Washington and Lincoln, Grant and Napoleon ...
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... first time an urban environment. I lived in a rooming house with fifteen other students, some of whom be- came close friends. My most memorable course was a survey of modern European history, taught by a Harvard PhD, Raymond Stearns ...
... first time an urban environment. I lived in a rooming house with fifteen other students, some of whom be- came close friends. My most memorable course was a survey of modern European history, taught by a Harvard PhD, Raymond Stearns ...
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... first term at Wadham College, Oxford, in the autumn of 1948, I was assigned a history tutor, F. W. Deakin, who was then assist- ing Winston Churchill in writing his history of World War II. Deakin assigned a cluster of books on medieval ...
... first term at Wadham College, Oxford, in the autumn of 1948, I was assigned a history tutor, F. W. Deakin, who was then assist- ing Winston Churchill in writing his history of World War II. Deakin assigned a cluster of books on medieval ...
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... first time the hand of Machiavelli or Lorenzo de ' Medici , or reading the half - formed script of a semi- literate woman whose letter begs some gran maestro for bread for her children . The sense of anticipation one feels when entering ...
... first time the hand of Machiavelli or Lorenzo de ' Medici , or reading the half - formed script of a semi- literate woman whose letter begs some gran maestro for bread for her children . The sense of anticipation one feels when entering ...
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1 The Italian Renaissance | 1 |
2 Civic Traditions in Premodern Italy | 22 |
Forging an Italian Identity | 42 |
Structure and Contingency in Medieval and Renaissance Italy | 62 |
The Problem of Trust in Italian History 13001500 | 83 |
6 Florence Redux | 104 |
7 Living on the Edge in Leonardos Florence | 114 |
8 Florentine Cathedral Chaplains in the Fifteenth Century | 128 |
9 The Pope the Pandolfini and the Parrochiani of S Martino a Gangalandi 1465 | 143 |
The Eventful Life of a Florentine Matron | 151 |
Notes | 169 |
Index | 195 |
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Alberti Alessandra Archivio army benefice Bizzocchi Black Death Brucker Burckhardt canons Catasto cathedral chaplains Chapel chaplains church citizens city’s civic clergy clerics communal confraternities Cosimo culture death decades described Duomo early ecclesiastical Edward Muir elites European exile fede fifteenth century Filippo fiorentina Firenze Florence Florence’s Florentine florins foreign Francesco Francesco Guicciardini French Genoa Giovanni Guicciardini historians honor Ibid invasion Italian Renaissance Italy’s Jacopo king kingdom of Naples Lana guild Leonardo letter lineages lived Lodovico Sforza Lorenzo Machiavelli major Maria marriage Martino Matteo Medici medieval merchants Messer Milan military Molho monarchy Naples Niccolò Niccolò Machiavelli Oxford P. J. Jones papacy papal patrons peasants peninsula Piero Pisa Pistoia plague political Pope princes Princeton Quattrocento regime Renaissance Florence Renaissance Italy republic republican role Roman papacy Rome rulers Savonarola scholars Signoria social society Strozzi survived territory towns Tuscan urban Venetian Venice wrote