The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494) / Edition 2

by Nicolai Rubinstein

Overview

This authoritative study examines the complex system of controls that the Medici created to secure and increase their ascendancy and throws new light on the personalities and groups supporting the regime, as well as on the surviving republican opposition. This new edition incorporates the many important studies of the topic since its original publication in 1966.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198174189
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/19/1998
Series:	Oxford-Warburg Studies
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.94(d)
Lexile:	1830L (what's this?)

About the Author

Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Table of Contents

Preface to the second editionPart I: Cosimo de Medici and the foundations of the Medici RegimePart II: Piero di Cosimo: Republican Reaction and Medicean RestorationPart III: Lorenzo di Piero: the Medici at the Height of their PowerEpilogue: Piero di Lorenzo and the Fall of the RegimeAppendices