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Living on the edge in Leonardo's Florence : selected essays /

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 year...

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Main Author: Brucker, Gene A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Renaissance > Italy > Florence.
Florence (Italy) > History > To 1421.
Florence (Italy) > History > 1421-1737.
Italy > History > 1268-1492.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780520930995
0520930991
9780520241343
0520241347
1417573708
9781417573707
9786612357480
6612357487
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The Italian Renaissance
  • Civic traditions in premodern Italy
  • From campanilismo to nationhood
  • "The horseshoe nail" : structure and contingency in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
  • Fede and fiducia. The problem of trust in Italian history, 1300/1500
  • Florence redux
  • Living on the edge in Leonardo's Florence
  • The florentine cathedral chaplains in the fifteenth century
  • The Pope, the Pandolfini and the parrochiani of S. Martino de Gangalandi (1465)
  • Alessandra Strozzi (1408/1471) : the eventful life of a Florentine matron.

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