The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within
which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring
cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it
is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still
at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it
is above all the city-state - the walled commune which became the
chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art - that
is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the
transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a
regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the
Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author
authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas
even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate
dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal
events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and
Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This
book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the
Renaissance, is and has always been unique.
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