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The Fruit of Liberty - Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 (Hardcover)
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The Fruit of Liberty - Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 (Hardcover)
Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican
city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In
its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first
dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of
Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective
of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the
republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural
transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the
institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to
subject. More than a chronological narrative, this analysis covers
a wide range of contributing factors to this transition, from
attitudes toward office holding, clothing, and the patronage of
artists and architects to notions of self, family, and gender.
Using a wide variety of sources including private letters, diaries,
and art works, Nicholas Baker explores how the language, images,
and values of the republic were reconceptualized to aid the shift
from citizen to subject. He argues that the creation of Medici
principality did not occur by a radical break with the past but
with the adoption and adaptation of the political culture of
Renaissance republicanism.
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