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The art of the network : strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence

Title
The art of the network : strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence / Paul D. McLean.
Author
McLean, Paul, 1962-
Publication
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2007.

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Description
xv, 288 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Politics, history, and culture
Subject
  • Social networks > Italy > Florence > History
  • Patronage, Political > Italy > Florence > History
  • Patron and client > Italy > Florence > History
  • Letter writing, Italian > History
  • Renaissance > Italy > Florence
  • Florence (Italy) > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-277) and index.
Contents
The principles of networking as a social process -- The rhetoric and design of Florentine letter writing -- The socially contested concept of honor -- What gets said when in patronage letters -- The dynamics of office seeking -- Friends of friends : raccomandazione as rhetoric and as constitutive principle -- Patronage and the stalled transformation of the state -- "Servants and slaves in everything and for everything" : Renaissance networking and the emergent modern self? -- Conclusion: Culture and the network.
Call Number
JFE 08-2770
ISBN
  • 9780822341000 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 082234100X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822341178 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822341174 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007017993
OCLC
137331338
Author
McLean, Paul, 1962-
Title
The art of the network : strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence / Paul D. McLean.
Imprint
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2007.
Series
Politics, history, and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-277) and index.
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JFE 08-2770
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