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

Title: Living on the edge in Leonardo's Florence : selected essays / Gene Brucker.
Author: Brucker, Gene A.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.

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xxvi, 211 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

"In these essays an internationally renowned master of the historian's craft provides an 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 years in Florence and ranges over northern Italy with forays into the histories of Genoa, Milan, and Venice."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-194) and index.

Contents

1. The Italian renaissance -- 2. Civic traditions in premodern Italy -- 3. From Campanilismo to nationhood : forging an Italian identity -- 4. "The horseshoe nail" : structure and contingency in medieval and renaissance Italy -- 5. Fede and Fiducia : the problem of trust in Italian history, 1300-1500 -- 6. Florence redux -- 7. Living on the edge in Leonardo's Florence -- 8. Florentine cathedral chaplains in the fifteenth century -- 9. The Pope, the Pandolfini, and the Parrochiani of S. Martino a Gangalandi (1465) -- 10. Alessandra Strozzi (1408-1471) : the eventful life of a Florentine matron.

ISBN

0520241347 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004017983

OCLC

ocm56068803
SCSB-14404956

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Columbia University Libraries