Florence

by Levey, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780674306585
• ISBN10: 0674306589
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-15
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

Nestled in the Apennines, cradle of the Renaissance, home of Dante, Michelangelo, and the Medici, Florence is unlike any other city in its extraordinary mingling of great art and literature, natural splendor, and remarkable history. Intimate and grand, learned and engaging, Michael Levey's Florence renders the city in all of its madness and magnificence.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix	(8)
Foreword	xvii	(4)
Selective Chronology	xxi	(6)
Maps	xxvii
Prologue: Seriously Seeking Florence	1	(16)
1 `St John's Sheep-fold': The City Emergent	17	(22)
2 Fire, Flood, Plague, War and Art: The City Renascent	39	(38)
3 The City and Its Citizens in Perspective	77	(39)
4 Public Competition among the Artists	116	(38)
5 Artists in Collaboration	154	(8)
6 `To Florence and God the wrong was done'	162	(24)
7 The Republic under First Medici Sway	186	(25)
8 Lorenzo de' Medici and `the most beautiful city'	211	(25)
9 `The Troubles of Italy'	236	(47)
10 Triumphal Entries and Fatal Exits	283	(39)
11 `A young man on a marvellous horse'	322	(31)
12 The Princely City	353	(38)
13 Putting on the Style	391	(41)
14 The Enlightened City and the New Troubles of Italy	432	(27)
Epilogue: Florence as Cradle and Capital	459	(16)
Medici Family Tree	475	(2)
Books for Further Reading	477	(10)
Index	487