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9780198174189

The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494)

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198174189

  • ISBN10:

    0198174187

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-02-19
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

This authoritative study examines the complex system of controls that the Medici created to secure and increase their ascendancy and throws new light on the personalities and groups supporting the regime, as well as on the surviving republican opposition. This new edition incorporates the many important studies of the topic since its original publication in 1966.

Table of Contents

PREFACE v(4)
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ix(4)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY xiii(4)
ABBREVIATIONS xvii
PART I. COSIMO DE' MEDICI AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE MEDICI REGIME 1(154)
Chapter 1. The Beginnings of Electoral Controls
1(33)
Chapter 2. The Accoppiatori
34(26)
Chapter 3. Electoral Scrutinies
60(17)
Chapter 4. Medicean Councils
77(22)
Chapter 5. The Parlamento of 1458 and the Consolidation of the Regime
99(56)
PART II. PIERO DI COSIMO: REPUBLICAN REACTION AND MEDICEAN RESTORATION 155(44)
PART III. LORENZO DI PIERO: THE MEDICI AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR POWER 199(65)
EPILOGUE. PIERO DI LORENZO AND THE FALL OF THE REGIME 264(9)
APPENDICES 273(120)
I. Accoppiatori 273(8)
II. Balia of 1434 281(11)
III. Balia of 1438 292(11)
IV. Balia of 1444 303(8)
V. Balia of 1452 311(10)
VI. Balia of 1458 321(12)
VII. Balia of 1466 333(10)
VIII. Balia of 1471 343(8)
IX. Balia of 1480 351(8)
X. Council of Seventy 359(4)
i. in 1480 359(2)
ii. in 1489 361(2)
XI. Piero Guicciardini on the Scrutiny of 1484 363(10)
XII. The Council of Seventy 373(3)
XIII. Pratiche 376(2)
XIV. Limitations of Sortition of Administrative Posts in Florence and the Territory 378(15)
INDEX 393

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