Medicean and Savonarolan Florence: The Interplay of Politics, Humanism, and Religion

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This volume examines Florentine society at crucial moments of change that are often treated separately in historical narratives: the later years of Medici government under the aegis of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the four tumultuous years of Savonarola’s religious regime from 1494 to 1498, and the unsettled early decades of the sixteenth century. Drawing upon original research conducted during the past decade, it provides important insights into the politics and conflicting ideologies in the city as experienced by different levels of society, not only by the politicians, preachers, and intellectuals whose voices are more familiar to us, but also by women and lower-class citizens. Since no single paradigm is adequate to describe these years of flux, this volume attempts to reassess the period by uncovering the debate underlying nearly all the topics it discusses. In this way, it offers a new and multifocused approach to the study of this important and influential period in Florentine history. Front matter (“Contents”,“List of Tables”, “Acknowledgements”,“List of Abbreviations”), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. xv Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4001 Lorenzo de’ Medici’s New Men and Their Mores, p. 1 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4002 Women, Children, and Politics in the Letters of Ser Pace di Bambello, p. 39 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4003 The Early Years of Piero di Lorenzo: Between Florentine Citizen and Medici Prince, p. 67 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4004 Lorenzo and Public Opinion in Florence: The Problem of Opposition, p. 87 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4005 The Revolution of 1494 in Florence and its Aftermath, p. 115 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4006 Offices of Honour and Profit: The Crisis of Republicanism in Florence, p. 139 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4007 Insiders and Outsiders: The Changing Boundaries of Exile, p. 177 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4008 Ideology and Faction in Savonarolan Florence, p. 201 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4009 De-masking Renaissance Republicanism, p. 225 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4010 The Language of Empire, p. 247 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4011 New Light on the Papal Condemnation of Pico’s Theses, p. 263 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4012 Intellectual and Religious Currents in the Post-Savonarola Years, p. 279 Alison Brown https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.4.4013 Back matter (“Bibliography”,“Index”), p. 303