
Название: A History of Florence 1200–1575
Автор: Editor(s): John M. Najemy
Издательство: Blackwell
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 527
Размер: 15.7 Мб
Язык: английский
Florence during the Renaissance is famously known as the center for the rebirth of scholarship, literature, and the arts. But it was also an autonomous republic, a site of innovative experiments in government, a major economic power that produced great wealth and yet underwent recurrent fiscal crises, and a locus of conflicts among the elite families, the guild community, and the working classes, and between family-based factions grounded in patronage and private power.