Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence: Selected Essays
Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence: Selected Essays
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Abstract
This book 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. The book explores those pivotal years in Florence and ranges over northern Italy, with forays into the histories of Genoa, Milan, and Venice. Five of the chapters explore themes in the premodern period and delve into Italy's political, social, economic, religious, and cultural development. Among these pieces is a synoptic view of the Italian Renaissance. The last five chapters focus more narrowly on Florentine topics, including a fascinating look at the dangers and anxieties that threatened Florence in the fifteenth century during Leonardo's time and a mini-biography of Alessandra Strozzi, whose letters to her exiled sons contain the evidence for her eventful life.
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Front Matter
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One
The Italian Renaissance
Jeff Mielke
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Two
Civic Traditions in Premodern Italy
Jeff Mielke
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Three
From Campanilismo to Nationhood: Forging an Italian Identity
Jeff Mielke
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Four
“The Horseshoe Nail”: Structure and Contingency in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Jeff Mielke
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Fede and Fiducia: The Problem of Trust in Italian History, 1300–1500
Jeff Mielke
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Florence Redux
Jeff Mielke
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Living on the Edge in Leonardo’s Florence
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Florentine Cathedral Chaplains in the Fifteenth Century
Jeff Mielke
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Nine
The Pope, the Pandolfini, and the Parrochiani of S. Martino a Gangalandi (1465)
Jeff Mielke
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Alessandra Strozzi (1408–1471): The Eventful Life of a Florentine Matron
Jeff Mielke
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End Matter
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