Florence in the forgotten centuries, 1527-1800 : a history of Florence and the Florentines in the age of the grand dukes /
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| Author / Creator: | Cochrane, Eric W. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1973] |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 593 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11204928 |
| Summary: | The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades of the sixteenth century. They thus give the impression that Florentine culture suddenly died with the generation of Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Andrea del Sarto.<br> <br> Eric Cochrane shows that the Florentines maintained their creativity long after they had lost their position as the cultural leaders of Europe. When their political philosophy and historiography ran dry, they turned to the practical problems of civil administration. When their artists finally yielded to outside influence, they turned to music and the natural sciences. Even during the darkest days of the great economic depression of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, they succeeded in preserving--almost alone in Europe--the blessings of external peace and domestic tranquility. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 593 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780226115955 022611595X 0266111504 9780266111504 0266111505 0226111512 9780226111513 0226111504 9780226111506 |