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 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: To the Benevolent Reader
- Prologue: The siege
- Book I. Florence In The 1540s: How Cosimo de' Medici turned a worn-out republic into a well-run monarchy
- 1. Election
- 2. Survival
- 3. Affirmation
- 4. Consolidation
- 5. Elaboration
- 6. Triumph
- Book II. Florence In The 1590s: How Scipione Ammirato solved just about all the problems of his age
- 1. The Countryside
- 2. The city
- 3. How Ammirato solved Machiavelli's dilemma by putting politics and religion together again
- 4. How Ammirato made historiography obsolete by writing a definitive history5. The twilight of a perfect day
- Book III. Florence In The 1630s: How Galileo Galilei turned the universe inside out
- Prologue: How Galileo came home after eighteen years abroad
- Preface: Condemnation and abjuration
- 1. The campaign progresses
- 2. The campaign falters
- 3. Plague and depression
- 4. The campaign loses its auxiliaries
- 5. The campaign fails
- 6. The Galileans hold out
- 7. The Galileans win
- Book IV. Florence In The 1680s: How Lorenzo Magalotti looked in vain for a vocation and finally settled down to sniffing perfumes1. How Magalotti started out being a scientist
- 2. How he then gave it up
- 3. How Magalotti went traveling and then came home
- 4. How Magalotti became an art connoisseur, a lexicographer, a poet, and a literary critic
- 5. How Magalotti became a theologian
- 6. How Magalotti stopped trying to become anything at all
- Book V. Florence In The 1730s: How Giovanni Lami discovered the past and tried to alter the future
- Prologue: The journalist1. From Santa Croce to Florence
- 2. From librarian to historian
- 3. The end of the Medici
- 4. Lawyers in office
- 5. Bottoming out
- 6. The university and the church
- 7. The collaborators and the disciples
- 8. The battles
- 9. The retreat
- Book VI. Florence In The 1780s: How Francesco Maria Gianni spent twenty-five years building a model state only to see it torn down in a single morning
- 1. Peasants, plebeians, and proprietors
- 2. The riot
- 3. How Gianni became a professional bureaucrat
- 4. How Gianni tried to replace a controlled economic system with a free one5. How Gianni tried to turn an absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy
- 6. How Gianni tried to turn a hierarchical society into an egalitarian society
- 7. How Gianni tried to keep a civil society from turning into a theocracy
- 8. The invasion
- A Postscript
- Bibliographical Note Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Book I
- Book II
- Book III
- Book IV
- Book V
- Book VI
- Index