The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494)

by Nicolai Rubinstein

This authoritative study examines the complex system of controls that the Medici created to secure and increase their ascendancy and throws new light on the personalities and groups supporting the regime, as well as on the surviving republican opposition. This new edition incorporates the many important studies of the topic since its original publication in 1966.

Genres: History, Italy, Renaissance

424 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Althea Mcintosh · Rating 3 out of 5]

(1966 edition): extremely detailed archival examination which fluently draws on the (Latinate) Italian of correspondence and Latin of official deliberations. Dry but manifestly authoritative.