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Le clan des Médicis - Comment Florence perdit ses libertés

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La peinture violente et raffinée de la Renaissance italienne à travers l'exercice du pouvoir des Médicis à Florence. A l'inverse d'autres villes italiennes, Florence, type même de la cité " libre ", fleuron des arts et des lettres à la Renaissance, ne va pas confier pendant deux siècles ses destinées à un condottiere, mais à un clan de simples citoyens. Longtemps obscurs, suffisamment habiles pour survivre aux convulsions d'une cité en proie aux pires désordres, les Médicis unissent leur destinée à celle de la ville et la portent à la quintessence de la culture dans tous les domaines. Derrière une peinture violente et raffinée de l'époque, l'auteur décrit l'ascension, la grandeur et la faillite de cette famille de changeurs devenus princes sans titre de Florence.

Jacques Heers, professeur émérite à la Sorbonne, a notamment publié chez Perrin Les Négriers en terre d'islam, VIIe-XVIe siècle, Chute et mort de Constantinople, Le Moyen Age, une imposture et La Naissance du capitalisme au Moyen Age.

384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

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Jacques Heers

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Jacques Heers was a French historian specializing in the history of the Middle Ages, Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of Paris-Nanterre and Director of Medieval Studies at Paris IV.

Born in Paris, Jacques Heers was raised in La Ferte-Bernard in the Sarthe, where his parents ran a business. After a good academic career, he became a teacher in 1945. While performing this function, he prepared for a degree in history at the Sorbonne. He aggregated in history in 1948 and 1949. Between 1949 and 1951, he became a professor at Le Mans and Alencon, and finally at the national military academy.

From 1951 he was attached to the CNRS. There he met Fernand Braudel who sent him to Italy to prepare a state doctorate dedicated to Genoa in the fifteenth century. He defended his thesis at the Sorbonne in 1958. Upon his return to Italy, he became assistant to Georges Duby in the Faculty of Arts in Aix-en-Provence. In 1957 he was appointed professor at the University of Algiers a function he held for five years until 1962. Thereafter, he worked as a professor at Caen, Rouen, Paris X University and the Sorbonne.

Honorary Professor of the University of Paris IV, where he held many years the chair of medieval history, he was vice president of the SHMESP (Society of Medievalists of Public Education) from 1971 to 1973. In retirement, Jacques Heers, outside of writing and research, was often present in radio programs.

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August 9, 2023
Beaucoup trop d'informations inutiles, mais intéressant dans le fond. J'ai beaucoup appris !
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April 14, 2020
Ero curiosa di leggere questo libro di Heers per vedere come presenta la storia dei Medici un non italiano. Ne sono rimasta un po' perplessa. sarà che Heers nei suoi libri è molto accurato, usa bene le fonti, ma non racconta le storie in modo avvincente, sembra fare un'operazione come dire "antiRinascimento italiano". Ok Firenze dal Due. trecento in poi ès tata tuta una lotta, fra l'altro cita tutti, meno Dante , se non due righe anella conclusione, e dire che il Poeta era bene addentro nelle questioni. Insomma, per lui i Medici non sono altro che dei tiranni arruffapopolo che sfruttarono le "libertà" fiorentine che secondo lui non erano nemmeno libertà. Direi che non occorra spiegare che le libertà popolari del Medioevo non erano le democrazie moderne.. E' pure un po' riduttivo veros la fine, quando afferma che le principali opere d'arte fiorentine.. sono anteriori ai Medici! vabbè Palazzo vecchio, il Bargello, etc.. ma dico, i palazzi rinascimentali? palazzo Strozzi? palazzo rucellai? Brunelleschi? e poi...lui finisce i Medici con la cacciata di Piero lo Sfortunato. Dimenticando sia gli ultimi Medici della linea di Cosimo ( eppur ealmeno Lorenzaccio di De Musset dovrebbe averlo letto!), Caterina de Medici, i due papi Medici, per non parlare della successiva dinastia granducale..
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