Guardians of Republicanism
The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 March 2008
- ISBN 9780199204489
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 224x145x18 mm
- Weight 404 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 halftone, 1 line illustration 0
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Short description:
Guardians of Republicanism examines the relationship between the Valori family and the political and intellectual evolution of the Florentine Renaissance. Following the family's fortunes over five generations, Jurdjevic retraces its involvement in the political struggles that marked this turbulent period in the history of Florence.
MoreLong description:
Guardians of Republicanism analyses the political and intellectual history of Renaissance Florence-republican and princely-by focusing on five generations of the Valori family, each of which played a dynamic role in the city's political and cultural life. The Valori were early and influential supporters of the Medici family, but were also crucial participants in the city's periodic republican revivals throughout the Renaissance. Mark Jurdjevic examines their political struggles and conflicts against the larger backdrop of their patronage and support of the Neoplatonic philosopher Marsilio Ficino, the radical Dominican prophet Girolamo Savonarola, and Niccolò Machiavelli, the premier political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance. Each of these three quintessential Renaissance reformers and philosophers relied heavily on the patronage of the Valori, who evolved an innovative republicanism based on a hybrid fusion of the classical and Christian languages of Florentine communal politics. Jurdjevic's study thus illuminates how intellectual forces-humanist, republican, and Machiavellian-intersected and directed the politics and culture of the Florentine Renaissance.
This elegantly produced volume provides a welcome focus on the Valori family... There is much to learn from this book, and much rigorous archival and secondary research has gone into its composition.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
The Valori Family Tree
Scipione Ammirato's Valori Family Tree
Introduction: The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance
Francesco Valori and the Savonarolan Republic
Marsilio Ficino and the Valori Family
The Valori Family and Machiavelli's Portraits of Francesco 'il vecchio'
The Valori Family and Luca Della Robbia's Vita di Bartolomeo
The Valori Self-Portrait Under the Medici Grand Dukes
The Last Portraits of the Valori Family
Conclusion: The Valori Family in Florentine Historiography
Bibliography
Index
Index of Manuscripts
