The Government Of Florence Under The Medici (1434 To 1494) (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494) (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

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.Review`The issuing of a second edition of Rubinstein's classic study of Medicean government in fifteenth-century Florence ... pays ample testimony to the enduring importance of the work to Florentine studies in general.' Stephen J. Milner, Italian Studies, LIV, 1999About the AuthorEmeritus Professor of History, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Honorary Fellow of the Warburg Institute, Editor-in-Chief of the Letters of Lorenzo de Medici, and Honorary Citizen of Florence. In 1985 he was awarded the International Galileo Prize, and in 1993 the Premio della Cultura of the Prime Minister of Italy for 1992.