
Power And Imagination
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The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The particular nature of their history and culture through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent flowering, and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the internal shifts of economic, social, and political power-by violence, by manipulation, by the gradual pressures of changing circumstance. And here are the life and culture and works of imagination that were created as the merchants and guilds wrested dominion from the ancient nobility, from the first struggles against the Holy Roman Empire in the twelfth century through the rich cultural blaze and political exhaustion of the sixteenth. Lauro Martines, Professor of History at UCLA, has drawn together and chronicled in a single fluent narrative all the explosive energies, the social strife, the civil disorder, the political violence, the economic transformations, the crises of control, the religious fervor and corruption, and the spectacular achievements of art and intellect that made and defined the city-states.
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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Maps
- I. The Ascent of Communes
- Background
- Communes Emerge
- II. The Early Commune and Its Nobility
- Communes and Empire
- Consular Institutions
- The Nobility
- III. The Commune Around 1200
- Urban Crisis and Neighborhood Context
- Podestaral Government
- IV. Popolo and Popular Commune
- The Divisive Issues
- Popular Organization
- Discipline and Takeover
- The Changing Popolo
- V. The End of the Popular Commune
- Achievement
- Failure
- VI. The Course of Urban Values
- Urban Space and Personality
- Florins: The Best of Kin
- Experience and Religious Feeling: An Anonymous Moralist
- VII. Despotism: Signories
- The Seizure of Power
- Signorial Government
- VIII. The Course of Political Feeling
- The Matrix: Local Feeling
- The Example of Brunetto Latini
- The Vanguard of Feeling
- IX. Oligarchy: Renaissance Republics
- The Republican Environment
- The Lesson of the Ambrosian Republic
- The Workings of Oligarchy
- X. Economic Trends and Attitudes
- The Land
- Population and Trade
- Public Finance
- A Unity of Attitudes
- XI. Humanism: A Program for Ruling Classes
- The Program
- The Origins of Humanism
- The Problem of Objectivity
- Class and Group Conscience
- Ideological Themes
- XII. The Princely Courts
- Perimeters
- The Courtly Establishment
- A Paradise for Structuralists
- XIII. Art: An Alliance with Power
- Patronage and Propaganda
- Photo Insert
- Social Positions and Mobility
- Social Identity into Artistic Style
- Manner and Style
- Space Real and Imaginary
- XIV. Invasion: City-States in Lightning and Twilight
- The Main Line of Events
- The Main Line of Failure
- XV. The High Renaissance: A Divided Consciousness
- The Key Experience: Contradiction
- Patronage in Danger
- Religion and Leadership
- Political Thinking: Man Against Unreason
- The Language Question
- The Lure of Utopia
- XVI. The End of the Renaissance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
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