The Medicean succession : monarchy and sacral politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence / Gregory Murry.
Series: I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance historyPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780674416192 (electronic bk.)
- 0674416198 (electronic bk.)
- Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574
- Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737
- Tuscany (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1434-1737
- Florence (Italy) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
- Tuscany (Italy) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
- Monarchy -- Italy -- Tuscany -- History -- 16th century
- Divine right of kings
- Medici, House of
- HISTORY / Europe / Italy
- 945/.507092 23
- DG738.17 .M87 2014eb
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The familiarity of terrestrial divinity -- Divine right rule and the providential worldview -- Rescuing virtue from Machiavelli -- Prince or patrone? Cosimo as an ecclesiastical patron -- Cosimo and Savonarolan reform -- Defense of the sacred.
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