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SHORT HISTORIES A SHORT HISTORY OF FLORENCE A...

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first
caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas 
it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban
one. For  as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals  it is above all the city-state - the walled commune
which became the chief driver of European commerce  culture  banking and art - that is medieval
Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure
Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the
Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent  the author authoritatively discusses a
city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering
passionate dispute and intrigue  Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery
end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival
Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence  harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance  is and
has always been unique.

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