Castruccio Castracani: A Study on the Origins and Character of a Fourteenth-Century Italian Despotism

by Louis Green

The first study in English of the 14th-century Italian despot, Castruccio Castracani, this work illuminates one of the great historical developments of his age -- the transformation of the medieval world of the Italian city-states into that of the territorial principalities that were to flourish in the Renaissance. Drawing on a full range of archival and chronicle sources, Green examines the rise of Castracani's regime in Lucca and shows how his dominions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019821992X
• ISBN13: 9780198219927
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"