The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550

by Nicholas Scott Baker

In the sixteenth century, the city-state of Florence failed. In its place the Medicis created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty analyzes the slow transformations that predated and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674724526
• ISBN13: 9780674724525
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"