The Italian City-Republics

by Daniel Waley and Trevor Dean

Book Overview

Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual 'tyrants' took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican self-government.

In this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367673258
• ISBN13: 9780367673253
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"