Name: A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 By John M. Najemy (Cornell University, USA)
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A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 by John M. Najemy (Cornell University, USA)

In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575.

Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state, and monarchy
Weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments
Academically rigorous yet accessible and appealing to the general reader
Likely to become the standard work on Renaissance Florence for years to come

A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 Reviews

Based on wide reading of the available secondary and printed sources, A History of Florence represents the achievement of a lifetime's devotion to the study of the city. Moreover, Najemy's categories of analysis should provoke debates and conversations for future lifetimes. (Renaissance and Reformation, 2009)

There is much to praise about this book. It is a model historical synthesis of the history of a great premodern European city. It is also a sophisticated political history in which class-based ideas and values matter as much as individual details of political events. (The Catholic Historical Review, July 2010)[This] is the best history of Florence in any language, and it will long remain so, for Najemy has mastered the relevant literature more thoroughly than any other historian in living memory. (Times Literary Supplement)

John Najemy is a pre-eminent historian of Renaissance Florence ... a scholar of learning, imagination and intellectual penetration, with a profound knowledge of Florentine history from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century and with a remarkable range of interests in political, social and intellectual history. There has been no credible attempt to write a history of Florence in this period since the time of Perrens's multi-volume work, finished in 1883. Najemy has risen admirably to the challenge. He has assimilated the vast secondary literature on Florence, from the beginning of the thirteenth to the late sixteenth century. The range of his analysis and explication stretches across a vast range of fundamental social, political, economic, diplomatic, military and biographical topics. Nor is Najemy indifferent to intellectual history, especially questions involving political thought and ideology. This book is no mere synthesis of other scholars' work. Indeed, Najemy offers a distinctive interpretation, one which has already stimulated controversy and will doubtless continue to do so. (Reviews in History)

Highly recommended. (Choice)

An extraordinary accomplishment. Deserves rich praise as a fundamentally new and authoritative interpretation of four key centuries of this remarkable city's development. Speculum[Najemy], a veteran Renaissance historian offers a big and impressive survey of the Florentine city-state .... One of the justifications for the book [is] the need for an updated and accessible synthesis of the superabundance of recent specialized scholarship on Florence. He succeeds admirably at that task ... [and] manages to explain and contextualize detailed scholarship while remaining a lively and engaging political narrative. [It] will surely become the definitive narrative of medieval and Renaissance Florence, a point of departure for students of Florentine politics and culture as well as a major interpretive statement providing much for specialists to engage with for some time. (Sixteenth Century Journal)

About John M. Najemy (Cornell University, USA)

John M. Najemy is Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 (1993) and Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400 (1982). For the former he won the Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies and for the latter the Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association. He has also edited Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550 (2004).

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A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 by John M. Najemy (Cornell University, USA)

Author

John M. Najemy (Cornell University, USA)

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John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Year published

20080516

Number of pages

528

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A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 John M. Najemy (Cornell University, USA)

A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 by John M. Najemy (Cornell University, USA)

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A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 by John M. Najemy (Cornell University, USA)

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