Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini, 1453–1524 - Couverture rigide

Lowe, K. J. P.

 
9780521421034: Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini, 1453–1524

Synopsis

A detailed look at the public and private worlds of a leading Italian Renaissance cardinal.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book examines the life of Cardinal Francesco Soderini (1453–1524) from a variety of perspectives and using a range of techniques. It analyses the relationship between Machiavelli, Piero and Francesco Soderini, and reinstates the crucial role played by Rome and contacts with Rome in late fifteenth-century and early sixteenth-century Florentine politics. Soderini's position as one of the chief powerbrokers of papal Rome, in opposition to the Medici, enables a reappraisal of political and ecclesiastical patronage and clientele systems. The cardinal also encouraged cultural, intellectual and building activities. Overall, through the book's collation of archival sources in and outside Italy, a new vision emerges of the lifestyle and activities of a learned and politically astute Italian cardinal.

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9780521529358: Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini, 1453-1524

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521529352 ISBN 13 :  9780521529358
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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