Filippo Strozzi and the Medici

Filippo Strozzi and the Medici

Author: Melissa Meriam Bullard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780521088169

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Filippo Strozzi (1489-1538), the Florentine aristocrat and banker, is usually remembered for the dramatic exploits at the end of his life. Forced into exile, he became an outspoken defender of the last Florentine Republic against the tyranny of the city's new dukes. His place in Florentine history, however, changes drastically when we focus not on his final years but on his extensive career as a Medici favourite and loyal financier. At the courts of the Medici popes he furthered the grandiose schemes of Leo X and Clement VII and accumulated a personal fortune of legendary size. Dr Bullard's study reassesses Strozzi's place in Renaissance history and considers the more general problems of paper economy and war finance, and Florentine political life, in the early sixteenth century. It documents the intricate financial ties between Florence and the papal court, and Strozzi's key role as a manipulator of the city's public funds to pay for papal wars.


Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli

Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli

Author: William J. Landon

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-10-30

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1442699485

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By 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli’s life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there is one figure whose substantial contributions to Machiavelli’s restoration has been hitherto neglected – Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi (1482–1549), a younger and fabulously wealthy Florentine nobleman. As manuscript evidence suggests, Strozzi brought Machiavelli into his patronage network and aided many of his post-1520 achievements. This book is the first English biography of Strozzi, as well as the first examination of the patron-client relationship that developed between the two men. William J. Landon reveals Strozzi’s influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi’s Pistola fatta per la peste – a work that survives as a Machiavelli autograph, and for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.


Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli: Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague

Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli: Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague

Author: William J. Landon

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1442644249

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William J. Landon reveals Strozzi's influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi's Pistola fatta per la peste for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.


The Strozzi of Florence

The Strozzi of Florence

Author: Ann Crabb

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780472109128

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Enter the turbulent world of a Florentine family through personal correspondence


Filippo Strozzi: A History of the Last Days of the Old Italian Liberty

Filippo Strozzi: A History of the Last Days of the Old Italian Liberty

Author: Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781377547800

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Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence

Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence

Author: Anthony Molho

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9780674550704

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Molho (European history, Brown U.) shows that the propertied families of late-medieval and early-modern Florence maintained their power and influence through arranged marriage and the dowry. While elsewhere in Europe the elite were toppling under the onslaught of commerce and personal freedom, in Florence they married carefully within a narrow and well-defined class, used dowries as both speculation and instruments of manipulation, and remembered every detail for a long time. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR