Padua Under the Carrara, 1318-1405 - Rilegato

Kohl, Benjamin G.

9780801857034: Padua Under the Carrara, 1318-1405

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ISBN 10: 0801857031 ISBN 13: 9780801857034

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1998

The city of Petrarch in the 13th century, Padua was under constant threat of foreign domination in the 14th century. In the turbulent years between 1318 and 1405, ten rulers succeeded one another as Lord of Padua; nine of those rulers were members of a single family - the Carrara. This account is a detailed study of an early Italian signorial regime. The author begins by describing Padua's late-medieval settings, exploring the geographic and institutional givens inherited by the early Carrara lords as they fought to maintain their city's independence. He also examines the changing composition of the Carrara family relationships, the regime's household government, its economic and landed interests, investments in textiles and trade and the developmnet of its own mint and tax system.

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Recensione:

"This is the first comprehensive study in English of one of the foremost ruling dynasties of fourteenth century Italy. Characterized by thorough and meticulous research and by clarity in style and argument Kohl's work marks a major contribution to our understanding of an early Renaissance state and court." -- John Law, University of Wales, Swansea

L'autore:

Benjamin G. Kohl is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at Vassar College. He is coeditor of The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society as well as several other collections of early humanist Latin works, and he is the author of numerous studies on the political and cultural history of the early Italian Renaissance.

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