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Lawyers at work-in diplomacy, in relations with the Church, in territorial government, in the formulation of policy, in administration, and in the political struggle provide the unifying theme in this analysis of the exercise of political power in Renaissance Florence. Professor Martines studies the actual techniques of government, the hidden legal

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A picture of representative humanists of the Quattrocento, based on manuscript material in the Florence state archives. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These edi

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After a plot to murder the two heads of the Medici family failed, a bloodbath followed in reprisal. A tangle of Florentine interests were revealed: a dangerous archbishop, a cosseted papal nephew and the banking family, the Pazzi. This is an account of this key episode in the Italian Renaissance.