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Emergence of a Bureaucracy: The Florentine Patricians, 1530-1790
By (Author) R. Burr Litchfield
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Politics and government
320.94551
Paperback
432
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
595g
Burr Litchfield traces the development of the patrician elite of Florence from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the growth of a bureaucratic state in Tuscany during this period, and the changing relationship of the patricians to the state apparatus. His discussion of this largely neglected period of Italian history shows that the eli