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

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

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture

Biographies GeneralGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0521529352
ISBN13: 9780521529358
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 5 2002
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
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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