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To its many tourists and visitors, the Tuscan landscape evokes a sense of timelessness and harmony. Yet, the upheavals of the twentieth century profoundly reshaped rural Tuscany. Uncovering the experiences of ordinary people, Professor Gaggio traces the history of Tuscany to show how the region's modern conflicts and aspirations have contributed to forging its modern-day beauty. We learn how the rise of Fascism was particularly violent in rural Tuscany, and how struggles between Communist sharecroppers and their landlords raged long after the end of the dictatorship. The flight from the farms in the 1950s and 1960s disorientated many Tuscans, prompting ambitious development projects, and in more recent decades the emergence of the heritage industry has raised the spectre of commodification. This book tells the story of how many Tuscans themselves have become tourists in their own land - forced to adapt to rapid change and reinvent their landscape in the process.

Rural development --- Land use, Rural --- Cultural landscapes --- Cultural geography --- Landscapes --- Landscape archaeology --- Rural land use --- Land use --- Agriculture --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- History. --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Tuscany (Italy) --- Toscana (Italy) --- Regione toscana (Italy) --- Toscane (Italy) --- Region of Tuscany (Italy) --- Tuscany Region (Italy) --- Tuscany (Grand Duchy) --- Civilization. --- History

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Angevins --- Art --- Italie --- Italy --- Aspect politique --- Political aspects --- Painting, Gothic --- Mural painting and decoration, Italian --- Painting --- Inscriptions --- Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, --- Tuscany (Italy) --- Politics and government

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Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance Florentine economy and society. The collection, organized by topic, source material and analysis methods, discusses risk and return, specifically the population's responses to the plague and also the measurement of interest rates. The work analyzes the population's wealth distribution, the impact of taxes and subsidies on art and architecture, the level of neighborhood segregation and the accumulation of wealth. Additionally, this study assesses the competitiveness of Florentine markets and the level of monopoly power, the nature of women's work and the impact of business risk on the organization of industrial production.

History of Italy --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Florence --- Florence (Italy) --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- History --- E-books --- Renaissance --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Civilization. --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Forence (Tuscany) --- Florence (Tuscany)

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The Intellectual Struggle for Florence is an analysis of the ideology that developed in Florence with the rise of the Medici, during the early fifteenth century, the period long recognized as the most formative of the early Renaissance. Instead of simply describing early Renaissance ideas, this volume attempts to relate these ideas to specific social and political conflicts of the fifteenth century, and specifically to the development of the Medici regime.It first shows how the Medici party came to be viewed as fundamentally different from their opponents, the 'oligarchs', then explores the intellectual world of these oligarchs (the 'traditional culture'). As political conflicts sharpened, some humanists (Leonardo Bruni and Francesco Filelfo) with close tiesto oligarchy still attempted to enrich traditional culture with classical learning, while others, such as Niccolò Niccoli and Poggio Bracciolini, rejected tradition outright and created a new ideology for the Medici party. What is striking is the extent to which Niccoli and Poggio were able to turn a Latin or classical culture into a 'popular culture', and how the culture of the vernacular remained traditional and oligarchic.

Humanistes --- Médicis --- Florence (Italy) --- Florence (Italie) --- History --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government --- Vie intellectuelle --- Niccoli, Niccolò, --- Medici, House of. --- De Niccolis, Nicolaus, --- Niccolis, Nicolaus de, --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Forence (Tuscany) --- E-books --- Florence (Tuscany) --- Médicis

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In early modern Europe, free ports were places where merchants of any nation, religion, or ethnicity could trade on equal terms; and where there were no import and export taxes. This work shows how free trade emerged from the interstices of European commercial institutions by examining the history of the free port of Livorno.

Free trade --- Free trade and protection --- Trade, Free --- Trade liberalization --- International trade --- History. --- Livorno (Italy) --- Mediterranean Region --- Tuscany (Italy) --- Leghorn (Italy) --- Livourne (Italy) --- Comune di Livorno (Italy) --- Libornou (Italy) --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Commerce --- History --- 1500-1799