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Books, people, and military thought : Machiavelli's Art of War and the fortune of the militia in sixteenth-century Florence and Europe
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ISBN: 9789004432000 9004432000 9789004432093 9004432094 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden: Boston: Brill,

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"How did the evolution of new gunpowder weapons change the nature, structure and composition of the Florentine militias during the first decades of the sixteenth century? Via an examination of little-known and unpublished sources, this book provides a comparative exploration of two Florentine republican experiments with a peasant militia: one promoted and created by Niccolò Machiavelli (1506-12) and a later one (1527-30). Using this comparison as the basis for a new reading of Machiavelli's Art of War (which drew on the author's experience with the militia), the book then investigates the relationship between the circulation and reception of Machiavelli's influential work, changing conceptions of militia, and the formation of new cultures of warfare in Europe in the sixteenth century."--


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Between vita activa and vita contemplativa : Epistolary Forms of 'otium' in Early Modern Italy
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ISBN: 3161625625 9783161625626 Year: 2023 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

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Letters went viral in early modern Italy, with politics and social interaction, artistic inspiration as well as spirituality and philosophy all hinging on ingenious epistolary cultures. Correspondence fashioned intellectuals and networks, constructed thoughts and schemes, provided a stage for politics and the arts, reflected on existential questions and professional activities. It involved not only writing, but diplomacy, praying, painting, composing, and other forms of artistic expression. And while being a vital activity of everyday lives, epistolary communication also uncovered new spaces of thought, meditation, and creativity. The articles gathered in this volume trace the epistolary threads spun across early modern Italy and unravel the entanglements of their correspondents'active and contemplative lives. They reveal different forms of an epistolary otium which was both an indispensable social activity and an essential method of contemplation.

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Archivi e archivisti in Italia tra Medioevo ed età moderna
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ISBN: 9788867284573 Year: 2015 Publisher: Roma : Viella,

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Archives --- Archivists --- Archives --- Archivistes --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire


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Italian mutual banks : performance, efficiency and mergers and acquisitions.
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ISBN: 3902109076 9783902109071 Year: 2002 Volume: 15 Publisher: Vienna SUERF


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Fonti per la storia degli archivi degli antichi Stati italiani
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ISBN: 9788871253473 Year: 2016 Publisher: Roma Ministerio dei Beni e delle Attivitá Culturali e del Turismo. Direzione Generale Archivi

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