2. The Rhetoric and Design of Florentine Letter Writing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables and Figures ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. The Principles of Networking as a Social Process 1
6. 2. The Rhetoric and Design of Florentine Letter Writing 35
7. 3. The Socially Contested Concept of Honor 59
8. 4. What Gets Said When in Patronage Letters 90
9. 5. The Dynamics of Office Seeking 121
10. 6. Friends of Friends: Raccomandazione as Rhetoric and as Constitutive Principle 150
11. 7. Patronage and the Stalled Transformation of the State 170
12. 8. “Servants and Slaves in Everything and for Everything”: Renaissance Networking and the Emergent Modern Self ? 193
13. Conclusion: Culture and the Network 224
14. Notes 231
15. Bibliography 255
16. Index 279