Emergence of a Bureaucracy: The Florentine Patricians, 1530-1790

R. Burr Litchfield; R. Burr Litchfield

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Emergence of a Bureaucracy

The Florentine Patricians, 1530-1790

R. Burr Litchfield and R. Burr Litchfield

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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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 elite of the Florentine Renaissance Republic continued as the main component of the urban office-holding aristocracy under the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, and that they had an important role in the transition from Renaissance communal institutions to those of a regional state.

Originally published in 1987.

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CONTENTS
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TABLES
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FIGURES
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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ABBREVIATIONS
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INTRODUCTION
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PART I. THE PATRICIANS AS A SOCIAL GROUP FROM THE REPUBLIC TO THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE
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PART II. THE NEW BUREAUCRACY OF THE MEDICI DUKES IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
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PART III. THE PATRICIANS IN THE BUREAUCRACY
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PART IV. THE PATRIMONIALISM OF PATRICIAN FUNCTIONARIES
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PART V. PATRICIAN WEALTH AND DUCAL POLICY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
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PART VI. THE REMAKING OF THE BUREAUCRACY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE
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CONCLUSION
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APPENDIX A. Tables on Offices, Officeholders, and Salaries
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APPENDIX B. Summary Information about Patrician Houses
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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Backmatter
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Keywords for this book

Patrician (post-Roman Europe); Salary; Tax; Duchy; Auditore; Fief; Provveditore; Legislation; Signoria; Household; Comune; Livorno; Pompeo; Nobility; City-state; Wealth; State-building; Corporatism; Pistoia; Sortition; Publican; New Economic Policy; Tuscany; Dowry; Statute; Albizzi; Surname; Arezzo; Notary; Cortona; Physiocracy; Capitano del popolo; New Direction (think tank); Permanent Secretary; Forms of government; Palazzo Vecchio; Of Education; Grand duchy; Patrimonialism; Habilitation; Employment; Duke; Capitalism; Tariff; Economics; Public administration; Relazione; Horace Walpole; Conti; Undersecretary; Institutional investor; Territorial state; Professionalization; Patrician (ancient Rome); Purchasing power; Piero; Seigneur; Investiture; Cosimo de' Medici; Ruler; Filippo Buonarroti; Social status; Ancien Régime; David Herlihy; Grand duke; Corsini; Edict; Council of Florence; Princely state; Autocracy

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

Emergence of a Bureaucracy

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About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

TABLES

FIGURES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. THE PATRICIANS AS A SOCIAL GROUP FROM THE REPUBLIC TO THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE

PART II. THE NEW BUREAUCRACY OF THE MEDICI DUKES IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

PART III. THE PATRICIANS IN THE BUREAUCRACY

PART IV. THE PATRIMONIALISM OF PATRICIAN FUNCTIONARIES

PART V. PATRICIAN WEALTH AND DUCAL POLICY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

PART VI. THE REMAKING OF THE BUREAUCRACY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX A. Tables on Offices, Officeholders, and Salaries

APPENDIX B. Summary Information about Patrician Houses

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Backmatter

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