TY - JOUR
T1 - For reasons of state
T2 - Political executions, republicanism, and the medici in Florence, 1480-1560
AU - Baker, Nicholas Scott
N1 - Copyright 2009 The Renaissance Society of America. Published by University of Chicago Press. Orgininally published in Renaissance quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 444-478. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - Prior to the late fifteenth century in Florence, the losers of political conflicts routinely faced exile as punishment for their perceived crimes. Following the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478, however, such political criminals increasingly received death sentences rather than banishment. This article explores how the changing nature of punishment for political crimes in Renaissance Florence from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries can be read as a barometer of political change in the city. It examines the relationship between the growing number of political executions and the long transformation of Florence from a republic to a principality, with reference to the broader context of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.
AB - Prior to the late fifteenth century in Florence, the losers of political conflicts routinely faced exile as punishment for their perceived crimes. Following the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478, however, such political criminals increasingly received death sentences rather than banishment. This article explores how the changing nature of punishment for political crimes in Renaissance Florence from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries can be read as a barometer of political change in the city. It examines the relationship between the growing number of political executions and the long transformation of Florence from a republic to a principality, with reference to the broader context of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.
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U2 - 10.1086/599867
DO - 10.1086/599867
M3 - Article
C2 - 19750601
AN - SCOPUS:70350050945
SN - 0034-4338
VL - 62
SP - 444
EP - 478
JO - Renaissance Quarterly
JF - Renaissance Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -