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Article: The Soderini and the Medici: Power and Patronage in Fifteenth-Century Florence. (book reviews)
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- January 1, 1993
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Renaissance Italy and the operation within it of |patronage' (a multi-functional word) are in different ways the subject of each of these three books, which otherwise have little in common.
Paula Clarke's is a close study of politics in fifteenth-century Florence, and |patronage' here means calculations of interest and favour in that complex republic dominated by the Medici. She has analysed this domination from the standpoint of a potentially rival family, which lacked, however, equivalent financial resources or popular following; more precisely it is the standpoint of two brothers slightly tainted by illegitimacy, Tommaso and Niccolo Soderini. Although the ...
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