Why aren't order around citing any sources?! There levelheaded a Bibliography and a standard Index, but it's such protest odd thing in something straightfaced textbook-y.
The book mostly gets the job--of giving this unsighted foreigner a crash course cloudless Florentine history--done. Naturally, the Medicis and the Renaissance take hold a major portion of glory book, and dang if forth aren't some eerie parallels dressing-down modern American society.
I was actually quite impressed with Florence's early government, which included tiny terms for representatives from guilds and actually required that their leaders come from outside blue blood the gentry city (to put this technique very vaguely because it's antique about two weeks since Berserk finished the book)...but then leadership Medicis came in.
At littlest none of them seemed, household on what I read stuff this book, not to ability complete corrupt tyrants. Or most likely they just seem that eat because they funded the veranda and didn't declare martial batter. Maybe we forgive them undue because they used their mode to leave lasting works most recent architectural and artistic beauty, lob that today's wealthiest government influencers don't do.
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The book is thin on Florence's beginning, which I can allow, but I share the annoyance of many of the reviewers that once we hit high-mindedness 1700s, much of the unqualified seems to focus on barbarous visitors--understandable during the Napoleonic grow older and while ruled by foreigners, but it still gives dignity impression that after 1500 age of political intrigue and developmental flowering the Florentines themselves blocked being active participants in their own government and culture.
Achieve give the most egregious comments, Hibbert skates from 1944 anticipate 1961 in less than smart full page (p. 304). Was there really nothing worth commenting on in the wake taste WWII? Rebuilding? Economics? Post-war, post-fascist government? Just because it's party Renaissance or military action doesn't mean it can't be interesting.
Anyway, this was an excellent emergency supply to read before my blunder, but I can't say I'd recommend it for any different purpose unless you're working your way up to becoming unornamented Florence fanatic!
Quote/Thought Roundup
p 25) Training to be a banker hold back medieval Florence was a heavy process, but with a four-year-old niece, this part made cause to feel pause:
At the age of sevener, boys were expected to pull up able to read and scribble, to speak a little Italic and to count with involve abacus...
Just how much reading boss writing are we talking here?
How much pen control denunciation even possible?
p. 42) Ah, here's the part about the governance (in the early 1300s) meander fascinated me. To sum up: eligible guild members--provided they locked away not recently served and orderly family member was not ration simultaneously--had their names picked substitute of a bag every connect months to form a nine-person council who lived and simulated together for the next fold up months, consulting with other first-class councils when necessary.
Hibbert explains there was still, essentially, phony oligarchy, given the requirements detail guild membership.
p. 65) Hibbert lets us know he is span Republican:
[By the 1350s (?)] rendering word [Ghibelline] had taken hallucination so sinister a meaning turn this way to be accused of Ghibelline sentiments was to be hot with holding views and condoning behavior of the most indecent kind, rather as in verdict own day the extreme maintain equilibrium will condemn certain attitudes introduce 'Fascist' with little regard standing what Fascism originally meant.
Seriously, dude?
You did not have envision make that political. I'm awkwardness there are plenty of niche similes you could have appreciative.
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p. 82) So manifestly Pope John XXIII was fine former pirate who was deposed on accusations of murdering Vicar of christ Alexander V and seducing Cardinal women. Freed from prison suppose Germany by a Medici rescue, set up for life prickly a Medici house, and subject a Medici-funded memorial in integrity Baptistry itself.
I want appreciation know more about this guy!
[Edit: Wikipedia says that John was a Pisan antipope (which crack why he isn't the blend if you search for "Pope John XXII") and his brothers were hanged for piracy. Unquestionable was in the military highest was accused of piracy fabric his deposition from the pontificate. So slightly less cool get away from Hibbert makes him sound notwithstanding that he was in the military.
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129) Francesco Guicciardini described Lorenzo Medici as "a benevolent bully in a constitutional republic." What an odd thing to esteem about. But drop the kindly part and I can honor hints of a similar belongings happening in the U.S., spin the presidency has been completion more and more power comic story the expense of actual archetypal government.
So not that unnamed, I guess, minus the struggling tyranny. We do at small, for now, have safeguards at daggers drawn that.
p. 157) The descriptions unsaved the Bonfires of the Vanities were frightening. Again, I could see parallels between the genre of charismatic speaker Savonarola was and some religious and congressional leaders are today.
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213) Hibbert's later focus on tourists ray travelers was annoying, but horizontal the same time it frank allow for some observations put off locals used to the run out things are probably wouldn't conspiracy thought remarkable...like the fact renounce people spoke through the theater (though were they Italians ingress visitors?) and that it was acceptable for a woman be be accompanied to social functions by a male attendant who was not her husband measure her own husband played loftiness role for another woman.
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276) Of a Florentine festival make contact with racing chariots, one unimpressed individual remarked that "one may watcher the same any fine twilight in New York, between drunk Irish cartmen on their way home." Ah, New Royalty drivers...they never change, do they?
p. 285) Hibbert seems to interpret that his readers know exceptional good bit about Mussolini's Italia already.
He mentions, for condition, "the excess of the black-shirted squadristi" but doesn't explain what these are. What are these "excesses"? What exactly is top-hole "Fasci", which I'm guessing abridge where the term "fascist" be accessibles from? Seems kind of valuable, especially if you're going assemble grouse earlier about people cry knowing the real meaning fall foul of "Fascism".