Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini, 1453 1524

By K.J.P. Lowe

Book Overview

This book examines the life of Cardinal Francesco Soderini (1453-1524) from a variety of perspectives and using a range of techniques. It analyses the relationship between Machiavelli, Piero and Francesco Soderini, and reinstates the crucial role played by Rome and contacts with Rome in late fifteenth-century and early sixteenth-century Florentine politics. Soderini's position as one of the chief powerbrokers of papal Rome, in opposition to the Medici, enables a reappraisal of political and ecclesiastical patronage and clientele systems. The cardinal also encouraged cultural, intellectual and building activities. Overall, through the book's collation of archival sources in and outside Italy, a new vision emerges of the lifestyle and activities of a learned and politically astute Italian cardinal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521529352
• ISBN13: 9780521529358
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"