Corey Tazzara is Assistant Professor of History at Scripps College.Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.Jacob Soll is Professor of History and Accounting at the University of Southern California.

• Introduction: Tuscany and Enlightenment in the Atlantic World Part I: The Politics of Knowledge in Enlightenment Tuscany 1. The Enlightenment at Work: Ideology, Reform, and a Blueprint for a Constitution 2. The Politics of Libraries Under the Habsburg-Lorraines 3. The Economics of Healthcare and the Tuscan Medical Enlightenment 4. From the Body to the Body Politic: Peter Leopold’s Florentine Enlightenment State Part II: Commerce and the State 5. Carlo Ginori and the Modernization of the Tuscan Economy 6. Commercial Crisis in Livorno and the Remaking of the Tuscan Hinterland 7. Forests, Woods, Roads: Agricultural Landscapes as Instruments for the Material Administration of an Eighteenth-Century Tuscan Periphery Part III: History, Culture, and Enlightenment 8. Long After the Trial: Galileo's Rediscovery, Florentine Nostalgia, and Enlightened Passions 9. Making Renaissance Art Florentine 10. "Twenty Magnificent Temples of the Arts": Geographic Schools in the Uffizi Gallery. Epilogue: The Encyclopedic Prince: Grand Duke Peter Leopold (1747-1792) and the Meaning of Tuscan Enlightenment

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