Renaissance Politics and Culture

Jonathan Davies, Ph.D. (1993, University of Liverpool) is Associate Professor in Italian Renaissance History at the University of Warwick. His publications include Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance (Brill, 1993) and Culture and Power: Tuscany and its Universities 1537–1609 (Brill, 2009)John Monfasani is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He served as the Executive Director of the Renaissance Society of America, 1995–2010.

• PrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPublications of Robert D. Black, 1973–20201 Robert Black: A Life of ScholarshipJonathan DaviesPart 1: Politics2 The Problem of Succession for the Visconti and the SforzaJane Black3 The Impuissant and Immoral City: George of Trebizond’s Critique of Plato’s LawsJohn Monfasani4 The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of SienaJames Hankins5 Cleomenes Redivivus: Machiavelli from The Prince to the DiscoursesJérémie Barthas6 Machiavelli and ArezzoJohn M. NajemyPart 2: Culture7 Leon Battista Alberti as a Student of the Florentine University and the Priory of San Martino a Gangalandi (1429–1430)Lorenz Böninger8 The Gherardi Family of Borgo San Sepolcro and Piero della Francesca’s Williamstown Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four AngelsJames R. Banker9 Pier Vettori (1499–1585): Philologist and ProfessorDavide Baldi Bellini10 Print and Trust in Renaissance ItalyBrian RichardsonIndex