Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790

ISBN-13: 9780367407247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str.

Corey Tazzara; Paula Findlen; Jacob Soll

Opis

Under Peter Leopold (r. 1765-90), Tuscany became the most important laboratory of Enlightened reform in all of Europe. Few societies underwent as many reforms in such a short period or were transformed as dramatically. Tuscany illustrates the possibilities and the limits of Enlightenment.

Spis treści

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