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By Konrad Eisenbichler

whilst he without notice got here to energy in Italy in 1537, the younger Duke Cosimo I de' Medici surprised pals and foes alike along with his skill to extricate himself from mortal threat, confirm his authority and revive a demise country. He doubled the dimensions of his duchy and verified a dynasty that governed unchallenged for 2 hundred years. This quantity is the 1st book-length learn in any language to procedure the determine of Duke Cosimo I from the perspective of his cultural time table. The participants research the political, financial, cultural and linguistic thoughts that made Cosimo a profitable chief, and within the strategy remove darkness from the cultural international of mid-sixteenth-century Tuscany.

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