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First published 1969 by Pearson Education Limited. Second edition published 1978. Third edition published 1988. Fourth edition published in Great Britain in 2010. Daniel Waley and Trevor Dean illustrate how, from the eleventh century onwards, many dozens of Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual 'tyrants' took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican self-government. Focusing on the typical medium-sized towns rather than the better-known cities, the authors draw on a rich variety of contemporary material (both documentary and literary) to portray the world of the communes, illustrating the patriotism and public spirit as well as the equally characteristic factional strife which was to tear them apart. Discussion of the artistic and social lives of the inhabitants shows how these towns were the seed-bed of the cultural achievements of the early Renaissance. In this fourth edition, Trevor Dean has expanded the book’s treatment of religion, women, housing, architecture and art, to take accoun

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Author

Daniel Philip Waley; Trevor Dean

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315834306

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, European History, Humanities