Guardians of Republicanism: The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance

Guardians of Republicanism analyses the political and intellectual history of Renaissance The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance.
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From the consciously sub rosa control exercised by Cosimo il Vecchio in the mid-fifteenth-century republic to the overt display of ducal power pursued by Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany, a century later, Medici authority or challenges to that power defined Florentine politics. In fact, one of the virtues of this study is its demonstration of the labile nature of such political relationships.

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Vasari executed the painting in the newly renamed Palazzo Ducale, signaling the end of the republican governments that had been housed in the former Palazzo della Signoria. Patently, the Medici were now in charge. For all its signal importance to the narrative, no illustration of the painting is included in the text; it appears only on the dust-jacket.

These actions established important precedents for future generations of Valori, many of whom maintained deep partisanship toward both republicanism and the legacy of Savonarola. Rather, Francesco, like many ottimati , defined republicanism as oligarchical, with political power held in the hands of the few, ironically and tellingly not unlike the system promoted and exploited by the Medici.

Jurdjevic emphasizes that the myth of the so-called Platonic academy patronized by the Medici was, in fact, based upon such ottimati patronage of Ficino well apart from any Medici support. In the s, in a notebook draft of his Istorie Fiorentine , Machiavelli defends Francesco as a misunderstood republican patriot. Like the Valori, the Della Robbia had been supporters of Savonarola, and Jurdjevic elucidates the Savonarolan influence that was still felt in early cinquecento Florence.

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If early cinquecento opponents of the Medici found making up hard to do, the Valori under the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany had an even more difficult task. This must have been especially challenging for Baccio Valori, whose father and uncle were put to death by the Medici after the Battle of Montemurlo in In order to fashion an identity that accommodated the new ducal culture, Baccio crafted an image of a family devoted to public service and humanist patronage.

Baccio evidently succeeded in mollifying the Medici, since he became an important political and cultural figure at the Medici court.

The final chapter is devoted to a study of early seicento Valori biographies by Scipione Ammirato and Don Silvano Razzi. Both make liberal use of the earlier biographies, both were written with the cooperation and likely patronage of Baccio Valori, and Savonarolan and Ficinian elements are common to both; but here the similarities end.

Ammirato served as court historian to Grand Duke Ferdinand and thus presented the Savonarolan years as evidence of the danger of populist politics. Francesco returns to his status as Savonarolan martyr to the cause of the popular republic.

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In his conclusion, Jurdjevic attempts to situate the Valori story in the larger context of Renaissance historiography. The Valori were early and influential supporters of the Medici family, but were also crucial participants in the city's periodic republican revivals throughout the Renaissance. Each of these three quintessential Renaissance reformers and philosophers relied heavily on the patronage of the Valori, who evolved an innovative republicanism based on a hybrid fusion of the classical and Christian languages of Florentine communal politics.

Jurdjevic's study thus illuminates how intellectual forces-humanist, republican, and Machiavellian-intersected and directed the politics and culture of the Florentine Renaissance.



The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance 1. Francesco Valori and the Savonarolan Republic 2.

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Marsilio Ficino and the Valori Family 3. Mark Jurdjevic was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches early modern European history. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Academic Skip to main content.



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