Emergence of a bureaucracy : the Florentine patricians, 1530-1790 /
Burr Litchfield traces the development of the patrician elite of Florence from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the growth of a bureaucratic state in Tuscany during this period, and the changing relationship of the patricians to the state apparatus. His discussion of this largely negl...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1986.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I: THE PATRICIANS AS A SOCIAL GROUP FROM THE REPUBLIC TO THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE
- 1. The Legacy of the Renaissance Republic
- 2. Adaptation to the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth Century Medici Court
- 3. The Eighteenth-Century Libri di Oro of the Hapsburg-Lorraine
- PART II: THE NEW BUREAUCRACY OF THE MEDICI DUKES IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
- 4. From Magistrates to Functionaries
- 5. The Expansion of the Central Bureaucracy
- 6. Central and Provincial Offices
- PART III: THE PATRICIANS IN THE BUREAUCRACY
- 7. Theory and Practice of the Mixed State
- 8. The Relocation of the Patricians by Type of Office
- PART IV: THE PATRIMONIALISM OF PATRICIAN FUNCTIONARIES
- 9. Training and Appointment
- 10. Careers and Salaries
- PART V: PATRICIAN WEALTH AND DUCAL POLICY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- 11. The Changing Fortunes of the Patricians
- 12. The Economic Policy of Patrimonialism
- PART VI: THE REMAKING OF THE BUREAUCRACY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE
- 13. The Regency for Francis Stephen,1737-65
- 14. The Leopoldine Reforms,1765-90
- 15. The Exit of the Patricians from Office
- CONCLUSION