Mark Jurdjevic
Biographic Data
| ID | 1006846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Jurdjevic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Jurdjevic |
| SIGNATURE | JURDJEVIC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual
The Routledge History of the Renaissance
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Florentine Political Writings - From Petrarch to Machiavelli
Machiavelli’s Politics
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Renaissance Humanism
King, Margaret L., ed. and trans. Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Les passions et leurs enjeux au seizième siècle), on Érudit
A Great and Wretched City
Jurdjevic, Mark. A Great and Wretched City: Promise and Failure in Machiavelli’s Florentine Political Thought. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary (I)), on Érudit
A Great and Wretched City
Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered only negative lessons, Mark Jurdjevic shows that significant aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were inspired by his native city. Machiavelli's contempt for Florence's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of the city's unrealized political potential.
Great and Wretched City
Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli
William J. Landon. Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli: Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste / An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xiii + 278 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4424-3. - Volume 67 Issue 4
Nicholas Terpstra. Cultures of Charity
In Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy, Nicholas Terpstra provides a kaleidoscopic analysis of the varieties of poor relief in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Bologna. For much of the Renaissance, the Bolognese charitable context was a sprawling decentralized system subject to frequent change, hence Terpstra's consistent emphasis on the plurality of models adopted by the Bolognesi. He ties t…
Virtue, Fortune, and Blame in Machiavelli's Life and The Prince
This article considers the relationship between Machiavelli's Prince and the circumstances surrounding its composition. Its contextual reading suggests that the view of Machiavelli as a pessimist, a critic of Renaissance humanism, and a compliant counsellor to princes merits rethinking. Situated in light of Machiavelli's professional troubles and Florentine politics in 1512–1513, The Prince reveals Machiavelli's stubborn optimism and his polemica…
Becoming Neapolitan
"Becoming Neapolitan: Citizen Culture in Baroque Naples, by John A. Marino.." Canadian Journal of History, 47(3), pp. 636–637
The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli
John M. Najemy, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvii + 282 pp. index. chron. bibl. 29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–521–86125–0 (cl), 978–0–521–67846–9 (pbk). - Volume 64 Issue 2
Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice (review)
Reviewed by: Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice Mark Jurdjevic Horodowich, Elizabeth — Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 258. In Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich examines numerous connections between language — and more often the spoken word — and Venetian political culture in the sixteenth century. She demonstrates that Venetian pol…
La Grammaire de la république
Jean-Louis Fournel and Jean-Claude Zancarini. La Grammaire de la république: Langages de la politique chez Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540). Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance 94. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 566 pp. index. bibl. $82. ISBN: 978–2–600–01292–8. - Volume 63 Issue 3
Machiavelli's God
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Friendship, Love, and Trust in Renaissance Florence
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Florence and Beyond
Florence and Beyond is a hefty Festschrift to John Najémy, one of the leading historians of Florentine political culture during the Renaissance. Consistent with the volume's title, the twenty-five essays generally focus on Florentine history, with some excursions into papal Rome and republican Venice, and span the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The editors have done a particularly impressive job of integrating and organising a wide range…
A History of Florence, 1200-1575
Machiavelli's Hybrid Republicanism
This article addresses contrasts between Machiavelli's early and late republican writings. It argues that Machiavelli does not in the Discori straightforwardly champion the ancient Roman republican example. It examines several paradoxes and tensions within the Discorsi to show that even in the midst of his praise of Rome, Machiavelli had doubts about the viability and logical coherency of the Roman model. It contrasts those doubts with Machiavell…
Hedgehogs and Foxes
Since the 1970s, intellectual historians in general and Renaissance historians in particular have perceived a state of crisis, fragmentation and isolation in the larger enterprise of intellectual history.1 For Renaissance historians, the sense of crisis appears to have been compounded by the degree to which the conceptual coherence and basic periodization of the field itself depended on elite culture — and, although present in the plastic and vis…
Studies in Italian History in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Vol. 1, Political Thought and the Language of Politics
Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence
Italian Renaissance 2. Civic Traditions in Premodern Italy 3. From Campanilismo to Nationhood: Forging an Italian Identity 4. The Horseshoe Nail: Structure and Contingency in Medieval and Renaissance Italy 5. Fede and Fiducia: Problem of Trust in Italian History, 1300-1500 6. Florence Redux 7. Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence 8. Florentine Cathedral Chaplains in the Fifteenth Century 9. Pope, the Pandolfini, and the Parrochiani of S. Mar…
Publishing The Prince
Jacob Soll. Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. xii + 202 pp. index. illus. bibl. $49.50. ISBN: 0-472-11473-5. - Volume 59 Issue 1
Visions of Politics
Virtue, Commerce, and the Enduring Florentine Republican Moment
Republicanism has dominated the historiographies of English and American political thought for the past two decades. 1 Its success derives principally from J. G. A. Pocock's The Machiavellian Moment, which presents a sweeping vision of an ancient Aristotelian republican language that persisted for centuries in the mental landscape of the western world. Resurrected in Renaissance Florence, the language of republicanism continued to resonate powerf…
Machiavelli's Hybrid Republicanism
This article addresses contrasts between Machiavelli's early and late republican writings. It argues that Machiavelli does not in the Discori straightforwardly champion the ancient Roman republican example. It examines several paradoxes and tensions within the Discorsi to show that even in the midst of his praise of Rome, Machiavelli had doubts about the viability and logical coherency of the Roman model. It contrasts those doubts with Machiavell…
Civic Humanism and the Rise of the Medici
This article analyzes the intellectual content of civic humanism in the specific context of Medici power, asking the question: what ideological role did civic humanism play in Medicean Florence? It argues that there is no contradiction between the ideals of civic humanism and support for the Medici regime. On the contrary, civic humanism could be used to justify and legitimate Medici power. The article analyzes the writings of principal humanists…
Florence and Beyond
Florence and Beyond is a hefty Festschrift to John Najémy, one of the leading historians of Florentine political culture during the Renaissance. Consistent with the volume's title, the twenty-five essays generally focus on Florentine history, with some excursions into papal Rome and republican Venice, and span the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The editors have done a particularly impressive job of integrating and organising a wide range…
Machiavelli's Sketches of Francesco Valori and the Reconstruction of Florentine History
Is Machiavelli a reliable source for Florentine history? This article addresses that question by focusing on a remarkable discrepancy in Machiavelli's writing: the Florentine secretary's contradictory interpretations of Francesco di Filippo Valori, a major figure in the post-Medicean republican regime and one of the leaders of the Savonarolan movement. In the Discourses, Machiavelli described Valori as an ambitious politician whose quasi-princely…
Trust in Renaissance Electoral Politics
Medieval Italian political culture was founded on a general mistrust of the candidates for public office. Officials attempted to counteract what they perceived as a natural tendency toward corruption by instituting complex voting strategies designed to make chance the deciding factor in elections. This point has important ramifications for recent theories concerning the origins of social capital and civic society
Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione
Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy
Civic Humanism and the Rise of the Medici
This article analyzes the intellectual content of civic humanism in the specific context of Medici power, asking the question: what ideological role did civic humanism play in Medicean Florence? It argues that there is no contradiction between the ideals of civic humanism and support for the Medici regime. On the contrary, civic humanism could be used to justify and legitimate Medici power. The article analyzes the writings of principal humanists…
"In the Footsteps of the Ancients"
Individuals and Institutions in Renaissance Italy
Contents: A privileged student at Pavia, 1460-61: protonotary Francesco Gonzaga Studium Urbis and Gabella Studii: the University of Rome in the 15th century The earlier 'academies' in Italy An inventory from the bishop's palace in Mantua, 1466 Mantua and Trent in the later 15th century The visit to Mantua of Federico da Montefeltro in 1482 Francesco II Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua, 'liberator of Italy' Marin Sanudo, Camerlengo of Verona (1501-02) T…
Leon Battista Alberti e Firenze
Creating the Florentine State
Introduction Part I. Culture, Demography, and Fiscality: 1. Networks of culture and the mountains 2. Mountain civilization and fiscality, 1393 3. Fiscality and change, 1355-1487 Part II. Peasant Protest in the Mountains: Three Views: 4. Peasant insurrection in the mountains: the chroniclers' view 5. Peasant insurrection in the mountains as seen in the criminal records 6. Rebellion as seen from the provvisioni Part III. Governmental Clemency and t…
Virtue, Commerce, and the Enduring Florentine Republican Moment
Republicanism has dominated the historiographies of English and American political thought for the past two decades. 1 Its success derives principally from J. G. A. Pocock's The Machiavellian Moment, which presents a sweeping vision of an ancient Aristotelian republican language that persisted for centuries in the mental landscape of the western world. Resurrected in Renaissance Florence, the language of republicanism continued to resonate powerf…
History of the Florentine People, Vol. 1
The Saint as Censor
Melantone el' Italia
Machiavelli's Sketches of Francesco Valori and the Reconstruction of Florentine History
Is Machiavelli a reliable source for Florentine history? This article addresses that question by focusing on a remarkable discrepancy in Machiavelli's writing: the Florentine secretary's contradictory interpretations of Francesco di Filippo Valori, a major figure in the post-Medicean republican regime and one of the leaders of the Savonarolan movement. In the Discourses, Machiavelli described Valori as an ambitious politician whose quasi-princely…
The Short Oxford History of Italy
Renaissance Studies in the New Millennium
Texts and Documents
This article concerns the events in Toronto during June 1921 that led to the discovery of insulin and the controversy that followed. It draws attention to the hitherto unnoticed participation of E. C. Noble in the early lab work on dog 386 between 17 June and 26 June 1921. None of the accounts of the discovery of insulin written by the principal discoverers, Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J. B. Collip, and J. J. R. Macleod, acknowledge Noble's …
Greater than Emperor
Amanda Collins. Greater than Emperor: Cola di Rienzo (ca. 1313-54) and the World of Fourteenth-Century Rome. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. xi + 281 pp. index, illus. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-472-11250-3. - Volume 57 Issue 2
Trust in Renaissance Electoral Politics
Medieval Italian political culture was founded on a general mistrust of the candidates for public office. Officials attempted to counteract what they perceived as a natural tendency toward corruption by instituting complex voting strategies designed to make chance the deciding factor in elections. This point has important ramifications for recent theories concerning the origins of social capital and civic society
Prophets and Politicians
Journal Article Prophets and Politicians: Marsilio Ficino, Savonarola and the Valori Family Get access Mark Jurdjevic Mark Jurdjevic Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 183, Issue 1, May 2004, Pages 41–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/183.1.41 Published: 01 May 2004
Visions of Politics
A Renaissance of Conflicts
I Medici in rete
Irene Cotta - Francesca Klein, eds. I Medici in rete: Ricerca e progettualità scientifica a proposito dell’archivio mediceo avant il Principato. Istituto nazionale di studi sul Rinascimento: Atti di convegni 22. Florence: Leo S. Olschki 2003. xiv + 275 pp. index. €29. ISBN: 88-222-5303-5. - Volume 58 Issue 1
The Lost Italian Renaissance
Studies in Italian History in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Vol. 1, Political Thought and the Language of Politics
Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence
Italian Renaissance 2. Civic Traditions in Premodern Italy 3. From Campanilismo to Nationhood: Forging an Italian Identity 4. The Horseshoe Nail: Structure and Contingency in Medieval and Renaissance Italy 5. Fede and Fiducia: Problem of Trust in Italian History, 1300-1500 6. Florence Redux 7. Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence 8. Florentine Cathedral Chaplains in the Fifteenth Century 9. Pope, the Pandolfini, and the Parrochiani of S. Mar…
Publishing The Prince
Jacob Soll. Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. xii + 202 pp. index. illus. bibl. $49.50. ISBN: 0-472-11473-5. - Volume 59 Issue 1
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