Florence et la Toscane, XIVe-XIXe siecles

Interest in Florence usually terminates with the fall of the last republic in 1530, an event often taken as symbolising the end of the Renaissance. Although some attention has been paid to the Medici Dukes, historians have shown relatively little interest in the ‘forgotten centuries’ (Cochrane, 1973) of the city beyond the Renaissance, and the whole region is typically written off as lapsing into a state of cultural, economic and political decline. The great merit of this collection, written in French by Italian and French scholars, is to place the Renaissance and early modern periods in a unified timeline that spans the late fourteenth to the eighteenth century and beyond. As the title indicates, the volume also goes beyond the usual emphasis on Florence alone to adopt the regional state as the unit of analysis (see also Connell & Zorzi, 2000). The introduction and many of the essays take up

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