Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-skm99 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T12:30:47.673Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Competing Visions of the State and Social Welfare: The Medici Dukes, the Bigallo Magistrates, and Local Hospitals in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Nicholas Terpstra
Nicholas Terpstra*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

In 1542, Florence's Duke Cosimo I established a magistracy to supervise territorial hospitab and consolidate poor relief. Tense relations between the magistracy and these hospitab demonstrate the barriers to bureaucratic centralization in the sixteenth-century state, and underscore the fact that the shift from traditional charity to ‘new philanthropy’ was as much geographical and cultural as temporal. Tensions between the magistracy and successive Medici Dukes also demonstrate how in negotiations between bureaucrats and local communities territorial rulers could play both sides to advance their personal authority, and could learn from the difficulties of one magistracy how better to design another.

Type
Studies
Information
Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 4-Part2 , Winter 2001 , pp. 1319 - 1355
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2001

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

d'Addario, Arnaldo. 1968. “Noti di storia della religiosita e della carita dei Fiorentini nel secolo XVI.” Archivio storico italiano 126: 61–147.Google Scholar
d'Andrea, David Michael. 1999. Civic Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Treviso: The Confraternity and Hospital of Santa Maria dei Battuti. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia.Google Scholar
Anzilotti, Antonio. 1910. La costituzione interna dello stato fiorentino sotto ilduca Cosimo I de Medici. Florence.Google Scholar
Aranci, Gilberto. 1999. Formazione religiosa e santita laicale a Firenze tra Cinque e Seicento. Florence.Google Scholar
Arrizabalaga, Jon, Henderson, John, and French, Roger. 1997. The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. New Haven and London.Google Scholar
Balestracci, Duccio. 1989. “Per una storia degli ospedali di contado nella Toscana fra XIV e XVI secolo. Strutture, arredi, personale, assistenza.” In La societa del bisogno: Poverta e assistenza nella Toscana medievale. Ed. Giuliano Pinto, 37-59. Florence.Google Scholar
Berner, Samuel Joseph. 1969. The Florentine Patriciate in the Transition from Republic to Principato, 1530-1610. Ph.D dissertation, University of California at Berkeley.Google Scholar
Black, Jane. 2000. “Constitutional ambitions, legal realities and the Florentine state.” In Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power. Ed. William J. Connell and Andrea Zorzi, 48-64. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Bracken, John. 1992. Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609, Cambridge.Google Scholar
Bracken, John. 2000. “Who were the deserving poor in late Renaissance Florence?” Paper read at the Renaissance Society of America meeting, Florence, Italy, 22 March 2000.Google Scholar
Chambers, David and Trevor Dean. 1997. Clean Hands and Rough Justice: An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy. Ann Arbor.Google Scholar
Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. 1994. “Razionalita e ‘civismo’ nella storia italiana della prima eta moderna.” In Origini dello Stato: Processi di formazione statale in Italia fra medioevo edeta moderna, Ed. Giorgio Chittolini, Anthony Molho, and Pierangelo Schiera, 177-86. BolognaGoogle Scholar
Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. 1998. “Marriage in the Mountains.” In Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650. Ed. Trevor Dean and Katherine J.P. Lowe. 174-96. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. 1999. Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Comerford, Kathleen M. 2001. Ordaining the Catholic Reformation: Priests and Seminary Pedagogy in Fiesole, 1575-1675. Florence.Google Scholar
Connell, William J. 1989. Republican Territorial Government: Florence and Pistoia, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley.Google Scholar
Cossar, Roisin. 1999. The Misericordia Maggiore of Bergamo: Piety and Civic Life, 1265-1365. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.Google Scholar
De Angelis, Laura. 2000. “Territorial Offices and Office Holders.“ In Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power. Ed. William J. Connell and Andrea Zorzi, 165-82. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Fasano Guarini, Elena. 1977. “Potere cent raleecomunita soggette nel Granducato di Cosimo I.” Rivista storica italiana 89: 490–538.Google Scholar
Fasano Guarini, Elena. 1979. “The Grand Duchy of Tuscany at the Death of Cosimo I: A Historical Map (with enclosure),” Journal of Italian History 2: 520-30.Google Scholar
Fasano Guarini, Elena. 1994. “Centro e periferia, accentramento e particolarismi: dichotomia o sostanza degli Stati in eta moderna.” In Origini dello Stato: Processi diformazione statale in Italia fra medioevo ed eta moderna. Ed. Giorgio Chittolini, Anthony Molho and Pierangelo Schiera, 147-76. Bologna.Google Scholar
Fasano Guarini, Elena. 1995. (Seen. 5) Gamurrini, E. 1668-73. Istoria delle famiglie nobili Toscane et Umbre. Vol. 4. Florence.Google Scholar
Gavitt, Philip. 1997. “Charity and State Building in Cinquecento Florence: Vincenzio Borghini as Administrator of the Ospedale degli Innocenti.“/o«rnal of ‘Modern History 69: 230–70.Google Scholar
Henderson, John. 1999. “Charity and Welfare in Early Modern Tuscany.” In Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe, Ed. Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham with Jon Arrizabalaga. 56-86. London.Google Scholar
Hufton, Olwen. 1974. The Poor of Eighteenth Century France, 1750-1789. Oxford.Google Scholar
Knox, Giles R.M. 1999. Church Decoration and the Politics of Reform in Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century Bergamo. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.Google Scholar
Litchfield, R. Burr. 1986. Emergence of a Bureaucracy: The Florentine Patricians, 1530-1790. Princeton.Google Scholar
Lombardi, Daniela. 1982. “Poveri a Firenze: Programmi e realizzazioni della politica assistenziale dei Medici tra cinque e seicento.” In Timore e carita: I poveri nell'Italia moderna. Ed. Giorgio Politi et al. 165-84. Cremona.Google Scholar
Lombardi, Daniela. 1988. Poverta maschile, poverta femminile: L'ospedale dei mendicanti nella Firenze dei Medici. Bologna.Google Scholar
Mecatti, Giuseppe Maria. 1754. Della nobilta, e cittadinanza di Firenze. Naples.Google Scholar
Menning, Carol Bresnahan. 1993. Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy: The Monte di Pieta of Florence. Ithaca.Google Scholar
Nutton, Vivian. 1990. “The Reception of Fracastoro's Theory of Contagion: The seed that fell among thorns?” Osiris. Series II, Vol. 6: 196–234.Google Scholar
Passerini, Luigi. 1853. Storia degli stabilmenti di benificenza e d'istruzione elementare gratuita della citta di Firenze. Florence.Google Scholar
Pini, Antonio. 1986. Citta, comuni e corporazioni nel medioevo italiane. Bologna.Google Scholar
Polizzotto, Lorenzo. 1994. The Elect Nation: The Savonarolan Movement in Florence, 1494-1545. Oxford.Google Scholar
Pullan, Brian. 1988. “Support and Redeem: Charity and Poor Relief in Italian Cities from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century.” Continuity and Changed: 177-208.Google Scholar
Quecel, Claude, 1992. History of Syphilis. Baltimore.Google Scholar
Richa, Giuseppe. 1758. Notizie istoriche delle chiese ftorentine divise ne’ suoi Quartieri. Vol. 10. Florence.Google Scholar
Salvadori, Patrizia. 2000. “Florentines and the communities of the territorial state.” In Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power. Ed. William J. Connell and Andrea Zorzi, 207-24. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Statuti, . 1574. Statuti dell'Opera depoveri mendicanti della citta di Bologna novamente riformati & ampliati. Bologna.Google Scholar
Terpstra, Nicholas. 1999. “Confraternities and Public Charity: Modes of Civic Welfare in Early Modern Italy.” In Confraternities and Catholic Reform in Italy, France, & Spain. Ed. John Patrick Donnelly & Michael Maher. 97-121. Kirksville.Google Scholar
Terpstra, Nicholas. 2000. “ In loco parentis: Confraternities and abandoned children in Florence and Bologna.” In The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy. Ed Nicholas Terpstra, 114-131. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Torre, Angelo. 2000. “Faith's boundaries: ritual and territory in rural Piedmont in the early modern period.” In The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy. Ed. Nicholas Terpstra, 243-61. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Zorzi, Andrea. 2000. “The ‘material constitution’ of the Florentine dominion.” In Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power. Ed. William J. Connell and Andrea Zorzi, 6-31. Cambridge.Google Scholar