The Medicean succession : monarchy and sacral politics in Duke Cosimo dei Medici's Florence /
Murry, Gregory,1982-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The familiarity of terrestrial divinity -- Divine right rule and the providential worldview -- Rescuing virtue from Machiavelli -- Prince or patrone? Cosimo as an ecclesiastical patron -- Cosimo and Savonarolan reform -- Defense of the sacred.
Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
Medici, House of.
Monarchy
Divine right of kings.