1st Edition
Florence After the Medici Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790
Introduction: Tuscany and Enlightenment in the Atlantic World
Corey Tazzara and Paula Findlen
Part I: The Politics of Knowledge in Enlightenment Tuscany
1. The Enlightenment at Work: Ideology, Reform, and a Blueprint for a Constitution
Renato Pasta
2. The Politics of Libraries Under the Habsburg-Lorraines
Emmanuelle Chapron
3. The Economics of Healthcare and the Tuscan Medical Enlightenment
Elizabeth W. Mellyn
4. From the Body to the Body Politic: Peter Leopold’s Florentine Enlightenment State
Rebecca Messbarger
Part II: Commerce and the State
5. Carlo Ginori and the Modernization of the Tuscan Economy
Antonella Alimento
6. Commercial Crisis in Livorno and the Remaking of the Tuscan Hinterland
Corey Tazzara
7. Forests, Woods, Roads: Agricultural Landscapes as Instruments for the Material Administration of an Eighteenth-Century Tuscan Periphery
Lavinia Maddaluno
Part III: History, Culture, and Enlightenment
8. Long After the Trial: Galileo's Rediscovery, Florentine Nostalgia, and Enlightened Passions
Paula Findlen
9. Making Renaissance Art Florentine
Heather Hyde Minor
10. "Twenty Magnificent Temples of the Arts": Geographic Schools in the Uffizi Gallery
Callum Reid
Epilogue: The Encyclopedic Prince: Grand Duke Peter Leopold (1747-1792) and the Meaning of Tuscan Enlightenment
Jacob Soll
Biography
Corey Tazzara is Assistant Professor of History at Scripps College.
Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.
Jacob Soll is Professor of History and Accounting at the University of Southern California.
