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The art of the network : strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence / Paul D. McLean.

Author/creator McLean, Paul Douglas, 1962-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoDurham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
Social networks--Italy --Florence --History.
Patronage, Political--Italy --Florence --History.
Patron and client--Italy --Florence --History.
Letter writing, Italian--History.
Renaissance--Italy --Florence.
Florence (Italy)--Social life and customs.
Series Politics, history, and culture
Politics, history, and culture. ^A503914
Contents The principles of networking as a social process -- The rhetoric and design of Florentine letter writing -- The socially contested concept of honor -- What gets said when in patronage letters -- The dynamics of office seeking -- Friends of friends : raccomandazione as rhetoric and as constitutive principle -- Patronage and the stalled transformation of the state -- "Servants and slaves in everything and for everything" : Renaissance networking and the emergent modern self? -- Conclusion: Culture and the network.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-277) and index.
LCCN 2007017993
ISBN9780822341000 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN082234100X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822341178 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822341174 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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