The author focuses on Florentine libertas, identifying in the work of Coluccio Salutati the turning point between the polysemy of the notion in the previous ideological tradition of the city and the reorientation in a more openly hierarchical sense subsequently operated by Leonardo Bruni. In Salutati's vision, the freedom of the city is not only resolved in autonomy or self-government but also in the balance of the social components guaranteed by the supervision of the upper class of the "optimized", guarantors of good functioning through the repression of men's violent impulses the most virtuous by the most virtuous: this paradigm will give rise to a true conceptualization of the vita activa, placing the pursuit of freedom at the center of a project aimed at reviving the civic ethics of the Florentines.
Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France
Chapter Title
Libertas florentina. Riflessioni sulla formazione di un’ideologia politica
Authors
Laurent Baggioni
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1.18
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Libertas e libertates nel tardo medioevo. Realtà italiane nel contesto europeo
Book Subtitle
Atti del XVI Convegno di studi San Miniato 11-13 ottobre 2018
Editors
Andrea Zorzi
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Number of Pages
278
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0381-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0382-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0383-8
Series Title
Centro di Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo San Miniato
Series ISSN
2704-5692
Series E-ISSN
2704-5706