The author identifies in the reflection and practice of fourteenth-century Italian cities with a communal tradition the development of a culture of autonomy that anticipated the 'republican' notion of freedom and political community later formalized by the Florentine chancellors, from Salutati to Bruni. The author investigates the privilege of autonomy as a condition that makes the action of individuals possible, highlighting how this freedom constituted one of the connotative traits of legitimate power and how the claim for freedom was socially inflected, aiming to marginalize the large components of "lower people" perceived as dangerous. The humanistic discontinuity consolidated the idea of the natural disposition of artisans and merchants to preserve freedom in the cities they led, reformulating it in the nation of the free community as it was non-monarchical.
University of Palermo, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-0640-966X
Titolo del capitolo
La cultura dell’autonomia (Italia, sec. XIV)
Autori
E. Igor Mineo
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0382-1.17
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Libertas e libertates nel tardo medioevo. Realtà italiane nel contesto europeo
Sottotitolo del libro
Atti del XVI Convegno di studi San Miniato 11-13 ottobre 2018
Curatori
Andrea Zorzi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
278
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
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
Collana
Centro di Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo San Miniato
ISSN della collana
2704-5692
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5706