Warfare and Politics: Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance. The essays cover a remarkably broad geographical and topical range as they analyse the economic, military, political, and diplomatic history of Florence, Rome, Venice, and the Italian peninsula in general through the Renaissance and early modern period.

Dr Humfrey Butters (1946-2019) was Emeritus Reader in History at the University of Warwick.Dr Gaby Neher is Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Nottingham.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSLIST OF CONTRIBUTORSEDITORIAL INTRODUCTIONI PROLOGUEThe historiography of the Renaisssance StateHumfrey C. ButtersII WARFARE: POLITICS AND BATTLES, FIGHTERS AND CIVILIANS, NARRATION AND ANALYSISWar and Beatitude: the case of the fall of Venetian Negroponte to the Turks (1470)Reinhold C. MuellerPatriots and Partisans: Venetian loyalists in the Terraferma and military support for the Republic in the war of the League of Cambrai (1509-17)Simon PepperDepicting the Venetian Terraferma in wartime for a popular audience: popolano woodcuts inspired by the Cambrai War (1509-17)Krystina StermoleThe figure of Fabrizio Colonna in Machiavelli's Arte della GuerraJohn NajemyClash of Dukes: Cosimo I de' Medici, William of Cleves and the 'guerra di Dura' of 1543Maurizio ArfaioliIII POLITICAL LANGUAGE AND CAREERS, URBAN IDENTITY AND TRANSFORMATION, THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTForms of political propaganda in late-medieval FlorenceFabrizio RicciardelliVenetian Gothic: a symbol of national identity?Richard GoySanudo's writings on Brescia: why the Terraferma mattersGabriele NeherBodies Politic: the environment, public health and the state in early modern VeniceJane Stevens CrawshawLibertà and 'protection' during the Italian WarsChristine ShawOdious comparisons: Cosimo I, the Duke of Athens and FlorenceSuzanne B.Butters IV EPILOGUERenaissance cities through Ruskinian eyes: an English architect in Italy in 1902Stella Fletcher V MICHAEL E. MALLETT BIBLIOGRAPHYHumfrey C. Butters and Suzanne B. ButtersINDEX