The Tuscan city-state that became the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, governed as a commune and intermittently by the Medici family before becoming the Duchy of Florence in 1532.
Abolished on 27 April 1532 when Pope Clement VII dissolved its republican constitution and created a hereditary Duchy of Florence under Alessandro de' Medici.
The atlas holds 6 border frames for Republic of Florence — the shape you scrub through changes in 1115 · 1130 · 1160 · 1204 · 1296 · 1406.
Accessible account of Florence's most influential ruling family and the Republic's politics.
The classic portrait of Florence as city and community during its Renaissance apogee as a republic.
Florence in the 1490s — Savonarola’s bonfires and the Medici’s fall.
The world of the Italian city-states — broad context for this republic’s politics and culture.