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The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early hist

Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But

In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family cre

This first detailed study of the bishops of Florence tells the story of a dynamic Italian lordship during the most prosperous period of the Middle Ages. Drawing

The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassan