2009
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Renzo Sabbatini, « Famiglie e potere nella Lucca moderna », Publications de l'École Française de Rome (documents), ID : 10670/1.6x56st
The whole medieval and early modern history of Lucca, more than of any other Republic, should be approached bearing in mind the strong relation between families and political (but also economie) power. The research covers a very wide span of time : from 1446-47, when the Statutum regiminis (a true republican constitution) was drafted, until the 1720's, the years characterised by a passionate debate that proclaimed the existence of a relation between political power and the preservation of aristocratic families, by means of demanding (although not always effective) choices in terms of economie and tax policy. The relevant analysis concerns the family's juridical, economie and political aspects, with particular reference to the peculiar role played by relations and « consortati » within the republican form of government that the Lucchese State kept throughout the whole early modem age.