La trasformazione di un quadro politico

Ricerche su politica e giustizia a Firenze dal comune allo Stato territoriale

Zorzi, Andrea

Andrea Zorzi teaches Mediaeval History at the University of Florence. His research has centred on the political and institutional history of late mediaeval Tuscany, with particular focus on the practices of conflict, the judicial systems and the formation of the State. Among his publications we should mention: L'amministrazione della giustizia penale nella Repubblica fiorentina. Aspetti e problemi (Olschki, 1988), and Pratiques sociales et politiques judiciaires dans les villes de l'Occident à la fin du Moyen Age (with J. Chiffoleau and C. Gauvard, École française de Rome, 2007).

Serie: Biblioteca di storia

Scientific committee: Storia di Firenze – Il portale per la storia della città

This book proposes a series of studies devoted to one of the most important areas of political and institutional history, that of the relations between the political dimension and the exercise of justice. Centred on the experience of Florence, but open to comparison with that of other parts of Italy, the investigation brings to light how, in the transformation of the political framework of the age of the Comune to that of the territorial State between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries, in the relations between the powers active in the territory the sphere of justice offered scope for debate and political competition as well as leverage for legitimisation.
One of the intentions of the book is, in fact, to contribute to revising the concept of justice, going beyond the traditional vision of public function and an aspect of the progressive affirmation of the State.