Culture and Power: Tuscany and its Universities 1537–1609 (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 34)

Traditionally grand ducal Tuscany and its cultural politics have been viewed through the lens of absolutism. Based on a wide range of newly found sources and building on recent revisionist scholarship, this study uses the universities of Pisa and Siena to expose the contradictions and the tensions which characterised the grand duchy. Setting the universities against the diplomatic, military, administrative, economic, ecclesiastical, and cultural development of the grand duchy, it shows how innovation mixed with tradition and local privileges were not only upheld but extended significantly. CONTENTS 10 Acknowledgments 12 Abbreviations and Terminology 14 Introduction 16 PART ONE CONTEXT 28 Chapter One Building the Grand Duchy 30 Chapter Two Cultural Politics in Early Modern Tuscany 72 PART TWO STRUCTURES 94 Chapter Three The Structures of Academic Power 96 Chapter Four Tensions Within the Structures of Academic Power 134 PART THREE ORDER AND DISORDER 154 Chapter Five Rituals 156 Chapter Six Violence and Disorder 172 Conclusion 194 Appendix I: Deputati di Balìa sopra lo Studio di Siena, 1557–1609 200 Appendix II: Indices of the Known Members of the Pisan Colleges of Doctors, 1543–1609 211 Appendix III: Indices of the Known Members of the Sienese Colleges of Doctors, 1557–1579 220 Appendix IV: The Finances of the Studio pisano, the Studio fi orentino, and the Accademia fi orentina 225 Appendix V: Payments to Professors at the Studio pisano, the Studio fi orentino, and the Accademia fi orentina 230 Appendix VI: Payments to Professors at the Studio senese, 1557–1589 309 Bibliography 338 Index 356 FIGURES 108 Fig. 1. Numbers of Chairs at the Studio pisano and Studio senese, 1543–1608 108 Fig. 2. Teaching Budgets at the Studio pisano and Studio senese, 1543–1608 109 Fig. 3. Salaries at the Studio pisano and Studio senese, 1543–1608 110 9789004172555