Guardians of Republicanism

Mark Jurdjevic was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He earned a BA from the University of Toronto in 1996 and a PhD in early modern European history from Northwestern University in 2002. Between 2002-2004, he taught at Yale University's Whitney Humanities Center. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches early modern European history. He has published articles in Renaissance Quarterly, Past and Present, English Historical Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and is currently writing a study of Machiavelli's later political thought.

This elegantly produced volume provides a welcome focus on the Valori family... There is much to learn from this book, and much rigorous archival and secondary research has gone into its composition.

• Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; The Valori Family Tree ; Scipione Ammirato's Valori Family Tree ; Introduction: The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance ; 1. Francesco Valori and the Savonarolan Republic ; 2. Marsilio Ficino and the Valori Family ; 3. The Valori Family and Machiavelli's Portraits of Francesco 'il vecchio' ; 4. The Valori Family and Luca Della Robbia's Vita di Bartolomeo ; 5. The Valori Self-Portrait Under the Medici Grand Dukes ; 6. The Last Portraits of the Valori Family ; Conclusion: The Valori Family in Florentine Historiography ; Bibliography ; Index ; Index of Manuscripts