«Ardua negotia». Ordinary and extraordinary procedures in the Florentine institutions in the age of Dante

Authors

  • Lorenzo Tanzini Università degli Studi di Cagliari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/5100

Keywords:

Dante Alighieri, Politics, City-Commune, Political Language, Exceptions

Abstract

 During the 13th and 14th centuries the Florentine commune had a very complex set of institutional rules, but at the same time it admitted the possibility to depart from the statutes in case of emergency, in order to take decisions in a rapid way without consulting the wider assemblies or to use special funds to extraordinary expenditures. The extraordinary procedures were connected to a special language, which included key words as necessitas or ardua negotia. The paper aims at analysing this language to understand the relations between the institutions and the political culture.

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Published

2017-05-05

How to Cite

Tanzini, Lorenzo. 2017. “«Ardua negotia». Ordinary and Extraordinary Procedures in the Florentine Institutions in the Age of Dante”. Reti Medievali Journal 18 (1):327-43. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/5100.

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Essayes in Monographic Section

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