Warfare and Politics: Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance. The essays cover a remarkably broad geographical and topical range as they analyse the economic, military, political, and diplomatic history of Florence, Rome, Venice, and the Italian peninsula in general through the Renaissance and early modern period.

Contributions by: Reinhold C. Mueller, Simon Pepper, Krystina Stermole, John M. Najemy, Maurizio Arfaioli, Fabrizio Ricciardelli, Richard Goy, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Christine Shaw, Suzanne B. Butters, Stella Fletcher