La Historia dell’Europa di Pierfrancesco Giambullari e la “Monarchia universalis”: tra realtà e utopia

• Published in: Polis (Bucharest, Romania) Vol. V; no. 2(16); pp. 47 - 65
• Main Author: VITALI, Francesco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Italian
• Published: Editura Institutul European 01.06.2017; European Institute; Editura Institutul European Iasi
• Subjects: divine providence; holy roman empire; monarchia universalis; Politics; Politics / Political Sciences; translatio imperii; Holy Roman Empire; Monarchia universalis; Divine Providence; Translatio Imperii

The Florentine academic Pierfrancesco Giambullari started to write Historia dell’Europa in 1545 at the court of duke Cosimo I de’ Medici. In his Historia, Giambullari analysed the history of the Holy Roman Empire from 887 A.D. to 950 A.D. Above all, he celebrated the advent to the imperial throne of...