This contribution aims to answer to a still pending question: what was the role of the communities, and their homines, in the diplomatic practices underlying the stipulation of an adherentia (an elastic bond to coordinate two asymmetrical powers). The question is rooted in the role played by local realities, and by the homines that animated them, in the broader processes of state building, and inter-state relations, that ran through late medieval and Renaissance Italy. Some answers in this regard come from the case study taken into consideration: the treaty of adherentia stipulated between Gonzaga and Cavalcabò in 1412, in which the homines of the communities that substantiated the latter’s lordship appear to have an unusual relevance in the practices of the adherentia. A lunge in a specific case study that wishes to offer few answers in a topic that is still far from being exhausted.
Il presente contributo intende offrire qualche riflessione su una domanda che, ancora oggi, rimane inevasa: quale fosse, nelle pratiche diplomatiche che sottostavano alla stipula di un’aderenza (legame elastico atto a coordinare tra di loro due realtà asimmetriche), il peso delle comunità coinvolte e dei loro homines. La domanda affonda le sue radici nel ruolo rivestito dalle realtà locali, e dai rustici che le animavano, nei più ampi processi di formazione statale, e nelle relazioni interstatali, che attraversarono l’Italia bassomedievale e Rinascimentale. Alcune risposte in merito giungono dal caso di studio in esame: il trattato di aderenza stipulato tra Gonzaga e Cavalcabò nel 1412, in cui gli homines delle comunità che sostanziavano la signoria di questi ultimi appaiono avere rilevanza inusitata nelle pratiche dell’aderenza. Un affondo in un caso puntuale, che desidera offrire qualche spunto di riflessione in temi ancora lungi dall’essere esauriti.
La politica degli homines, la politica dei domini. Note sull’aderenza fra Cavalcabò e Gonzaga del 1412 / F. Bozzi. - In: RICERCHE STORICHE. - ISSN 0392-162X. - 53:2(2023), pp. 23-42.
La politica degli homines, la politica dei domini. Note sull’aderenza fra Cavalcabò e Gonzaga del 1412
F. Bozzi
2023
Abstract
This contribution aims to answer to a still pending question: what was the role of the communities, and their homines, in the diplomatic practices underlying the stipulation of an adherentia (an elastic bond to coordinate two asymmetrical powers). The question is rooted in the role played by local realities, and by the homines that animated them, in the broader processes of state building, and inter-state relations, that ran through late medieval and Renaissance Italy. Some answers in this regard come from the case study taken into consideration: the treaty of adherentia stipulated between Gonzaga and Cavalcabò in 1412, in which the homines of the communities that substantiated the latter’s lordship appear to have an unusual relevance in the practices of the adherentia. A lunge in a specific case study that wishes to offer few answers in a topic that is still far from being exhausted.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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