Transformation of Images of Perception of Socio-Political Changes in Florence in the Last Quarter of the XIV- Early XV Centuries

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of the perception of socio-political changes by Florentine citizens in the last quarter of the XIV- early XV c., when the dictatorship of the Guelph Party was overthrown, a limit was set to the regime of junior workshops, and urban society returned to republican order, reaching a relative balance of structures involved in the management – senior and junior workshops, as well as those who returned to the city of the arch-elves. This was reflected in the perception of citizens as the achievement of elative harmony by society in a rich, prosperous city that has achieved significant foreign policy successes inclusion in the sphere of the Florentine dominion of Arezzo and Pisa). Next, the "price of victory" is investigated: the restriction of the norms of Florentine democracy in favor of the emerging oligarchic system.