Governors and Government in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence 1502-1519When Piero Soderino was elected to the new office of Gonfalonier of Justice in 1502, he was faced not only with the problem of foreign invasions of italy but also with a controversial new constitution based on a Great Council of over 3,000 members. With the return of the Medici in 1512, the earlier constitutional order was restored one that was far more oligarchical, and much less satisfactory, for many Florentines. This book provides a lively account