《彼特拉克的战争》内容简介：
14世纪中期，黑死病阴霾笼罩整个佛罗伦萨，与此同时发生了另一场灾难——“彼特拉克的战争”。因为挚友遭遇豪强乌巴尔迪尼家族的抢劫和殴打，意大利著名人文主义者彼特拉克致信佛罗伦萨执政官，呼吁这座城市向这一显赫家族宣战。
这是一部围绕佛罗伦萨反对乌巴尔迪尼家族之战而展开的微观史新作。作者将战争与瘟疫叙事相联系，通过详细解读档案中的经济数据，尤其是士兵的工资数据，重新审视佛罗伦萨的雇佣兵、公职人员，以及政治、经济体制，试图揭示瘟疫和战争带来的影响。
本书将经济、军事、文学和社会历史等都纳入对瘟疫后佛罗伦萨社会的考察中，探索了一种分析性的叙事，是一部结合了军事史、经济史和文学分析的独创性研究。
作者简介
威廉·卡费罗(WilliamCaferro)，美国范德堡大学历史系教授，专长为欧洲中世纪史，尤其是意大利史研究，于2010年荣获古根海姆奖。代表作有《雇佣兵公司与锡耶纳的衰落》《佛罗伦萨的斯皮内利家族：文艺复兴时期商人家族的财富》《约翰·霍克伍德：14世纪意大利的英格兰雇佣兵》《彼持拉克的战争：黑死病阴霾下的佛罗伦萨》等。
Description of Petrarch's War:
In the middle of the 14th century, the Black Death enveloped Florence at the same time as another disaster, Petrarch's War. Because his best friend was robbed and beaten by the powerful Ubaldini family, the famous Italian humanist Petrarch wrote to the consul of Florence, calling on the city to declare war on this prominent family.
This is a new microhistory of Florence's war against the Ubaldini family. Linking the war with the plague narrative, the author reexamines Florentine mercenaries, civil servants, and political and economic institutions through a detailed interpretation of the economic data in the archives, especially the salary data of soldiers, in an attempt to reveal the impact of the plague and the war.
Integrating economic, military, literary, and social history into an examination of Florentine society after the plague, this book explores an analytical narrative, an original study that combines military history, economic history, and literary analysis.
About the author
WilliamCaferro is a professor of history at Vanderbilt University who specializes in medieval European history, especially Italian history, and was awarded the Guggenheim Prize in 2010. His works include The Mercenary Company and the Fall of Sienna, The Spinelli Family of Florence: The Fortunes of the Merchant Families of the Renaissance, John Hawkwood: English Mercenaries in Fourteenth-century Italy, and The War of Piedrac: Florence in the Shadow of the Black Death.
