Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Ear Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790, (Paperback)

Under Peter Leopold (r. 1765-90), Tuscany became the most important laboratory of Enlightened reform in all of Europe. Few societies underwent as many reforms in such a short period or were transformed as dramatically. Tuscany illustrates the possibilities and the limits of Enlightenment.