Conflict and Revolt in the Name of Unity

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract We analyze public policy speeches in the Florentine Consulte e Pratiche, made immediately prior to the Ciompi Revolt, for signs of elite factional conflict in the context of self-proclaimed unity. We employ three statistical analyses of these speeches in Latin: namely, scatterplots of word frequencies, Wordfish scaling, and regressions on speech-similarities. We also employ two qualitative analyses: a case study of the speeches of Lapo da Castiglionchio, leader of the Parte Guelfa faction, and a close examination of the rhetoric of unity in three important sets of meetings. Our main finding is this: The run-up to the Ciompi Revolt was crystallization of the “unity of citizens” in the room of the Consulte e Pratiche and, among the same actors, crystallization of the “unity of Guelfs” in the room of the Parte Guelfa, with a lack of recognition in the multivocal speeches in the former of the obvious contradiction with actions in the latter. In our opinion, the tragedy of “the valiant failure of republicanism” in Florence was that the intense wishful yearning for unity in speech induced, under background conditions of deep social-class contestation about “Who is Florence?,” an intensification in action of the very revolutionary forces that it most desperately wanted to suppress.
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Authors John F. Padgett
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oso/9780197789216.003.0005
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197789216.003.0005
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