Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli 0812224329, 978-0812224320

In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wea

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Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli
0812224329, 978-0812224320

Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the

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Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejectio

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Explores the Renaissance movement known as humanism that spread from Italy eventually to all of Western Europe, transfor

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From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philoso

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It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in

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Presents unabridged works and substantive abridgments in preeminent translations, along with balanced, lucid, sophistica

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Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of

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Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers a

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A new, critical introduction to Machiavelli's thought for students of politics and philosophy All students of West

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