Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli

Herausgeber: Jurdjevic, Mark; McCormick, John P; Piano, Natasha

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Produktbeschreibung

Mark Jurdjevic is Professor of History at York University and coeditor, with Meredith K. Ray, of Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Natasha Piano is a Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at the University of Chicago. John P. McCormick is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224320
• ISBN-10: 0812224329
• Artikelnr.: 54022926

Autorenporträt

Mark Jurdjevic is Professor of History at York University and coeditor, with Meredith K. Ray, of Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Natasha Piano is a Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at the University of Chicago. John P. McCormick is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
—Mark Jurdjevic
PART I. ON MONARCHY AND TYRANNY
Chapter 1. Petrarch
How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State (1373)
Chapter 2. Coluccio Salutati
On the Tyrant(1400)
Chapter 3. Bartolus of Sassoferrato
On Tyranny (c. 1355)
PART II. ON CIVIC REPUBLICANISM
Chapter 4. Leonardo Bruni
Panegyric to the City of Florence (c. 1402) Oration for the Funeral of
Nanni Strozzi (1428) On the Florentine Constitution (1439)
Chapter 5. Poggio Bracciolini
In Praise of the Venetian Government (1459)
Chapter 6. Alamanno Rinuccini
Liberty (1479)
Chapter 7. Girolamo Savonarola
Treatise on the Constitution and Government of the City of Florence (1498)
PART III. ON FLORENCE BETWEEN REPUBLIC AND PRINCIPATE
Chapter 8. Paolo Vettori
Memorandum to Cardinal de' Medici About the Affairs of Florence (1512)
Chapter 9. Niccolò Machiavelli
Memorandum to the Newly Restored Medici (1512)
Discursus on Florentine Matters After the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici the
Younger (1520)
Minutes of a Provision for the Reform of the Florentine Government (1522)
Memorandum to Cardinal Giulio on the Reform of the State of Florence
(1522)
Summary of the Affairs of the City of Lucca (1520)
Chapter 10. Francesco Guicciardini
On the Method of Electing Offices in the Great Council (1512)
On the Mode of Reordering the Popular Government (1512)
The Government of Florence after the Medici Restoration (1513)
On the Mode of Securing the State of the House of Medici (1516)
Notes
Index