Republics and Kingdoms Compared

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-674-03398-6
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 212 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Aurelio Lippo Brandolini’s Republics and Kingdoms Compared is the most fascinating and least-known work of humanist political theory before Machiavelli. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), the work depicts a debate between the king himself and a Florentine merchant at his court on the relative merits of republics and kingdoms. In effect a searing critique of Florentine civic humanism, the work discusses such issues as free trade and the morality of commerce, the inequalities of wealth typical of republics, the nature of freedom and justice, the reasons for the rise and fall of empires, the causes of political corruption, and the conditions necessary for the flourishing of arts, letters, and culture generally. This is the first critical edition and the first translation into any language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brandolini, Aurelio Lippo

Hankins, James

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hankins, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Hankins, James
James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. He is the author of <i>Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy</i>, winner of the Marraro Prize and a <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> Book of the Year; <i>Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena</i> and <i>Plato in the Italian Renaissance</i> and editor of <i>The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy</i>. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on Renaissance philosophy and political thought, he is a Corresponding Member of the British Academy.