Guicciardini: Dialogue on the Government of Florence
Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Real Author: Francesco Guicciardini
- Editor: Alison Brown, University of London
- Date Published: June 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521456234
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This is the first English translation of Guicciardini's Dialogue on the Government of Florence, written in the 1520s. Like Machiavelli, his more famous contemporary and friend, Guicciardini rejects classical republican arguments in the name of the new political realism and acknowledges the important role of patronage and graft in contemporary politics and the illegitimacy of nearly all forms of political power, arguing for the priority of state interest over private morality and religion.
Read more- First English translation of this work
- Important early justification of the priority of the state over the individual
- Of interest to students and specialists in both political thought and Renaissance studies
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- Date Published: June 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521456234
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.33kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Principal events in Guicciardini's life
Bibliographical note
Dialogue on the government of Florence
Preface
Book I
Book II
Appendix: selected maxims
Biographical notes
Glossary
Index of names
Index of subjects.
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