Guicciardini: Dialogue on the Government of Florence
Guicciardini: Dialogue on the Government of Florence

Author: Francesco Guicciardini

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-06-09

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521456234

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This is the first translation into English of Guicciardini's Dialogue on the Government of Florence. Written in the early 1520s by the author of the famous History of Italy, as well as a History of Florence and Political Maxims and Reflections, this dialogue presents what is arguably the most searching and comprehensive analysis of the politics of his times. Like Machiavelli, his 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. In this Dialogue he provides one of the clearest expositions of the term 'reason of state', which he was one of the first to employ and which he uses to justify the priority of state interest over private morality and religion.

Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence
Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence

Author: Athanasios Moulakis

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780847689941

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In this exciting book, Athanasios Moulakis makes available, for the first time in English, the important essay How to Bring Order to Popular Government, by Renaissance thinker Francesco Guicciardini. In addition to his valuable and lucid translation of the essay, Moulakis provides an engaging analysis of this important work. He shows that, far from representing a revival of ancient republicanism, the long maturation of Florentine constitutional thought_brought to lucid expression by Guicciardini_points to a distinctly modern idea of the republican state. Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence is a unique and important book which will be of great value to historians and political theorists alike.

Machiavelli and Guicciardini
Machiavelli and Guicciardini

Author: Felix Gilbert

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 9780393301236

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In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.

Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)
Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)

Author: Francesco Guicciardini

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1972-01-29

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780812210378

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Review: "Unlike Machiavelli-inveterate dreamer and cynic-Guicciardini's mind is remarkable for the balance and masterly coolness of its judgment."-Federico Chabod "In the history of Renaissance thought, Guicciardini's Ricordi occupy a place of singular importance. Few works of the sixteenth century allow us so penetrating an insight into the views and sentiments of its author as these reflections of the great Italian historian. . . . Like Machiavelli's Prince, the Ricordi form one of the outstanding documents of a time of crisis and transition; but unlike the Prince, they range over a wide field of private as well as public life. In doing so, they revel the man as well as the political theorist."-Nicolai Rubenstein, from the Introduction.

Guicciardini
Guicciardini

Author: John Morley

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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The following is an essay discussing Francesco Guicciardini, an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. In his masterpiece, The History of Italy, Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography with his use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time.