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Virtue politics soulcraft and statecraft in Renaissance Italy
"Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge
Harvard University Press
[2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- A civilization in crisis: a new "paideuma" and the birth of the humanities
- the causes of the crisis
- the reform of Christian culture
- the humanist movement takes shape
- Virtue politics: obedience and legitimacy
- virtue politics
- classical sources of virtue politics
- how not to reform a republic
- eloquence and the "virtuous environment"
- a new way of thinking about politics
- What was a republic in the Renaissance?: the Renaissance concept of the state
- what is the meaning of respublica in the Italian Renaissance?
- Respublica Romana
- respublica in medieval scholasticism
- Leonardo Bruni and respublica in the fifteenth century
- respublica: an idealization of ancient government
- is civic humanism found only in non-monarchical republics?
- Taming the tyrant: tyranny in Greek philosophy
- Cicero's understanding of Caesar's tyranny as violation of ius
- Bartolus of Sassoferrato and Baldo degli Ubaldi
- Petrarch on living with tyrants
- was Caesar a tyrant? Petrarch, Salutati, Guarino, Poggio
- Poggio on tyranny and the "problem of counsel"
- Pier Candido Decembrio on the virtues of a tyrant
- the recovery of ancient Greek sources on tyranny
- The triumph of virtue
- Petrarch's political thought: Petrarch's politics of virtue
- Cola di Rienzo: populism and its limits
- Petrarch's new realism
- Should a good man participate in a corrupt government?: Petrarch on the solitary life
- the De vita solitaria: an ideal of private life for literary men
- the defense of private life
- Seneca versus Augustine: political obligation and political autonomy
- Boccaccio on the perils of wealth and status: Boccaccio's political experience
- the need to reform the materia prima of politics: human nature
- virtue, education, and tyranny
- Boccaccio and the humanist debate about private wealth and economic injustice
- Boccaccio and virtue politics
- Leonardo Bruni and the virtuous hegemon: why Florence deserves to be the heir of Rome: the Panegyric of the city of Florence
- political liberty as a source of virtue
- the Etruscan model: leadership in a federal republic
- Dante and Bruni on the legitimation of empire
- War and military service in the virtuous republic: late medieval civic knighthood and the context of Leonardo Bruni's De militia
- excursus: the humanists and partisan politics
- Bruni's De militia: a new interpretation
- excursus on the "virtuous environment": Donatello and the representation of classical military virtue
- do humanist teachings on warfare anticipate Machiavelli?
- virtue in military life
- Roberto Valturio on the education of soldiers
- A mirror for statesmen: Leonardo Bruni's history of the Florentine people
- history as political theory
- virtue in the service of the republic's glory
- the primacy of the popolo and the suppression of factions
- moderation in politics as the key to social concord
- Biondo Flavio: what made the Romans great: the roma Triumphans and the revival of Roman civilization
- what was the Respublica Romana for Biondo?
- Biondo's virtue politics, republicanism, and the greatness of Rome
- a cosmopolitan papalist
- Cyriac of Ancona on democracy and empire: a short history of the term democratia
- Cyriac of Ancona's attempted rehabilitation of the term democratia
- Cyriac the Caesarian
- Leon Battista Alberti on corrupt princes and virtuous oligarchs: why virtue is incompatible with court life
- who should constitute the political elite?
- The De iciarchia and the regime of virtuous "house-princes"
- George of Trebizond on cosmopolitanism and liberty: George's attack on nativism and defense of cosmopolitanism
- a Renaissance libertarian?
- Francesco Filelfo and the Spartan Republic: Filelfo and the recovery of the Spartan tradition
- Filelfo and humanist adaptations of the myth of Sparta
- Greek constitutional theory in the quattrocento: the "second wave" of Greek constitutional theory
- legitimation and the republican regime
- Francesco Patrizi on republican constitutions
- delegitimation: Bruni and the chivalric ideal
- substitution: platonizing Venice's constitution
- Mario Salamonio compares Florence to Athens
- Francesco Patrizi and humanist absolutism: the recovery of ancient Greek monarchical theory
- Patrizi and his project in the De regno
- virtuous royal legitimacy and humanist absolutism
- the argument for monarchy
- can monarchical power be virtuous?
- how the king may become virtuous
- Machiavelli: reviving the military republic: the calamità d'Italia
- Machiavelli and humanist literary culture
- Machiavelli's political education and the art of war
- why princes and republics should follow the ancient way of warfare
- Machiavelli: from virtue to virtù: Machiavelli's Prince and renaissance concepts of tyranny
- the Machiavellian revolution in political thought
- Machiavelli's virtù
- Two cures for hyperpartisanship: Bruni versus Machiavelli: two competing narratives of Florentine history
- the ordinances of justice
- Walter of Brienne and the instability of tyranny
- the restoration of popular institutions in 1343
- two cures for hyperpartisanship
- Conclusion: Ex Oriente Lux