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Florentine political writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli

Title
Florentine political writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli / edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, and John P. McCormick.
Publication
  • Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Jurdjevic, Mark
  • Piano, Natasha
  • McCormick, John P., 1966-
Description
x, 322 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
Presenting nineteen primary source documents, including lesser known texts by Machiavelli and Guicciardini, several of which are translated here into English for the first time, this useful compendium shows how the Renaissance political imagination can be productively applied to pressing civic questions.
Series Statement
Haney Foundation Series
Uniform Title
Haney Foundation series.
Subject
  • To 1737
  • Civic improvement > Italy > Florence
  • Civic improvement
  • Politics and government
  • Florence (Italy) > History > To 1421 > Early works to 1800
  • Florence (Italy) > Politics and government > To 1421 > Sources
  • Florence (Italy) > Politics and government > 1421-1737 > Sources
  • Italy > Florence
Genre/Form
  • Early works.
  • History.
  • Sources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the original Italian or Latin.
Contents
How a ruler ought to govern his state (1373) / Petrarch ; On the tyrant (1400) / Coluccio Salutati ; On tyranny (c. 1355) / Bartolus of Sassoferrato -- Panegyric to the City of Florence (c. 1402) ; Oration for the funeral of Nanni Strozzi (1428) ; On the Florentine Constitution (1439) / Leonardo Bruni ; In praise of the Venetian government (1459) / Poggio Bracciolini ; Liberty (1479) / Alamanno Rinuccini ; Treatise on the Constitution and government of the City of Florence (1498) / Girolamo Savonarola -- Memorandum to Cardinal de' Medici about the affairs of Florence (1512) / Paolo Vettori ; Memorandum to the newly restored Medici (1512) ; Discursus on Florentine matters after the death of Lorenzo de' Medici the Younger (1520-21) ; 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) / Niccolò Machiavelli ; 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) / Francesco Guicciardini.
Call Number
JFE 19-7374
ISBN
  • 9780812224320
  • 0812224329
OCLC
1052877499
Title
Florentine political writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli / edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, and John P. McCormick.
Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Haney Foundation Series
Haney Foundation series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
Translated from the original Italian or Latin.
Chronological Term
To 1737
Added Author
Jurdjevic, Mark, editor, writer of introduction.
Piano, Natasha, editor.
McCormick, John P., 1966- editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-7374
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