{"product_id":"florentine-political-writings-from-petrarch-to-machiavelli-paperback-softback-9780812224320","title":"Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812224320","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFlorentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Jurdjevic (Edited by), Natasha Piano (Edited by), John P. McCormick (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812224320\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 June 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.538 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, and John P. McCormick, have produced an excellent collection that brings together Florentine political writings from the Renaissance of importance to Florence and beyond...The Introduction and selections in this volume increase our understanding of Florence and politics.\" (Renaissance and Reformation) \"With its masterful introductions and accessible translations, \u003ci\u003eFlorentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli\u003c\/i\u003e will serve as the standard reference for scholars and teachers of Renaissance Italy and premodern political thought.\" (Nicholas Scott Baker, Macquarie University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample opportunities to inquire into the nature of political legitimacy and the relationship between authority and its social context.\u003cbr\u003e This volume provides a selection of texts that describes the language, conceptual vocabulary, and issues at stake in Florentine political culture at key moments in its development during the Renaissance. Rather than presenting Renaissance political thought as a static set of arguments, \u003ci\u003eFlorentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli\u003c\/i\u003e instead illustrates the degree to which political thought in the Italian City revolved around a common cluster of topics that were continually modified and revised-and the way those common topics could be made to serve radically divergent political purposes.\u003cbr\u003e Editors Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, and John P. McCormick offer readers the opportunity to appreciate how Renaissance political thought, often expressed in the language of classical idealism, could be productively applied to pressing civic questions. The editors expand the scope of Florentine humanist political writing by explicitly connecting it with the sixteenth-century realist turn most influentially exemplified by NiccolÒ Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. Presenting nineteen primary source documents, including lesser known texts by Machiavelli and Guicciardini, several of which are here translated into English for the first time, this useful compendium shows how the Renaissance political imagination could be deployed to think through methods of electoral technology, the balance of power between different social groups, and other practical matters of political stability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e -Mark Jurdjevic\u003cbr\u003e PART I. ON MONARCHY AND TYRANNY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Petrarch\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow a Ruler Ought to Govern His State\u003c\/i\u003e (1373)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Coluccio Salutati\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e(1400)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Bartolus of Sassoferrato\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn Tyranny\u003c\/i\u003e (c. 1355)\u003cbr\u003e PART II. ON CIVIC REPUBLICANISM\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Leonardo Bruni\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePanegyric to the City of Florence\u003c\/i\u003e (c. 1402) \u003ci\u003eOration for the Funeral of Nanni Strozzi\u003c\/i\u003e (1428) \u003ci\u003eOn the Florentine Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e (1439)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Poggio Bracciolini\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of the Venetian Government\u003c\/i\u003e (1459)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Alamanno Rinuccini\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiberty\u003c\/i\u003e (1479)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Girolamo Savonarola\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTreatise on the Constitution and Government of the City of Florence\u003c\/i\u003e (1498)\u003cbr\u003e PART III. ON FLORENCE BETWEEN REPUBLIC AND PRINCIPATE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Paolo Vettori\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMemorandum to Cardinal de' Medici About the Affairs of Florence\u003c\/i\u003e (1512)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. NiccolÒ Machiavelli\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMemorandum to the Newly Restored Medici\u003c\/i\u003e (1512)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiscursus on Florentine Matters After the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici the Younger\u003c\/i\u003e (1520)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMinutes of a Provision for the Reform of the Florentine Government\u003c\/i\u003e (1522)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMemorandum to Cardinal Giulio on the Reform of the State of Florence\u003c\/i\u003e (1522)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSummary of the Affairs of the City of Lucca\u003c\/i\u003e (1520)\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Francesco Guicciardini\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Method of Electing Offices in the Great Council\u003c\/i\u003e (1512)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Mode of Reordering the Popular Government\u003c\/i\u003e (1512)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Government of Florence after the Medici Restoration\u003c\/i\u003e (1513)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Mode of Securing the State of the House of Medici\u003c\/i\u003e (1516)\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702539874584,"sku":"9780812224320","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/florentine-political-writings-from-petrarch-to-machiavelli-paperback-softback-9780812224320","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}