Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence: Francesco Guicciardini's Discorso di Logrogno
Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence: Francesco Guicciardini's Discorso di Logrogno By Athanasios Moulakis
1998 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 084768993X | PDF | 9 MB
1998 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 084768993X | PDF | 9 MB
This text makes available in English the essay, "How to Bring Order to Popular Government", by Renaissance thinker Francesco Guicciardini. In addition to his translation of the essay, Moulakis provides an analysis of this 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.