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Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)

Author : Francesco Guicciardini

Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 37,55 MB

Release : 1965

Category : History

ISBN :

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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.



Francesco Guicciardini

Author : Mark Phillips

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 39,49 MB

Release : 1977

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780719007132

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Memory, Family, and Self

Author : Giovanni Ciappelli

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 22,64 MB

Release : 2014-04-10

Category : History

ISBN : 9004270752

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The family book, a kind of diary written by and about the family for its various members, was established by scholars as a genre in Italy in the 1980s. Although initially regarded as an Italian genre, the family book can also be found in other parts of Europe. Nevertheless, the genre can be traced back to Florence, where it first emerged and consequently flourished with the lavish production of such documents. This abundance springs from the social structure of the city, where such texts were essential for establishing and cultivating the basis for the social promotion of Florentine families. This book presents a reconstruction of the evolution and persistency of Tuscan family books, as well as a study of several aspects of social history, including: reading and private libraries, domestic devotion, and the memory of historical events. Starting with the Renaissance, the investigation then broadens to the 17th-18th centuries and considers other forms of memory, such as private diaries and autobiographies. A final section is dedicated to the issue of memory in the egodocuments of early modern Europe. This book was translated by Susan Amanda George.



Guicciardini: Dialogue on the Government of Florence

Author : Francesco Guicciardini

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 39,73 MB

Release : 1994-06-09

Category : History

ISBN : 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.



The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History

Author : Nancy S. Struever

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 45,59 MB

Release : 2023-05-31

Category : History

ISBN : 1000948331

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In the articles collected here Nancy Struever explores the basic assumption that rhetoric is not simply a bag of persuasive tricks, but functions, necessarily, as a mode of inquiry investigating not simply the mechanics of production and reception of discourse, but the psychological factors of reason and passion engaged by the assertion, modification, and contest of beliefs and dispositions of the civil communities. The first section looks both at contemporary historians employing rhetorical constructs and tactics and at contemporary accounts of the employment of rhetorical pedagogical material and theoretical texts in medieval and Renaissance cultural practices. The second set of articles considers change and continuity in the rhetorical exploitation's of genre forms in cultural programs, focuses on the strong reorientation of Classical forms of moral inquiry, on the ingenious use of the proverb, of etymology, of the exemplum, as well as on the changes in strategies in the theater, the novel, and art criticism. The final section deals with the strong historical interconnections of rhetoric with other disciplines: the motives and investigative tactics of medicine and rhetoric in the Renaissance and Early Modernity, and the shared interests and interwoven careers of rhetoric and law.



Guicciardini, Geopolitics and Geohistory

Author : William Mallinson

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Page : 151 pages

File Size : 46,53 MB

Release : 2021-06-16

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9783030765361

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This book demonstrates that geohistory is a more effective concept than geopolitics in understanding inter-state relations, at a time of considerable confusion in world affairs, and that Francesco Guicciardini’s thoughts are an efficient medium to demonstrate not only the inadequacies of geopolitics, but that a geohistorical approach can be a more responsible way of understanding international affairs. The book introduces a fresh approach, based on the individual, on which corporate characteristics and behaviour depend, often in the shape of state interests, which are unable on their own to predict actions driven by human behaviour. The book shows how show mainstream international relations theories are stuck in paradigms, inadequate in explaining why world politics is moving in a direction that nobody could predict even a decade ago. It shows how ideology can blur clear understanding. In short, it represents a new and intellectually refreshing approach and method in understanding, and tackling, the vagaries of relations between states.



Machiavelliana

Author : Michael Jackson

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 357 pages

File Size : 42,86 MB

Release : 2018-06-05

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9004365516

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In Machiavelliana Michael Jackson and Damian Grace offer a comprehensive study of the uses and abuses of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in society generally and in academic fields distant from his intellectual origins. It assesses the appropriation of Machiavelli in didactic works in management, social psychology, and primatology, scholarly texts in leaderships studies, as well as novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, rap music, Mach IV scales, children’s books, and more. The book audits, surveys, examines, and evaluates this Machiavelliana against wider claims about Machiavelli. It explains the origins of Machiavelli’s reputation and the spread of his fame as the foundation for the many uses and misuses of his name. They conclude by redressing the most persistent distortions of Machiavelli.



Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

Author : Marco Sgarbi

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 3618 pages

File Size : 31,2 MB

Release : 2022-10-27

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 3319141694

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Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.



Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries

Author : Douglas Biow

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 47,90 MB

Release : 2002-07

Category : History

ISBN : 0226051714

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In this book, Douglas Biow traces the role that humanists played in the development of professions and professionalism in Renaissance Italy, and vice versa. For instance, humanists were initially quite hostile to medicine, viewing it as poorly adapted to their program of study. They much preferred the secretarial profession, which they made their own throughout the Renaissance and eventually defined in treatises in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Examining a wide range of treatises, poems, and other works that humanists wrote both as and about doctors, ambassadors, and secretaries, Biow shows how interactions with these professions forced humanists to make their studies relevant to their own times, uniting theory and practice in a way that strengthened humanism. His detailed analyses of writings by familiar and lesser-known figures, from Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Tasso to Maggi, Fracastoro, and Barbaro, will especially interest students of Renaissance Italy, but also anyone concerned with the rise of professionalism during the early modern period.



Renaissance in Italy (Vol. 1-7)

Author : John Addington Symonds

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 1666 pages

File Size : 35,99 MB

Release : 2023-11-11

Category : Art

ISBN :

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"Renaissance in Italy" is one of the best-known works by John Addington Symonds. This carefully crafted DigiCat ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Volume 1: The Spirit of the Renaissance Italian History The Age of the Despots The Republics The Florentine Historians 'The Prince' of Machiavelli The Popes of the Renaissance The Church and Morality Savonarola Charles VIII... Volume 2: The Men of the Renaissance First Period of Humanism Second Period of Humanism Third Period of Humanism Fourth Period of Humanism Latin Poetry... Volume 3: The Problem for the Fine Arts Architecture Painting Venetian Painting Life of Michael Angelo Life of Benvenuto Cellini The Epigoni... Volume 4: The Origins The Triumvirate The Transition Popular Secular Poetry Popular Religious Poetry Lorenzo De' Medici and Poliziano Pulci and Boiardo Ariosto... Volume 5: The Orlando Furioso The Novellieri The Drama Pastoral and Didactic Poetry The Purists Burlesque Poetry and Satire Pietro Aretino History and Philosophy... Volume 6-7: The Spanish Hegemony The Papacy and the Tridentine Council The Inquisition and the Index The Company of Jesus Social and Domestic Morals Torquato Tasso The "Gerusalemme Liberata" Giordano Bruno Fra Paolo Sarpi Guarini, Marino, Chiabrera, Tassoni Palestrina and the Origins of Modern Music The Bolognese School of Painters...