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Informationen zum Autor Mark Jurdjevic is Professor of History at York University and coeditor, with Meredith K. Ray, of Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Natasha Piano is a Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at the University of Chicago. John P. McCormick is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Klappentext Mark Jurdjevic is Professor of History at York University and coeditor, with Meredith K. Ray, of Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Natasha Piano is a Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at the University of Chicago. John P. McCormick is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Zusammenfassung 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 can be productively applied to pressing civic questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction -Mark Jurdjevic PART I. ON MONARCHY AND TYRANNY Chapter 1. Petrarch How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State (1373) Chapter 2. Coluccio Salutati On the Tyrant (1400) Chapter 3. Bartolus of Sassoferrato On Tyranny (c. 1355) PART II. ON CIVIC REPUBLICANISM Chapter 4. Leonardo Bruni Panegyric to the City of Florence (c. 1402) Oration for the Funeral of Nanni Strozzi (1428) On the Florentine Constitution (1439) Chapter 5. Poggio Bracciolini In Praise of the Venetian Government (1459) Chapter 6. Alamanno Rinuccini Liberty (1479) Chapter 7. Girolamo Savonarola Treatise on the Constitution and Government of the City of Florence (1498) PART III. ON FLORENCE BETWEEN REPUBLIC AND PRINCIPATE Chapter 8. Paolo Vettori Memorandum to Cardinal de' Medici About the Affairs of Florence (1512) Chapter 9. NiccolÒ Machiavelli Memorandum to the Newly Restored Medici (1512) Discursus on Florentine Matters After the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici the Younger (1520) 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) Chapter 10. Francesco Guicciardini 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) Notes Index ...
