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Informationen zum Autor Athanasios Moulakis is director of the Herbst Program of Humanities, Herbst Professor of Humanities, and professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Beyond Utility: Liberal Education for a Technological Age. Klappentext In this exciting book, Athanasios Moulakis makes available, for the first time in English, the important essay How to Bring Order to Popular Government, by Renaissance thinker Francesco Guicciardini. In addition to his valuable and lucid translation of the essay, Moulakis provides an engaging analysis of this important 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. Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence is a unique and important book which will be of great value to historians and political theorists alike. Zusammenfassung This text makes available in English the essay! "How to Bring Order to Popular Government"! by Renaissance thinker Francesco Guicciardini. It also analyzes this work! showing that the long maturation of Florentine constitutional thought points to a modern idea of the republican state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Realist Constitutionalism Chapter 2 Francesco Guicciardini and His Reputation as a Writer Chapter 3 Florentine Politics and the Realist Tradition Chapter 4 The Humanist Chancellors and the Friar Chapter 5 The Discourse Chapter 6 Francesco Guicciardini: Discorso di Logrogno Chapter 7 Appendix A: Chronology of Florentine Institutional Development Chapter 8 Appedix B: Chronology of Franscesco Guicciardini Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index
