On Leaders and Tyrants

Informationen zum Autor Hester Schadee is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Exeter. Keith Sidwell is Emeritus Professor of Classics at University College Cork, Ireland, and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary. David Rundle is Senior Lecturer in Latin and Paleography at the University of Kent. Klappentext On Leaders and Tyrants contains works, the majority by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, relating to a debate on Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar that discusses tyranny, military glory, and leadership qualities. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin texts and the first complete translation of the controversy into English. Zusammenfassung On Leaders and Tyrants contains works, the majority by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, relating to a debate on Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar that discusses tyranny, military glory, and leadership qualities. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin texts and the first complete translation of the controversy into English.

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• Authors: Poggio Bracciolini, Poggio Of Verona Bracciolini, Bracciolini Poggio, Pietro del Monte, Guarino of Verona
• Assisted by: Hester Schadee (Editor and translation), Sidwell Keith (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9780674297128
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29712-8
• No. of pages: 624
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ancient Rome, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist philosophy