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On the Government of Rulers: De Regimine Principum

By Thomas Aquinas , Ptolemy of Lucca , James M. Blythe

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0812233700, 9780812233704
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4805616 bytes)
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Pages
320\323
Time added
2015-05-13 12:26:37
Культурология;История культуры;История европейской

Description

Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the Church, and medieval government.In addition to his translation of this important and radical medieval political treatise, written around 1300, James M. Blythe includes a sixty-page introduction to the work and provides over 1200 footnotes that trace Ptolemy's sources, explain his references, and comment on the text, the translation, the context, and the significance.

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