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Book Synopsis The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual by : Francesco Guicciardini
Download or read book The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual written by Francesco Guicciardini and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A papal advisor and sixteenth-century power broker, Francesco Guicciardini wrote voluminously throughout his time in service to the Medici. The texts in this volume chart his career chronologically, revealing an intellectual whose philosophy of self-interest failed not only to perceive the interests of others but ultimately to serve his own. During Guicciardini’s life, Florentine politics was dominated by the struggle of republican leaders to retain civic political autonomy against the ambitions of the Medici family. Like Machiavelli and Petrarch, and arguably even Dante, Guicciardini was what Carlo Celli calls an “establishment intellectual,” one whose talents furthered the hegemony of authoritarian rule against the interests of his own class. The letters, treatises, reports, and orations included in this volume span Guicciardini’s long career, from his first appointment as ambassador to the Spanish court to just a few years before his forced retirement from political life. They reveal Guicciardini’s role as a protagonist in the events related in his famous History of Italy (1540), shed light on the self-recriminations and remorse that sometimes gnawed at his conscience, and explain why, ultimately, Guicciardini fell from political grace into irrelevance. Through these previously untranslated writings, The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual evidences the hard lessons Guicciardini learned in service to the Medici: working within a corrupt system does not lead to solutions, and reason and self-interest are not foolproof guides for predicting human behavior. This book will appeal especially to scholars who study the Medici clan, the Italian Wars, and Renaissance politics and history.
Book Synopsis Guicciardini: Dialogue on the Government of Florence by : Francesco Guicciardini
Download or read book Guicciardini: Dialogue on the Government of Florence written by Francesco Guicciardini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The maxims of Francis Guicciardini, tr. by E. Martin. With parallel passages from the works of Machiavelli and others by : Francesco Guicciardini
Download or read book The maxims of Francis Guicciardini, tr. by E. Martin. With parallel passages from the works of Machiavelli and others written by Francesco Guicciardini and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Maxims of Francis Guicciardini by : Francesco Guicciardini
Download or read book The Maxims of Francis Guicciardini written by Francesco Guicciardini and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy by : Niccolò Guicciardini
Download or read book Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy written by Niccolò Guicciardini and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Newton is one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much broader than that of most contemporary scientists. In fact, Newton would have defined himself not as a scientist, but as a natural philosopher. He was deeply involved in alchemical, religious, and biblical studies, and in the later part of his life he played a prominent role in British politics, economics, and the promotion of scientific research. Newton’s pivotal work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which sets out his laws of universal gravitation and motion, is regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science. Niccolò Guicciardini’s enlightening biography offers an accessible introduction both to Newton’s celebrated research in mathematics, optics, mechanics, and astronomy and to how Newton viewed these scientific fields in relation to his quest for the deepest secrets of the universe, matter theory and religion. Guicciardini sets Newton the natural philosopher in the troubled context of the religious and political debates ongoing during Newton’s life, a life spanning the English Civil Wars, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution, and the Hanoverian succession. Incorporating the latest Newtonian scholarship, this fast-paced biography broadens our perception of both this iconic figure and the great scientific revolution of the early modern period.
Download or read book Guicciardini written by John Morley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following is an essay discussing Francesco Guicciardini, an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. In his masterpiece, The History of Italy, Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography with his use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time.
Book Synopsis Francesco Guicciardini by : Mark Phillips
Download or read book Francesco Guicciardini written by Mark Phillips and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guicciardini, Geopolitics and Geohistory by : William Mallinson
Download or read book Guicciardini, Geopolitics and Geohistory written by William Mallinson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Maxims of F. Guicciardini. Translated by E. Martin. With Parallel Passages from the Works of Machiavelli, Lord Bacon, Pascal, Rochefoucault, Montesquieu, Mr. Burke, Prince Talleyrand, M. Guizot, and Others by : Francesco Guicciardini
Download or read book The Maxims of F. Guicciardini. Translated by E. Martin. With Parallel Passages from the Works of Machiavelli, Lord Bacon, Pascal, Rochefoucault, Montesquieu, Mr. Burke, Prince Talleyrand, M. Guizot, and Others written by Francesco Guicciardini and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi) by : Francesco Guicciardini
Download or read book Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi) written by Francesco Guicciardini and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The History of Italy by : Francesco Guicciardini
Download or read book The History of Italy written by Francesco Guicciardini and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Machiavelli and Guicciardini by : Felix Gilbert
Download or read book Machiavelli and Guicciardini written by Felix Gilbert and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1984 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.
Book Synopsis Counsels and Reflections by : Francesco Guicciardini
Download or read book Counsels and Reflections written by Francesco Guicciardini and published by London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. This book was released on 1890 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method by : Niccolò Guicciardini
Download or read book Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method written by Niccolò Guicciardini and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of mathematics.
Book Synopsis Guicciardini, Geopolitics and Geohistory by : William Mallinson
Download or read book Guicciardini, Geopolitics and Geohistory written by William Mallinson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Short History of the Italian Renaissance by : Kenneth R. Bartlett
Download or read book A Short History of the Italian Renaissance written by Kenneth R. Bartlett and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartlett first explains why he chose Jacob Burckhardt's classic narrative to guide students through the complex history of the Renaissance and then provides his own contemporary interpretation of that narrative. Over seventy color illustrations, genealogies of important Renaissance families, eight maps, a list of popes, a timeline of events, a bibliography, and an index are included.
Download or read book Guicciardini written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
