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In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. Integrating sources in Italian and Latin, Celenza focuses on the linked issues of language and philosophy. He also examines the conditions in which Renaissance intellectuals operated in an era before the invention of printing, analyzing reading strategies and showing how texts were consulted, and how new ideas were generated as a result of conversations, both oral and epistolary. The result is a volume that offers a new view on both the history of philosophy and Italian Renaissance intellectual life. It will serve as a key resource for students and scholars of early modern Italian humanism and culture.

Renaissance --- Italy --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- Renaissance - Italy --- Italy - Intellectual life - 1268-1559 --- Italy - Civilization - 1268-1559

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A remarkable collection of debates on foreign policy from the works of Guicciardini, freshly translated with new commentary.

This book brings together 11 pairs of opposing speeches on foreign policy written by Florentine statesman and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540). Collectively, they constitute a remarkable collection of debates on war, peace, alliance and more.

Incisive and elegant, the debates contain an early formulation of concepts such as the balance of power and the security dilemma - ideas that are still in international politics today. This book highlights the importance of Guicciardini's work for the evolution of international theory and explains why he, alongside Machiavelli, should be considered a leading figure of Realism.

Italy --- Foreign relations --- History --- Guicciardini, Francesco, --- Gvičardini, Frančesko, --- Politics and government --- Guicciardini, Francesco --- Italy, Northern --- Foreign relations. --- Politics and government. --- Northern Italy --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- 1268-1559

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This book is an examination of the nature of the governments of towns and cities, great and small, in Renaissance Italy, and of why oligarchic regimes were becoming increasingly prevalent. Themes and questions arising from a case-study of the dramatic changes in the government of fifteenth-century Siena form the basis for the analysis of popular government and oligarchy throughout Italy, from Piedmont and the Veneto to Sicily, and of how they were shaped by social change, institutional developments and external threats and pressures, especially war. In a field dominated by local studies, this comparative approach provides a fresh understanding of the important problem of how and why broadly-based governments were losing ground to oligarchy throughout Italy.

History of Italy --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Local government --- Oligarchy --- Administration locale --- Oligarchie --- History. --- Histoire --- Italy --- Siena (Italy) --- Italie --- Sienne (Italie) --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Administration --- History --- Local government. --- Oligarchy. --- Politics and government. --- Lokaal bestuur. --- Stadstaten. --- Oligarchie. --- Kommunalpolitik. --- Politische Elite. --- Stadt. --- Histoire. --- 1268-1559. --- Geschichte 1350-1550. --- Italy. --- Italië. --- Siena. --- Italien. --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Local government - Italy - History --- Oligarchy - Italy - History --- Italy - Politics and government - 1268-1559 --- Siena (Italy) - Politics and government - 1355-1557 --- Political science --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Sienne (Italy) --- Sienna (Italy) --- Siyenah (Italy) --- Comune di Siena (Italy) --- Siena (Tuscany) --- Renaissance

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Première publication de l’ANR EUROPANGE, ce volume explore un thème classique de l’historiographie angevine, à savoir celui des grands officiers, sujet sur lequel les recherches sont parcellaires, surtout depuis la perte des archives angevines de Naples durant la seconde Guerre Mondiale. Les articles recueillis, au-delà de proposer des séries de biographies des officiers, proposent véritablement une approche prosopographique de ce groupe d’individus si particulier et entendent apporter un certain nombre d’éléments relatifs à leurs déplacements et aux milieux au sein desquels se pratiquait leur recrutement. A partir de la documentation administrative, le présent volume interroge ainsi le processus de construction et de structuration des grands officiers en évitant l’approche et les méthodes téléologiques qui ont été mobilisés par les historiens au XIXe siècle. Il s’est agi notamment de ne pas projeter les catégories administratives telles qu’elles ont pu être élaborées pour l’Ancien Régime sur les officiers tels qu’ils se donnent à voir au Moyen Âge. Ce premier volume rassemble des contributions qui se déploient dans différents champs thématiques (la genèse et le développement de certains offices, le rôle joué par la guerre) et ont pour objectif de couvrir l’ensemble de l’Europe angevine, en proposant lorsque cela est possible une dimension comparative entre ces différentes aires géographiques et une mise en relation de cette question des grands officiers avec les changements de personnel politique qui ont touché ces espaces. Prima pubblicazione del Progetto Europange, il volume riprende un tema classico della storiografia angioina, quello dei « grandi ufficiali », su cui le ricerche sono state finora discontinue, soprattutto dopo la perdita degli archivi angioini di Napoli durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. I saggi raccolti, oltre ad aggiornare i profili dei singoli ufficiali, escono da una prospettiva biografica, per intraprendere una ricerca di taglio…

Anjou, House of. --- Anjou (France) --- France --- Italy --- History --- Politics and government --- Officials and employees --- Anjou (France) - History - To 1500 --- France - Politics and government - To 1500 --- Italy - Politics and government - 1268-1559 --- Moyen-âge --- Offices --- Anjou --- angevins --- prosopographie --- historiographie --- Europe --- Ancien Régime --- politique

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This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries, surveying the mosaic of kingdoms, principalities, signorie and republics against a backdrop of wider political themes common to all types of state in the period. The authors address the contentious problem of the apparent weakness of the Italian Renaissance political system. By repositioning the Renaissance as a political, rather than simply an artistic and cultural phenomenon, they identify the period as a pivotal moment in the history of the state, in which political languages, practices and tools, together with political and governmental institutions, became vital to the evolution of a modern European political identity.

323 <45> --- 945.05 --- Binnenlandse politiek--Italië --- Geschiedenis van Italië: stadsstaten; Renaissance--(1300-1492) --- 945.05 Geschiedenis van Italië: stadsstaten; Renaissance--(1300-1492) --- 323 <45> Binnenlandse politiek--Italië --- City-states --- Renaissance --- State, The --- Cities and towns --- Federal government --- Municipal government --- Political science --- History --- Italy --- Politics and government --- History of Italy --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- History. --- Europe --- General. --- Arts and Humanities --- Cités-États --- Italie --- Politique et gouvernement --- 1268-1559 --- Civilisation --- 1200-1550