000916585 000__ 06931cam\a22004691i\4500 000916585 001__ 916585 000916585 005__ 20210515184847.0 000916585 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000916585 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000916585 008__ 191117s2019\\\\mau\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000916585 020__ $$a9780674242517$$q(electronic book) 000916585 020__ $$a0674242513$$q(electronic book) 000916585 020__ $$z9780674237551 000916585 020__ $$z0674237552 000916585 035__ $$a(NhCcYBP)EBC5971489 000916585 040__ $$aNhCcYBP$$cNhCcYBP 000916585 043__ $$ae-it--- 000916585 050_4 $$aHM665$$b.H36 2019 000916585 08204 $$a170$$223 000916585 1001_ $$aHankins, James,$$eauthor. 000916585 24510 $$aVirtue politics :$$bsoulcraft and statecraft in Renaissance Italy /$$cJames Hankins. 000916585 264_1 $$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$$bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2019. 000916585 300__ $$a1 online resource 000916585 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000916585 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000916585 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000916585 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000916585 5050_ $$aA civilization in crisis: a new "paideuma" and the birth of the humanities -- the causes of the crisis -- the reform of Christian culture -- the humanist movement takes shape -- Virtue politics: obedience and legitimacy -- virtue politics -- classical sources of virtue politics -- how not to reform a republic -- eloquence and the "virtuous environment" -- a new way of thinking about politics -- What was a republic in the Renaissance?: the Renaissance concept of the state -- what is the meaning of respublica in the Italian Renaissance? -- Respublica Romana -- respublica in medieval scholasticism -- Leonardo Bruni and respublica in the fifteenth century -- respublica: an idealization of ancient government -- is civic humanism found only in non-monarchical republics? -- Taming the tyrant: tyranny in Greek philosophy -- Cicero's understanding of Caesar's tyranny as violation of ius -- Bartolus of Sassoferrato and Baldo degli Ubaldi -- Petrarch on living with tyrants -- was Caesar a tyrant? Petrarch, Salutati, Guarino, Poggio -- Poggio on tyranny and the "problem of counsel" -- Pier Candido Decembrio on the virtues of a tyrant -- the recovery of ancient Greek sources on tyranny -- The triumph of virtue -- Petrarch's political thought: Petrarch's politics of virtue -- Cola di Rienzo: populism and its limits -- Petrarch's new realism -- Should a good man participate in a corrupt government?: Petrarch on the solitary life -- the De vita solitaria: an ideal of private life for literary men -- the defense of private life -- Seneca versus Augustine: political obligation and political autonomy -- Boccaccio on the perils of wealth and status: Boccaccio's political experience -- the need to reform the materia prima of politics: human nature -- virtue, education, and tyranny -- Boccaccio and the humanist debate about private wealth and economic injustice -- Boccaccio and virtue politics -- Leonardo Bruni and the virtuous hegemon: why Florence deserves to be the heir of Rome: the Panegyric of the city of Florence -- political liberty as a source of virtue -- the Etruscan model: leadership in a federal republic -- Dante and Bruni on the legitimation of empire -- War and military service in the virtuous republic: late medieval civic knighthood and the context of Leonardo Bruni's De militia -- excursus: the humanists and partisan politics -- Bruni's De militia: a new interpretation -- excursus on the "virtuous environment": Donatello and the representation of classical military virtue -- do humanist teachings on warfare anticipate Machiavelli? -- virtue in military life -- Roberto Valturio on the education of soldiers -- A mirror for statesmen: Leonardo Bruni's history of the Florentine people -- history as political theory -- virtue in the service of the republic's glory -- the primacy of the popolo and the suppression of factions -- moderation in politics as the key to social concord -- Biondo Flavio: what made the Romans great: the roma Triumphans and the revival of Roman civilization -- what was the Respublica Romana for Biondo? -- Biondo's virtue politics, republicanism, and the greatness of Rome -- a cosmopolitan papalist -- Cyriac of Ancona on democracy and empire: a short history of the term democratia -- Cyriac of Ancona's attempted rehabilitation of the term democratia -- Cyriac the Caesarian -- Leon Battista Alberti on corrupt princes and virtuous oligarchs: why virtue is incompatible with court life -- who should constitute the political elite? -- The De iciarchia and the regime of virtuous "house-princes" -- George of Trebizond on cosmopolitanism and liberty: George's attack on nativism and defense of cosmopolitanism -- a Renaissance libertarian? -- Francesco Filelfo and the Spartan Republic: Filelfo and the recovery of the Spartan tradition -- Filelfo and humanist adaptations of the myth of Sparta -- Greek constitutional theory in the quattrocento: the "second wave" of Greek constitutional theory -- legitimation and the republican regime -- Francesco Patrizi on republican constitutions -- delegitimation: Bruni and the chivalric ideal -- substitution: platonizing Venice's constitution -- Mario Salamonio compares Florence to Athens -- Francesco Patrizi and humanist absolutism: the recovery of ancient Greek monarchical theory -- Patrizi and his project in the De regno -- virtuous royal legitimacy and humanist absolutism -- the argument for monarchy -- can monarchical power be virtuous? -- how the king may become virtuous -- Machiavelli: reviving the military republic: the calamità d'Italia -- Machiavelli and humanist literary culture -- Machiavelli's political education and the art of war -- why princes and republics should follow the ancient way of warfare -- Machiavelli: from virtue to virtù: Machiavelli's Prince and renaissance concepts of tyranny -- the Machiavellian revolution in political thought -- Machiavelli's virtù -- Two cures for hyperpartisanship: Bruni versus Machiavelli: two competing narratives of Florentine history -- the ordinances of justice -- Walter of Brienne and the instability of tyranny -- the restoration of popular institutions in 1343 -- two cures for hyperpartisanship -- Conclusion: Ex Oriente Lux. 000916585 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users 000916585 533__ $$aElectronic reproduction.$$bAnn Arbor, MI$$nAvailable via World Wide Web. 000916585 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000916585 650_0 $$aSocial ethics$$zItaly$$xHistory. 000916585 650_0 $$aPhilosophy, Renaissance. 000916585 650_0 $$aEthics, Renaissance. 000916585 650_0 $$aCommon good. 000916585 650_0 $$aVirtue. 000916585 650_0 $$aPublic interest$$zItaly$$xHistory. 000916585 7102_ $$aProQuest (Firm) 000916585 77608 $$iPrint version: $$z9780674237551$$z0674237552$$w(DLC) 2019034187 000916585 852__ $$bebk 000916585 85640 $$3GOBI DDA$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5971489$$zOnline Access 000916585 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:916585$$pGLOBAL_SET 000916585 980__ $$aEBOOK 000916585 980__ $$aBIB 000916585 982__ $$aEbook 000916585 983__ $$aOnline