Bücher von Francesco Guicciardini

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Nel 1378 sendo gonfaloniere di giustizia Luigi di messer Piero Guicciardini successe la novità de' Ciompi, di che furno autori gli otto della guerra, e' quali per essere stati raffermati piú volte in magistrato, s'avevano recata adosso grande invidia e grande contradizione da' cittadini potenti, e per questo si erano rivolti a' favori della moltitudine; e però procurorono questo tumulto, non perché e' Ciompi avessino a essere signori della città ma acciò che col mezzo di quegli, sbattuti e' potenti ed inimici sua loro rimanessino padroni del governo. Il che fu per non riuscire perché e' Ciompi...

Massimiano re de' romani, innanzi che fussi fatta la lega di Cambrai, nella dieta di Costanza, sotto titulo di rimettere Massimiano Sforza, ricercava e' viniziani di lega per venire in Italia per la corona dello imperio ed a' danni de' franzesi, allora signori di Milano, offerendo loro partiti grandi. Trattavasi nel senato suo quid agendum; fu parlato da uno senatore per la parte affermativa in questo modo: Tutta la difficultá di questa consulta, onorevoli senatori, consiste in considerare se el re de' romani si unirá co' franzesi in caso che noi rifiutiamo le dimande sue;

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.

A collection of writings by papal advisor and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), including letters, treatises, reports, and orations spanning his long career in service to the Medici.