Virtue Politics : : Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy / / James Hankins.

James Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as exemplary thinker. What most concerned Renaissance political theorists, Hankins contends, was not reforming laws but shaping citizens. To secure the social good, they fostered virtue t...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t 1 A Civilization in Crisis --   |t 2 Virtue Politics --   |t 3 What Was a Republic in the Renaissance? --   |t 4 Taming the Tyrant --   |t 5 The Triumph of Virtue: Petrarch’s Political Thought --   |t 6 Should a Good Man Participate in a Corrupt Government? Petrarch on the Solitary Life --   |t 7 Boccaccio on the Perils of Wealth and Status --   |t 8 Leonardo Bruni and the Virtuous Hegemon --   |t 9 War and Military Service in the Virtuous Republic --   |t 10 A Mirror for Statesmen: Leonardo Bruni’s History of the Florentine People --   |t 11 Biondo Flavio: What Made the Romans Great --   |t 12 Cyriac of Ancona on Democracy and Empire --   |t 13 Leon Battista Alberti on Corrupt Princes and Virtuous Oligarchs --   |t 14 George of Trebizond on Cosmopolitanism and Liberty --   |t 15 Francesco Filelfo and the Spartan Republic --   |t 16 Greek Constitutional Theory in the Quattrocento --   |t 17 Francesco Patrizi and Humanist Absolutism --   |t 18 Machiavelli: Reviving the Military Republic --   |t 19 Machiavelli: From Virtue to Virtù --   |t 20 Two Cures for Hyperpartisanship: Bruni versus Machiavelli --   |t 21 Conclusion: Ex Oriente Lux --   |t Appendixes --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index of Manuscripts and Archival Documents --   |t General Index 
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