{"product_id":"florentine-political-writings-from-petrarch-to-machiavelli-9780812224320","title":"Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample opportunities to inquire into the nature of political legitimacy and the relationship between authority and its social context. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume provides a selection of texts that describes the language, conceptual vocabulary, and issues at stake in Florentine political culture at key moments in its development during the Renaissance. Rather than presenting Renaissance political thought as a static set of arguments, \u003ci\u003eFlorentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli\u003c\/i\u003e instead illustrates the degree to which political thought in the Italian City revolved around a common cluster of topics that were continually modified and revised--and the way those common topics could be made to serve radically divergent political purposes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEditors Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, and John P. McCormick offer readers the opportunity to appreciate how Renaissance political thought, often expressed in the language of classical idealism, could be productively applied to pressing civic questions. The editors expand the scope of Florentine humanist political writing by explicitly connecting it with the sixteenth-century realist turn most influentially exemplified by Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. Presenting nineteen primary source documents, including lesser known texts by Machiavelli and Guicciardini, several of which are here translated into English for the first time, this useful compendium shows how the Renaissance political imagination could be deployed to think through methods of electoral technology, the balance of power between different social groups, and other practical matters of political stability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Jurdjevic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812224320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Jurdjevic is Professor of History at York University and coeditor, with Meredith K. Ray, of Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Natasha Piano is a Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at the University of Chicago. John P. McCormick is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40163145580659,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8c075b76-a54a-45f5-b93b-bffde2ff0834.jpg?v=1655043028","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/florentine-political-writings-from-petrarch-to-machiavelli-9780812224320","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}