Botero: The Reason of State

Niccol Machiavelli's seminal work, The Prince, argued that a ruler could not govern morally and be successful....
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Author: Giovanni Botero
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Language: English
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Botero: The Reason of State by Botero, Giovanni

Botero: The Reason of State

CHF 39.46

Botero: The Reason of State

CHF 39.46
Author: Giovanni Botero
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Niccol Machiavelli's seminal work, The Prince, argued that a ruler could not govern morally and be successful. Giovanni Botero disputed this argument and proposed a system for the maintenance and expansion of a state that remained moral in character. Founding an anti-Machiavellian tradition that aimed to refute Machiavelli in practice, Botero is an important figure in early modern political thought, though he remains relatively unknown. His most notable work, Della ragion di Stato, first popularised the term 'reason of state' and made a significant contribution to a major political debate of the time - the perennial issue of the relationship between politics and morality - and the book became a political 'bestseller' in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth century. This translation of the 1589 volume introduces Botero to a wider Anglophone readership and extends this influential text to a modern audience of students and scholars of political thought.

Author: Giovanni Botero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/07/2017
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.65h x 6.54w x 0.19d
ISBN: 9781316506721

About the Author
Bireley, Robert: - Robert Bireley is Professor of History Emeritus at Loyola University, Chicago, and has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. Recent works include Ferdinand II: Counter-Reformation Emperor, 1578-1637 (Cambridge, 2014).

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