On Leaders and Tyrants

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-674-29712-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 99, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 212 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

The first complete English translation of a controversial Renaissance debate centering moral questions on power and leadership.

Poggio Bracciolini was a prominent scholar-official of the early Renaissance and a leading representative of Florentine humanism. He was employed as a secretary to seven popes and ended his career as Chancellor of the Republic of Florence. On Leaders and Tyrants contains texts, the majority by Poggio, relating to a controversy on the relative merits of the lives and deeds of Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar. The debate addressed the nature of tyranny and military glory, as well as the qualities necessary for republican leaders, such as Stoic virtue, lawfulness, and good citizenship. Poggio’s primary opponent was the educator Guarino of Verona, a humanist in the service of the duke of Ferrara. The psychology of power, the demands placed on public servants, and the dividing line between leadership and tyranny are as topical today as they were when Poggio wrote. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin texts and the first complete translation of the controversy into English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Of Verona, Guarino

Bracciolini, Poggio

del Monte, Pietro

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schadee, Hester

Sidwell, Keith

Rundle, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Sidwell, Keith
Keith Sidwell is Emeritus Professor of Classics at University College Cork, Ireland, and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary.

Rundle, David
David Rundle is Senior Lecturer in Latin and Paleography at the University of Kent.

Schadee, Hester
Hester Schadee is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Exeter.