Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence

Athanasios Moulakis is director of the Herbst Program of Humanities, Herbst Professor of Humanities, and professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Beyond Utility: Liberal Education for a Technological Age.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Realist ConstitutionalismChapter 2 Francesco Guicciardini and His Reputation as a WriterChapter 3 Florentine Politics and the Realist TraditionChapter 4 The Humanist Chancellors and the FriarChapter 5 The DiscourseChapter 6 Francesco Guicciardini: Discorso di LogrognoChapter 7 Appendix A: Chronology of Florentine Institutional DevelopmentChapter 8 Appedix B: Chronology of Franscesco GuicciardiniChapter 9 BibliographyChapter 10 Index

This is a work that should secure for itself a wide readership not only among scholars of the Italian Renaissance, but also among students of political theory and among historians of ancient and of modern republican government. I found the translation eminently readable. . . I found the overall argument fascinating. . .