The republican idea
By William J. Connell
Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections, edited by James Hankins (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Synopsis: Examines the historiography on the issue of the idea of republicanism among Florentube humanist thinkers such as Bruni and Machiavelli in fifteenth century Italy.
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Tags: Italy, Learning, Political Thought

