On the Government of Rulers / De Regimine Principum Latem ISBN: 9780812995220

ISBN: 9780812995220

Uitgeverij Kannibaal Nieuw exemplaar 2015

Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Dit boek is een inleiding hierop

The painters of these drollen or comic paintings were by no means marginals

On the Government of Rulers / De Regimine Principum Latem ISBN: 9780812995220Ptolemy, considered a proto Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the