Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence: Francesco Guicciardini's Discorso di Logrogno

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This text makes available in English the essay, "How to Bring Order to Popular Government", by Renaissance thinker Francesco Guicciardini. In addition to his translation of the essay, Moulakis provides an analysis of this work. He shows that, far from representing a revival of ancient republicanism, the long maturation of Florentine constitutional thought "brought to lucid expression by Guicciardini" points to a distinctly modern idea of the republican state.

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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. . . -- Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College

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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.