THE WELL ORDERED REPUBLIC: FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI AND THE ART OF GOOD GOVERNMENT / A REPÚBLICA BEM ORDENADA: FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI E A ARTE DO BOM GOVERNO

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2004

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In the beginning of the fifteenth century, the Italian Peninsula went through a conflict series - the calamità - originated by the invasion of Carlos VIII, king of France, in 1494. In this turbulent context, emerges in the city of Florence a new way of thinking politics. Francesco Guicciardini (1483- 1540) was one of the protagonists of it; Francesco Guicciardini´s political discourse is the goal of the present dissertation. Built based on an analytical procedure which I denominate prudential method of political analysis, Guicciardini´s political discourse tries to establish efficient mechanisms viewing the consolidation of the principles of the good government inherited from the tradition - freedom, civil harmony, agreement, and justice though a virtuous conduction of the state - in a time of corruption. Differently from the civic humanists - his antecessors - the author was not satisfied with rhetorical analysis on the themes previously mentioned. To him, it was necessary to define efficient procedures - which he did through discrezione, practical experience and the knowledge of ancient and modern histories - which would help the effectiveness of the the best government possible.

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republicanismo republicanism francesco francesco prudence liberdade good government bom governo prudencia freedom

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