Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface XI
4. 1 A Civilization in Crisis 1
5. 2 Virtue Politics 31
6. 3 What Was a Republic in the Renaissance? 63
7. 4 Taming the Tyrant 103
8. 5 The Triumph of Virtue: Petrarch’s Political Thought 153
9. 6 Should a Good Man Participate in a Corrupt Government? Petrarch on the Solitary Life 174
10. 7 Boccaccio on the Perils of Wealth and Status 192
11. 8 Leonardo Bruni and the Virtuous Hegemon 218
12. 9 War and Military Service in the Virtuous Republic 238
13. 10 A Mirror for Statesmen: Leonardo Bruni’s History of the Florentine People 271
14. 11 Biondo Flavio: What Made the Romans Great 289
15. 12 Cyriac of Ancona on Democracy and Empire 305
16. 13 Leon Battista Alberti on Corrupt Princes and Virtuous Oligarchs 318
17. 14 George of Trebizond on Cosmopolitanism and Liberty 335
18. 15 Francesco Filelfo and the Spartan Republic 351
19. 16 Greek Constitutional Theory in the Quattrocento 364
20. 17 Francesco Patrizi and Humanist Absolutism 386
21. 18 Machiavelli: Reviving the Military Republic 423
22. 19 Machiavelli: From Virtue to Virtù 449
23. 20 Two Cures for Hyperpartisanship: Bruni versus Machiavelli 476
24. 21 Conclusion: Ex Oriente Lux 495
25. Appendixes 515
26. Notes 529
27. Bibliography 651
28. Acknowledgments 699
29. Index of Manuscripts and Archival Documents 705
30. General Index 707