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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674274709
ISBN-13
9780674274709
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19057250969
Product Key Features
Book Title
Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy : the Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, Europe / Renaissance, General, Movements / Humanism
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Philosophy, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-029081
Dewey Edition
23
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Patrizi had lots of interesting ideas...Hankins is an eloquent guide to all of them. But he is occupied most of all with Patrizi's argument for political meritocracy. For Hankins, the idea of meritocratic power is woven through humanist virtue politics, which held that everyone was equal in their capacity to become virtuous through a liberal education. If virtue can be learned, then even the humblest members of civil society can become rulers by acquiring it. Indeed, there was no other route to the legitimate exercise of power than the acquisition of virtue., We can all benefit from seeing Patrizi restored to his proper place in the history of ideas, as this deeply scholarly and splendidly readable study succeeds in doing., Through meticulous scholarship and forceful argumentation, James Hankins restores Francesco Patrizi to his rightful place among leading Italian humanists such as Petrarch and Machiavelli, and also among giants of pan-European humanists such as Thomas More. A tour de force in intellectual history and political theory., Hankins returns us to the Renaissance in order to explore the fate of political meritocracy...[He is] a time traveler, a navigator among languages, and a comparatist who combines exquisite breadth and peerless depth., I'd like to believe that four years reading Thucydides, Plato and Euripides makes my students better citizens and more virtuous people...I am hoping for therapeutic reassurance from James Hankins's Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy , a study of the neglected humanist thinker Francesco Patrizi, an early proponent of republican equality grounded in mass public virtue--instilled, obviously, through the study of Classics.
Dewey Decimal
195
Synopsis
James Hankins offers the first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi's life and thought. A key but largely forgotten Renaissance thinker, Patrizi wrote influentially on "virtue politics," with the goal of nurturing citizens' character and education so societies could effectively balance demands of liberty, equality, and merit-based leadership., The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi--the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli--who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and equality in the service of good governance. At the heart of the Italian Renaissance was a longing to recapture the wisdom and virtue of Greece and Rome. But how could this be done? A new school of social reformers concluded that the best way to revitalize corrupt institutions was to promote an ambitious new form of political meritocracy aimed at nurturing virtuous citizens and political leaders. The greatest thinker in this tradition of virtue politics was Francesco Patrizi of Siena, a humanist philosopher whose writings were once as famous as Machiavelli's. Patrizi wrote two major works: On Founding Republics , addressing the enduring question of how to reconcile republican liberty with the principle of merit; and On Kingship and the Education of Kings , which lays out a detailed program of education designed to instill the qualities necessary for political leadership--above all, practical wisdom and sound character. The first full-length study of Patrizi's life and thought in any language, Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy argues that Patrizi is a thinker with profound lessons for our time. A pioneering advocate of universal literacy who believed urban planning could help shape civic values, he concluded that limiting the political power of the wealthy, protecting the poor from debt slavery, and reducing the political independence of the clergy were essential to a functioning society. These ideas were radical in his day. Far more than an exemplar of his time, Patrizi deserves to rank alongside the great political thinkers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Jean Bodin.
LC Classification Number
B785.P44H36 2023
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