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Guicciardini: Dialogue on the Government of Florence (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Guicciardini Dialogue on the Government of Florence - Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought Author:Francesco Guicciardini This is the first English translation of Guicciardini's Dialogue on the Government of Florence, written in the 1520s. Like Machiavelli, his more famous contemporary and friend, Guicciardini rejects classical republican arguments in the name of the new political realism and acknowledges the important role of patronage and graft in contemporary po... more »litics and the illegitimacy of nearly all forms of political power, arguing for the priority of state interest over private morality and religion.« less