Classical Sources and a New Theory of the State in the Renaissance: A Neapolitan Mirror for Princes.

This article focuses on an important, although still neglected, political treatise: Giuniano Maio’s De maiestate (1492), composed by a prominent intellectual of the Neapolitan Renaissance. This work, one of the first pre-Machiavellian mirrors for princes written in Italian, is a particularly signifi...

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Publicado en:Annali d'Italianistica Vol. 38; pp. 19 - 46
Autor principal: CELATI, MARTA
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Publicado: Annali d'Italianistica, Inc. 2020
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        Classical legacy
        Fifteenth-century Humanism
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        Kingdom of Naples
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