From Politics to Reason of State: The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics, 1250-1600.

Benjamin G. Kohl, Maurizio Viroli

The American Historical Review · 1994 · 154 citations · 0 references

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Introduction 1. The acquisition of the language of politics 2. The philosophy of the city and the political man 3. Machiavelli and the republican idea of politics 4. Francesco Guicciardini: between politics and art of the state 5. The last glimmerings of civil philosophy 6. The triumph of reason of state Epilogue Bibliography of primary and secondary sources.