Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

by James Hankins

Book Overview

Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

"Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought."
--Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement

"Magisterial...Hankins shows that the humanists' obsession with character explains their surprising indifference to particular forms of government. If rulers lacked authentic virtue, they believed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674278739
• ISBN13: 9780674278738
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.7" x 6.8" x 8.9"