Discorsi politici

Title

Discorsi politici

Description

As Albergati states in the preface letter to cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, he had been asked to write the work by cardinal Francisco de Toledo Herrera in order to reprobate Jean Bodin's political theories by means of a strong defence of Aristotle's. The author aims thus at demonstrating the superiority of absolute monarchy on any other kind of political structure. Aristotle is celebrated within the preface as the main philosophical reference: (cf. p. 2: 'Conciosiache havendo Aristotele per comune consentimento di molti secoli ottenuto presso i Greci, Arabi, Latini e qualunque altra natione che nelle lettere s'è esercitata il primo honore ne i publici studi in tutte le arti, scienze e facoltà , delle quali ha trattato, era agevole da conchiudere che colui che di opporsi alla finezza di tanta dottrina osava, era degno anzi di compassione che di risposta).

Creator

Date

1602

Contributor

Type

Prose

Identifier

Is Referenced By

Fasano Guarini 1960.

Spatial Coverage

Genre

Multiple work

No

Author Life

1538-1606

Branch of philosophy

Record last updated

07/03/2013

PrintedEdYear

1602—ALBERGATI Fabio—Discorsi politici
1603—ALBERGATI Fabio—Discorsi politici
1664—ALBERGATI Fabio—Discorsi politici

Collection

Citation

Eugenio Refini, ‘Discorsi politici’, in Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARIDB)
  <https://vari.warwick.ac.uk/items/show/4938> [accessed 24 December 2024]