Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Philosophy
Binding: Leather
Description: The overturn of the enterprises. Dialogue. Ammirato, S., Del Signor Scipione Ammirato, Fiorenza, per Filippo Giunti; 1598 An examination of heraldic devices, this work was written as a dialogue and was named for one of its interlocutors, the eminent Neapolitan poet and novelist friend Berardino Rota.along with two woodcut initials and the printer's apparatus. 130 pages on 1 sheet and 3 sheets bound in leather minor foxing, wear, and absence of front endLatin text on a 6 1/4 by 8 3/4" piece of paper. Scipione Ammirato was an Italian philosopher and historian who lived from 1531 to 1601. He is currently recognized as a key pioneer in the academic field of philosophy history research. Discorsi sopra Cornelio Tacito, or "Discourses on Tacitus," his political treatise published in 1594, is his most well-known work. With multiple translations, the book quickly rose to the status of "an international classic." Ammirato establishes himself as an anti-Machiavellian from the outset in his Discorsi, searching every possible avenue to refute Il Principe's central claims. Ammirato did not view tacitism as a stand-in for Machiavellianism, in contrast to Botero and Lipsius. Instead, his Discorsi use the Roman historian's writings as a counterbalance to Il Principe, a strategy that would become widely accepted during the protracted Tacitus renaissance. Furthermore, Ammirato's theory of the reason of state defined this "reason" as the reason of the greater public good (such as public safety); as a result, the modern prince did not contradict Christianity by deviating from the standard moral order in extraordinary circumstances.
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