03229nam 2200661 a 450 991078188500332120230124183518.01-283-21147-597866132114770-8122-0133-710.9783/9780812201338(CKB)2550000000051273(EBL)3441468(SSID)ssj0000544449(PQKBManifestationID)11335565(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544449(PQKBWorkID)10535414(PQKB)11465379(MiAaPQ)EBC3441468(OCoLC)759158196(MdBmJHUP)muse3164(DE-B1597)448987(OCoLC)979744233(DE-B1597)9780812201338(Au-PeEL)EBL3441468(CaPaEBR)ebr10491925(CaONFJC)MIL321147(OCoLC)932312361(EXLCZ)99255000000005127319970108d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn the government of rulers[electronic resource] /Ptolemy of Lucca ; with portions attributed to Thomas Aquinas ; translated by James M. BlythePhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Press19971 online resource (320 p.)The Middle Ages seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8122-3370-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-291) and indexes.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Book I. Attributed to Thomas Aquinas -- Book 2. Attributed to Thomas Aquinas to mid-z.s.» -- Book 3 -- Book 4 -- Bibliography -- Index to Aristotle Citations -- Index to Augustine Citations -- Index to Biblical Citations -- General Index Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the Church, and medieval government.In addition to his translation of this important and radical medieval political treatise, written around 1300, James M. Blythe includes a sixty-page introduction to the work and provides over 1200 footnotes that trace Ptolemy's sources, explain his references, and comment on the text, the translation, the context, and the significance.Middle Ages series.Political scienceEarly works to 1800Political science320.1/01Bartholomewof Lucca,ca. 1236-1327.330585Blythe James M.1948-614758ThomasAquinas, Saint,1225?-1274.290144MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781885003321On the government of rulers3852585UNINA