Dialogo tra guicciardini e machiavelli biography

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University (3/30/2011) Politics, law and literature.

The dialogue between Machiavelli and Guicciardini Paolo Carta 1.

Dialogo tra guicciardini e machiavelli biography

This paper aims to provide a view of the relationship between political and legal thought, in order to discuss some topics and philological aspects of the research on Guicciardini’s work that I’m conducting here at the Italian Academy1.

To show you simply a single perspective in which we can discuss the relationship between law and politics at the beginning of the XVIth Century I will be focussing on the well known dialogue between Guicciardini and his friend Niccolò Machiavelli and emphasising some peculiar aspects of how they interpret the «imitation of the ancients», as the attempt to base politics upon its own principles, iuxta propria principia2.

And I am even more so when I see that in the civil disputes that arise among