Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
Written by James Hankins
Narrated by Paul Brion
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A dazzlingly ambitious reappraisal of Renaissance political thought by one of our generation's foremost intellectual historians, Virtue Politics challenges the traditional narrative that looks to the Renaissance as the seedbed of modern republicanism and sees Machiavelli as its exemplary thinker. James Hankins reveals that what most concerned the humanists was not reforming laws or institutions so much as shaping citizens. If character mattered more than constitutions, it would have to be nurtured through a new program of education they called the studia humanitatis: the humanities.
We owe liberal arts education and much else besides to the bold experiment of these passionate and principled thinkers. The questions they asked would have a profound impact on later debates about good government and seem as vital today as they did then.
James Hankins
James Hankins writes thrillers, mysteries, and novels of suspense, including his latest, The Inside Dark. His previous books—The Prettiest One, Shady Cross, Brothers and Bones, Drawn, and Jack of Spades—all became Kindle #1 bestsellers, while Brothers and Bones was named to the Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2013 list. Hankins lives north of Boston with his wife and sons, and can be reached through his website, www.jameshankinsbooks.com; on Twitter @James_Hankins_; and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/JamesHankinsAuthorPage.
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