Project | Global Thucydides
Catalogue | Digital catalogue
Entry | Massime, esempj e trattati pubblici di tregua, di pace e d'alleanza tolti dagli…

Massime, esempj e trattati pubblici di tregua, di pace e d'alleanza tolti dagli otto libri della storia di Tucidide

Typology: Translation | Language: Italian | Place of publication: Florence | Publisher: Stamperia Imperiale di Firenze | Year: 1756

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Content: Anthologies

Stefano Bertolini (1711-1782), jurist and political thinker. Educated in law at the University of Pisa, Bertolini was influenced by natural law theory, Muratori's historical method, and Montesquieu. Bertolini served in various administrative and judicial roles under the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He played a central role in judicial reform and ecclesiastical policy, advocating for the subordination of church structures to civil authority. He authored several political and legal treatises, including a systematic commentary on Montesquieu, and a collection of Machiavellian fragments reinterpreted through an Enlightenment lens. His proposals for agrarian and administrative modernization – particularly concerning the Maremma region – reflect a broader effort to align Tuscan governance with rationalist and economic principles. Treccani

Collection of maxims and treaties from the History. Bertolini published the work anonymously, attributing it to a fictitious sixteenth-century source purportedly discovered as marginalia in a copy of Seyssel's translation of Thucydides. This strategy was likely intended to circumvent censorship, as the text used the authority of Thucydides to introduce and legitimize libertarian, republican, natural-law, and Enlightenment ideas.

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Massime, esempj e trattati pubblici di tregua, di pace e d'alleanza tolti dagli otto libri della storia di Tucidide

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