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Liberality as a fiscal problem in medieval and renaissance thought : a genealogy from Aristotle's Tyrant to Machiavelli's Prince
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Lizzul, Giorgio (2022) Liberality as a fiscal problem in medieval and renaissance thought : a genealogy from Aristotle's Tyrant to Machiavelli's Prince. Journal of the History of Ideas, 83 (3). pp. 363-385. doi:10.1353/jhi.2022.0018 ISSN 1086-3222.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2022.0018
Abstract
This article explores the legacy of Aristotle's advice for the preservation of tyrannies found in Politics Book 5, Chapter 11 on the formation of medieval and Renaissance fiscal literature. The tyrant's economic techniques for preserving his regime established commonplaces of fiscal governance in the medieval commentary and mirrors-for-princes tradition. Authors' engagement with the legacy of this passage led to controversial treatments of a ruler's disposition toward the moral virtue of liberality. Machiavelli's intervention over the danger of liberality to the fiscal governance of the state needs to be placed in this longer context.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Centre for the Study of the Renaissance | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Aristotle -- Criticism, Textual, Philosophy, Renaissance , Philosophy, Medieval, Aristotle -- Philosophy -- Economic aspects, Aristotle -- Philosophy -- Political aspects, Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Criticism, Textual, Machiavelli the Prince | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the History of Ideas | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1086-3222 | ||||||
Official Date: | 6 July 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 83 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 363-385 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1353/jhi.2022.0018 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112. | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 August 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 July 2023 | ||||||
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