Virtue Politics

Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

James Hankins

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ISBN 9780674237551

Publication Date: 12/17/2019

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768 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

Belknap Press

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James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy and Renaissance Civic Humanism and is one of the world’s leading authorities on humanist political thought.

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2020 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year, 2020

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