Virtue Politics

Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

James Hankins

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$45.00 • £36.95 • €40.50

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 widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on humanist political thought.

Awards & Accolades

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

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year, 2020

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