On the Government of Rulers
De Regimine Principum

Translated by James M. Blythe. By Ptolemy of Lucca, with portions attributed to Thomas Aquinas

320 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Cloth 1997 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3370-4 | $69.95s | £45.50 | Add to shopping cart
A volume in the Middle Ages Series

A translation of an important and radical medieval political treatise written around 1300. In addition James M. Blythe includes a sixty-page introduction to the work and provides over 1200 footnotes that trace Ptolemy's sources, explain his references, and comment on the text, the translation, the context, and the significance.

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