QUENTIN SKINNER

Este ensayo estudia los frescos que entre 1338 y 1340 pintara Ambrogio Lorenzetti para la Sala dei Nove del Palazzo Comunale de Siena. La lectura minuciosa de las imágenes de Lorenzetti permite a Skinner localizar la fuente de inspiración del artista en la recepción que en el Duecento y Trecento efectúan de la obra de Cicerón , Séneca ...

Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil that good may come of it. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question, this book focuses on three major works,

This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate,

A dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty.