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De Regimine Principum and Its Historical Background

This well-known treatise of St. Thomas Aquinas on the principles of good government was addressed, there seems little doubt, to Hugh II, de Lusignan, king of Cyprus, who died in 1267 at the untimely age of seventeen years. On the death of the promising youth the Saint discontinued his work, when he had reached the fourth chapter of the second book; but the task was completed, not altogether unsuccessfully, by one of his pupils, Ptolemy de Lucca, a Dominican who lived to become bishop of Torcello and died in 1327. St. Thomas included fifteen chapters in his first book, and Ptolemy added twelve more to the second, and completed the whole work by adding two more books, one of twenty-two chapters, the other of twenty-eight, so that of the whole work De Regimine Principum as it appears in the collected works of St. Thomas, Ptolemy’s share is sixty-two chapters out of a total of eighty-one. I have no intention of giving here a resume of the book whose principles are so well known to students of St. Thomas; I merely wish to indicate the broad historical background in which it was composed. St. Thomas, we have to remember, was an Italian, and by birth a subject of his distant kinsman, the Emperor Frederic II; being born in the kingdom of Naples, then an appanage of the Imperial a-own. Under Frederic’s harsh rule the Saint lived out his youth, but after joining the Dominicans found peace under the just and therefore tranquil government of St. Lewis IX of France.

Machiavelli's "Prince" and Its Forerunners: "The Prince" as a Typical Book "de Regimine Principum"

Machiavelli's "Prince" and Its Forerunners: "The Prince" as a Typical Book "de Regimine Principum"

<italic>Machiavelli's “Prince” and its Forerunners: “The Prince” as a Typical Book “de Regimine Principum”.</italic> By <sc>Allan H. Gilbert</sc>. (Durham: Duke University Press. 1938. Pp. xiii, 266. $3.00.)

<italic>Machiavelli's “Prince” and its Forerunners: “The Prince” as a Typical Book “de Regimine Principum”.</italic> By <sc>Allan H. Gilbert</sc>. (Durham: Duke University Press. 1938. Pp. xiii, 266. $3.00.)

Machiavelli's `Prince' and Its Forerunners; `The Prince' as a Typical Book `de Regimine Principum'. Allan H. Gilbert

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsMachiavelli's `Prince' and Its Forerunners; `The Prince' as a Typical Book `de Regimine Principum'. Allan H. Gilbert John Milton PotterJohn Milton Potter Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Speculum Volume 14, Number 2Apr., 1939 The journal of the Medieval Academy of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2849495 Views: 5Total views on this site Copyright 1939 The Mediaeval Academy of AmericaPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Notes on the Influence of the Secretum Secretorum

Previous articleNext article No AccessNotesNotes on the Influence of the Secretum SecretorumAllan H. GilbertAllan H. Gilbert Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Speculum Volume 3, Number 1Jan., 1928 The journal of the Medieval Academy of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2848123 Views: 14Total views on this site Copyright 1928 The Mediaeval Academy of AmericaPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Abdel Magid Al-Araki The octograph and the delight of understanding organizational artistry, Open Economics 2, no.11 (Dec 2019): 92–108.https://doi.org/10.1515/openec-2019-0009Frank Grady The Rhetoric of the Righteous Heathen, (Jan 2005): 101–121.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-12367-1_5 Felix Gilbert The Humanist Concept of the Prince and the Prince of Machiavelli, The Journal of Modern History 11, no.44 (Oct 2015): 449–483.https://doi.org/10.1086/236395 Curt F. Bühler Greek Philosophers in the Literature of the Later Middle Ages, Speculum 12, no.44 (Oct 2015): 440–455.https://doi.org/10.2307/2849299 Lester Kruger Born The Perfect Prince: A Study in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Ideals, Speculum 3, no.44 (Oct 2015): 470–504.https://doi.org/10.2307/2850573

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:With the Church. By Mother Mary Loyola of the ‘Bar Convent,’ York. With a Preface by Father Herbert Thurston, S.J.The Pastor According to the New Code of Canon Law. By the Rev. P. C. Augustine, O.S.B., D.D.Divi Thomae Aquinatis De Regimine Principum et De Regimine Judaeorum. Ed. Josep Mathis.Eighty Poems. An Anthology, edited by L. A. G. Strong.Up the Slopes of ount Sion: or A Progress from Puritanism to Catholicism. By Monsignor Kolbe, D.D., D.Litt., of Cape Town.Adrian Fortescue. A Memoir. By John G. Vance and J. W. Fortescue.Christopher and Cressida. By Montgomery Carmichael.Life as I saw it. Kegan Paul.

Reviews of Books

Journal Article Reviews of Books Get access Li Livres du Gouvernement des Rois. A Thirteenth-century French version of Egidio Colonna's Treatise De Regimine Principum. Now first published with introduction and notes. By SAMUEL PAUL MOLENAER. (New York: The Macmillan Co. 1899.) PAGET TOYNBEE PAGET TOYNBEE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XIV, Issue LV, July 1899, Pages 548–550, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XIV.LV.548 Published: 01 July 1899