Aurelio Lippo Brandolini's "Republics and Kingdoms Compared" is
the most fascinating and least-known work of humanist political
theory before Machiavelli. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of
King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), the work depicts a
debate between the king himself and a Florentine merchant at his
court on the relative merits of republics and kingdoms.
In effect a searing critique of Florentine civic humanism, the
work discusses such issues as free trade and the morality of
commerce, the inequalities of wealth typical of republics, the
nature of freedom and justice, the reasons for the rise and fall of
empires, the causes of political corruption, and the conditions
necessary for the flourishing of arts, letters, and culture
generally. This is the first critical edition and the first
translation into any language.
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