Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the
principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian
theory in his "De Regimine Principum," a book that influenced much
of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance,
and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as
despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of
mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the
Church, and medieval government.In addition to his translation of
this important and radical medieval political treatise, written
around 1300, 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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