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At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the
reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns
to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To
do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini's sixteenth-century
description of the Republic of Venice to help modern readers
understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted
republic. In its long history, Venice was the only city that
succeeded in constructing a durable republicanism, and it was one
of the earliest to depart from the hierarchical world of national
monarchies and sovereignties. Sabetti suggests that students of
politics will find Contarini's The Republic of Venice just as
instructive, if not more so, as Machiavelli's The Prince. In his
analysis of human nature, Contarini matches Machiavelli's
secularism and realism, but goes much further; examining the case
of Venice, he shows how it is possible for fallible human beings to
construct a successful and stable government. This is the first
modern English-language edition of Contarini's classic work, based
directly on the original Latin.
A familiar theme in Greek philosophy, largely due to the influence
of Plato's Cratylus, linguistic naturalism (the notion that
linguistic facts, structures or behaviour are in some significant
sense determined by nature) constitutes a major but under-studied
area of Roman linguistic thought. Indeed, it holds significance not
only for the history of linguistics but also for philosophy,
stylistics, rhetoric and more. The chapters in this volume deal
with a range of naturalist theories in a variety of authors
including Cicero, Varro, Nigidius Figulus, Posidonius, and
Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The result is a complex and
multi-faceted picture of how language and nature were believed to
interrelate in the classical Roman world.
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