Botero: The Reason of State (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Though

Botero The Reason of State\nby Giovanni Botero\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Giovanni Botero\nTitle: Botero The Reason of State\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political science and theory\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781107141827\nISBN-10: 1107141826\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nNiccol\u00F2 Machiavelli''s seminal work, The Prince, argued that a ruler could not govern morally and be successful. Giovanni Botero disputed this argument and proposed a system for the maintenance and expansion of a state that remained moral in character. Founding an anti-Machiavellian tradition that aimed to refute Machiavelli in practice, Botero is an important figure in early modern political thought, though he remains relatively unknown. His m.