Republics and Kingdoms Compared (The I Tatti Renaissance Library 40)

by Aurelio Lippo Brandolini (Author), James Hankins (Author)

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  2009

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  A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca 1490), this work depicts a debate between the king himself and a Florentine merchant at his court on the relative merits of republics and kingdoms. It discusses such issues as free trade and the morality of commerce and the inequalities of wealth typical of republics.