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Machiavelli wrote famously in the fifteenth chapter of The Prince that “any man who under all conditions insists on making it his business to be good will surely be destroyed among so many who are not good.” Most Christians refused to accept the argument that in order to be successful in politics, one had to abandon Christian morality, and many writers took up the pen to refute Machiavelli. Most significant among these were the “Antimachiavellians” in a narrower sense; characteristic of them was the proposal of a counter-program that elaborated in detail the means by which a ruler might be politically successful, that is, create, maintain, and expand a powerful state by using Christian, moral methods. They responded to Machiavelli on his own grounds, that of practice, not on the basis of theological or philosophical principle. A founder of this tradition was Giovanni Botero who published his Ragione di Stato in 1589; it quickly achieved the status of a political “bestseller.” This paper outlines Botero’s position and shows how he reinterpreted terms and ideas of Machiavelli, for example, virtů and the expansion of a state, in order to fit them into a Christian framework. Just as Machiavelli ends the Prince with a summons to the Italian princes, and especially Pope Leo X, to drive the foreigners out of Italy, so Botero ends with a call to princes who feel that they must win glory in war, to turn their energies toward a campaign against the Turks. As for Cicero, so for Botero, the bonum honestum and the bonum utile belong together. |
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| Bireley, Robert. "Machiavelli Turned Upside Down: Giovanni Botero's Regione de Stato (1589)" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211307_index.html> |
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| Bireley, R. , 2007-08-30 "Machiavelli Turned Upside Down: Giovanni Botero's Regione de Stato (1589)" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211307_index.html |
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Abstract: Machiavelli wrote famously in the fifteenth chapter of The Prince that “any man who under all conditions insists on making it his business to be good will surely be destroyed among so many who are not good.” Most Christians refused to accept the argument that in order to be successful in politics, one had to abandon Christian morality, and many writers took up the pen to refute Machiavelli. Most significant among these were the “Antimachiavellians” in a narrower sense; characteristic of them was the proposal of a counter-program that elaborated in detail the means by which a ruler might be politically successful, that is, create, maintain, and expand a powerful state by using Christian, moral methods. They responded to Machiavelli on his own grounds, that of practice, not on the basis of theological or philosophical principle. A founder of this tradition was Giovanni Botero who published his Ragione di Stato in 1589; it quickly achieved the status of a political “bestseller.” This paper outlines Botero’s position and shows how he reinterpreted terms and ideas of Machiavelli, for example, virtů and the expansion of a state, in order to fit them into a Christian framework. Just as Machiavelli ends the Prince with a summons to the Italian princes, and especially Pope Leo X, to drive the foreigners out of Italy, so Botero ends with a call to princes who feel that they must win glory in war, to turn their energies toward a campaign against the Turks. As for Cicero, so for Botero, the bonum honestum and the bonum utile belong together. |
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| Machiavell Turned Upside Down Giovanni Botero’s Ragione di Stato (1589) Robert Bireley SJ Loyola University Chicago Prepared for delivery at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 30th-September 2 2007 Machiavelli Turned Upside Down: Giovanni Botero’s Ragione di stato (1589) Giovanni Botero’s Ragione di stato published in 1589 quickly achieved the status of a “bestseller” of political literature. Fifteen Italian editions appeared before the author’s death in 1617 and another five before 1700. These were |
| 1521) were the earliest political writers to accord the concept of interest a prominent role in their analysis. Ibid. 2: 20 (p. 118); 2: 11 (pp. 122 125). Torgil Magnuson Rome in the Age of Bernini 1: From the Election of Sixtus V to the Death of Urban VIII (Stockholm/Highlands NJ 1982): 10. Ragion di stato 2:10 (p. 118); 2: 11 (p. 122 125); 3: 1 (pp. 147-50); 3: 2 (pp. 151-2); 3: 3 (152-3). Ragion di stato 7: |
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