NOCTUA

La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno

History of Philosophy from the Ancient to the Modern Age

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Autore / Author: Lorenzo Bianchi

Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale»

Titolo / Title: «Reipublicae administratio extraordinaria»: note in margine a un passo della Bibliographia politica di Gabriel Naudé

Abstract: In his Bibliographia politica (Venice 1633) Naudé reviews in about one hundred pages authors and works that have dealt with politics, from the Antiquity to the first decades of the Seventeenth Century. In few enlightened pages on the ordinary and extraordinary administration of the State, Naudé elaborates his own idea of Reason of State, including the use of an extraordinary administration in the name of the public benefit. We can find a continuity between his Bibliographia politica and his Considérations politiques sur les coups d’Estat (1639). In both his political works Naudé gives to the category of wisdom, derived from Aristotle, a new practical and political value, which goes back to authors such as Machiavelli or Cardano, Lipsius or Charron. Naudé’s political wisdom uses dissimulation and any form of justice, also against common law, to act in extraordinary administration of the State or to carry out “coups d’État.”

Keywords: Libertinage érudit; political philosophy; reason of state (ragione di stato); wisdom; dissimulation.

English title: “Reipublicae administratio extraordinaria”: Marginal Notes on a Passage from the Bibliographia politica of Gabriel Naudé

DOI: 10.14640/NoctuaVI2

Anno / Volume: VI

Fascicolo / Issue: 1-2

Pagine / Pages: 40-74

Pubblicazione / Publication date: 15/06/2019

Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaVI2

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