Ideas of Liberty In Early Modern Europe (ebook)

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"[An] illuminating book."--Jacqueline Broad, Times Higher Education

"[Gatti] offers thorough, sweeping treatments of major figures in this period--Machiavelli, Luther, Shakespeare, Bruno, Milton--as well as many minor writers. . . . Gatti helpfully situates all the discussions of the period in historical context. This book will be useful for upper-level students and scholars of the history of political thought."--J. Church, Choice

"In this valuable work of scholarship, Gatti masterfully excavates the central theme of liberty of conscience in the context of the Reformation, and discusses with rare intellectual finesse the important role of thinkers like Shakespeare, Bacon, and Galileo. She offers a highly stimulating set of stories that illuminate, each in its own way, the process of the formation of modern liberty in Europe."--Maurizio Viroli, author of Redeeming "The Prince": The Meaning of Machiavelli’s Masterpiece

"This compelling book is a direct challenge to a great deal of Anglo-American scholarly consideration of the concept of liberty. Gatti is superbly equipped to deal with the huge questions she poses."--Michael Wyatt, author of The Italian Encounter with Tudor England

"Ideas of Liberty is a learned, carefully wrought, and fine-grained study."--Henry C. Clark, Review of Politics

"Gatti offers a lucid primer of some famous and other less well known texts and debates of the period . . . an eloquent analysis of the rich tradition of thinking about liberty in the early modern period."--Victoria Kahn, Times Literary Supplement0Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Political Liberty
Niccolò Machiavelli: Liberty and the Law 11
Niccolò Machiavelli: Liberty and Fortuna 16
Niccolò Machiavelli and Sir Thomas More 19
The Rule of the Prince 22
Chapter 2 Liberty and Religion
The Bondage or the Freedom of the Will: Martin Luther and Erasmus of Rotterdam 31
"Of Our Own We Have Only Sin": John Calvin and the Problem of Heresy 40
Inquisition: The Trial of Giordano Bruno 54
Religion as Dogma, or Religion as Debate? Richard Hooker and Jacobus Arminius 65
Chapter 3 Libertas philosophandi, or the Liberty of Thought
Between the Prince and Parliament 81
The New Drama: William Shakespeare 92
The New Science: From Giordano Bruno to Francis Bacon 99
The New Science: Galileo Galilei 103
Chapter 4 The Freedom of the Press
The Problems of Writing History: From Jacques Auguste de Thou to Paolo Sarpi 117
The Search for New Liberties: John Milton 133
John Milton: Areopagitica 140
The Virtues of Schisms and Sects 149
Chapter 5 Epilogue
Henry Neville, the Republic of Venice, and the "Glorious Revolution" of 1689 159
Conclusion 175
Notes 177
Bibliography 193
Index 207