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dc.contributor.authorBozzo, Luciano
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-22T16:05:03Z
dc.date.available2022-12-22T16:05:03Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20221222_9788855185950_14
dc.identifier.issn2704-5919
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60352
dc.languageItalian
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudi e saggi
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theoryen_US
dc.subject.otherBalance of power
dc.subject.otherGuicciardini
dc.subject.otherFlorentine historiography
dc.subject.othersystem of states
dc.titleChapter L’equilibrio di potenza nella storiografia fiorentina
dc.typechapter
oapen.abstract.otherlanguageAlthough Francesco Guicciardini is usually credited with the idea of balance of power, other Florentine historians prior to him had had similar insights. The essay presents the evolution of the notion of balance of power in Florentine historiography from the 14th-century chronicles of Giovanni and Matteo Villani to Guicciardini himself. Florentine historians put forward two basic meanings of balance of power, first as aggregation of forces against the most powerful state, second as an arrangement of the international system as a whole. The former is based on the elementary idea that those who fear the strongest state create alliances with those who share similar concerns, and it amounts to an ad hoc security tool; the latter entails the awareness of the existence of a system of states, which gradually came up from the beginning of the 15th century onwards.
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-595-0.05
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn9788855185950
oapen.series.number238
oapen.pages14
oapen.place.publicationFlorence


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