Faculty of History

Giovanni Botero and English Political Thought

Trace, Jamie (2018-10-21)

This dissertation is a study of the reception of the Jesuit-trained Italian author, Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) in early-seventeenth century England. It examines how Botero was translated for an English audience, and ...
Review of Margarette Lincoln, Trading in War: London’s Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018)

Caputo, Sara
Taking another look at the Pastoral Eye. New insights based upon a second copy of the Oculus pastoralis

Napolitano, David Pierangelo (Editions Scientifiques E Story Scientia, 2018-04-23)

This article focuses on the opening text of a miscellany held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, BNF, lat. 4686). Upon closer examination the text turns out to be a missing copy of the Oculus pastoralis, ...
Brunetto Latini’s Politica: A Political Rewriting of Giovanni da Viterbo’s De Regimine Civitatum

Napolitano, David Pierangelo

It is generally accepted that the final section of Brunetto Latini’s Li Livres dou Tresor, known as his Politica, is largely based upon Giovanni da Viterbo’s De regimine civitatum. Notwithstanding this agreement on the ...