Although 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.
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Titolo del capitolo
L’equilibrio di potenza nella storiografia fiorentina
Autori
Marco Cesa
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-595-0.05
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Anno di pubblicazione
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Eirene e Atena
Sottotitolo del libro
Studi di politica internazionale in onore di Umberto Gori
Curatori
Fulvio Attinà, Luciano Bozzo, Marco Cesa, Sonia Lucarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
208
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-595-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-594-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-595-0
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919