The Patrizi Project

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This site is devoted to Francesco Patrizi of Siena (1413-1494), the greatest political philosopher of the fifteenth century, and the principal exponent of the ‘virtue politics’ of Renaissance humanism. 

 

Effects of Good Government in the city - Lorenzetti
Effects of Good Government in the City, Ambrogio Lorenzetti - 1338-1339
 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Creation of this website was made possible by a grant from
the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

The Patrizi Project has also received valuable support from
the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University.

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