Visions of Politics : Volume 2:Renaissance Virtues.

Cambridge University Press 2006, cm.15x23, pp.XVI,210, brossura con copertina figurata. The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in his two successive volumes. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought.

Cambridge University Press 2008, cm.14x22, pp.XXI,245, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first originated in classical antiquity, and lay at the heart of the Roman republican tradition of public life. Thomas Hobbes was the most formidable enemy of this pattern of thought, and his successive attempts to discredit it constitute a truly epochal moment in the history of Anglophone political thought. Hobbes and Republican Liberty develops several of the themes announced by Quentin Skinner in his celebrated inaugural lecture on Liberty before Liberalism of 1997. Cogent, engaged, accessible, and indeed exhilarating, this new book will appeal to readers of history, politics, and philosophy at all levels from upper-undergraduate upwards, and provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time.

Cambridge (U.K.), Cambridge University Press 1994, cm.13,2x21,5, pp.VIII,215,(1), brossura, copertina fig. a colori.

Cambridge University Press 1998, cm.13,5x21,5, pp.XIV,142, brossura con copertina figurata. This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds'. This essay provides one of the most substantial statements yet made about the importance, relevance and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.

Tutte le tavole sono protette da velina. Fondazione Collodi, luglio 1999. 1999, cm.26x36,5, Cartella contenete con 7 calcografie che ritraggono: Pinocchio, la Fata Turchina, Geppetto, il Grillo Parlante Lucignolo, Mangiafuoco e il Gatto e la Volpe Tutte le tavole sono protette da velina. artella in mezza tela chiusa da legacci, itoli in oro al piatto anteriore. Esemplare II/V. N. II di soli V esemplari, tutti numerati e firmati dall’artista fiorentino, che donò alla Fondazione Nazionale Collodi i suoi lavori « realizzati nell’arco di quasi un ventennio: dai numerosi disegni realizzati tra il 1981 ed il 1983 per le celebrazioni ufficiali del Centenario di Pinocchio, ai disegni preparatori per la piazza-mosaico-pedana di gioco realizzata a Firenze in Via Pistoiese, a lavori più recenti di pittura, grafica e scultura. » Il testo è tratto dalla carta di presentazione dell’opera, ove figurano due scritti: uno di Ciabani e uno della Fondazione Collodi. Bell’insieme in tiratura limitatissima.