Visions of Politics : Volume 3:Hobbes and civil science.

2006 Balzan Prizewinner. Firenze, Olschki Ed. 2016, cm 17 x 24, 78 pp. con 4 tavv. f.t. a colori, brossura The Annual Balzan Lecture,7. Testo in Inglese. Contemporary political theorists frequently say that there is only one coherent way of thinking about liberty, and that it consists in recognising that an individual is free so long as there is no interference with the exercise of his or her powers. In Thinking About Liberty: An Historian’s Approach, Quentin Skinner shows that this is mere dogma by tracing a genealogy that considers different ways of thinking about liberty, a central concept in social and political thought in today’s Western democracies. He isolates three distinct strands in the genealogy of modern liberty, including the above mentioned freedom as absence of interference (by external agencies or by the self), as well as two alternatives: freedom as absence of dependence (as in liber homo vs slave status) and freedom as self-realisation. In speaking as an historian, Skinner’s chief concern is to excavate a way of thinking about freedom that has lately been in danger of getting lost. The lecture also presents Skinner’s 2006 Balzan Prize research project, which involved young European scholars to address questions about the place of civil, religious and political liberty in the formation of modern Europe.

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

Cambridge University Press 2006, cm.15x23, pp.XIX,460, illustrazioni, brossura con copertina figurata. The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on the political thought of the Italian renaissance, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. 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.

Verona, Mondadori 1977, cm.13x20, pp.181, brossura Coll.Lo Specchio.

Paris, Librairie Arthème Fayard 1949, cm.14x22, pp.480, num.figg.bn.nt. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Coll.Savoir. Intonso.

Roma, Libreria del littorio 1929, cm.14x19, pp.147, 3 cartine ripiegate. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Coll.Commentari della Vittoria. Seconda edizione. Intonso.

Milano, Mondolibri su licenza Mondadori 2006, cm.14x22, pp.193, legatura editoriale, sopraccoperta figurata a colori. "Il codice da Vinci" di Dan Brown è stato in vetta alle classifiche dei libri in tutto il mondo per molti mesi e ancora oggi, nonostante i milioni di copie vendute, il suo successo non sembra esaurirsi. L'aspetto sorprendente di questo romanzo è che l'autore ha costruito la trama intessendo vicende frutto della sua fantasia con rivelazioni storiche sconvolgenti che, se confermate, cambierebbero in modo radicale il nostro rapporto con la religione cristiana. In questo libro, Bart D. Ehrman, studioso del cristianesimo delle origini, separa i fatti dalla finzione, la realtà dalla fantasia letteraria, offrendo a quanti vogliono sapere la verità sulle origini del cristianesimo e sulla vita di Gesù, la chiave per decodificare tutti i segreti del libro.