Liberty before Liberalism.

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

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 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.

Note di L.Bigliazzi e L.Bigliazzi. Con il contr.del C.N.R. Firenze, Accad.dei Georgofili 1995, cm.17x24, pp.31, brossura cop.fig. Estratto dalla "Rivista di Storia dell'Agricoltura". Anno XXXV-Fasc.n.1.

Parigi, Giulio Renouard, Poussielgue Rusand Editori 1849, 2 voll. cm.14x22,5, pp.LXXXIII,442, 618, rilegatura in mz.pelle, fregi e titoli in oro ai dorsi.

Firenze, Edifir 2018, cm.16,5x23, pp.200, numerose figg.bn.nt. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Il volume Santa Marta a Montopoli. Da monastero di clausura a scuola pubblica colma un vuoto storiografico. Mancava infatti una storia dell'edificio, che dall'alto della zona del Falcone svetta dall'abitato di Montopoli e domina la valle dell'Arno verso ovest, e della sua istituzione. Il mona-stero femminile agostiniano, le cui porte si sono chiuse dietro le prime 12 suore il 28 luglio 1619, nel 1785 è stato trasformato con le riforme leopoldine e dedicato all'istruzione dei giovani, fino alla chiusura dell'Istituto scolastico che in ultimo vi ha avuto sede, nel 2014. Si prospetta oggi per il complesso, gestito dalla Fondazione Conservatorio Santa Marta, un futuro legato alle iniziative culturali e museali.

Bologna, Il Mulino Ed. 1999, cm.12,5x20,5, pp.184, brossura Coll.Lessico della Politica.