Nature, Will and Factions in Late Medieval Lombardy
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/6729Keywords:
Middle Ages, 14th-16th Centuries, Lombardy, Nature, Factions, Politics, IdentityAbstract
Among the lesser-known side effects of the reception of Aristotle’s political works in late me- dieval Italy was the development, from the fourteenth century onwards, of the idea of natural belonging to a political faction. Such a concept was connected to the opinions of those juridical and political theorists who conceded the legitimacy of factional division as a means to good government. References to the natural belonging to a faction, which was never completely independent from individual free will, are particularly abundant in Lombardy under the Visconti and the Sforza. Built around a stock of examples drawn from chronicles, theoretical treatises and pragmatic political texts, the essay charts a history of this concept, later dismissed during the sixteenth century, with the fall of the regional state and its inclusion in broader political structures.
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