Fabio Albergati

Fabio Albergati (1538–1606) was an Italian diplomat and writer, known for political theory and as a moralist.[1]

He was born in Bologna,[2] and was in the service of Jacopo Boncompagni.[3]

Fabio Albergati, painting from the Palazzo Albergati, attributed to Giovan Antonio Burrini; imagined scene of Albergati as diplomat meeting Philip II of Spain, with his portrait secretly being taken.

Works

Title page of Albergati's Del Cardinale.

He wrote against duelling in 1583, at a time when his patron was active against banditry.[4] He wrote a very detailed attack on Jean Bodin's theoretical dismissal of mixed constitutions.[2] He equated reason of state with Machiavellianism.[5] His La Republica regia (published 1627) was a counter to Machiavelli.[6]

Family

His children included Cardinal Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi.[7]

References

Notes

  1. http://www.filosofia.unina.it/ars/ealberg.html
  2. 1 2 (Italian), http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/fabio-albergati_(Dizionario_Biografico)/
  3. J. R. Mulryne, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Margaret Shewring, Europa triumphans: court and civic festivals in early modern Europe, Volume 1 (2004), p. 211 note 42 .
  4. Gigliola Fragnito, Church, Censorship, and Culture in Early Modern Italy (2001), pp. 141–2; Google Books.
  5. http://www.filosofia.unina.it/ars/introe.html
  6. Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World (1979), p. 153.
  7. http://documents.medici.org/people_details.cfm?personid=13857

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