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The Reason of State
Title page from the first edition
Author
Giovanni Botero
Original title
Della Ragion di Stato
Country
Italy
Language
Italian
Series
None
Subject
Political philosophy
Publisher
appresso i Gioliti
Publication date
1589
Media type
Print
The Reason of State (Italian: Della Ragion di Stato) is a work of political philosophy by Italian Jesuit Giovanni Botero. The book first popularised the term Reason of State[1][2] and became a political 'bestseller', going through 15 Italian editions and translations into Spanish, Latin and French in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth century.[3] Botero's Reason of State was also translated into German as Johannis Boteri Grundlicher Bericht Anordnung guter Polizeien und Regiments (1596). Despite this success on the continent, Botero's Della Ragion di Stato was never published in England. However a little-known contemporary English manuscript translation exists in the British Library.[4] Botero's treatise has been translated into English by P.J. and D.P. Waley with an introduction by D.P. Waley (London, 1956),[5] and, more recently, by Robert Bireley (Cambridge, 2017).[6]
The expression 'reason of state' denotes a way of thinking that about government that does agree fully with Botero's ideas. It emerged at the end of the fifteenth century and remained prevalent until the eighteenth century. Notwithstanding the criticism of Botero on fully amoral statecraft, it refers to the right of rulers to act in ways that go against the dictates of both natural and positive law with the aim of acquiring, preserving, and augmenting the dominion of the state.[7][8]
^Botero was the first to use the term in a book title: Harro Höpfl, Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c.1540–1630 (Cambridge, 2004), p. 84.
^"Renaissance political thought". Blackwell encyclopaedia of political thought. 1987. p. 431. The word [Reason of State] became familiar after Giovanni Botero's Ragione di stato was published in 1589
^Robert Bireley, The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe (Chapel Hill, 1990), p. 50.
^Trace, Jamie. (2016). The Only Early English Translation of Giovanni Botero’s Della ragion di stato: Richard Etherington and MS Sloane 1065. This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from the British Library via http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2016articles/article4.html
^Giovanni Botero. The Reason of State, and the Greatness of Cities, translated by Robert Peterson. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956.
^Botero 2017.
^Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Höpfl, Harro (2011). Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Reason of State. Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_433.
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