Vindiciae contra tyrannos: sive, De principis in populum, populique in principem, legitima potestate
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Type of record: Book
Title: Vindiciae contra tyrannos: sive, De principis in populum, populique in principem, legitima potestate
Other titles: De iure magistratuum in subditos, et officio subditorum erga magistratus
Classmark: Strong Room for. 8vo 1589/MAC
Creator(s): Languet, Hubert (1518-1581)
Additional creator(s): Mornay, Philippe de seigneur du Plessis-Marly (1549-1623) (Other); Fickler, Johann Baptist (1533-1610) (Other); Bèze, Théodore de (1519-1605) (Other)
Related people: Mornay, Philippe de; Fickler, Johann Baptist; Bèze, Théodore de
Publisher: [C. Waldkirch?]
Publication city: [Basel?]
Date(s): 1589
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 331, [5] p. (last page blank)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/284719
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001990249705181
Description
"Also attributed with equal probability to Duplessis-Mornay and, formerly, to Beza, Hotman, and others"--Library of Congress (1909). The authorship remains in question: see Vindiciae contra tyrannos, ed. and tr. G. Garnett (Cambridge U. Pr., 1994), p. lv-lxxvi (also p. lxxxiv-lxxxvi for this and related eds.).
Place and publisher: Basel by generally accepted conjecture; Waldkirch suggested by Gerber.
Signatures: A-X⁸.
Error in pagination: 359 for 259.
Includes "De iure magistratuum in subditos, et officio subditorum erga magistratus", p. [230]-331. By Thódore de Bèze, originally published 1574 in French under title: Du droit des magistrats sur leurs suiets. As a Latin work it has also been attributed to J.B. Fickler.
Printed and issued together with: Machiavelli, Niccolò. Nicolae Machiavelli Princeps. [Basel?: C. Waldkirch?], 1589; with separate pagination, and with a woodcut portrait of Machiavelli on the final leaf of the Vindiciae.
Indexed in: Bertelli & Innocenti. Bib. machiavelliana XVI.186.
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication. Volume contents: 1. Machiavelli, N.: Nicolai Machiavelli Princeps, 1589. -- 2. Languet, H.: Vindiciae contra tyrannos, 1589
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