Major Works
Defensor Pacis
- Defensor Pacis, translated with an Introduction by Alan Gewirth. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980).Excerpt: “Chapter 1: On the general aim of the discussion, the cause of that aim, and the division of the book. Tranquility, wherein peoples prosper and the welfare of nations is preserved, must certainly be desirable to every state. For it is the noble… More
Defensor Minor and De Translatione Imperii
- Defensor Minor and De Translatione Imperii, translated Cary Nederman. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).From introduction to work: “Because the Defensor Minor operates at a level of greater specificity than the Defensor Pacis, it erases many of the ambiguities of the earlier work and affords further insight into the Nana fundamental intellectual and… More