Il “Principe repubblicano” di Paolo Sarpi*

Abstract

Paolo Sarpi’s draft of the treatise Della potestà de’ prencipi is a very important example of the revolution that took place in the  field of law and its complex relationship with theology and politics between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Considered lost until its publication in 2006 by Nina Cannizzaro, Sarpi’s draft calls into question some essential points of his intellectual biography.