Compagnevole per natura. L’animale politico (e il regime politico) nelle traduzioni del De regimine principum

Abstract

This article focuses on Giles of Rome’s De regimine

principum (ca. 1280) and on its oldest Italian version

(Governamento dei re e dei principi, 1288), which is

based on the Old French translation by Henri de Gauchy

(1282). One of the most important themes of Giles’ speculum

is the Aristotelian conception of man as a political

animal; the present contribution analyses the differences

in its reception in the vernacular translations, and then takes

into account the treatment of related themes such as

the problem of the regimen politicum in the original and

vernacular De regimine.