Bartolus of Sassoferrato - Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings

The medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (d. 1357) has long been accorded seminal importance by historians of political thought. This volume provides the first complete English translation of his tracts On Guelfs and Ghibellines, On the Government of a City, and On the Tyrant, alongside sections of his legal commentaries.