The things of God belong to a heavenly kingdom. But politics is taken up with what is earthly. Surely, therefore, Christians should keep politics at a distance as much as possible. Right? Even while defending the life of contemplation and retreat from the earthly, Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Bocaccio laud Christian involvement in public life. Petrarch goes so far as to dream of a Julius Caesar reborn in medieval Europe and baptized a Christian, who goes on to conquer Egypt from the Muslims and present her as a gift - this time not to Cleopatra - but to Christ.
James Hankins's Virtue Politics: https://amzn.to/3UiQpp3
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780199535699
C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780062565396
Calvert Watkins's How to Kill a Dragon: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780195144130
New Humanists episode on Leonardo Bruni: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/14460440-mediocrity-versus-glory-in-the-renaissance-episode-lxii
Sallust's Catilinarian Conspiracy: https://amzn.to/4chKY1C
Henry David Thoreau's Walden: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780460876353
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780385486804
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