Debate e consenso no Dialogo del Reggimento di Firenze de Francesco Guicciardini

This article analyses the sixteenth’s century Florentine writerFrancesco Guicciardini’s Dialogo del Reggimento di Firenze. One arguesthat the concept of ragionamento, as it’s presented in Guicciardini’s text,points both the centrality of the debate’s practice and the search for consensusas grounds for the formation of a “well-ordered Republic”. Onealso sustains that the text’s dialogical form is associated to the productionof persuasion, which is a main concern of the prudent men, responsiblefor the definition of the best government possible.