Original scientific paper
The possibility of influence of Marcus Antonius de Dominis on Thomas Hobbes
Vesna Tudjina
; Zavod za povijesne i društvene znanosti HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
While Dominis stayed in England (1616–1622), Thomas Hobbes was about thirty years old, and lived outside London in Chatsworth House (Derbyshire), as the secretary of William Cavendish, the first Earl of Devonshire, and tutor of his son. Although the possibility of their meeting existed in England (during the translation of Bacon’s Moral Essays to Italian language), and earlier in Venice (while Hobbes was travelling with his pupil), but there is no written proof of it. In Chatsworth House there is still the archive, in which Hobbes’s manuscripts legacy is kept, as well as the library, whose content Hobbes had collected-created, that show us that Hobbes was acquainted with all Dominis’s books. About thirty years after Dominis’s death, Hobbes published Leviathan or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil (1651), where he dealt with the question of relationship between Church and State, what gave us the possibility of comparison with Dominis’s De republica ecclesiastica.
However, there is no doubt that Dominis’s work was one of the foundations on which Hobbes’s thought on relations between Church and State was based.
Keywords
letters; Micantio; Chatsworth; Hobbes; Dominis; church; state
Hrčak ID:
94763
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Publication date:
1.12.2012.
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