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This title was originally published in Italian: Fiammetta Palladini, Samuel Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes. Per una reinterpretazione del giusnaturalismo moderno. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1990.
Cover illustration: Crest of arms that sits above Pufendorf’s tombstone, Stadtmuseum Berlin. © Mikkel Munthe Jensen.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Palladini, Fiammetta, author. | Saunders, David, 1940- translator.
Title: Samuel Pufendorf disciple of Hobbes : for a re-interpretation of modern natural law / by Fiammetta Palladini ; translated by David Saunders ; introduction by Ian Hunter.
Other titles: Samuel Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes. English Description: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2020 | Series: Early modern natural law: studies & sources, 2589-5982 ; vol.2 | Includes index. | Text in English translated from Italian.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019037979 (print) | LCCN 2019037980 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004388604 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004388611 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Natural law. | Pufendorf, Samuel, Freiherr von, 1632-1694.
Classification: LCC K457.P82 P3513 2019 (print) | LCC K457.P82 (ebook) | DDC 340/.112–dc23
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