Autore: Van den Hove, Jan

Titolo: Politieke discoursen: handelende in ses onderscheide boeken van steeden, landen, oorlogen, kerken, regeeringen en zeeden

Pubblicazione: Leyden, Pieter Hackius, 1662

Descrizione: XII, 516 pp.; in-4°


Biblioteca di Spinoza: Libro posseduto da Spinoza registrato nell'inventario del 1677 con la seguente descrizione notarile "11 - Politieke discoursen. 1662. Leyden.".
La paternità dell’opera è controversa. Kossmann la attribuisce a Pieter: «The ‘prudentissimus Belga V.H.’ whom Spinoza quoted in his Tractatus Politicus (VIII, 31) was called Van Hove but is more commonly known under the original French name of this family from the Southern Netherlands which settled in Holland: De la Court. There were in fact two writers of that name, Pieter de la Court (1618-1685) and his brother Johan (1662-1660). It is generally assumed that the political work, all of it edited by Pieter after Johan's death, was based on texts and notes prepared by the younger brother but thoroughly revised and substantially expanded by the editor. Specifically the Considerations met with success. The book was reprinted various times in rapid succession and each new edition was bulkier than the preceding one: the first edition of 1660 had 369 pages, the fourth of 1662 no less than 670. The title had meanwhile been changed into Political Considerations or Political Balance. In 1662 appeared a second work, Political Discourses, in two volumes, which, Pieter tells us, also derived from unfinished essays and studies jotted down by Johan» (E. H. Kossmann, Politieke theorie en geschiedenis verspreide opstellen en voordrachten: aangeboden aan de schrijver bij zijn aftreden als hoogleraar aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, DBNL, Leiden 2008, p. 220; http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/koss002poli01_01/koss002poli01_01_0018.htm). Di diverso parere van Roijen: «Le livre [...] est attribué à tort à Pierre de la Court. Feu le professeur O. van Rees à Utrecht, auteur d’une monographie, intitulée: Aanwijsing der politike Gronden en Maximen van de Republike van Holland en West-Friesland, 1669, essaye de prouver que le vrai auteur est son frère Jean de la Court» (A. J. Servaas van Roijen, Inventaire des livres formant la bibliothèque de Bénédict Spinoza, publié d’après un document inédit, La Haye, W. C. Tengler / Paris, Paul Monnerat, 1888, p. 143). Così Freudenthal: «Die Politike Discoursen sind van Pieter van den Hove (de la Cour) (1618-1665), nach andren von dessen Bruder Jan verfaßt und zuerst 1662 in 8°, später auch in dem hier ausgegebenen Quartformat, erschienen. In ihnen spricht van den Hove die politischen Anschauunungen Jan de Witt’s aus, dessen eifriger Anhänger er war und der ein Kapitel den Hove galt vielen auch als Urheber des oft Sp. zugeschriebenen vielgenannten Werkes De jure Ecclesiasticorum» (Jacob Freudenthal, Die Lebensgeschichte Spinoza’s in Quellenschriften, Urkunden und Nichtamtlichen Nachrichten, Verlag von Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1899, p. 277).

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